According to a survey of Korean bloggers done by Edelman Korea (Disclosure: I consult to Edelman, which is how I heard about this study), the leading reason (42%) Korean bloggers blog is “To create a record of my thoughts.” Only 1.2% blog “To raise visibility as an authority in my field.” This compares with 34% of American bloggers blogging to raise their visibility as authorities and 32% blogging to create a record of their thoughts. [Tags: korea blogging blogosphere edelman]

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Just because I think it’s sort of interesting, here’s the form Dartmouth wants you to fill out if you want to get press credentials to cover the Democratic presidential debate they’re hosting in September.

Ok, so I added that last one…

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I enjoyed AJ Fortin’s post that trains a Mortimer Adlerian eye on blogs and those who make extravagant claims about them. (I seem to be his main example of the latter.)

And John Eischeid, who worked with NewAssignment, is starting a crowdsourced project addressing broad questions of the effect of crowds and crowdsourcing. It’s called “The Cult of the Rebuttal,” a reference to Andrew Keen’s book (which I’ve tried to explain and evaluate here), but it’s really focused on the topic, not the book. [Thanks to Andy Angelos for the link.] [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous andrew_keen]

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I’ve posted a long piece at Huffington Post that tries to put together the strongest, most coherent version of Andew “Cult of the Amateur” Keen’s argument against the Web…and then critiques it. Tags: andrew_keen web_2.0 everything_is_miscellaneous ]

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Cheers for Sen. Dodd standing up manfully to Bill O’Reilly (= they yelled at each other), but he missed the point about O’Reilly’s complaint that DailyKos.com is full of hate. (Video) Dodd kept saying that O’Reilly was picking a few odious posts from over 500,000 visitors. It would have been more effective and more accurate to explain that DailyKos is a site where anyone can have a blog and say what they want. That the site is not centrally controlled is something that O’Reilly with his Big Media (and Big Bully) mindset seems to have trouble grasping. Dodd missed a chance to educate Poppa Bear.

Micah is live-blogging the YearlyKos over at the always-excellent TechPresident. [Tags: kos dailykos yearlykos chris_dodd bill_oreilly politics blogging]

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From The Online Photographer blog:

Eastman Kodak Company has two blogs: A Thousand Words is written “by, and about, everyday employees who share a passion for photographic storytelling,” in the words of Kodak’s David Kassnoff. Its companion blog, A Thousand Nerds, “shares insights into the technical aspects of making photography an enjoyable experience.”

I don’t know these blogs, but I sure like their names. And their stated approach. [Tags: blogs kodak ]

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Ethanz, who is in the pantheon of live bloggers, has a detailed post explaining how he does it. I think he intends to pass along the tips and tricks that will encourage others to live-blog, but it actually seems so daunting that it may have the opposite effect. And among the tools in the live bloggers kit bag that Ethan does not mention are: his rare combination of analytic and sympathetic skills, his breadth of knowledge, his awesome writing skill, and his patience.

I like live-blogging. (I do it far worse than Ethan does; you’re always better off reading Ethan’s posts than mine.) But I find it very tiring. I fairly predictably poop out after lunch.

Ethan also writes a beautiful appreciation of our friend Henok Mehari, who has just finished up his internship at the Berkman Center. All I can add to what Ethan has said is: Amen. Henok’s story is amazing, and, most hopeful of all is that he is only really at the beginning of it. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman henok_mehari berkman liveblogging blogging]

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Scott Kirsner has started a new blog, Inovation Economy, as the companion to his new Sunday column in the Boston Globe. I’ve always liked the way Scott intersects business and tech… (Scott has a useful disclosure statement.) [Tags: scott_kirsner business vc boston_globe]

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Bill Griffith’s automotive column in the Boston Globe today has a nice quote from Saab USA’s new general manager:

“A blogger, I think he was from Tasmania, immediately made a post on behalf of Saab owners,” Shannon said. “The gist was, ‘You’re working for us now, and you better take care of our baby.’ “

Evidence? Nah. An anecdote that expresses a whole bunch of themes? Yup.

[Tags: marketing cluetrain saab]

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The Data Mining blog maps the blogosphere into some very pretty shapes… (Thanks, Betsy, for the link.) [Tags: blogosphere maps everything_is_miscellaneous ]

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