by Rob Cottingham | Jun 20, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
Reporters sans fronti?®res has named its picks for the blogs that do the most to defend free expression. The winners: Shared Pains from Afghanistan Al Jinane from Morocco Screenshots from Malaysia ICT lex from Italy PressThink from the U.S. Mojtaba Saminejad from Iran... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 20, 2005 | Blogging, Politics
Lock up your aides: in the worst news the Campbell government has received since election night, the Public Eye Online has re-opened. by Rob Cottingham | Jun 18, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
Alex has now officially kicked my little blog’s ass on Technorati, the leading search and (more importantly) ranking engine for blogs. As she gloats so unseemingly, her ranking has finally increased from being the 72,991st most-linked-to blog to being the... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
Responding to a complaint at TPM Cafe that reporters never come right out and use the “L” word in describing George W. Bush’s mendacity, a journalist writes: I think you’re asking too much of reporters to label something as lies when its just... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2005 | Blogging, Media Mix, Politics
We like to gripe about news coverage here at ODTAA – particularly the kind of horse-race-and-poll-fixated news coverage that so often passes for Canadian (and American) political analysis. Turns out that’s a problem over in Europe as well. Dominique... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 13, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
It’s an article of faith among the digerati that one of the things that keeps people coming back to your site is a community: the opportunity to interact, both with the site’s authors and with other visitors. Now there’s a little more proof, and it...