RSS and Blogs

During a speech at Columbia University in 2005, Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, described blogging as “a view of the world through a pinhole,” noting that it can descend to the level of a “one man circle jerk.”

Love it, hate it, or entirely indifferent, the phenomenon of Halloween is a significant event in Madison every year. It’s also one of the most discussed, with the partying, the policing, and every other element of the spectacle discussed and shared online by participants and observers.

Blogging Madison Halloween 2007 and Freakfest on State Street …Isthmus Daily Page, WI - 22 minutes agoThe Daily Page has been tracking the blogging of Halloween in Madison for two years, but will be starting this roundup with discussion that ensued after the …

Reframing Activism vs. PunditryTown Hall, DC - 19 minutes agoThe idea that I want blogging just to be about activism is a straw man. Most activism on blogs will still be punditry, but it will be results-oriented …

Bloggers who risked all to reveal the junta’s brutal crackdown in …Times Online, UK - 14 minutes agoNow Ko Latt and his blogging comrades have abandoned their keyboards and gone underground, sleeping in a different place every night, watching and waiting …

Fighting crime by day, blogging by nightSpringfield State Journal Register, IL - 30 minutes agoBut the blog is banned from police computers. Pat Camden, Chicago's gruffest police spokesman, refused to comment for this story. But on Checkerboard Chat, …

Recently, on George Allen’s new Web site, GeorgeAllen.com, the former Republican senator from Virginia listed some words of wisdom from legendary college football coaches like Knut Rockne and Woody Hayes.

Nadine Dorries, the Tory MP for Mid-Bedfordhshire, will be bloggingSpectator.co.uk (subscription), UK - 24 minutes agoHeading for Blackpool. Slammed the boot of the car shut on far more luggage than any woman not obsessed with shoes would normally have, when my BlackBerry …

Blogging our way to a better Baltimore?Baltimore Sun, United States - 16 minutes agoBlogs, it's been shown, can do many things: shame celebrities, hound politicians, break news, challenge the mainstream media. But can a blog help save a …

Excerpts of what Iranian bloggers had to say about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University.