A list of blogs relating to the policies, politics and philosophies of the media, communications and Internet environment.

 

 

New Media Culture

Digital Marketing Industry

Policy Wonks & Watchdogs

Traditional Media Advocacy

New Media Advocacy

 

 

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New Media Culture

Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The official weblog of Henry Jenkins

Apophenia: Buzzwords in my world include: identity, context, social network sites, youth culture, social media, performance, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever i'm thinking about.

Lessig blog: A Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society.He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired.Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.

The Long Tail: Chris Anderson's public diary on themes around the book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

Joho the Blog: A technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society.

Social Media: Blog by social media strategist, JD Lasica

Doc Searls’ weblog: A writer, speaker and consultant on topics that arise where technology and business meet. He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, the premier Linux monthly and one of the world's leading technology magazines.He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller.

Scripting News: Dave Winer pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies.

Groundswell: A spontaneous movement of people connecting, using online tools, taking charge of their own experience, and getting what they need – information, support, ideas, products, and bargaining power – from each other.

Online Communities - Australia and Global: Online Communities are changing the way our society interacts, at a local, Australian and global level. Participatory journalism and user generated content provide us with the mechanism to observe, record and dissect the changes. Interesting times bring interesting discussions - the dialogue is the content!

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Digital Marketing Industry

David Henderson's Blog: Personal views and collected news stories from the view of a digital marketing manager

E-Gain New Media: Views from a UK search engine optimization company

Brian White: a Program Manager in Google’s Search Quality group. He spends the vast majority of his time working to curb efforts aimed at gaming Google’s natural search results. He’s also interested in educating regular folks in search engine best practices.

John Batelle Search Blog: Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.

Search Engine Watch: Provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.

Online Marketing Blog: An internet marketing blog about the intersection of social media, search marketing and online public relations.

Yahoo Search Marketing Blog: The official weblog about Yahoo!'s paid search products.

Publishing 2.0: A blog about the (r)evolution of media, driven by the migration of media to the Web and new digital technologies.

Micro Persuasion: Steve Rubel on how technology is revolutionizing media and marketing.

Marketing Pilgrim: Launched by internet marketing expert Andy Beal in September 2005. As a follow-up to Beal’s award-winning search marketing blog, Marketing Pilgrim expands its coverage to bring the latest news, rumors and reviews of all things related to internet marketing and online advertising.

Google Policy Blog: Google's views on government, policy and politics.

Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (aka PIPEDA) and other Canadian and international laws.

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Policy Wonks & Watchdogs

Wetmachine: Harold Feld’s Tales of the Sausage Factory

Truth, Justice, and Telecom Policy: J.H. Snider's quixotic blog about telecom policy

Digital Destiny: Jeff Chester reports on digital media and the public interest

Mediacitizen: A crash-scene investigation at the crossroads of old media and new

Hear Us Now Blog: An open and frank discussion of media and telecommunications issues - from the consumer point of view.

Isen Blog: David Isenberg, writer of an essay entitled, The Rise of the Stupid Network: Why the Intelligent Network was a Good Idea Once but isn't Anymore. In it, Isenberg (then a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Laboratories) examined the technological bases of the existing telecom business model, laid out how the communications business would be changed by new technologies, foresaw today's cataclysms, and imagined tomorrow's new network.

U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog: The federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), takes on powerful interests on behalf of the American public, working to win concrete results for our health and our well-being.

What's New with Wu: Tim Wu, copyright and telecom professor at Columbia Law School. Main focuses: 1) network neutrality and discrimination on networks, 2) government control of the Internet and 3) copyright and innovation policy

Drew Clark: Senior Fellow and Project Manager at the Center for Public Integrity, where he heads the center’s telecommunications and media project. The Center is a non-profit publisher of investigative journalism. He writes about the the digital convergence of broadcasting, satellite, cable, wireless, telecommunications and technology.

Freedom to Tinker: Your freedom to understand, discuss, repair and modify the technological devices you own

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Traditional Media Advocacy

Save Access: This site is managed by a number of individuals involved in various aspects of community media and the struggle for a democratic media.

Hannah Sassaman - Banned from the national Association of Broadcasters since 2002: For five years, Hannah Sassaman, Program Director of Prometheus Radio, has led campaigns against Clear Channel, the National Association of Broadcasters, and for responsible limits on media consolidation in the United States.

Civil Defense - A Weblog by Josh Breitbart: Joshua Breitbart is a writer and organizer who has collaborated with community media outlets around the world. He currently works as Policy Director for People’s Production House in New York City and as Vice President of The Ethos Group, which advises municipalities and civil society on broadband development.

Clippings for PEG Access Television: Compilation of various stories about public, education and government access television, administered by the Alliance for Community Media.

Community Media in Transition: Exploring this transition from broadcast to web-based community media with a particular focus on PEG Access Television and its potential within a participatory Internet culture.

BuzzMachine: Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism.

Future of Music Coalition Blog: Frequent postings from the FMC staff about the issues at the intersection of music, law, technology and policy.

Alan Mutter: Musings and (occasional urgent warnings) of a veteran media executive, who fears our news-gathering companies are stumbling to extinction

Press Think: The press has become the ghost of democracy in the media machine, and we need to keep it alive.

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New Media Advocacy

On the Commons: A web portal and blog that explores activism on behalf of the commons in all its variety. The commons is a powerful organizing principle for understanding countless aspects of nature, creativity and knowledge, local community and everyday experience.

Network-centric Advocacy: Advocacy strategy for the age of connectivity.

Center for Citizen Media: A new initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.

ifocos: Helps individuals and organizations worldwide understand and use expanding media and communications technologies both to innovate in business and to create better-informed global citizens.

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