Word: blogger
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Activist webmasters and bloggers are trying to navigate around the filters. Many have changed their domain names to get themselves back online for a few days until the censors catch up. Women in Iran, an assertive website carrying news and reports about women's issues, switched from com to a org address after being blocked, was filtered again and is now accessible as net. Activists in Iran now hoard backup domain names, although they have recently hit an unexpected wall: Iranian Web developers say that U.S. domain providers have stopped selling addresses to Iranian Web clients, claiming the sales contravene...
...Marie Cox knows how to make a stir. She became the talk of the town in Washington, D.C., as the blogger Wonkette, covering politics with a racy edge. Now, her new book, Dog Days, a roman ? clef about a 28-year-staffer on the 2004 campaign of Democratic candidate John Hillman (get it?) who is having an affair with a married political journalist, Cox making waves in the same mainstream media that she saucily disses. This week, she sold her second book to Riverhead with typical Wonkette fanfare. We caught up with Ana Marie by phone on a train...
...Galley Girl: How does this role feel, as opposed to being a blogger...
...Marie Cox: Well, I have to wear pants. That's a big difference. When you're a blogger, pants are optional. It's very exciting. I'm very grateful to all of the people who have been helping me along with this, and who've made it happen...
...scanning the top articles and blogs on Technorati, but this mechanism of determining what’s worth reading nonetheless suggests one problem with trying to get all your news from blogs: if you did, you’d probably get something of a skewed picture—bloggers are a rarified bunch. Writing blogs isn’t particularly difficult but it requires a certain comfort level with technology that is still, by and large, possessed only by a rather select crowd.What crowd? The top blogs on Technorati suggest some trends. First, technologists rule. The most popular...