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...Center’s authority over the blogs’ content was briefly tested in 2003 by Derek A. Slater ’05, who posted internal memos from Diebold Election Systems, an electronic voting machine manufacturer, on his Harvard-hosted weblog. The memos, e-mails in which the company appeared to admit flaws in its voting machines, used across the country, had already been revealed on several other bloggers’ sites. Slater copied some of these memos onto his site, now titled “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” making...
...Bloggies are the Web's answer to the Oscars, but this is one award show you can attend in boxers, not Bulgari. The fifth annual Weblog Awards, to be posted March 14 on BLOGGIES.COM, will name winners (chosen by reader votes) in 30 categories, ranging from Most Humorous to Best Designed. Among new categories this year: Best Food Blog and Best Entertainment Blog. And who will be the Web's Million Dollar Baby? Favorites to nab the coveted Weblog of the Year award include BOINGBOING.NET and WONKETTE.COM. The winners won't get a gold statuette or even a trip...
Still, an increasingly large cadre of prominent academics has stepped forward to question the acceptibility of this trend. Famed UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh has posted mildly bitter invective to his weblog slamming court citations of Wikipedia as absurd given the nature of the source, but the most florid prose on the subject comes perhaps from Robert McHenry, chief of the (less and less popular—let’s keep our private interests straight) Encyclopedia Britannica. McHenry has compared Wikipedia to a public restroom: Such a facility may be obviously dirty, he has said, or it may look...
Kevin S. Mbugua, a student at Berklee College of Music, said that he was still corresponding with Vaghar in an attempt to recover the $800 she owed him weeks after the article was published, until he Googled her name and found the Crimson article and related weblog postings...
...self-described friend of Franklin noted on a weblog Wednesday, the Harvard particle physicist is not quite a lexicographic trailblazer. In October 2003, after Limbaugh—formerly an ESPN commentator—drew fire for racially insensitive remarks about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, a Limbaugh fan on a conservative website wrote: “even if Rush was just wrong in what he said, why does this rise to a resignable gaff...