You realise what little time you have to keep on top of things in the online world when stuff like this pass you by.
Netscape have become a user-contributed news portal. The usp? Anchors.
What we all thought where moderators are now informed commenter’s and allowed to flag up content and tag it with their own [...]

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Take cover! Everyone is blowing up old-media

Well, good on Gannett. They’re exploding their newsrooms, changing how they are organized, how they operate, and tearing down the walls to the world formerly known as the outside.

from BuzzMachine.

Exploding by-lines

http://newassignment.net/

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The Neweurasia i mentioned in an earlier post, as well as great content also has some fantastic blogging resources.

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Neweurasia offers a round up of all that’s blogging in Central Asia and the Caucasus including the
…latest roundup of blog posts and online discussions from Kazakhstan Russian-language blogosphere.
Of course Borat dominates the tags, and a lot of the posts but there is also a wide range of stuff from oil to freedom of speech.
This is [...]

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A remarkable bit of puff piece press releasary popped in to my mail box this morning for a new online news service, DigitalJournal.com .
In one of the most monumental projects ever created for the Internet, DigitalJournal.com has launched a never-before-seen user-powered news site, positioning the company to achieve success of MySpace and YouTube proportions.
Of course [...]

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A new study of the skills and characterisitics important to online newsrooms has been released by Medill Schol of Journalism and the cooperation of the Online News Association.
The Online News Association

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