Tuesday, August 14, 2007

ABCnews.com Top U.S. spy agencies now treat bloggers as journalists. Click image for more.

The E-Media Tidbits team routinely finds far more intriguing and relevant news than we actually have time to write up as blog posts. I track these via my account on del.icio.us, a popular social bookmarking service, using the tag tidbits-fodder. (Here's the feed for that tag, if you want to follow it in real time.)

Here are a few selected recent items from that collection. Consider them mini-tidbits:

• The Blotter: Spy Agency OKs Bloggers as Journalists, ABCnews.com:
  "CIA recently updated its FOIA requests policy to allow bloggers to get special treatment once reserved for old-school reporters. Last August, the NSA issued a directive to report leaks of classified info to the media -- 'including blogs.'"

• Shifting Internet landscape: Content is now king, Computerworld:
  "Internet users spend almost half their time online reading and watching content, dwarfing time spent searching, communicating, and shopping." New study from Online Publishers Association: Net users spend 37 percent more time viewing online content than four years ago.

• Media 2.0 Intel with Terry Heaton and Steve Safran, The PoMo Blog:
  "Blogs vs. news. Web vs. print. The 'vs.' [in those ubiquitous media conference session titles] supposes that there are two choices. It is the notion that we need a 'vs.' that is one of the biggest reasons why traditional media and new media aren't performing nearly as well as they could."

• The $200 Billion Rip-Off: I, Cringely, The Pulpit, PBS:"Part 3 of how America went from having the fastest and cheapest Internet service in the world to what we have today -- not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that is hurting our ability to compete economically with the rest of the world."

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