The Huffington Post doesn't plan to pay its bloggers
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Ken Lerer who worked as an executive at Time-Warner before launching the Huffington Post explained to USA Today that the Huffington Post has no plans to begin paying their bloggers. In his words, paying contributor's is "Not our financial model."
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By EVAN WEINER  I DON'T KNOW about you, but I don't plan to watch Katie Couric's ascendancy as top newsreader at CBS Sept. 5, nor do I plan to download it on my computer. I am not interested.
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times. For the last couple of weeks I've been emailing with people from the LongNow Foundation and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times, to determine who won the bet.  Ultimately we asked the foundation to consider all the argument and make the decision. They published their decision today. It's well worth reading because it answers some of the questions raised by the bet, for example, what is a blog, and how does Wikipedia relate to blogging. I don't agree with everything in the decision, but I do like the result -- we won.  The beneficiary of the bet? The World Wide Web Consortium. I chose them as the charity to receive the proceeds if I won the bet because web standards are what make it all work and the W3C is central to standards on the web.
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The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.  Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.   I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity.  My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.   I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.  Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:  Subject:   php.weblogs.com  From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am  To:        jlim#natsoft.com Priority:  Normal  Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510   We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special arrangements with Dave to keep it running.  Lawrence   I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.  For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.  I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best  way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.
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Buzz doesn't translate into dollars for even the most trafficked sites, a report reveals.
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By Annys Shin, Washington Post Staff Writer  The online news site USA Voice isn't going to win any kudos from media critics.
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Â· Editor says proprietor dismayed at coverage Â· Mogul 'does not influence day-to-day decisions'
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The decision by a blog-advertising network to deploy its writers to produce marketing copy for Microsoft and Cisco may have set back the efforts of professional bloggers to gain credibility.
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One might expect cancer researchers to promote the free and open exchange of information. They donât.
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The idea of penning a blog to cover the Republican National Convention isn't so unique after all.
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They don't put their money where their mouths are.
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When a popular blogger revealed that Facebook had banned his account, the Web erupted in speculative chatter. But where should they really be pointing fingers?
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Something about NBC anchors and bloggers just does not click.
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Bloggers are now prey to government censorship as much as traditional journalists, a report says.
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Via their own blogs, without the assistance of napping journalists, athletes write bylined stories and break the "news" themselves.
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More than 5,000 bloggers have signed on to Blog Action Day -- Oct. 15 -- during which participants will all post on environmental issues. It's a good cause, no doubt, but the motivation isn't entirely altruistic.
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The New York Times Co. is considering  subscription fees to the online version of its flagship  newspaper, which now is available for free, but it has no  immediate plans to do so, the company said on Friday.