Your Blog or Mine?: Unconstrained by journalistic conventions, bloggers are blurring the lines between public events and ordinary social interactions and changing the way we date, work, teach and live. And as blogs continue to proliferate, citizens will have to develop new understandings about what parts of our lives are on and off the record. [...]
Now that everyone is at risk of blogging or being blogged, what recourse do we have against unscrupulous bloggers? [...] Like other journalists, bloggers can be sued for disclosing true details of someone else's private life, as long as the disclosures ''would be highly offensive to a reasonable person'' and ''not of legitimate concern to the public.'' [ver também Blog, Sex, and the Single Delta Employee]
The network is the blog: The self-organizing blogosphere offers a unique way to manage the information deluge
The blog network is made of people. We are the nodes, actively filtering and retransmitting knowledge. Clearly this architecture can help manage the glut of information. More subtly, it can also help ensure that no vital inputs are suppressed because nobody has to rely on a single source. If one of the feeds I monitor doesn?t react to some event in a given domain, another probably will. When they all react, I know it was an especially important event.
The resemblance of this model to the summing of activation potentials in a neural system is more than superficial. Nature knows best.
Understanding and Reading a Blog (for Newcomers): This article is for the readers of blogs, not the writers.
