China shuts down websites after coup rumours
China has shut down websites, made a string of arrests and punished two popular microblogs after rumours of a coup linked to a major political drama.
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Mbeki: Beware the 'false knowledge' kindled by Twitter
Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups' agendas.
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Going to the blogs
The knives are out in the food writers' kitchen with the new media giving the established press indigestion.
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Bloggers crack invites from Vatican to first blog summit
The Vatican on Monday invited 150 bloggers from around the world to a first-ever blogging summit, increasingly aware of the importance of blogging.
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Why people blog about illness
Hundreds of bloggers write about their illness or trauma every day. Sue Eckstein explains why.
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Everyone's invited to the birthday bash for Blogger
Forty years ago, the first two computers on the Arpanet, the military network that was the precursor to the internet, exchanged login information.
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The teen bloggers who took over the internet
Some of the web's most influential voices now belong to bloggers as young as 13.
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What are you doing?
Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.
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The bloggers who take it one post at a time
There's SlowSex (apparently; first I'd heard of it), SlowCities, and SlowFood. Now, the New York Times reports, there is also Slow Blogging.
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The Fifth Column
The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.
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