“The Internet represents freedom, but not everywhere.”
So begins the annual “Internet Enemies” report by Reporters Without Borders–and that’s probably the cheeriest line in the entire 39-page document. It goes down from there.
Just as many of you settled into your seats to watch Thursday evening’s debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks was attracting his own crowd on Twitter after raising a question that strikes at heart of the blogosphere.
Barring a come-to-Jesus moment by both sides, “MicroHoo” is dead and buried. So who won and who lost? Months from now, we’ll have a clear idea. In the meantime, here are my back-of-the-envelope picks.
When Twitter suffered a brownout last weekend, the “twitterati” had a collective conniption. I suppose the good news for co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone is that the bad news kicked up such a storm.
Lots of people are so addicted to Twitter that the intermittent problems wreaked havoc with their daily routine.
Lead architect Blaine Cook and VP of engineering and operations Lee Mighdoll are now gone. And it’s up to management to come up with a plan. But this isn’t the first time a popular online communication service found itself a target of criticism. In August 1996, America Online got in even bigger trouble after going dark for 19 hours.
After the derision that greeted the New York Times’s blogging-will-kill-you story on Sunday, I’m probably not going to do much for the reputation of the mainstream media with hard-core bloggers. So it goes.
Out of curiosity, I drew up a list of 55 technology journalists to find out how many use Twitter, arguably one of the most important social-media technologies on the scene. I included names of some online reporters–including colleagues from CNET as well as TechCrunch–but in the main, the list is comprised of people employed by A-list newspapers and periodicals.
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