Digging Deeper

AP Warms Up to Blogs, Citizen Media at NowPublic

by Mark Glaser

There's something bland and homogeneous about an Associated Press wire story. Just the facts, ma'am, in classic inverted pyramid style. The satirical newspaper The Onion has made a mint mocking the news wire style, and the blogosphere has targeted the AP and Reuters for hidden agendas in their oh-so-perfect objective style.

• February 14, 2007
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Virtual Worlds

Wired, CNET, Reuters Agog Over Second Life

by Mark Glaser

A friend of mine who works in PR in San Francisco came up to me at a party last week, and was wide-eyed at what's been going on lately at the virtual world Second Life.

• October 23, 2006
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