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August 01, 2006

Questions That Arise From Blogging

Certain questions pop into mind each day while cruising through the daily activity in the blogosphere. Today's cover the spectrum, and the first is: is blogging a force in Cuba, and will Fidel Castro's temporary handoff of power to his brother be blogged internally?

War photos and blogging
Today's No. 2 most-cited blog post from the EU Referendum includes some graphic photos shot from the ground in Lebanon, as do photos from today No. 4 most-cited news story. Curious that bloggers and journalists can freely shoot and publish these photos, but not photos of American soldiers' caskets as they return home from Iraq. A BlogPulse trend graph indicates the interesting and changing mix of geopolitical attention in the past few weeks and months:

Unrest

Coming and going, electronically speaking
Some gadget lovers are mourning the announced end of E3, (today's most-cited blog post) the annual video game extravaganza, while others are drooling over the possibility of an iPod phone.

Posted by Sue MacDonald at August 1, 2006 09:39 AM