Chinese authorities arrested a university economics professor in Beijing after he posted reports about the riots in Xinjiang on his website, an international media watchdog said.
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A real estate agent in Houston who blogged about Anna Nicole Smith was jailed for contempt last week in a defamation case brought by the late Playboy model’s mother.
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Spending more time on Facebook, Twitter and blogs? You’re not alone, with the latest figures showing the number of minutes spent on social networking sites in the United States has almost doubled over the past year.
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PC World – As the advertising ice age continues killing off media dinosaurs, GigaOm’s announcement of a plan to charge a year for premium blog content again raises the issue: Is anybody actually willing to pay?
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AFP – A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the “world’s oldest blogger” and who gained a global following on the Internet, died Thursday at the age of 97, local officials and reports said.
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Yahoo introduced on Thursday to India its Buzz social news site, which identifies the top news stories and blog posts based on user votes and search patterns.
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Two Chinese bloggers separately detained for writing online about government corruption have had their charges dropped by police in recent weeks.
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution.
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Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster pointed out Saturday there are plenty of places in South Carolina other than his Web site to find prostitution ads and obscene photos, saying in a blog that he wants to know why the state’s top prosecutor is targeting his company.
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