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17

Chris Matthews gets in touch with his feminine side and apologizes

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Ooo – is that a stereo-type reinforcing title or what?

You can read the transcript of what Chris Matthews has to say, and see the video of him on Hardball tonight saying the words in that transcript, regarding his implication that Hillary Clinton’s entire career is due to her suffering at the hands of an adulterous husband here.  He’s reading from a statement, we can’t say for sure who wrote it – I suspect he had some help, yes?

Is it enough? Sincere?

We’ll see.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:26 pm January 17th, 2008 in Announcements, Campaigning, Elections, Media, Politics | Comments Off 

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17

All Hillary really wants to be called? President

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Here’s my first post as an official co-blogger at The Moderate Voice.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:41 pm January 17th, 2008 in Blogging, Politics, TMV, WH2008, Women | Comments Off 

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17

NASCAR Judiasm, baby! Jon Denning’s birthright

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This is for Psychobilly.

More on NASCAR racer Jon Denning here.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:34 pm January 17th, 2008 in Jewish, Judaism, Media, Religion | Comments Off 

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17

Part II, Carnival of Ohio Politics #100 now posted

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Part I is here.

Part II is here.

Both contain newcomers and posts on topics you won’t see discussed anywhere else in Ohio, seriously.

Thanks to everyone for their support, in whatever form you gave it.

And again, a hattip to the Carnival’s founder, Paul A. Miller.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:04 pm January 17th, 2008 in Announcements, Blogging, Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | Comments Off 

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Newspapers continue to resist walking like ducks or blogging like blogs

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If traditional journalists keep wanting to describe bloggers as not really journalists, I will feel no guilt over saying that traditional journalists who put content on a platform we or they call a blog aren’t really bloggers. Especially with the number of layers they provide between the so-called journalists and the reader/consumer/voter/audience.

Read this article from Media Shift and see if you don’t agree with me.

What papers are trying:

What has changed in the last year is that major media companies are no longer arguing over whether they should have comments under stories or blogs; instead, the debate is about how they should moderate them and even highlight the best ones in eye-catching editorial spaces. Many sites are embracing the concept of “news as a conversation,” and trying to create active conversations among reporters, editors and readers online. The New York Times released a more robust commenting function recently, where readers can recommend each other’s comments, and there are “Editor’s Selections” for the best comments in a thread. And last weekend BusinessWeek.com started highlighting one commenter per day on its home page, with a photo of the commenter.

What they are doing:

Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor for digital journalism at the New York Times, told me he thinks a balance of positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement is the way to go in moderating online comments. He likes the way Amazon.com gives people special badges when they use their real name.

“You don’t have to moderate and say, ‘You have to give your real name,’ because you’re already taking down offensive or abusive stuff,” Landman said. “That’s negative reinforcement and we need techniques to give positive reinforcement [as well]. Giving your real name and getting recognized for that is one way. Another example is having the editor’s selections or having people recommend the better comments. So a mixture of positive and negative reinforcement techniques is the way to go.”

That’s all about how to treat the site visitor or commenter. Ick. Badges? That’s what you do when a two-year old makes a wee inside the potty and not on the tile.

Then, for the journalists who get called bloggers:

The Times has a special “moderation desk” to help all the bloggers and editors who are already moderating comments on their own blogs. Currently, all comments must be approved by humans before being posted on the site. Landman says that the team of four part-timers who were helping to moderate comments has already grown to 11, and he expects the Times to hire more people and train others to help out as comments expand onto other stories. While the Times might experiment with comments that aren’t pre-screened, he wouldn’t expect such threads in controversial subject areas at the outset.

RedBlueAmerica.com is going the moderator route and calling them bloggers and, guess where they came from? Traditional journalism backgrounds.

Why is this a problem? Read more

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:31 am January 17th, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Writing | 8 Comments 

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