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June 14, 2005

Caught in the BlogosphereBlogging news roundup

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a Legal Guide for Bloggers, tons of links and explanations.

Blogging guidelines

The New York Times and New York Daily News have started columns about blogging.

Dan Mitchell at the Times takes Mark Cuban to task for being all about himself and his money.

Dawn Eden of the News tells a blog story about a scantily clad Build-A-Bear mentioned on another blog that got the attention of the Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. CEO.

Corporateblogging.info analyzes various corporate blogging policies.

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has posted a safe harbor statement with his blog post. The shape of things to come?

Disclaimer I'm required to include the following disclaimer and safe harbor provisions (which do, in fact, exceed the blog in length) as a part of this communication. I was going to be frustrated at the requirement, until it occurred to me we'd just set a bit of corporate communications history - blogs are now an official communications vehicle at Sun. We should tell the SEC to update the regs.

Bruce Marshall disagrees with a recent Robert Scoble presentation on his blog, A PR Guru's Musings. He says blogging is not the end of advertising as we know it. Some key points:

My very strong belief is that any business that is not blogging very soon will be making a huge mistake, but it's not going to change your world. It's another tool that communications professionals must understand and adopt.
So let's inject a bit of reality. Blogs are simply another communications channel. Stop evangelizing, stop dismissing and let's start using.

Posted by at June 14, 2005 09:43 AM

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