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Observations on digital media by the faculty and staff of the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.

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KDMC Launches Bloggers' Directory

By Scot Hacker, October 15, 2009

The Knight Digital Media Center is pleased to announce the launch of a sister site, the Bay News Network. BNN is a directory of Bay Area blogs and news sites doing some form of local coverage. The site also provides aggregated RSS mashups of feeds from participating sites. Want to get listed? See the guidelines.

Is Twitter Killing Blogs?

By Scot Hacker, October 21, 2008

It's a common refrain in the Twitterverse: "My blog is dying!" When users can cut to the 140-character chase so quickly and so easily, they may start to wonder whether all those words they poured into their weblogs for years were a few thousand too many.