As the deutsche presse agentur (dpa) reports, blogs have been drawn attention to journalists for specialized topic-related research. Especially after the tsunami disaster, the media had to focus on live and accurate information – blogs written by the victims and survivors became some of the most reliable sources. However, blogs are usually uncommon for traditional journalists as they see their media-authority being challenged by anybody who wishes to contribute to the blogosphere.

The german tabloid „Bild“ has found its own challenger in the Bildblog. One of the authors of Bildblog, Christoph Schuldheis, express an alternative research as they focus on the „filthyness and false reports“ produced by the original tabloid. Jörg Sadrozinski, the chief of the editorial office for Die Tageschau, comments rather nonchalantly: „For a journalistic format, they are not really matured because of the confusing and thematically unsorted character […] Blogs are more of an addition to the traditional media.“ He cannot see Blogs as a new form of journalism. (The quotations are freely translated.)

Addendum
The original news article „«Blogs»: Online-Tagebücher sind beliebte Augenzeugen in der Krise“ appeared on various online newspapers within a short time frame:
Esslinger Zeitung – Oberhessische Presse – Handelsblatt – Merkur Online – Web.de – Yahoo! Nachrichten – Neue OZ Online – Harburger – Schwäbische Zeitung – Heidelberger Nachrichten – Passauer Neue Presse – newsclick.de – Wiesbadener Kurier – Backnanger Kreiszeitung … and counting!

The organisation Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) is newly inviting for the nominations for its first Freedom Blog awards. As dot journalism reports, the main focus of the awards is to explicitly draw more attention to authors (and blogs) which express an alternative point of view concerning news. Within many countries, writers are persecuted by the government and the media is in general under authoriative control. Personally, I am amazed by the idea to support and help these authors to express their thoughts openly and publically without limitation. Nevertheless, one may not forget that a certain control by the government helps in the process to obain a level of „freedom of speech“. But how much the awards will bring opposing views into the light of the media is questionable as it appears to be quite difficult to relevate persecuted authors to potential terrorists…

The german designer Rudolf Moshammer was found dead in his appartment in Munich. Apparently, he was strangled to death with a telephone cable. But some germans already wondered why he wasn’t murdered sooner! Mr. Moshammer was a fat and chubby designer who continously pestered the german media with his endless gayish behaviour, want-to-be-spicey songs for the Grand Prix de la Eurovision Chanson.

Perhaps it was nobody else but Prince Harry who’s been tagged as a Nazi on a recent society party (When Harry Met Hitler). This disgusting little party youngster who freaks out the british high society through his nothingness and troublesome idiotism should be locked away once and for all. How else can we serve the Queen better?

By now, only Sven and Yannic had nothing else to do but to pester and complain about the fact that I’ve been blogging a little. This public soulstriptease is special, and its my priviledge – not theirs. At least my girlfriend seems to like it, too.

In the original version of G-Money and Me: Bill Gates Interview, Bill Gates told the following about using a blog on his own:

I’ve toyed with doing one myself, but I don’t want to be one of those people who start and then don’t finish it, and again I’m thinking maybe I could do one a month or one every six weeks–something like that. I’d kind of like to, but I’ve got to be sure I can keep going for at least a year to make it worth doing.

Unfortunately, this paragraph has been erased. Perhaps Mr. Gates himself did not want to see further speculation circulating on other blogs? In the end, it is unavoidable – people will talk about this. I wonder if Mr. Gates would write his blog all alone or let some of his staff members produce the content similar to a corporate blog as found in GoogleBlog. Does the question concerning credibility arise again?