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En norsk fiskebåt har tagits i förvar i ryska Murmansk.

Margaret Sullivan, writing at the NY Times, tries to define what a journalist is, in the age of blogging.

I've been thinking and writing about this for a long time.

When I started at Berkman in 2003, with the mission to start the blogging activity at Harvard, possibly the first at an academic institution anywhere, one of the first questions I tried to answer is What makes a weblog a weblog?

The conclusion I came to is that it's the unedited voice of an individual. The medium and form is not important. You could write a blog post in print on the op-ed page of the Times. But as soon as another person is involved in the writing of the piece, we're not talking about a blog anymore.

The process continued over the years.

In my podcasts with Jay Rosen, we talked about this a lot. Jay is a well-known journalism professor at NYU. I of course, am a blogger.

In that period I came up with this idea. Bloggers are what journalists call sources. Originators of information or ideas. People who make news, and not people who report news.

I think that distinction is very important when trying to decide who has the official shield of a journalist, protected from government prosecution when leaks are involved. As long as the person is reporting the news, and not making the news, then we're clearly talking about a journalist and not a blogger.

If this is what a journalist is, then Glenn Greenwald was most definitely a journalist when reporting the Snowden story, as long as all he did was report on the leaks. If he himself leaked, then he is a blogger.

Hope this helps.

Ogi_UnixNut writes "Scientists in Japan have succeeded in cloning a mouse from a drop of blood. From the BBC: 'Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction.' The female mouse managed to live a normal lifespan and could reproduce, according to the researchers."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Currently, Instagram appears to be flooded with images of various fruits, pointing to a site that advertises a "miracle fruit diet". The spam attack links to a fake BBC page, typically via a bit.ly link. The "BBC" page features an article touting the power of the advertised diet scheme.

It appears that compromissed Instagram accounts are the source of the spam. The accounts were compromissed using phishing e-mails as some reports indicate. In addition to posting the images, the users profile URL is also changed to the spam website.

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”Alla medlemsländer omfattas av avlyssningen.”

Tre ger tre svar på tre frågor om tyckarfestivalen i VIsby.

hypnosec writes "ICANN, as a step towards expanding global top level domain (gTLD) names, has approved a new Domain Name Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) that is expected to bring about waves of continued improvements in the domain name ecosystem. The new agreement is a result of efforts of over a year of negotiations that took place between ICANN and Registrar Stakeholders Group. The new agreement brings quite a few improvements, including making it mandatory for registrars to appoint a point-of contact for reporting abuse, and to establish registrar responsibilities for reseller compliance, enhancement of compliance tools, audit rights, and certification requirements, among others."