On March 12, 2012, Media Legal Defence Initiative and eight other NGOs issued a joint letter to the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung calling for the immediate release of bloggers Dang Xuan Dieu, Ho Duc Hoa, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nong Hung Anh and Paulus Le Son.
One of two full-time bloggers hired in a headline-making new media experiment by WKRN-TV Channel 2 in Nashville, Kleinheider went on to edit Post Politics, a branded political blog of NashvillePost.com.
Stern has been a key figure in financing the online grassroots "netroots" community, along with Dean, George Soros, Simon Rosenberg, and Andrew S. Rappaport, to funnel a progressive agenda to liberal bloggers.
Asian Correspondent is an English news website that was launched in October 2009 by Hybrid News Limited with the stated purpose of creating a hybrid news model that combined professional journalists, successful bloggers and wire news in one website.
The 60 minute film features a range of top bloggers, liberal and conservative, including: Markos Moulitsas, founder of DailyKos; Michelle Malkin, blogger and Fox News Commentator; Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake; John Hinderaker, co-founder of Powerline; Charles Foster Johnson, founder of littlegreenfootballs; Andrew Sullivan, former editor of the New Republic.
Parishes, campus ministries and bloggers use an RSS feed of bustedhalo.com to provide content to their communities.
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics is a book (ISBN 1-931498-99-7) authored by American political bloggers Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD, published in 2006 by Chelsea Green.
At the end of 2007 Bartlett, during an interview with Evan Smith published in the January '08 Texas Monthly, implied some conservative bloggers, such as Hugh Hewitt, were unfiltered mouthpieces for the GOP and Bush White House.
Originally, the game was promoted through the web service StumbleUpon, getting further boosts from popular bloggers such as Michael Arrington.
EconLog bloggers frequently carry out open conversations with other bloggers including those at Marginal Revolution, Overcoming Bias, and Libertarianism.org.
The canonical example of emergent democracy was the December 2002 resignation of Trent Lott as Senate majority leader after bloggers publicized his praising of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for the presidency.
During its roll-out stage, bloggers showed how Facebook Graph Search could be used to uncover potentially embarrassing information (e.g., companies employing people who like racism) or illegal interests (e.g., Chinese residents who like the banned group Falun Gong).
FanHouse kept its stable of traditional bloggers as well, including widely published Michael David Smith and Elie Seckbach.
With Apple confirming its provenance, bloggers such as John Gruber and Ken Sweet speculated that this transaction may have violated the California Penal Code.
Bloggers, or cyberactivists as Courtney C. Radsch termed them, have also played an important political opposition role, writing, organizing, and mobilizing public opposition.
Shortly after the film's online release, bloggers and newspapers familiar with indie comics noticed its resemblance to Justin M. Damiano, a 2007 comic by Ghost World author Daniel Clowes from the anthology The Book of Other People.
Other bloggers, including author Teresa Nielsen Hayden, have expressed anger and frustration to find that the website has compared their writings to that by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.
Well-known bloggers include sex and relationship expert Dr Pam Spurr, businessperson Michelle Dewberry and TV personality Katy Hill.
Throughout this time, he freelanced for the New York Times, New York magazine and other publications; he was also one of the founding bloggers at True/Slant.
In 2006, it was reported by The Star, a local English language daily, that Ooi was among several local bloggers being wooed by the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to run for public office.
Following his death, Zaslow was the subject of a number of written tributes, including an essay by columnist Bob Greene, titled Jeff Zaslow's last lesson, pieces by fellow journalists and by bloggers, posts on the Wall Street Journal remembrance page and eulogies by family members on the family's remembrance page.
Currently, Gottlieb is a participant in the video vlog “Momversation”, which focuses on issues that affect moms and gives different perspectives of other mom bloggers, including Heather Armstrong, of the blog Dooce.
The event was hosted by chef George Duran and food industry analyst Phil Lempert; New York city area food bloggers were invited and told food being served was prepared by chef Duran but were served ConAgra frozen foods instead.
At Miss America 2011, Kofoed was the only contestant to wear a one-piece swimsuit, drawing media attention and praise from Evangelical Christian bloggers.
Most media outlets in Philadelphia have been helping the Figueroa family, and Internet bloggers have pressured cable news networks to give coverage equal to that given to Natalee Holloway and Jennifer Wilbanks; they succeeded in gaining attention to Figueroa's disappearance from CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel.
In addition, the litbloggers from The Elegant Variation, Laila Lalami, The Old Hag, Maud Newton, Return of the Reluctant, Bookslut, Ready Steady Book, The Reading Experience, and Sarah Weinman are a few of the bloggers writing book reviews and criticism for major newspapers and magazines.
In June 2008, MBA became involved in a copyright dispute involving Associated Press demand of strict terms for bloggers quoting from their news at the request of Rogers Cadenhead whose Drudge Retort was affected.
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In January 2007, an MBA member received press credentials identical to those of broadcast and print journalists at a federal court, to cover the trial of Lewis Libby, alongside bloggers from more established sites including Firedoglake, the Huffington Post, and Daily Kos.
In 2005, CBC's Farid Haerinejad made a documentary about Nikahang Kowsar entitled "The Bloggers' War".
Numerous bloggers and Capitol Hill voices have referenced him as being extremely influential on the local community.
This group is run by Ryan Budke and made up of Weblogs, Inc. bloggers, Propeller power users and celebrities, including Wil Wheaton.
The group originated in October 2009 when a group of bloggers organised demonstrations using word of mouth, Twitter and Facebook, culminating in No Berlusconi Day on 5 December 2009.
The museum's decision to show works from the collection of one of its trustees raised some ethical red flags by several bloggers, and gained momentum with a front page article on The New York Times followed by considerable coverage elsewhere, including an editorial in The Art Newspaper by Modern Art Notes' Tyler Green, who had previously blogged about the situation, and responses by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine.
She later claimed that her comments were quoted out of context, and were directed at teenage bloggers in general — a claim disputed by the Scottish Sunday Express editor Derek Lambie.
The Rag Blog has also been a target of right wing bloggers and conspiracists, including Trevor Loudon, Cliff Kincaid, and WorldNetDaily, who characterize The Rag Blog as "radical leftists" and as a media arm of "former Weatherman terrorists," and suggest that it is connected to President Obama through the groups Progressives for Obama and Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS).
His co-bloggers include Alex Smith, Matt DeLuca, and a number of anonymous contributors including Zebulon Pike and Dino Crocetti.
He has criticised the work of other journalists and bloggers, including Margo Kingston and writers Elizabeth Farrelly, Mike Carlton, Terry Lane, Mark Lawson, Tracee Hutchison of The Age and Robert Fisk.
After his successful deal with Lane Crawford, in Fall/Winter 2009 Ton received the honor of gracing the front-row of a Dolce and Gabbana fashion show, along with fellow fashion bloggers Bryanboy, Garance Doré and Scott Schuman.
On January 3, 2007, the first team of bloggers to announce that they had been granted press credentials was Firedoglake, a progressive blog founded by Jane Hamsher.
Liberal bloggers also expressed frustration with Unity08 because they contend that the group promoted "establishment" centrist or center-right politicians in the molds of Joe Lieberman and Michael Bloomberg while at the same time doing little to promote the progressive values it would seemingly represent.
The Kenyan site was developed and run by several bloggers and software developers, all current or former residents of Kenya: Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, Ory Okolloh, and David Kobia.
Many bloggers like Chris DiBona and Habib Haddad campaigned in an attempt to identify his whereabouts.