The European Parliament has launched its new web portal that looks like a blog. European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Margot Wallström (Sweden) runs a blog on the Commission’s server.The Parliament started with a series of round table talks on the information society. The first one was about blogging: Weblogs - competition, challenge or chance? Whos afraid to open Pandoras blogs?” There were 4 panelists:Karlin Lillington, a technology journalist with the Irish Times said that the main difference between blogging and traditional journalism was that bloggers need not care about presuming to be neutral. Personal note: do traditional journalists care about that? I often don’t have that impression watching and reading some of our so called (self claimed) independent and neutral press. Aidan White, the Secretary General of the International Federation of Journalists said that there is no contradiction between blogging and journalistic standards. On the other hand, bloggers should learn to deliver quality and state their sources. Personal note: I don’t know about other countries, but in Belgium a blogger is legally not considered as a professional journalist which implies that his sources are not legally protected under the recent law of April 7th, 2005 on the protection of journalist sources. (law and preparatory works in the Belgian House of Representatives (Dutch/French) + article in Dutch). Of course a journalist can also blog. But this issue of “blogger as journalist” is a …

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