Interesting reading material from the last week in interactivity.

1) Professional bloggers could get journalist shield
Bloggers are closer to getting the sort of protection that journalist’s have when it comes to revealing their sources of information. This serves as yet another step into traditional validation of a young trade.

2) WebbAlert: A Lot Like Rocketboom, Except It’s Interesting
Techpoint reviews the new daily technology video blog from Morgan Webb of Tech TV and G4 fame. Each episode is 5 minutes long and focuses on a variety of industry topics while allowing tech sites promote their services within the episode. A nice alternative to scrubbing through feeds for hot topics in the technology industry.

3) Digg and Reddit: It’s Not Wrong to Create and Submit Your Own Content. In Fact, it’s Necessary.
Daniel Miessler encourages writers to stop being modest and accept the responsibility and necessity of submitting their own work to social content websites like Digg and Reddit. Too many quality writers are relying on random discovery for their content to be publicized.

4) Beowulf Trailer - The Next Infatuation in CG
The first trailer from the next big special effects driven movie coming to theaters next year. The effects aren’t as stylized as say, 300, but there are some amazing big of a leap as 300 was at the end of last year.