Jul 16 2007
James Surowiecki and Malcolm Gladwell are well known to readers of the New Yorker as the twin purveyors of contrarian gobbledygook. They bring to mind a pair of gymnast contortionists - going through a series of elegant and stylish moves to assume impossible convoluted positions - then adopting serene smiles which might convince a […]
Jul 06 2007
Two blog posts today draw attention to the fact that newspapers and TV stations are turning from producing news to buying it:
Jun 14 2007
The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee has issued a guide for Republican candidates stressing the importance of blogs and online video for victory in the 2008 election.
Jun 11 2007
A $10 shovel or a $20,000 work of art?
Well, it’s both. Back in 1916 Marcel Duchamp opened his first exhibition of readymades with a sign: “Who cares who made them, I chose them!”. The notion that discovering a product could be more profitable than making one, was a novel idea, and caused […]
Jun 07 2007
More importantly:
In a February poll from We Media and Zogby Interactive, 72% of adults said they were dissatisfied with the quality of American journalism today. Another 55% said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism, and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to the poll.
This and more from […]
Jun 01 2007
Late last night I wrote a long and rather turgid post with the heading “If I had a hammer…..” The reference is to Abraham Maslow’s - “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
The post was a critique of an […]
May 31 2007
I mean real beginners. If you have been blogging longer than a week or so please move along there is nothing for you here, you already know this stuff.
Actually I’ve been blogging a lot longer than a week. But all the blogs I have built in the past have essentially been marketing fluff - blogs […]
May 27 2007
Both Google and Technorati have recently released new search engines for blogs. The technorati version seems to return more up to date results but google’s has some interesting options such as “email alert”, “add blog search gadget”, “subscribe to blog search feed”.
