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October 18, 2005
Suw traces the history of telecommunications from carrier pigeons through email to blogs. She proceeds to talk about the nature and importance of social software behind the firewall, replete with examples. She’s quite convincing. (Suw talks without PowerPoints and without notes, in perfect um-less paragraphs.)
[Tags: SuwCharman blogging blogon2005]
I keynoted BlogOn this morning (where keynote = yell a lot). I don’t know how it went. Afterwards, as the adrenalin faded and the self-loathing kicked in, I missed the next panel, which apparently took apart my presentation and deposited the scraps in small paper bags later distributed to waste bins throughout Manhattan to make sure they do not reassemble.
The break was great though. Lots of people I like, some of whom I know.
I heard most of Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2.0. The content is great, of course, but as many others have pointed out, Dick’s hypnotic PowerPoint style is truly unique. It’s a bit like watching a sing-along video.
Now there’s a panel on RSS and one-to-one marketing. Scott Gantz of Yahoo begins by pointing to research that shows a high percentage of Web users use RSS without knowing it.”The individual ultimately is in control,” Scott says. [Adrenlin is still subsiding. I’m having trouble calming down enough to pay sufficient attention. Sorry for the lousy blogging.]
[Tags: blogon2005 identity DickHardt]
October 17, 2005
Anyone else having trouble with Gmail today? Mail delivery has been extremely slow all morning, and I’ve gotten the Gmail “problems” page a couple of times. [Tags: gmail]
[LATER;] It’s me. My ISP, RCN, has a router down. Weirdly, I seem to be able to get everywhere except RCN and mail.google.com. Actually, I occasionally do get to mail.google.com, too, but it’s spotty and intermittent. A friend tells me that he suspects RCN uses a proxy it doesn’t tell me about, but I don’t really understand that and don’t actually care so long as the invisible proxy remains working and invisible.
Tristan Louis is beginning 5 days of blogging about blog metrics for business.
Dave Sifry of Technorati posts his latest “State of the Blogosphere” metrics. [Tags: blogs blogosphere]
The BBC News website asked for your critical assessments of the Bond movie actors, with a judgement on whether new Bond Daniel Craig will live up to your favourite’s time in the role.This kicks off a new and occasional series on the Entertainment section, where we plan to invite knowledgeable fans to contribute to our coverage of big news stories.
Of the many excellent pieces we received, we have chosen a suitably Bond-like seven for publication – two on Connery, one on each of the other Bonds and a missive from “Miss Moneypenny”.
I liked the appreciations of Dalton‘s and Lazenby‘s interpretations. And it’s good to see the BBC continuing its experiment of opening up its staid pages, even in such a tightly controlled way. [Tags: bbc entertainment JamesBond]
Barbara Ganley has a terrific post about whether the Net, and blogging in particular, is disconnecting kids from the world or engaging them in new ways. The post is rich with examples. (And, yes, she does talk about one of my posts.)
Barbara is a Lecturer at Middlebury College who uses blogging in her courses. Plus, she’s got some great photos of South America at Flickr. [Tags: blogging BarbaraGanley]
October 16, 2005
HearUsNow.org, a project of Consumers Union, which is the publisher of Consumer Reports (got that?) has put together a toe-tappin’, cute music e-video warning against media consolidation.
Terry is having a lump removed from his breast. He blogs about it primarily to tell us what it’s like to be a middle-class American without health insurance.
None of this is any fair. But his story — like so many of his stories — finds and gives hope.
We all wish you well, Terry.
Ever want to make your own highway signs? Head on over here. Unfortunately, it only creates the sign in a applet window, not as a downloadable graphic, throttling the urge to be a wiseacre in public. (I had a little display problem with the java app: If the button labels don’t appear, try clicking the stripe under the line that says how much memory is available.) (Thanks to AKMA for the link.) [Tags: akma]
First, Judith Miller relies on Ahmed Chalabi — paid operative for Iraqi exiles — for a series of exclusives about those nasty WMDs pointed at us by Sadam Hussein, providing crucial support for Bush in his run-up to the war. Then she plays the “I have no recollection at this time” card when asked how Valerie Plame’s name (well, “Valerie Flame” as she noted it) first made it into her notebooks.
The Times had to apologize for it getting the build up to the war wrong. A little worse than switching the captions under the names of newly-weds. Now Miller can’t recall who first told her about Valerie Plame? How much more credibility is this Pulitzer Prize winner going to cost to the Times?
As always, Jay Rosen is the first person to read on this story. His take is that Miller essentially hijacked the newspaper. And it has cost us the truth: She didn’t pursue the Wilson/Plame story in the summer of 2003 when it might have had some effect on support for the war and on the election; she has only in the past couple of days agreed even to “cooperate” with the NY Times’ reporting of her own case. As Jay says, “The news pages of the New York Times were edited for months under the principle: don’t report anything that would anger the prosecutor or affect Miller’s case.”
It’s one thing to be gamed by a punk like Jayson Blair who lied so outrageously that you’d have to be as nuts as him to think he was making it all up. It’s another to be gamed by a senior Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. That requires a systemic flaw. If the Times’ editorial process is so broken and unreliable, what else are they getting wrong? And, beyond firing Miller, what can they do to get right?
The truth is that my trust has shifted. I find I trust The Times and other mainstream media far more after they’ve gone through the blogosphere. E.g., I trust Jay’s blogging of the the Times’ coverage — and the remarkable voices in his comments section — more than I trust the coverage itself.
[Tags: media JudithMiller JayRosen nytimes journalism]
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