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March 5, 2007
David Isenberg opens the F2C conference with a ringing invocation to friends, wifi roamin’ and countrymen. (Actually, the incredible Howard Levy opened the conference with a harmonica solo. I’ve heard HL before. He does things with harmonicas that physics doesn’t like.)
It’s streaming here… [Tags: f2c net_neutrality david_isenberg ]
March 4, 2007
Good for Obama coming out with the fact that he’s used drugs. It was bound to be surfaced by “opposition researchers” at some point, so better that he rob the revelation of its power.
But that’s just the start. We all should get it all out of the way right now, in one gigantic Gotcha Fest, because we’re all guilty of just about everything and — thanks to the Internets — we’re all going to know just about everything about everyone.
Let me make it easy for us. Here’s a form you can post on your own site.
Preemptive DisclosureThievery I stole: as a kid The cumulative amount I’ve stolen amounts to approximately: $1-$9 Drugs I have used: alcohol I used drugs: as a result of peer pressure (=in high school or younger) Sex I have had sex: before marriage I have masturbated: once, but I didn’t inhale Lies I have lied about: my age Religion In truth, I go to my place of worship once every: day One of my parents or grandparents was Jewish: Vices My vices not listed above include: swearing |
Why do shampoo bottles tells us to wash our hair twice? The stuff we use to clean whitewall tires (well, those of us who clean whitewalls, which definitely seems like a losing proposition) doesn’t tell us to lather, rinse and repeat. Is our hair really that dirty? Or — perish the thought — is this just a way of getting us to use up the shampoo twice as quickly?
Science? Marketing? Just good hygiene? [Tags: doep puzzle]
March 3, 2007
From the header of Blog to America:
Content for Blog to America is completely generated by the readers. Blog to America is a site where individuals from around the world post their opinions on the United States in the form of letters and comments. This can be done by clicking on the “submit a letter” tab and filling out the form or by simply sending us an email. Our site aims to encourage global communication and create an international dialogue between America and the world.
As an American, this is some painful reading so far. The posts range from tough love to just tough. It’ll be especially interesting to see if the comments develop an ethos of dialogue; there’s some hope there so far.
It’s one of those experiments that depends on getting unpredictable small things right. Otherwise, the site might turn into AmericaSucks.com.
(BTW, BlogToAmerica.com claims the copyright for anything posted there. Also btw, the domain AmericaSucks.com is registered to Register.com.) [Tags: america blogs gv global_voices]
Wow. I’m speechless in so many dimensions.
And then she comes out in support of Romney.
Just because I feel so helpless, I’m kicking in a small donation to the Edwards campaign. [Tags: politics ann_coulter john_edwards mitt_romney gay_rights]
Elizabeth Edwards has blogged what I think is an appropriate reaction to Coulter.
Dean Barnett does a good job countering arguments from some of his conservative followers that Coulter’s comments were ok.
March 2, 2007
Ethan Zuckerman and his friend Daniel Beck kick off a new cultural phenomenon: The east coast alternative to Burning Man: Freezing Man. [Tags: burning_man ]
The Wall Street Journal has a piece by Jennifer Saranow about live blogging personal events that’s entertaining, provocative, and ends with an anecdote about the Accordian Guy, Wendy Koslow and AKMA.
It’s a nicely done piece, although I’m not satisfied with its main explanation of why people live blog everything from births to funerals. Jennifer seems to view it as a type of narcissism. But all writing in public is narcissistic —”Hey, listen to me!” — and I’m not sure that live blogging is especially so. For one thing, frequently live bloggers are writing about other people’s events.
I don’t have an alternative hypothesis to offer. Live blogging is inexplicable enough that it seems likely to be an indicator of a more important fault line in how we’re constructing public and private spaces. Or something. [Tags: live_blogging blogging blogs wsj everything_is_miscellaneous ]
March 1, 2007
The folks who install cookies on your site that enable them to track your browsing history so they can target you with ads, all without your knokwledge or permission, have a site that tells you which of the cookies you’ve already accumulated and that lets you opt out. How very considerate of them.
It turns out that I have active cookies from seven of the nine trackers. [Tags: ads marketing spyware cookies ]
techPresident continues to be informative, opinionated and entertaining. To take an example from the lighter side, its Daily Digest today points to PrezVid where Jeff Jarvis links to two videos of John Edwards. Watch this one first (it’s funny). Then this one for Edwards’ reaction to the first one. (Disclosure: I’ve done a tiny bit of volunteer advising to the Edwards’ Internet folks. Nothing worth disclosing, except it would feel funny not to, so I am.) [Tags: youtube politics media john_edwards jeff_jarvis video]
From the BostonNow blog:
BostonNOW is a new free daily newspaper launching this year that will incorporate both traditional and citizen journalism. Your ideas about the Boston community (news, politics, sports, the arts, etc.) will appear side-by-side with the words of BostonNOW staffers and wire service journalists. We will promote your work prominently both in the paper and on the website, not in a “local blogs” or “reader photos” ghetto.
Every day, BostonNOW will direct readers to the Web, where they will find real depth and discussion. BostonNOW will become the place to learn what folks around here really think about politics, entertainment, sports, and their fellow humans. This dialogue will create a newspaper of the people, by the people, for the people.
BostonNOW will truly be your newspaper.
Sounds good on paper, so to speak. In fact, it sounds great. They’re holding a get-to-know-the-bloggers party this Saturday, March 10:
RSVP here. (Thanks to Steve Garfield for the link.) [Tags: boston media msn journalism blogosphere blogs ]
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