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John Robb mentions the "Fox" news quality of Al Jazeera reporting. Yup... difference is many in the West regard Fox News as a sad embarrassment to a long tradition of impartial media... Fox is the National Enquirer (or actually, maybe a few cuts below the supermarket tabs) of American broadcast media... whereas Al-Jazeera is the closest thing the Arab world has to an unbiased source... sad as that may be... Comments 9:28:29 PM 
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Iterators: I was browsing a story at kuro5hin about the programming concept of iterators and it occurred to me that that's what linked Weblogs are. Each site picks up a list of things the author likes, comments on them (or just passes them along) and publishes. Other sites pick that work up, iterate it and so on.
Each iteration brings a human's judgment - itself the result of decades of itration over themes, ideas, experience - not just an algorithmic transform of some sort. In this way, a remarkable and consistent insight arises, based on the strength of a large communities of users, without a 'central command' to hand out either ideas or the tasks that can develop them. Imagine Weblog Central Command: "You, there, spellcheck this! You, research the premise! You, quick, develop insightful commentary...!" |
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "The president has adopted a policy of "anticipatory self-defense" that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy.
"Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy. The global wave of sympathy that engulfed the United States after 9/11 has given way to a global wave of hatred of American arrogance and militarism. Public opinion polls in friendly countries regard George W. Bush as a greater threat to peace than Saddam Hussein. Demonstrations around the planet, instead of denouncing the vicious rule of the Iraqi president, assail the United States on a daily basis.
"The Bush Doctrine converts us into the world's judge, jury and executioner -- a self-appointed status that, however benign our motives, is bound to corrupt our leadership." Heh, not mincing words... originally published in the LA Times, now available here... |
 Photographer Rob Brown a former colleague at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, in a very nice protrait by Jason Redmond, staff photographer at the Ventura County Star. Rob and I worked side by side under editors Jim Bellows and Mary Ann Dolan and photo editor Jim Roark. I, for one, was pretty clueless in my 20s, but what a great time we had... Heady, fun days... and the first picture post in days...Comments 4:48:05 PM
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Dave has new doctrine . It's about the war, and this is how he really feels... Comments 4:26:42 PM
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An interview with Brent Simmons by John Gruber. I've been in touch with Brent on and off for years, since the days when I was a Frontier developer. Brent's latest creation, NetNewsWire is what I'm typing these words in... Comments 2:55:02 PM
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Another Baghdad reporter, the BBC's Paul Wood. Still no word from Salam Pax lately? Comments 2:05:05 PM
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iBlog is a Mac OS X desktop weblogging application with iLife integration. Works with mac.com's iDisk and other WebDav servers. Shareware, get it from Mac OS X Downloads. Comments 1:31:24 PM
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New York Times: Bloggers paid to pitch: NYT interviews a popular teenager who places links to products on her blog in return for a cell phone. It's not just blogs: agencies in New York and London are said to pay hip, attractive people's bar and dining tabs if they will agree to mention products in conversations they strike up with others in bars et al... Comments 12:33:09 PM
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Scott Rosenberg: "How do you feel about bad news?"
"I need to address, head on, one kind of criticism that has been percolating through this blog's comments and that I've noticed in various forms on other sites.
"The criticism embraces a number of related arguments, but the overall package goes like this: Why are you posting so much discouraging information about the war? You sound glad that things aren't going as well as planned for the American forces. Why are you hurting morale? Aren't you just playing into Saddam's hands?
"Before the war started, if one suggested that the US might be underestimating the problems of an invasion of Iraq, it was considered "helping Saddam"; now that the war is on, discussing those problems as they unfold is considered "helping Saddam." Apparently there is no appropriate time to challenge what may well prove a misguided policy. We should all just shut up and let Rumsfeld do the talking. Gee, how convenient!" Read the whole thing...
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MacCentral: IDG, Apple announce creative show in New York. Stepping in to the niche left open when Seybold folded its East Coast show... but I imagine this will have more extensive film, audio and Internet stuff, especially streaming technologies. This could also be a way out of the IDG/Apple conflict over the move of MacWorld from NY to Boston in 2004... Comments 12:18:53 PM
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Wired News: The Iraq Body Count website claims to attract 100,000 visitors a day, and is increasingly being cited as a source in news outlets such as The Boston Globe, the San Jose Mercury News and the Associated Press. Interesting use of the Internet... Comments 12:09:39 PM
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Reporters and others in Baghdad writing/broadcasting in English: The Independent's Robert Fisk; BBC's Paul Wood, Rageh Omaar and Andrew Gilligan; Jo Wilding, an anti-sanctions activist, is an observer for The Guardian, Peter Arnett on MSNBC. Anybody else? Comments 11:34:15 AM
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How Google grows, and grows, and grows.... Fast Company looks at Google, its 10,000 servers and says "Google is also a case study in savvy management -- a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorous accountability, and relentless attention to detail." Still curious about the culture... Comments 11:02:58 AM
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Strategypage: "The pundits are already making comparisons to Vietnam, but there are some important differences. The main one being that Saddam's government is a brutal dictatorship that is unpopular with most of the population and that there are no nearby nations providing support for Saddam's followers. Even the Iraqi government admits that it is cut off and not able to hold out for a long time. Saddam's major weapon is media manipulation and turning himself into a heroic Arab folk hero, bravely fighting off the evil Western crusaders. The reality is different, but that doesn't mean you can't reinvent yourself via the media. Madonna has done it several times. . . .
"After one week of operations, U.S. forces have suffered 22 killed in combat, six dead in accidents (including two killed by a soldier attacking other soldiers in Kuwait). Seven troops are prisoners and 17 are missing. By historical standards, these are record lows in casualties for troops actively campaigning against an armed enemy."
Providing a little balance, I hope... pointer from Glenn Reynolds... |
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Doc Searls: "A friend writes, 'Thought you'd be interested in the online music distribution channels that're popping up to route around Big Media's disinclination to air anti-war songs. Artists are taking it directly to the people (listen to REM's "Last Straw" at http://www.remhq.com/finalStraw/finalstraw.html) and at least one new site has sprung up: http://www.protest-records.com, from Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. Take that, Clear Channel.'" The Net continues to see censorship as damage and routes around it... Comments 10:47:50 AM
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Dan Gillmor: Baltimore Sun: Weblogs cover the war without mainstream restraints. The best blog writers hew to the Mike Royko-Herb Caen style. Interesting: the tools are helping a new style evolve... Comments 10:45:19 AM
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Embedded journalism stokes Information Revolution, an opinion piece on ENN by Bernie Goldbach. Bernie notes that it took 5 people to haul the video gear required for a single crew to cover the Grenada war in 1983, where it's now 2 people with a lightweight camera, laptop computer and USB compatible satellite transceiver. Bernie was kind enough to quote me on the topic of 16th Century information networks (the postal service)... Comments 7:57:53 AM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:29:25 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:29:25 PM
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