Year: 2004

  • OhmyNews interview with Gillmor

    When we both get a moment free I’m going to interview Dan Gillmor about his new venture for the Power of Many weblog. In the meantime, this interview in Quoting from OhmyNews International gives some insight into what he’s got in mind: One of the great things about the democratization of media is that people…

  • Clickable Culture reads the fine print

    Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture looks closely at the terms of service for the bloggers being paid to blog about / endorse Marqui’s product ( – Deconstructing Marqui’s Adverblogging Antics) and doesn’t like what he sees: Today I discovered that the situation is actually worse than I originally thought.

  • Take the Forbes.com Blog Poll

    Prove Steve Rubel right: (Forbes.com Blog Poll): Forbes.com is running a poll: What’s Your Involvement With Blogs? Have my own and update it dailyCheck somebody else’s every dayHave seen one, but don’t read regularlyHave never seen one, but have heard of themWhat’s a blog? Who wants to bet me that the first option will win…

  • Susan Mernit on 43 things

    Quoting from Digging 43 things: The 10 minutes I was going to spend on the 43 Things beta from robot coop turned into 45 somehow. This list-maker from a new company formed by a bunch of Amazon’s personalization wizards has a social network aspect and a team or groups component that are both cool. I’m…

  • prospects for peace

    Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinean’s armed uprising has been a mistake and that Palistineans should pursue independence by peaceful means. This is, I’d say, big news.

  • Gillmor on Iraq the Model and the new Spirit of America-sponsored Arabic language weblog tool

    Quoting from An Honor: I just had the honor of introducing some extraordinary people to a Silicon Valley audience. They were Jim Hake, CEO and founder of Spirit of America, which I wrote about last spring. His operation is bringing help from U.S. citizens to people who need it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it’s…

  • VoodooPad 2.0 is out

    draft notes in progress (based theory of publishing entire process): i am “saddened” to quote Tom Daschle to feel that I must mention that VoodooPad isn’t paying me to blog about it!* VoodooPad. You put your brain in it. That’s the short explanation. If you are familiar with Wikis, then go ahead and delete all…

  • How to teach science

    Quoting from The Poor Man: He Sat Right Down And Wrote Himself A Letter: [I]t is a waste of time to teach utterly uninterested schoolkids how to calculate reaction rates and trajectories of cannonballs and so on, things which are going to be about as useful to most of them in the grown-up world as…

  • Citzen's media on the local level

    Quoting from Washington Post Examines Citzen’s Media Big day for citizen journalism. Peg notes that Leslie Walker writes in today’s Washington Post that several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news. Profiled… iBrattleboro.com NorthwestVoice Advance Internet Backfence…

  • Bloggers in the Oval Office

    Quoting The bloggers in the Oval Office… (BuzzMachine): Omar and Mohammed just told me about their visit to the Oval Office this week. They said President Bush assured them that we would finish the job this time. They told the President that they were grateful for their liberation and that the coalition did a great…

  • Google suggests

    Trying out the Google Guessing Rank (GGR) game outlined by Jon Scalzi, I got a kick out of watching what Google Suggest (it’s a beta) thought I might be searching for until I got four letters into my last name. Here’s the literal sequence if I type all the letters (counting even when it doesn’t…

  • Hoder on 'Starting a Local Blogosphere' (via Joho the Blog)

    Compare Hoder’s advice (via [VBB] BridgeBlogging, an eventblog entry by David Weinberger over at the weblog of the journal of the hyperlinked organization, aka JOHO the blog) to the things Dave Pollard has been doing right here in the Salon community at his How to Save the World blog: Hoder: You can only start a…

  • Missing the conference / not missing the conference

    Although my personal life wouldn’t permit yet another east coast trip at this moment (I was there in the summer and the fall and I’m headed there for the holidays as well), it sounds like the Internet ‘n’ society conference going on at Harvard this weekend would have been a nice one to make it…

  • Wiki spam

    I suppose wiki spam is inevitable. I’ve set up the wiki part of this site to be fairly open to changes to encourage readers and visitors to interact, but now for the second time a spammer has dropped a bunch of links to some Chinese websites onto the pages (Recent Changes). It’s not hard for…

  • Email and Browser URL Extraction and Search via a Personal del.icio.us

    I think Jeremy Zawodny’s onto something big here. I’ll have to add a link to my “why not tag everything” post too, because I think it’s part of the same picture (Email and Browser URL Extraction and Search via a Personal del.icio.us): A few minutes ago, I needed to send a note to Russell about…

  • Gillmor leaving the Merc to found citizen journalism project

    Quoting from “We the Media” Author Has New Venture at Personal Democracy Forum (by Micah L. Sifry): The biggest news I have to report so far from Harvard’s “Votes, Bits and Bytes” conference is that Dan Gillmor–one of the first mainstream journalists to get the new dynamics of Internet-powered democracy–is quitting his job at the…

  • The Homosexual Agenda

    Where’s the moral majority when you need them?

  • D.I.Y. journalism

    Quoting Matt Haughey (A Whole Lotta Nothing: Don’t just read the news, make it): A few months ago, I was thinking about all the questions I wished I could ask someone that helped develop the TiVo user interface, and then I realized there was nothing stopping me from just emailing and asking. After a bit…

  • Speaking of Martini Republic

    Over on her own blog, mitten defends MR against an apparent attack by alleged right-wing blogger Cathy Siepp (a later date: ms. siepp). In so doing, she brings up an interesting matter that relates to the evergreen metablogging question “Why do we blog?“: Cathy apparently cares most about the links and comments she gets on…

  • Looking for more info about Blog:CMS

    BLOG:CMS appears to be a fairly full featured open-source blog / content management system. I believe Martini Republic uses this application. I’d like to hear from people who have compared it to some of the other popular blog and open source CMSes.

  • The Flickr News Network

    Quoting from Is Flickr the Next Media Giant?: Wired News: When bombs went off in Jakarta, Indonesia, in September, CNN.com readers weren’t the first to know. Instead, members of Flickr, an online photo service, were among the very earliest to see pictures of what had happened. “There were photos on Flickr before even any news…