Blogging

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When I worked with myself to write the entry, Sitting at Bradley Airport in Hartford, Conneticut, I wanted to capture not only the events around me, but also the sounds and smells, the comfort of my black vinyl seat. But more importantly, I wanted to give the readers an idea of my mindset, having woken up at 4:15 AM, Eastern time. So without further delay, I present to you the entry, "Sitting at Bradley Airport in Hartford, Conneticut."

I was once a treehouse; I lived in a cake.

Worry not dear reader, for this informative flash movie will explain any questions that this post has undoubtably brought up thus far. Be sure to watch it all the way through.

The Mystery Flash Movie

After Matter:Notes, reactions & links

The majority of my readers felt that the film was a disturbing but, in the end, heartwarming analysis of the 19th century bourgeois culture. However, other readers disagreed.

The left is full of crop circle paranoids. The right is full of stupid angry people. The sheer volume of information in both does manage to strip things to bare bones facts, but not by virtue of intelligence, just volume - like a colony of bacteria feeding on a corpse.

David Galbraith

A few weeks ago, it was widely reported that blogs have failed to replaced radio, TV, and print as the public’s primary source of information. Though the news was hardly a shock, suddenly herds of self-assured pundits used the revelation as proof that blogs were an overblown“fad". With certainty, the pundits proclaimed the it to be the new pet rock. Nevermind that their reports had seriously misinterpreted the data. The media had spoken, and a truth was born.

The arguments (if that's what you call them) of these self-proclaimed soothsayers of technology deserve little to no attention. Anyone who bothers to think beyond the conventional wisdom of the week will see that the forces fueling the rise of the weblog are anything but fashion trends. The nourishing roots of the blogosphere are -- in fact -- older than the very cave paintings which signified the birth of media.

Recent reports indicate that at times up to 90% of the pings to services such as Weblogs.com and Technorati are from spam blogs. Others tell stories of not actually being able to find a legitimate blog by using the blog surfing feature at the top of blogger blogs. Sure, the problem isn’t unique to one particular weblog host or piece of blogware, but amongst the crowd of blog fraudsters and thieves one service stands out as the choice of the spamming scum, and that’s Google’s Blogger.

Link:The Blog Herald

SearchBistro is doing a multi-part report on one of google's closely guarded secrets. This should be interesting.

Crooks and Liars has a great Daily Show segmant on Blogs and the Media. Its required watching. On a side note, our friend ol' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo got a huge mention on the program.

Full-time local TV station bloggers.

This is an odd claim coming from tech world news -- I'd even go as far as to call it obvious spin. The lead sentence reads:

A significant minority of respondents to a survey conducted by Hostway.com, a national provider of managed Internet services, say that bloggers should not benefit from the same First Amendment protections that are afforded conventional journalists.

Why was the story framed as "a significant minority is against 1st amendment rights for bloggers"? The results of the survey showed that 51.7% of respondants believed that bloggers should have the same right to free speech as journalists, and 27.3% neither agreed nor disagreed. Only 21 percent believed that bloggers should not receive the same protection. So why is the position that is outweighed by more than 2 to 1 cited as "a significant minority". To put it another way, the day after Bush was elected, what if the NYTimes headline read: "A Significant Number of Americans Voted Against Bush". Would you call that partisan spin? If so, why isn't this clearly anti-blog spin? Then again, anti-blog opinions are likely to becoming increasingly vogue.

You just watch: over the next few months it will be the new trend in the media to pull out some old well dressed credible-looking dinosaurs to say: "Bloggers aren't journalists... blogging is typing... I've been in the Mass Media for 50 years, so I know what's going on with this new unpredictable technology... wah wah, wah wah..."