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Google news is hot right now. (See CNet's story.) Not sure how I feel, as an editor and all, about a "front page" that declares, "This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors. No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page." (Google's sense of humor remains intact.) For the moment it's an interesting experiment. Useful, challenging our expectations, but not any kind of replacement for the human-edited front page. Google's engineers are smart, though; this is a beta. Who knows how far they can take it? Nick Denton's critique is worth pondering: he observes that Google's algorithm fails to give "exclusives" their due.
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On Christian's Blogistan, a rough transcript of, or notes on, the Weblogs panel at UC Berkeley from last week.
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I can barely keep up with the stuff Marc Canter is blogging about broadband these days -- he's an idea spitfire. This post is a good starting point.
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Thoughtful exchange between The Raven and Rob Salkowitz on art and terrorism: Damien Hirst's thoughtless comments about 9/11 being "visually stunning" and Eric Fischl's controversial sculpture "Woman Tumbling." Also good reading: Salkowitz's further thoughts in this article -- ostensibly a review of a stage show (!) based on Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces". Choice quote: "The tragedy of 9/11 is that it took airplanes flying into buildings to blast away the accumulated layers of phoniness, commercialism and propaganda that cloud our vision. And even that didn't last."
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Rayne Today says, more personally, what I've been saying about how journalists fail to fathom the wide variety of purposes motivating bloggers: "No, hell no, bloggers are not ALL frustrated journalists. I'm certainly not. I'm just a collection of day-to-day issues in need of some airing. While some bloggers might feel otherwise, I'm not really worried about driving up my readership. Personally, my concern is finding a place to set free this stuff in my head so it's not stagnant, not locked on paper or a hard drive."
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Foodies, get thee hence to the Julie/Julia Project, which is continuing voluminous chronicles of "extreme cooking": "How in God’s name do people do multicourse meals? This is French Cooking for the servantless American cook, remember?!"
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Slow
The blogging has been slow for 2-3 days now. Over the weekend I dealt with monster network problems at home (Bad hub! Weird network troubles! Still working on it!). Things have been busier than usual on the editing front. Just beginning to catch up...
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