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Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
Journalizing Journalism. Chris Gulker: In my mind, the rise of Weblogs parallels events in the 16th Century when one of the first networks - reliable postal service - appeared. Shortly after people like Locke and Galileo and Descartes began writing each other about their discoveries, and then scientific academies formed, where these letters would be read aloud to others who shared an interest. The world has never looked back, since. Think 'Renaissance'. Think 'Industrial Revolution'. I make no claim to be on a par with Galileo, or Locke, or even Doc, for that matter, but I do believe that the global network and easy-to-use Weblog tools, RSS feeds etc. have fundamentally changed authorship. It has been democratized, and pushed down from the small, theoretically-highly-expert, professional cadre that were the norm in broadcast media to include a wider group of both amateur and professional authors who are the norm in peer networks like Weblog communities. This is a good thing, and you saw it operating last Saturday morning, when the Columbia foam-strikes-wing theory emerged on numerous Weblogs, hours before NASA and big media outlets made mention. That theory was stitched together through Weblogs talking, and branching, and picking up informed opinion, eyewitness acounts and media clips. The theory just emerged as interested, thoughtful people put the pieces together: it was like a human parallel processing machine.
Bonus links: Craig Burton's The Web Renaissance. That was two years ago, almost exactly. And one year ago, Phil Wolff's Craig Burton wants the world to dance. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
6:23:07 AM 
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Restoring integrity to the White House, number 14,203:
Douglas says:
Anyone heard the administration admit that they attempted to push through major changes to this country's energy policy based on completely misunderstanding the California energy crisis?
Good question, isn't it?
6:11:50 AM
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More on the
Lott
fabricated-survey-and-fabricated-testimonials matter.
Choose a weapon: Fudged data. False identities. No holds are barred in the academic duel over guns and violence, by Justin Ewers, U.S. News and World Reports.
It was a foolish thing to do, Lott now concedes,
but I get attacked a lot and I don't want to spend all of my time
defending myself.
Here's a
copy of the ''Mary Rosh'' Amazon reviews (which Amazon.com has removed).
Here's some
recent discussion by Julian Sanchez (the weblogger who broke the story).
Finally, for the completist, three's a huge, reverse-chronological
overview of the case. I would hate to be caught up in something like this. Let it be a lesson to everyone about what can come down on you when you cut corners.
This sequence is especially pointed, I think.
5:47:40 AM
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Two years ago, on 'tother blog,
M 'n' A, Content,
Voting: Sylvan buys a piece of Walden U, Andrew Odlyzko argues "Content
is Not King," and "Voting After Florida: No Easy Answers" (December 2000,
Revised 29 January 2001), by Lorrie Faith Cranor.
5:47:26 AM
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Online Work Balances Play, Survey Finds, by Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post.
Employees with Internet access at home spend more time there doing work for their companies than they spend online for personal reasons at their offices, a survey released yesterday found.
Nearly everyone surveyed admitted using company e-mail and Web connections for personal activities. But workers with Internet access both at home and in the office said they logged on from home to do job-related tasks an average 5.9 hours a week and spent 3.7 hours a week at work on personal matters online, according to the fourth annual National Technology Readiness Survey, conducted by the Center for E- Service at the University of Maryland and Rockbridge Associates Inc., a Great Falls research firm.
What information technologies are doing, particularly the Internet, is changing the picture so that we can shift our work around in terms of time and space, said Charles Colby, president of Rockbridge Associates and co-author of the study based on the survey. People may do things [on the Internet] at work, and then feel they should compensate for that at home. Or they may work late on a work project, and then go into the office anyway and feel, 'Well, I'm entitled to go check ESPN.com today.'
This is clearly relevant to yesterday's blinks on workplace surveillance.
5:47:11 AM
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Is Powerball a Mug's Game?
It all depends on when you play—and what value you put on a dollar.
By Jordan Ellenberg, in "do the math
A mathematician's guide to the news." (Slate, 2001).
Good analysis of the pro . . . and con.
5:47:01 AM
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