(via Corante on Blogging / Blogging News), it appears that Andrew Sullivan is now exhibiting classic blogger behavior, citing an article in the mainstream media and complaining about how it didn't mention him:
Andrew Sullivan: "Funny, isn't it, that the New York Times would run a piece about how weblogs can lead to friction between bloggers and their mainstream media outlets, without mentioning yours truly."Today our Pinocchio is a real boy!
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Last week Jonathan Delacour removed the calendar from his weblog and explained why in Say goodbye to useless calendars:
it occurs to me that I never use the monthly calendar to access previous posts on my own site or any other site I visit. And, a quick check of my blogroll revealed that only a third of the sites displayed the standard weblog calendar on their main page. Those who don't have a monthly calendar include links to either monthly (the majority) or weekly archives.He goes on to complain about weekly archives and their effects on google searches, and he points to a full-screen calendar with post titles and a photo randomizer for a possible replacement tenant for the screen real estate vacated by the calendar.
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2:05:52 PM say what []
I meant to blog this when Moxie first posted it. It cracked me up:
Who needs the Men of Enron? These men are hot!Plus, any babe who knows when to use "complementary" instead of "complimentary" warms the cockles of whatever an old copyeditor like myself has that passes for a heart.
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1:50:13 PM say what []
Nat Torkington from O'Reilly then asked if I'd like to review Essential Blogging and of course I said yes, please send me a copy. It arrived today, so that goes next in the stack.
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12:13:01 PM say what []
Internet Time Blog has a section devoted to blogging and recently ran a summary of a lot of the questions and choice quotations from last week's Berkeley J-school panel. (The one about each blog being a single neuron in the global brain was me talking from the audience, I believe.)
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10:46:15 AM say what []
A tip of the cap to Michel Vuijlsteke for spotting this line in Tom Tomorrow's latest cartoon. Tomorrow is himself a webblogger, of course, blogging at This Modern World.
10:07:27 AM say what []
In the business section of today's New York Times there's an article about journalistic weblogs and issues of independence, editorial oversight, and legal liability.
They talk to many of the usual suspects, such as Eric Alterman, whose pro blog is one of seven at MSNBC:
"I can't imagine a nicer way to make a living," said Mr. Alterman, who is paid by MSNBC to write about politics, the media and culture in his Web log. "It's therapeutic, and you get things off your chest. I can write whatever I want." [I notice Jrobb pulled this same quotation]They also quote Dan Gillmor and discuss the "Steve Olafson fired by the Houston Chronicle" story.
Commenting on the same article, Dylan Tweney writes in tweneyblog, "Thought experiment: What will happen to the free-and-easy culture of the blogosphere after the first weblogger (journalist or otherwise) gets sued for libel?"
(And, yes, I am still working on my full write-up of the panel at the Berkeley J-school last week.)
Strangely, the Times used "web logs" (two words) in its headline but 'Blogs' in the sidebar blurb on the front page of the business section.
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