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Friday, January 07, 2005



I decided to quit the blogging grind & devote my life to philanthropy. However, I've since learned that one needs vast sums of money in order to do this. Anyone with extra cash, feel free to send large, 6-figure donations, thanks. Go ahead and quit, quitter. Nobody likes a quitter. Quitter. Oh god, NOT reverse psychology. STOP!

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Dragons and Foxes Draw Fire
Michael Gerson, the chief speechwriter during the president’s first term, is expected to be replaced by William McGurn of The Wall Street Journal. How will the change impact the White House message? Bush Gets a New Voice for Second Term Bogey without Bacall

There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing'. Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean no more than that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog's one defense. But, taken figuratively, the words can be made to yield a sense in which they mark one of the deepest differences which divide writers and thinkers, and, it may be, human beings in general.


Is It Sink Alone or Swim Together For Bloggers? [Eric Margolis: Here are what will be the big stories of 2005, according to my cloudy crystal ball Deliver us from evil ]
• · How To Down a Jetliner From Your Back Yard And other news from the techno-frontier. From sexuality to liposuction to surveillance to cloning, we're being overrun by technologies full of implications about who we are and how we should live You and I are cultural and political creatures living in an age of science and technology
• · · Australian Blog by Kekoc - Vlado ; Battle of the Media
• · · · Dan Gillmor: Ultra-controlling, old-school media policies are less than pointless. They are counterproductive. Media Cluelessness at Wal-Mart
• · · · · I Googled this, or I Googled that, or I Googled you Defining Google ; [Defining digital words. Blogs are only a vehicle, like paper. You can write poetry or use it for your grocery list.]
• · · · · · Don't close the book on libraries