Monday, January 03, 2005



I do not know if science will uncover enough about my cancer to slide the dial just far enough for me. But we have the technology that could have warned millions about the quake.
Next time people must be given a chance

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Magazine companies & blogging
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has a good point: The biggest blogging operation in the world is not who you think it might be, not be a long, long shot. It's About.com.

When viewed only in the current context and change the word guide to Blogger and you've go a 700 blogger operation running on top of a Moveable Type platform. The bloggers are getting a minimum of $500 per month and their sites are being monitized by a premium publisher deal with Google.


About Next Year [All awards are stunts, their purpose is to raise the profile of the industry or activity being promoted. Australian wine consumers love to see those little gold, silver and bronze markings on the bottle labels Business blog awards ]
• · Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism New Year, New Role; [Another must read in 2005 - Top Ten Ideas of 04: Content Will be More Important than its Container Jay Rosen 1 Jan 2005 ]
• · · If my blog does not meet your standards, then LOWER YOUR STANDARDS. Who the hell do you think you are, anyway? Rules: Criticize ideas? Yes. Criticize people for holding those ideas? No. So there you have it. New York (Blogging) Man in all his glory. Rejoice Estonia!; [New Year's Resolutions 2005]
• · · · Media loves the story with legs. There is one story that seems to have enough legs to win an Olympic marathon several times over. Actionable intelligence is spy jargon for knowing of a threat and then acting, based on the risk Knowing when it is time to take risks
• · · · · Josef Stalin said that "one death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic." As ever, the dictator was precisely wrong ; [I was sad to hear that Mr Sedgwick passed away this past year, and with his passing his account at GTE.net was terminated. James Sedgwick's Certainty Site ]
• · · · · · It's no secret that Jay Rosen is among my five favorite bloggers, if for no other reason that I learn something almost every time I read a post on his site. Thoughts About Jay Rosen's Thoughts ; [The risks and rewards of trendspotting Top Ten Trends for 2005; Good search engines like Google make it easy to find what you are looking for on the world wide web What's Worth Looking for on This Website? ]