A Much Needed Fresh Air and Oxygen in Linking; Blogs of the Year from Fimoculous; Google Zeitgeist from Google; Top Searches from Yahoo Search; Search Scrapbook from AOL Search; Web's Most Wanted from Lycos; Favorite Weblogs of 2004 from Kottke; Best Blogs from Matthew Tobey; Favorite Blogs of '04 from Radio Free Blogistan; Best Blog from Washington Post; Most Cited Blogs from Intelliseek; Best of the Blogs from Deutche Welle International; Best of the Web from Spasticrobot; Most Blogged Items from BlogPulse; 150 Most Popular Tags from Flickr; 2004 Weblog Awards from Weblog Awards; Top News Sites of 2004 from Newsknife; Top 10 Web Diversions from Amy Campbell...
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Imrichs ‘R Limericks: My 15 Minutes Are Up
And What a difference an evangelical blogging tutorial makes!
Plain Layne: C'mon, admit it, you like being fooled. For three years, Plain Layne was the online girl you wanted to know. Sexy, smart, irreverent, and willing to talk about expensive dildos and cheap wine, Layne Johnson told you all the naughty details -- in e-mail, on AIM, or on her website. When she turned out to be the fictional work of Odin Soli, a thirty-something dot-commer with a manhood, the investigative effort (chronicled here) became the real story. In hindsight, the salacious details should probably have tipped off more people, but, as everything from The Passion of Christ to Da Vinci Code to the Red Sox showed in 2004, people really want to believe in myths.
• Ghosts and Dragons; [ "I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says, be serious, be passionate, wake up." Writer/thinker Susan Sontag, who is watching us from above... ]
• · The real trouble with journalism is that it focuses only on facts -- obvious facts, superficial facts, trivial, empirical facts that deserve to line tomorrow's birdcage. Throughout 2004, Poynter Online featured centerpieces on topics that affect journalists and journalism. The Year in Journalism ; [Kottke (Cat in Slavic) My favorite weblogs of 2004 ; Boggies ‘05 Awards ]
• · · · · Even auto mechanics rank higher in a national poll about honesty and ethics. But if it's any consolation, the public doesn't like poll takers either The World Hates a Newspaperman; [Also by China Mieville a new novel, Iron Council; even recommended by John Quiggin et all. FOR PEACE, SOCIALISM AND CHRISTMAS; HANDS OFF OUR HOLIDAY SEASON!; PRIVATISE THIS. Christmas will not be privatised: I'm dreaming of a red Christmas]
• · · · Blogs : The Killer App For Citizen Generated Media: Word of mouth relies on the influentials," he says. "It’s the tipping point. Who are the most trusted folks out there? The link system within blogs becomes a natural way for influentials to rise to the top in a way that’s easily identifiable During the elections, the same 10 blogs were quoted over and over—they became the influentials; [Google's Revolution : Finding Needle In The Haystack; Who to trust and who not to, and what to call each in our reflexive acronymic style, it is worth looking at what the Forces of Darkness have to say on the matter You Think WE Distrust the Media? ]
• · · · · · Marqui Demo; [Metafilter]
• · · Companies like Microsoft steer like old Buicks, and this issue has a lot of forward momentum that will be hard to soak up without driving the engine block back into the driver's compartment Cory Doctorow: I lead a double life: I'm also a Double Dragon