On Blogging: It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops.
-Heather Mac Donald in Slate
Dan Gillmor writes: In a thought-provoking blog posting, Mitch Ratcliffe discusses the ever-relevant topic of journalists and their conflicts of interest. Free Speech Belongs to Us All
The Blog, The Press, The Media: !!!Crikey!!! Rare Chance to Score Yourself a Digital Affair with Saint Stefan
With Crikey nearing its fifth birthday, love is in the air ...
With our fifth anniversary beckoning, the challenge is on to come up with a list of our best stories from the Crikey website since it all began on February 14, 2000. Here are 80 personal favourites of the editor's to kick things off. If you have any suggestions on what should be added, please email boss@crikey.com.au.
Few topics inspire trips to the crystal ball like technology, although hasty predictions have often only provided future generations with quotes for cocktail party chat. What is the future of Crikey? And what's the internet's future? It depends on whom you ask
• Australian Idol: Favourite hits from the Crikey archive [New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States New Voices; Personal democracy ]
• · The Importance of Being Permanent The Web is the first medium where the publisher can put something in a place that it can be found forever
• · · Blogs and message forums buzzed this week with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge. Google exposes web surveillance cams
• · · · Believing that the Iraq war is wrong is legitimate dissent, and Stone might even be right, this may be an unwinnable situation. But feeling any kind of satisfaction when you hear of victories by the "insurgents" means you have crossed the line from dissent into disloyalty. Rationalizations walk. If you are rooting for the insurgents - you are one. Limits of dissent; [ The fight against terrorism could go on indefinitely unless the U.S. adopts imaginative new strategies ]
• · · · · From Salon: will diversity continue to flourish in the wake of LiveJournal purchase by blogging start-up Six Apart?
• · · · · · James Wolcott - the blogger who consistently moves the earth ; [Another rocker Technorati Wins it All ]