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Thursday, February 24, 2005



For years all bloggers had to have XML feeds, but no one has been there to display them. Now is the time for change in the blogger world, time for XML parsing to reign The Mother of All Blog Rolls 'Rolls Out'

The Blog, The Press, The Media: NEWSHOUNDS: Blogged Down
Hertzberg in the New Yorker:

Nothing is likely to come of it. All the memorable scandals of the past 30 years, real & fake, from Watergate to the Clinton impeachment [guess which one is fake!], have had in common is that the opposition party controlled at least one house of Congress, which gave it the power to hold hearings & issue subpoenas. If Bush ends up having an easier time of it in his 2nd term, it won’t be because the scandals aren’t there. It’ll be because the tools to excavate them are under lock & key.


Paper Dragons [We are like the little first amendment engine that could ... Vanity Fair's James Wolcott on Gannon: He did provide some genuine insight into the journalistic standards of the far-right fake-news prosties & their blog enablers [I think that's us, guys!] ; All of those sites are seeing really strong ad buys In Search of the Blog Economy ; Jason Kottke is switching into full-time mode over at his blog and he's asking for your support Honey, I Shrunk the Patrons ]
• · Bloggers rally for jailed Iranians ; Global blogger action day called; now 14 years in Jail; Solidarity Update
• · · Karola's Ramblings from Slovakia Bratislava Blogger covering the Summit ; Bush-Putin summit Almost No Live Coverage
• · · · Local officials blogging for readers far and wide ; News gives people a false sense of wisdom. Knowing what goes on in the world does not make anyone more knowledgeable about what really matters Stop the presses!
• · · · · Media vs the blogs Bloggers. Truth-tellers or vigilantes? Trophy-hunters or watchdogs? ; How the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
• · · · · · To imagine life as "real" we have to stretch my imagination to metaphors ... Bloggers are like the little first amendment engine that could Cold River