The good news is that Tim Dunlop is surfing on the virtual road again!
The Blog, The Press, The Media: The Game Played in Heaven
The United States is the world's great shining beacon of apathy, a place so free and safe and blessed with material comfort that democratic elections are, in the best of times, a spectator sport for roughly half of all Americans blessed with franchise. According to disturbing evidence supplied by the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, however, turnout for the 2004 election was the highest it's been since 1968, with 60.7 percent of all eligible voters, or 122.3 million citizens, casting a ballot. In disheartening contrast, only 78 million true patriots treated November 3rd like just another day to watch Ellen and shop at Wal-Mart.
• The era of one-click democracy [Credits: Paul Geary, The New Editor...We’re in the midst of spectacle, and many people aren't even aware of it. The Near-Disintegration of the Mainstream Media; In his .5 au revoir to the blogosphere on Tuesday, Andrew Sullivan hit upon something I think resonates particularly well with those of us who work in the alternative news sphere: I also wanted to experiment with a new kind of writing-in-real-time - more free-form, colloquial, confessional and open. It's the Narrative, Stupid ]
• · It was announced today at Publishers Marketplace as their "deal of the day." And it was in Publisher's Lunch, a popular e-mail alert. Gatekeepers Without Gates, my book project, has been greenlighted. Publishing News at PressThink; The earnest reporting in the past two weeks that conservative commentators Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Michael McManus took money from the feds to promote a political agenda doesn't strike me as an epidemic of Humpty Dumpty proportions. The Bipartisan Grifters: On both sides, it's about more than money.
• · · It is that dialog-based interaction with its community that, in my view, separates the good papers from the great ones. The ones that get it use creative processes to involve their constituents on a number of levels. It ultimately has very little to do with cost, and significantly more to do with how deeply the paper's leaders - both editorial and business - feel about turning a conservative business (as most papers seem to have become) into a true agent of change in the community. Michelle Grattan Australia's detention regime is endless in its ability to shock
• · · · It's the dentists, you see. they want to be writers. Barista ; Beware: No Other Industry Needs Websites like this everywhere
• · · · · Whether it prospers or not, the sale of Crikey is a media milestone The underground news is a going concern
• · · · · · Ten years ago this week, The Age became the first Australian newspaper, and one of only a handful around the world, to publish an internet edition Coming Of Age on Line ; The water is the color and consistency of chocolate milk, but they dip the jugs in anyway. Guapo takes one of them, sniffs the water inside, then takes a sip. He squints into the desert, nods and hands the jug to Tigre. It’s good — you can’t taste the dirt or anything. I wanted to show what these people go through to get into our country. I’d never done a documentary before, but I knew it was something I had to do Filmmaker Tommy Davis took the jug next, setting his video camera down to take a drink.
