Tim Dunlop has a way of getting everyone’s attention and this entry illustrates why: Those damn rightwingers and their collectivist behaviour: 1001 uses for a blog
Dan Gillmor notes that the Internet is a foundation of democratic society in the 21st century, because the core values of the Internet and democracy are so closely aligned: Blogging and Democracy
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: Down-On-Its-Luck
Once I was blessed; I was awaited like the rain
Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame
Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company
But now the janitors of Shadowland flick their brooms at me
Thats where the title of this blog came from: once adored
You have to get noticed to get promoted. You have to get noticed to get hired. You have to get noticed to get fired. It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top page” or “Oh, just google my name.”
No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice. Bloggers are better-informed than non-bloggers. Knowing more is a career advantage
• Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career [ ; Men have a real thing for the hypertext link]
• · P.P. McGuinness: Time to go, Mr Ramsey The decline of once great figures who do not withdraw themselves from the scene when they should is often the stuff of tragedy, no less in journalism than in other pursuits. What used to be a sharp critical intelligence turns into pure curmudgeonry, analysis is replaced by prejudice, reference to other authorities becomes lazy quotation of passages supportive of these prejudices, and care for fact and detail is replaced by bluff and rhetoric Is Alan Ramsey about to be spiked? ;
• · · Internet bloggers should enjoy traditional press freedoms and not face regulation as political groups Lawmakers: Hands off Web logs ; Seven years after it was created, the Arts & Letters Daily website now attracts 100 million hits. We need deeper, better thinking, and better analysis, to understand this great cultural moment The thinking person's big hit
• · · · Very few Americans read blogs with any frequency Blogs Not Yet in the Media Big Leagues ; Whether they are seeking immortality or just letting off steam, Web bloggers are multiplying in number and are seemingly affecting American media and political insiders, at the very least. Most Half Full Glass Ever
• · · · · Ryan Sager writes a powerful column in today's Tech Central Station that exposes the big money behind campaign-finance reform and the BCR Checkbook Democracy; Simon Jenkins in The Times, like most people who it seems only read the lunatic fringe of the American blogosphere, is not impressed by blogs Under my keyboard the desk shakes. The bloggers are on the march
• · · · · · Government Quietly Warns Utilities To Beef Up Their Computer Security Hackers Target U.S. Power Grid ; Literary supplements are changing in two Israeli dailies. How will the new editors wield their enormous influence on the local book world? From lit crit to lit chic