I wasn't prepared to be famous for 24 hours, but now that my weblog traffic has subsided to normal levels, I can relate some of the experience. The rest has to be filtered through therapy first. Fame or Something Like It
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Overload & Memories
It's interesting, for somebody who doesn't even believe in information overload, Steven Cohen's Library Stuff has been providing some excellent coverage on this topic lately.
I definitely agree with the conclusion that one of the answers to information overload is to trust that other people will read things which I won't, and that I'll find things through them or through the people who read them.
• Information Anxiety [In any revolution, one hopes for an outcome like the one Vaclav Havel wrought in the Czech Republic, but one is at least as likely to wind up with Robespierre Mood of the Newsroom: Letters from Three Journalists ; ]
• · Is CNN right to predict the end of conspiracies as we now know them? CNN Blog spam Google conspiracy theory (Nancy Grace) ; Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism ... A conversation about the future of journalism "by the people, for the people" -- and occasional other thoughts: Love happens. Impossible to predict where, why, when, or with whom. But I think Susie's right. Somebody at the White House was head over heels (literally) in love with Gannon - Doing Pro Journalists' Work For Them
• · · Some would suggest it's a case of Dracula in charge of the blood bank. Maybe the media isn't too inclined to report on its own dirty secrets. Slowly, slowly, Crikey's investigation into circulation rorts is starting to bite. Ten days ago, the Audit Bureau of Circulation announced it was looking into the issue – hardly an independent inquiry, but a start. Today, the biggest figure in Australia's multibillion-dollar media buying industry, Harold Mitchell, has thrown his substantial heft behind our investigation US case study ; This morning Crikey editor, Misha Ketchell, lodged this formal complaint with the Commonwealth Ombudsman We take Budget lock-up ban to Canberra
• · · · Hugh Brown teaches New Media communication in the School of Journalism Communication at the University of Qld. He now blogs at http://www.huge.id.au while conducting research into the distribution and promotion of music via New Media ; He was editor of On Line Opinion from 2000-2004 during my extended tropical holidays in Sunshine state ;-)
• · · · · Singleton sees profits in Lonely Planet ; Living the Literary Life: Writing, Reward and Rejection ... nobody can thrust the idea down the throat of a writer that the only valid publication is American publication Writers uphold literary works free from market demands
• · · · · · Imagine a day when you just have to enter a few words on your computer, such as Iron Curtain push a button, and be able to read an automatic -- and accurate -- summary of what appears in major sources about this specific subject After PageRank, Here Comes LexRank; AerialText of Joseph DePalma