Philip Blosser, like thousands of other people across the world, has created a place to share his thoughts by blogging, among a number of Catholics who are using the net to share their faith and to talk about what is right and wrong with it. For bloggers, Pope Benedict XVI 'rocks': I love the smell of napalm in the morning ... The smell -- you know, that gasoline smell -- the whole hill -- it smelled like ... victory Google on Benedict XVI
The Blog, The Press, The Media: For Every Story, An Online Epilogue:
Whew, relief. I have been dying to talk about this for months. BusinessWeek this week has a cover story on blogs
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later
Monday 9:30 a.m. It's time for a frank talk. And no, it can't wait. We know, we know: Most of you are sick to death of blogs. Don't even want to hear about these millions of online journals that link together into a vast network. And yes, there's plenty out there not to like. Self-obsession, politics of hate, and the same hunger for fame that has people lining up to trade punches on The Jerry Springer Show. Name just about anything that's sick in our society today, and it's on parade in the blogs. On lots of them, even the writing stinks
Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they're simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself.
• Blogs Will Change Your Business BusinessWeek Gives Blogs The Cover Treatment [Shel Israel and Robert Scoble Interview with Bob Lutz of General Motors The Deepest Blog in the Bloggosphere is among the real stars ;-) Congratulations Michael of Deep Blog Fame ; Bill Gates Wants Your Media Dragon; Microsoft Service Lets You Create A Nice Blog, But Limits Tweaking ]
• · That's what Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. told a University of Kentucky audience this week Don't bet on the mainstream media becoming irrelevant ; Child mag dumps tech editor for taking payments from firms
• · · Reporters now see their role less as discovering facts and fair-mindedly reporting the truth and more as being put on the earth to afflict the comfortable, to be a constant thorn of those in power, whether they are Republican or Democrat The press is less liberal than it is oppositional ; Television news has been taken over by an "idiot culture"
• · · · Former Durham Herald-Sun exec Jon Ham remembers when newspapers covered the public sector as a preventative to corruption and abuse of power: They now cover it as a partner in the effort to get government more involved in people’s lives Ex-editor: Newspapers are preaching rather than reporting ; Changing nature of news bothers editor, causes nightmares ; Journalists do run in packs, and that they are prone to forgetting history...The increasingly caustic nature of some online criticism is prompting many journalists to complain that their honesty and motivation are being trashed along with their work, reports Howard Kurtz Journos say bloggers' attacks on them are nasty, personal ; Even the best solo blogger doesn't stand truly alone. We are all building on each others' work, and learning from each other and our communities. Chris Nolan: The Stand Alone Journalist is Here...
• · · · · The Australian arm of a multimillion-dollar internet pharmacy racket has been raided by federal police as part of a US-led cyber crackdown across several countries Police raid illicit internet pharmacy ; Today we attempt to answer a question that has no impact on the course of life or blogging, but is still fascinating: how many great and useful lists of whole world wide blogs can you find out? Global Voices
• · · · · · James Governor: what happens to Scoble now? Here's a hint: Lenn wasn't my only protector Can Scoble Still Blog Freely At Microsoft? ; Have you noticed how, unlike “life,” politics is not a box of chocolates, as Forrest Gump put it. It is, however, a lot like the movies Now What: A daily blog on choice issues