Ach, it is Friday night and there are so many Ritzy stories to tell, but not yet ;-) Like politicians, partners in crime are never so human as when they're going through a huge sea change. So it was tonight. Ritz was awash with taxing stories, emotion, goodwill and goodbyes ;-)
‘You know you've made it when you are on the radar of’ Bespacific as they are just amazing virtual techo-political eavesdropping creatures Downing Street Memo Continues to Provoke Responses from Hill and Med
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Citizen Journalism: From Little Trickles Big Stream Flow
The patron of the fifth estate, Gandhi, observed that 'whatever you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it; everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.'
Many souls got to be a fifth estate pioneers when the world wide web was born. An early trickle became a tidal flood. Fifth estate philosophy tends to be along the lines of the long twisty tail: 'If I have one reader, just one single solitary reader in the entire world, then I am happy, I consider that *success* by my own definition.' Sometimes if one drops a pebble into the ocean of indifference some things just tend to happen. As Lao Tzu pointed out: 'How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams? By being lower than they.'
Our Citizen Journalism Pledge Gets Panned, Praised
• A blogger does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all [I mean, 300 camcrews outside a courthouse to see what Kobe Bryant is wearing when the judge sets his hearing date, while false information used to send our country to war goes unchecked? Horror movie right there on my TV ; A big report on a popular problem — sleep disorders — was a big story across the media but most failed to mention who commissioned and paid for the research Media caught napping ; A party mix of amusements, from virtual art galleries to TV trivia to talk radio for your iPod, plus some of the best humor writing on the Web 50 Coolest Websites 2005 ]
• · Tim Dunlop Said the bishop to the blogger ... ; The most important day of the year in the Oz blogosphere or Ozplogistan as the Master, John Quiggin, has called it … ach and many happy tripple returns soon to Media Dragon too ;-) Blog birthday
• · · How not to do it ... If you follow media news at all closely, you've read about the Los Angeles Times editorial page's abortive experiment with creating wikitorials ‘Here is the Times' worst mistake and its most predictable:’ Wiki cooties and the death of editorials ; via About Last Night One million and counting; I'm 45. I remember a time when Playboy was the pornography of choice for young men everywhere. Now, sheesh Independent Film Making: prOn for the teenagers
• · · · 2005 TechnoLawyer @ Awards: Final Results ; via Barista How the Web changes your reading habits
• · · · · Fairfax demands $100m cut ;
• · · · · · I’m sorry I acted the way I did in the email. It was wrong of me and only hope you accept my apologies. Behaving the way I did shows me in a pretty bad light Not hate mail ; Overuse turning `The Long Tail' concept into a tall tale