In case you're wondering, indeed, I overdid it, though not drastically, and definitely not according to the lunatic standards of my pre-escape iron curtain days. In a nutshell, can I catch an anonymous coward who writes malicious reviews on Amazon? My only clue are the two messages left on the web at Amazon and also at Naked Conversation. Can I stop a vicious character before my book becomes his next victim ? Anonymity is like ringing someone's doorbell and running. As one mate told me: ‘Listen up, it is your book and you can be in charge’. So I'm thinking of buying the rights to the Elton John song I'm Still Standing
New York Times interview with DHS Director Michael Chertoff, by Deborah Solomon, April 2, 2006: Chertoff states: I don't use e-mail. One reason is when you write an e-mail, you have to be mindful of the fact that nothing ever disappears. It can be deleted, but it is still in the system somewhere...They can get me. They don't need to e-mail me. There's a thing called a telephone. DHS Director Does Not Use Email or Reviews book on Amazon
The Blog, The Press, The Media: From blog to book, a recipe for success
A 32-YEAR-OLD New Yorker who spent a year trying to master every recipe in a book of French cookery has become the inaugural winner of a prize devoted to books born of blogs.
Cory Doctorow, who chaired the judging panel and edits the popular US blog Boingboing.net, said the resulting book was a "heartfelt, funny and occasionally obscene tell-all about her journey of self-discovery and cholesterol".
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• · · For a company that takes pride in being the quintessential outsider, Google is moving quickly into the ultimate insider's game: lobbying. Google Joins the Lobbying Herd ; Now they should make the whole paper digital. Andrew Card was out as White House chief of staff and it was, or wasn't, linked to the influence of "chattering classes". The Peculiar Power of the Chattering Class
• · · · Before and after starting a blog Make money blogging Rob Benwell's way Find out why 20 Million is the Magic Number The little known secret about choosing between Blogger and Wordpress… New blogger-earn $547/day ; Now that Ben Domenech has resigned from washingtonpost.com I hope Jim Brady will do the right thing, the creative thing, the thing that would turn this sorry episode around and allow the post.com to come out with a win for its readers and in the blogosphere... Red America, RIP... and the Great Blogger Bake Off
• · · · · Historical columnists bridge the gap between academic history and journalism I have always seen journalism and history as kindred fields – a lot of the best history books are written by journalists, after all History matters: About the Historians Who Write History Columns ; One theory says: never blog about the things the newspaper normally writes about. Only blog about the stuff the paper never writes about. Follow that rule and your blogs won't suck. New! PressThink's Blue Plate Special Launches. ; Gregory Josefowicz, the combative chairman of Borders Books, blasted back at his on-line critics today in a scathing on-line letter singling out right-wing blogger Charles Johnson of "Little Green Footballs". Borders Blasts Back On Controversial Cartoons
• · · · · · User loyalty and engagement with the site: that's why newspapers need blogs. Some grasp that, some don't. "The puzzle isn't solved by newspapers starting blogs, even though it's a good idea to learn the form by doing it Seeders of Clouds: Latest on Newspaper Blogging ; Julie & Julia Blooker (blog-book) prize winners announced