Watching this painting while a tune Dress you up is humming in the background can be rather memorable ;-)
I've come to the conclusion that I'll never make a good blogger. I'm always off topic, talk about what only interests me on any glorious morning after a coastal walk, and always stray from the meme areas of blogosphere. Much like in my personal life, my Taurean personality leads me to find interest in whatever take my interest on a given day ;-)
Announcement by Off Topic Bastard, Who will Never be a ‘Blogger’ - Still lets hope this meme will spread like wild fire around the sphere May 1, 2006 Will Be Blogtipping Day
There is a phrase attributed to, among others, Harold Evans when he was editor of The Sunday Times, which was advice given to his reporters: “Always ask yourself, when interviewing a politician, why is this bastard lying to me?” The truth about spin: PR and journalism depend on each other more than the latter cares to admit
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Forget money; recognition is the new motive force
We're happy to be paid in attention, social recognition. Attention is currency — advertisers make it so — and thus garnering personal attention starts to feel more significant, for its own sake. Hence reality-TV narcissism and public journaling and rampant exhibitionism in our culture. But it's not just vanity; it's a harkening back to a public sphere that preceded commercialism. This may be a brief moment; we should enjoy it while it lasts.
Dutch researcher Maarten de Rijke and his co-workers Gilad Mishne and Krisztian Balog have developed a new programme that can trace and explain significant changes in mood patterns on the Internet. MoodViews is a collection of instruments that maps the mood of bloggers as they write their message.
• The mood of the Internet [Software toolkits and cheap hardware have led to the comeback of the garage startup. But this time the boom is more rational. Web 2.0's Startup Fever ; When blogs rule, we'll all talk like Disinhibition Nation ; Once again, a critical mass of money guys and journalists and entrepreneurs are getting awfully excited, and the excitement is beginning to feed on itself The Way We Boom Now ; It is the age of discredited institutions and revised history, en route to utopian perfection - One Last Thing | Blog, humbug! Real journalism is difficult and bloggers want no part of it ; E-mails are cyber-soapboxes. In this day and age, what we send will likely end up in the public sector: We're not all that bad Hang journalists? ]
• · Amatuer online blogs and MySpace pages give currency to a growing "attention economy", wherein the most successful have garnered the most flattering friends -- and advertisers. MARGINAL UTILITY: The Attention Economy ; It is the age of discredited institutions and revised history: We need things to believe in, but they'd better be watertight. Jesus vs. the gods of science ; Jon Yau: The AustralianBlogs team hopes you enjoy surfing the new site AustralianPodcasts ; Australian media and Public Relation
• · · Gossipy Web diaries connect with customers Blogs are changing corporate communication ; For MySpace, Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher. ; In the spirit of appreciating and encouraging three of my favorite bloggers It's A Great Day For Blogtipping ; Content, consolidation and clout: How will regional Australia be affected by media ownership changes?
• · · · Write About Anything. Free to sign up. Start writing now. Make Real Money Blogging ; Foreword is a weblog community in the service of book design ; Germano Facetti revolutionised British book design with his Penguin jackets in the 1960s. The secret, says Rick Poynor, lay in what went on behind the cover images Underneath the covers ; The Australian Guidelines for Electronic Commerce
• · · · · Huckabuck.com searches Google, Yahoo!, and MSN simultaneously and delivers results from all three. A neat feature that differentiates this from other metasearch sites is that you can weight search engine results using the "Search Tuner button" so that, for example, Google's results are given more weight than MSN's (but MSN's are still included). Huckabuck ; Know when to pitch - Good reporting takes time Sklar: Why blogs won't replace newspapers ; Open Letter to Tony Snow
• · · · · · Keller believes WH is on a campaign to intimidate the press ; The perfect storm of race, class, and sex makes the alleged Duke rape tale perfect fodder for the ‘justice’-obsessed media Blue (-Eyed) Devils? Made-for-media blockbuster; Why Tony Snow matters Snow era could be interesting; One and Only Jay Rosen: The White House evacuated spaces where the president can legitimately be questioned because it was Adminstration policy in general that Bush's authority went unchallenged, his descriptions of the world uncontested. This made him more brittle, but they felt strong doing it Snow at the Podium, Rollback on the Rocks