Thursday, February 02, 2006



Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
-Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans

Making the cover of Media Dragon or Double Dragon has long been a milestone in public recognition - for issues and people: How Women and Men Use the Internet, Pew Internet & American Life Project, 28 December 2005. Women are catching up to men in most measures of online life. Men like the internet for the experiences it offers, while women like it for the human connections it promotes.

More than 2 million broadband services connected, ACCC, 6 January 2006. The take-up of broadband services has passed 2.5 million, according to the latest Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Snapshot of Broadband Deployment issued today Blogs are the most overhyped phenomenon of 2005. How do I know this? Because Google has never lied to me. Blogging in the Wind: Same Zoo, Different Animals

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Leaving A Trail Of (Sparkling) Blog Dust
Journalists have the right to blog about whatever they choose, but management has the right to impose standards against anything that would "impair their ability to be seen as evenhanded, fair-minded reporters working for us.

Depending on the local media Web site you visit, blogs of all sorts can be a daily fixture or a future promise, and the rules governing employees' contributions to unaffiliated sites are equally varied, if they exist at all.


Blogs eyed for interest conflict [Google CEO Eric Schmidt has promised that the web search giant will make some "really big bets" in a bid to turn around the negative response to its latest results Google fails to deliver perfection ; Papers take aim at Google ]
• · Senator Andrew Bartlett is the leading political blogger Taking the sharp edge off our fears ; In April, CMF will begin our long-awaited evaluations of House and Senate personal office, committee, and leadership Web sites to identify our Congress Online Gold, Silver, and Bronze Mouse Award winners Congress Online
• · · Congressional staffers are editiing their bosses' bios (sometimes rather aggressively, so) Wiki tricki: Rewriting history under the dome ; Present-day politicians are condemned to live and die in the ever-intrusive gaze of the media and its eagerness to damn. You're in the public eye, but can you afford to live there?; Elections law is unclear on Internet content Could blogs get tangled in web of ethics rules?
• · · · No one expected Daley to personally field the blizzard of entreaties, compliments, insults and offers that certainly poured in to that address -- just one reason Daley has never announced a deal between the City of Chicago and the wife of a deceased Nigerian dictator -- but it was a useful, easy-to-remember way to get a message to City Hall ...and he doesn't have a blog,either ; Is ABC's PR chief directing network's Woodruff coverage? ; ABC News shouldn't have sent Woodruff to Iraq, says critic
• · · · · Today the web is busy with news that its coolest engine and the darling of the cybersoothsayers, namely Google, has failed to live up to the expectations of Wall Street's financial analysts Time to analyse the analysts ; How easy is it to hack your company?
• · · · · · Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast Tax office needs a special computer for me: Gates ; Microsoft Revises Blog Policy ; Dover Reporter Fired Over Personal Blog Comments