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This section's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante.
Up for inclusion: anything on the culture, technology, politics, and future of blogs. Please send any tips, suggestions or reactions to Hylton.
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CORANTE ON BLOGGING: In media res
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By Hylton Jolliffe
Ray Ozzie shares Groove Network's blog policy: "In general, the company views personal websites and weblogs positively, and it respects the right of employees to use them as a medium of self-expression... [but] please be aware that the company may request that you temporarily confine your website or weblog commentary to topics unrelated to the company..." |
Henry Copeland notes Tara Sue Grubb's numerous shortcomings as a candidate: "Well, we've got to start somewhere, I guess."
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Dave Winer asserts that "eventually the world will be run with weblogs, much the way it's run with telephones today."
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Jason Kottke reports on comments made by James Gleick on blogs at a local book reading: "[He] didn't much care for them, saying that perhaps it wasn't such a good thing that we now have thousands of people filling the Web with nothing. After hearing him extoll the virtues of the anything-goes Internet, I was very disappointed that he missed that same aspect when considering weblogs."
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Anil Dash on a blog whose former incarnation he misses: "It's not just the single-mindedness that ruined the site... The problem is that there is no discussion.'
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Meg Hourihan weighs in on Steven Levy's piece: "I've been hesitant to link to it because it annoyed me (again) for getting simple facts wrong (again) and I didn't want to bore you with my complaints (again) about it..."
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Dan Rosenbaum on the blogging as journalism question: "[It] confuses the technology with the act it supports -- not something that technologists have ever done before... Just as the equipment doesn't make me a musician or a programmer, blogging doesn't mean you're a journalist." |
Matt Haughey in the New York Times today: "There are still tons of blogs without a good way to search them, clump them or suggest ones you might like. I'm sure more sites will spring up this year to fill that void."
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Andrew Bayer, for whom "tweaking my blog has become an obsession," responds to Steve Levy's recent article: "The immediacy and real-timeness of blogging makes it great for getting information out quickly, but if you're blogging bits and pieces of a bigger story or idea along the way, it's possible that someone else will read your blog and steal your idea."
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Anne Holland: "My big theory about the popularity of journalists blogging is that you get to avoid actually writing your assigned article, while still feeling all virtuous because hey, you're writing something."
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Halley Suitt to John Perry Barlow: "Get a blog. Your email to 1069 of your closest friends is cool -- but what you need boy is a blog."
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Doc Searls to AOL: "Give every journalist in the whole AOL/Time Warner organization a blog. Control nothing. Just let 'em go and let nature take its course." Of its chairman and the "tiresome old producer-to-consumer rhetoric" he says, "Steve Case is no bargain in that department... [but] Steve has always, somewhere down in his soul, believed in empowering customers, and not just in capturing eyeballs and pumping content." |
Rebecca Blood says, in an article from the Globe and Mail, "Whether or not journalism adopts Weblogs, whether or not business adopts Weblogs, there will always be people who stick with them... Most of us don't have access to major media of any kind, and this is our way of being able to say our piece, even if only 100 people or a dozen people are listening." |
Larry Lessig on Dave Winer: "Dave thought I was literally saying he, Dave, has done nothing." He continues: "what I meant (and I thought this was obvious) is that we've done nothing politically yet... if this community does not begin to spend at least as much time as it spends watching Hollywood movies fighting Hollywood... then this extraordinary space that you, Dave, (and I trust you'll agree, some others as well) built will be taken away. Not by superior blogs, and not by witty /. postings. But in the old-fashioned way: through regulators who have been bent by the forces of those who can and do buy Washington." |
Dave Winer on Larry Lessig joining the blogging ranks: " I'm glad to see the professor roll up his sleeves and participate. For him, that's the first, and perhaps the biggest step."
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Andre Torrez, who says "ideas are fucking worthless," on a blogger he doesn't name: "There's a certain weblogger who likes to point out possible applications for new technology in his blog. When someone implements the thing he mentioned, even if it's barely related to what he had previously written, he'll all but take credit for developing the application." |
RightWingTexan on the reason he's quitting blogging after just a few weeks: "I wasn't cut out to spend several hours a day writing followed by another couple of hours defending myself... The mistake I made was in trying to have a semi-serious blog in a world of really serious bloggers."
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Paul Palubicki calls articles by the traditional media on blogging "terminally lame," saying the hooks on which the stories are hung are "the typical mush that news departments put out as filler to cover the dead space between important news and events." |
NZ Bear, who says he'll "blog for food if it comes to that, on his job search: "I'd be very interested in any offers or leads that relate to my more bloggerly skills as well."
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Tom Matrullo: "Amazing how the blog form is finding itself flexible enough to suit a variety of modes of delivering 'impersonal' information." |
Denise Howell presents her second cut at the Top Ten Signs of a Microcontent Obsession - #8: "You eagerly anticipate the musical and oenological musings of law professors you may never have met." |
Steve Outing on Dave Winer's prediction that members of Congress will be maintaining blogs in years to come: "I hope he's right... [it] would be a big improvement over the old-fashioned communication we get with our elected representatives."
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Jeff Ward, comments on Euan Semple's post: "One of the unique qualities of writing in the blog environment is the ability to free-associate concepts across diciplines... in this environment, the 'contract' between reader and writer cannot be maintained with those of little patience for digression, reversal, or exploration." |
Euan Semple on the various subjects about which he blogs: "It is the combination of all of them, and the similarities between them, that fascinates me... Flow, contribution, tolerance, interconnectedness, energy all affect our ability to be effective human beings and they also keep coming up as essential characteristics of the individual elements of complex systems."
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Ray Ozzie: "another fascinating and unique thing about this medium is that I can speak directly to this special interest group right here, along with others who had similar questions... It's much faster, more direct - being unedited, it's more conversational - enabling me to interact, not just speak."
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Dave Winer in a comment in which he says "up yours" to Larry Lessig: "In five years every member of the US House will have a weblog and will be communicating directly with the electorate."
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Fran Mason, in a review of Rebecca Blood's blogbook, considers her own writing career and compares strategies: "not getting paid to be ignored by editors, versus not getting paid to publish on the web and build my own audience." Her conclusion: start a weblog. |
Frank Paynter adds an interview of Mike Golby to his ongoing series. Golby, who calls blogging an "endless, mind-blasting discovery" as well as "enormously exciting, invigorating, tough, rewarding, and addictive," invokes Carl Jung in a comment on the version of himself he presents online: "I attach a lot of importance to Jung's notion of 'the shadow', our dark selves, and to the duality of our being, i.e. light-dark, hard-soft, kind-cruel, yin and yang." |
Mike Sanders, who says "clearly the motto of the blog kingdom is 'I am right,'" asks "Do blogs really increase communication? Or does the expression of opinion increase our self-centeredness and diminish our ability to listen?" His answer: "overall it seems that blogging has led to more speaking but less communicating." |
Dorothea Salo on whether bloggers have the right to refuse links into their sites: "Permitting a link isn’t the same as linking. It’s not any kind of endorsement that I’m aware of." |
Dave Winer expresses his frustration with the "how will weblogs make money?" question: "I can't believe people still think that advertising and commissions on catalog sales have anything to do with this medium. That's so ink-stained and so wrong."
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Glenn Reynolds on the power of the Web: "On Friday at 12:57 p.m. I put NWU legal historian Jim Lindgren's dissection of Michael Bellesiles' Arming America up on the site. As of 8:09 a.m. today, it's been downloaded 27,038 times. That's several times the circulation of the Yale Law Journal, where it originally appeared." |
Ray Ozzie on an observation he's made: "What has struck me over the past few weeks is the fact that blogs represent a radical new approach to public discussion - one that, in essence, completely and naturally "solves" the signal:noise problem, and does so through creative exploitation of a unique architecture based upon decentralized representation of discussion threads."
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Virginia Postrel on her brief return to blogging: "In addition to the writing (and, in my case, coding), it requires a lot of reading and thinking... I'm too easily distracted to blog and concentrate on my book at the same time."
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Shelley Powers, who says "our weblogs have become a curricula vitae for prospective dating partners, " comments on wKen's blog: "I would rather go out with a weblogger than not.... I think I would feel 'blind', in the metaphorical sense, dating somebody without a weblog." |
Bob Frankston on self-publishing: "Whether others view the writing with the same degree of appreciation isn't very important. At least the reader gets a chance to judge... The prejudgment of publishers, whether in journals or newspapers, is now just an option." |
John Hiler on Malcolm Gladwell's most recent article: "I've learned more from dissecting his writing than I have from almost any other modern journalist... Just when I started getting bored with writing, Malcolm writes an article like this and blows me away with how much more there is to learn."
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Jon Udell says, in a post on the notion of "user-contributed self-correcting databases": "One of the delightful things about the blogosphere is the way that it converges on truth." |
Leigh Partington to her husband: "...tonight I read your blog entry about your tortured soul…" George Partington: "And we laughed, and my soul didn’t feel a bit tortured."
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John Geirland speculates on whether blogging and other bottom-up, network-edge content has a future in cell phones and PDAs: "It is heresy to draw parallels between the mobile and wired Internet... That said, new devices and services are making it a lot easier to create and share new forms of mobile content with others." |
N.Z. Bear asks, in the dog days of summer, "what to do when news is light; the blogger is lazy and inspiration is fleeting with regards to good topics for the ole' blog?" His answer: "Get your readers to do your work for you by throwing out "discussion topics" which are simply thinly veiled attempts to avoid doing any real work on your own."
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Carl Passino on Instapundit's traffic: "Although I knew it to be one of the most popular weblogs, I simply did not expect its success to be so staggering." |
Martin Schwimmer on the Davezilla mess: "In the age of the blog, the trademark lawyer has to be extremely cautious as to how to proceed, because a subtle claim can become a public brou-ha-ha (and in fact the shrewd defendant will want it so)."
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Ray Ozzie, of Groove Networks and numerous other ventures: "I'd been wanting to begin experimenting with public blogs for quite some time... you see, I have a habit of using myself - and my family - as a living laboratory for various communications and collaboration technologies."
But, he says of his experimentation with blogging this summer, "[Weblogging] taketh away... the difficulty has been the pace. After two weeks, it still too conscious an effort to consider which things are worth communicating, and toward what end." Still, he insists, "it's far too exciting to back off too too far; there's so much yet to be discovered." |
Christopher Schroeder, the CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, who believes the future of news sites is "content orbiting," on deep-links into his sites: "I love it. I think it's fabulous..." |
Tom Shugart shares an email conversation he and Elaine Kalilily have been having about the way "90's men" are revealing themselves in their blogs: "It's what the modern woman expects. Having achieved economic self-sufficiency, she can now demand these characteristics from any man who aspires to have her in wedlock... and the results are showing up in part through the exceptional words of some of these young male writers." |
Frank Yu writes, in the South China Morning Post, "Ironically, the concept of blogs in the next few years may see its full expression not in the West, but in China, where community, relationships and reputation can sway a highly literate population." |
Jim Cuene on Gizmodo: "I don't consider the site to be blogging for profit, it's publishing for profit. Maybe that's splitting a hair, but I think it's an important distinction." |
Steve Mallett sounds a call to arms: "Here is what I propose. Bloggers can save open source from boring itself to death... There are really cool things happening out there with open source we just need people to blog them." |
Nick Denton announces the launch of Gizmodo, a gadget-focused, blog-based "low-risk commercial experiment" that'll be edited by Peter Rojas, saying "media has never before been this lean."
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Donna Wentworth, who thinks blogs "have a higher calling," on a recent article by Dan Gillmor: "The piece is clearly informed by his readers and compatriots in the blogosphere--and it seems that Dan intends explicitly to dip even more deeply into the common well of distributed intelligence." |
N.Z. Bear on anonymous and pseudonymous blogging: "I would argue that reputation in the blogosphere --- one's past writings and past actions -- is vastly more significant in most instances to readers and fellow bloggers than one's real-life identity." |
Garrett Moritz notes the abundance of law blogs but wonders if people in other professions feel the same way: "We start coming up with profession-centric explanations when perhaps the real explanation is the general abundance of everything on the Web which becomes increasingly Gibsonesque in its vastness with each passing day." |
Dan Bricklin claims, in a post about how "very clever" small business people will use blogs, that as "blogging moves more and more into the mainstream, it will eventually be surprising when you don't use a blog."
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Anil Dash on Meg Hourihan's suggestion that companies need to start hiring bloggers to track their industries: "She's absolutely right, of course." But, he follows up, it won't be easy to get them to hire those sort of ombudsmen:"media companies have enough trouble accepting the value and importance of such a position, other industries will face even more inertia and reluctance."
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John Hiler, in a post about the similarities between personal computing and personal publishing: "Sometimes I'm stunned by the primacy of the ego in the blogging world."
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Scott Rosenberg on the story about the Internet big media keeps getting wrong: "The Internet itself hasn't gone away. Hundreds of millions of people around the world continue to bend it to their own ends, in chaotic, unstable and unpredictable ways."
He continues: "Statements like "Web content is dead" or "AOL Time Warner will dominate" aren't so much wrong as irrelevant. Web content is everywhere. No one can dominate the Internet. And the Web belongs to its users. That's not the end of a story, it's the beginning." |
Eric Olsen on the launch of BlogCritics: "What a great debut - we are linked in Slate today - probably because we rock the balls off of King Kong, or something."
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Philip Windley comments on using blogs as an enterprise knowledge management system: "I don't know how many people will be interested in it. I've been kind of forcing it down some people's throats." |
Nick Denton on the CIA: "We've all wondered whether a blogging culture would help. It would be cool if the CIA was thinking along the same lines." |
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Emily Eakin, in a piece in today's New York Times in which she compares bloggers to the pamphleteers of the past: "George Orwell... was not optimistic about the genre's prospects in an era dominated by newspapers devoted to what he perceived as an increasingly narrow range of mainstream opinion."
But, she continues, "Orwell may have been underestimating contemporary society. If he had lived to surf the Internet, for example, he might have been cheered to discover a flourishing new breed of pamphleteer: the blogger." |
Meg Hourihan: "Argh!" Earlier in the same post about John Wiley & Sons' write-up of We Blog on their site: "There's a piss-poor description of what the book's about." |
Ernie Svenson comments on the impact blogging will have on the law profession: "Things are clearly going to change, at least for lawyers who want legal news... the press simply can't keep up in this area." In fact, Ernie continues, "I predict that in about 3 years the mainstream media will rely almost exclusively on lawyer-bloggers to cover local legal events." |
Shelley Powers on her writing and some of the criticism she's weathered recently: "I've had some difficult times in the past few months, sometimes as a result of weblogging." On losing a good blogging friend: "Yes, this whole thing is virtual, but the friendship was real to me, and the loss is keenly felt." |
Doc Searls on Phillip Pearson's Blogging Ecosystem: "What's really cool is that the whole thing serves as a kind of collective blogroll: a bloggeist that isn't limited to any one blogger's faves." |
Morgan Sandquist on his attempt to introduce the word "masturblogging": [It] seems to have failed. And I thought it was so clever." The one comment: "Everyone is doing it, they just won't admit it." |
Christian Crumlish, in a Blogroots discussion, on the "journalism/blogging angle [that] is a bit of a red herring": "It reminds me of how book publishers and computer-book publishers in particular have always overpublished on topics related to... publishing. They sometimes mistake their own viewpoint for that of their readership." |
From the curriculum of the class on blogging at Berkeley's school of journalism on part of their charge: "What relationship do we create with those sites. Can readers respond to Weblog postings in a threaded discussion. Should the discussions be moderated. Do we invite experts to post directly to the Weblog." |
Matt Haughey on the redesigned Blogroots site: "We wanted to build a powerful, useful resource site for the weblog world, and I think we've come close to finally achieving that."
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Dan Bricklin, who says part of what animated him to put some money behind Blogger a year ago was that it was "a symbol of the genre": "Unlike the dot com bubble behind us, blogging is continuing to grow. The general public is starting to realize that it is a great means for individuals, organizations, and businesses to communicate and share timely information." |
Evan Williams comments on the Trellix news: "No one is going to own blogging any more than anyone owns website creation today. Thus, we can also focus on the next level."
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Kelly Hawes, the managing editor for the Facts section of the Houston Chronicle on Steve Olafson, the reporter just fired for keeping a pseudonymous blog: "[He] had a public trust as a journalist, and he violated that trust." |
Lloyd Trufelman and Laura Goldberg advise PR people on how to pitch bloggers: "Unlike beat reporters at typical news outlets, bloggers are extremely idiosyncratic in choice of subject matter and slant. In order to begin a conversation with one - and it should be viewed as a conversation, rather than a pitch - it is vital that you are well-acquainted with the interests of the blogger." |
Craig Burton, who hasn't blogged much of late: "From the lack of frequency, one could come to the conclusion that I thought blogging wasn’t important..." Not so, he says, "I just lost my groove there for a bit."
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Brad DeLong disagrees with Paul Krugman, saying that the reason Andrew Sullivan beats up the New York Times is because he "has decided to punish [it] for not publishing his stuff--and that the rest of the claque has fallen into line." |
Shelley Powers on the power Glenn Reynolds wields (and the general limitations of engaging in debate via blogs): "He is using his position of influence to control the flow of the discourse... If I taught 'How Not to Keep a Conversation Going, 101' this morning, Reynolds has been teaching the advanced course all day long." |
Cameron Marlow, creator of Blogdex, in an interview that's included in Chapter 3 of We Blog that's now online: "Weblogs are an inherently peer-to-peer communication tool... most webloggers are reading the same mass media every day, but hearing another person's personal perspective gives certain stories the persuasive character that they need to spread."
Another observation: "Meeting a blogger in person is a unique experience. After reading about an individual for months, your first encounter feels more like a reunion... examples from the blog find their way into conversation, almost as if they were collective memories." |
Meg Hourihan on the pending publication of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs: "As someone who's wanted to write a book her whole life, you'd think I'd be more excited than I am... Maybe when it arrives... it will sink in and I'll feel excited, or proud, or horrified, or whatever it is that authors feel when they see their words on the printed page for the first time."
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Frank Paynter clarifies a point he made the other day about mild frustration he had with Blogger: "Ev has enough trouble. He doesn't need me creating a run on the blogbank because people think their posts are being lost!... I respect and acknowledge all the hard work that goes on in development and operationally to [Blogger]." |
Glenn Reynolds in a post about Doc Searls and others weighing in on possible military action: "The 'warblog' crowd is hardly a testosterone-drenched bunch of Rambos."
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Dave Winer, again, on his differences with Nick Denton and Glenn Reynolds over their recent comments about a possible invasion of Iraq: "I still admire [them] for having the guts to expose their thinking in public on the Internet for me and others to trash." |
Dave Winer defends the way he writes on Scripting.com: "Sometimes... something that's not politically correct, or inadvertently not politically correct, sneaks out." And then, he says, "before I can correct it, some blogger somewhere has launched a holy jihad..."
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Dave Eggers, who used some of the money he made from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to start McSweeney's Books: "I think that if you care about your writing, then you care about how it makes its way into the world, and self-publishing is one good way to make sure it comes out the way you'd envisioned." |
Dale Lature: "I've been Doc-blogged!... With the high regard in which I hold The Cluetrain crew, and Doc's own Weblog and many of his ideas and his ability to write, I am flabbergasted."
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Dave Pentecost, who says Doc Searls is a "god in this world": "Okay, so I'm late arriving at the party... A weblogger for month and I think I get it already."
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Matt Moore defends his relative break from blogging: "I was tired of thinking in blog all the time. I didn't say I'd never post again, nor do I think that this rises to the level of crisis; existential, missile, bubblegum, or otherwise."
An AP story he cites which speaks of a pending lawsuit: "These men, or should we say boys, promise so much but deliver so little. Their package just isn't what it seems. Having created a blog, updated it regularly and created a faithful following, they have no right to stop, take time off for personal reasons or even have a life away from their keyboard." |
Eric Olsen on BlogCritics.com, his soon-to-launch idea: "My goal as a blogger is not to impose my will upon the blogosphere - wrestling it to the ground and hogtying it - but to keep tossing ideas out there until something sticks."
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Jay Small, who notes MSNBC's not ditching their bulletin boards, merely moving them: "Don't tell me this is another move to legitimize the weblog format. It's just a move to monetize it."
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Frank Paynter says he's mad at Blogger for losing "goodness knows how many posts that I've pointed at recently, crispy critters one and all." On making money at blogging: "profit is way down the list [in importance] and service and what we used to call "goodness" in a systems sense is at the top." |
Simon Dumenco, who makes no mention of blogs, on over-editing: "At a time when readers are abandoning magazines by the millions, maybe it's time to get back to some basics." Writing, he says, "should be about living, breathing language and ideas, not rote editorial formulas cooked up in hermetically sealed office buildings." |
Glenn Reynolds engages further in a discussion between Nick Denton, Dave Winer and others: "If the term 'warblogger' means anything at all (and I'm not sure it does) recognizing unpleasant truths about war and self-defense is at the core of it."
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Ernie Svenson, better known as Ernie the Attorney, riffs on a blogger he likes: "Most of us bloggers (especially the lawyers) are doing the staccato post. TPB is working in a different medium entirely." |
Avedon Carol acknowledges a distinction between so-called legacy media and bloggers: "While a few of us can actually claim primary source credentials in our areas of expertise... we're usually just looking at stuff other people wrote..." |
Shelley Powers proposes something she's calling "Webblogging Consortiums" to help bear hosting costs: "Weblogging shouldn't be for those with lots of bucks or technical skill. It should be open to anyone that can find some way of connecting to the Internet, and has something to say."
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Dorothea Salo on "one more reason to blog": "Got a phone call today from a college buddy I haven’t heard from in a very long time... I emailed her my blog URL. The nice thing about this is that next time we won’t have to waste all the tedious time it takes to catch up... Multiply that by a lot of old friends (and even some family), and it’s a considerable saving in tedious 'catching up' time."
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Tom Shugart reflects on warblogging: "I do wonder--will blogging make any difference?" He continues: "Had the internet been available in the '60's--would the power of the protest have been deflected by people taking out their outrage in a flurry of blogposts? Would they have had the illusion--and only the illusion--of empowering themselves and changing history through the act of cross-blogging..."
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Jeff Jarvis, who runs Advance.net, Conde Nast's Internet unit, on MSNBC's decision to ditch forums and embrace blogs: "We love the forums because they are content from the audience in this, the medium the audience owns... Still, I understand MSNBC's switch to edited, selected weblogs."
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Meg Pickard, in a post about the origins of her site: "I've had a writing outlet since I was fifteen or so - and although it went through phases of personal revelation... it was mostly an exploration, a storytelling, a recounting of significant events, and a sharing of opinion. With myself." |
Arnold Kling on the role blogs could have played back when AOL linked up with Time Warner: "If there had been weblogs at the time of the merger, Douglas Rushkoff and others who did not think that AOL and Bugs Bunny represented much of a threat could have gotten a word in edgewise."
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Eric Alterman reacts to coverage of the MSNBC blog story: "While I think weblogs are a useful (and fun) manner to pass along information, criticism and create community, they are not a threat to the big boys." But, he also adds, "this response... is a pretty good demonstration of why weblogs are so useful." |
Glenn Reynolds comments on the silence over at Tapped, The American Prospect's blog: "Individual bloggers going on vacation is one thing, but you'd think that huge media organizations flush with cash would have substitute bloggers for their house blogs." |
Andrew Sullivan again: "One of the many joys of this website are the emails I get from people telling me stories about their lives, or sharing experiences that I would never otherwise have come across." |
Andrew Sullivan joins those taking a break from blogging: "After almost two years of regular writing with only a few scattered weeks off here and there, I'm going to take the rest of August off the blog. I have... much headspace to clear." But, he says, "there's now a vast and diverse blogosphere out there to read. So enjoy." |
Joan Connell, an executive producer at MSNBC: "Weblogs create a different kind of community... Like-minded people come together to talk about things...it's an issue-driven encounter." |
Nick Denton, on the news that MSNBC will be ditching its discussion boards for a new blog section: " |
Darlene Gavron Stevens reports, in the Chicago Tribune, on the expanding group that has set up "St. Blog's Parish" where there are "no weekly masses, no altar or pews." Kathy Shaidle, one of its participants: "I share a lot of conservative views, but I'm not married and I live in Canada's biggest gay neighborhood even though I'm not gay... I'm not Sister Mary Holy Card."
Christopher Shannon, associate director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame and also a detractor: "A virtual parish is not a parish... The idea of creating a virtual parish will only increase the fragmentation of community in the church. There's something unnatural about it." |
The One True Bix objects to Doc Searls' comparison between Internet radio and blogging: "Unfortunately, it's a comparison that doesn't quite stand up... The war on Internet radio is about the outright use of full works..." Whereas, he continues, "blogs do not as a general rule structure themselves to present full-text articles from other sources of news and information." |
Sebastien Paquet on using k-logs in academia: "Scholars already rely heavily on interpersonal trust and direct communication to determine what new stuff is worth looking at. Such filtering is one of the central functions weblog communities excel at." |
Andrew Sullivan, in an interview with The Morning News: "Blogging requires restraining your tendency to rethink, ponder or finesse."
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Doc Searls invokes blogs in a point he's making about the regulation of Internet radio: "Imagine for a moment if every weblog were suddenly subject to an expensive license... because the publishing industry had successfully lobbied Congress to extend copyright law in a way that uniquely punished journalism on the Web, while leaving traditional forms of journalism free to continue as before." |
Doc Searls, in a comment about his political leanings: "I don't think there's anything on the left to match what's happening on the right with this whole warblog thing."
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Shelley Powers announces her return to blogging after dumping it a few weeks ago: "A phone call with a friend tonight made me realize that the weblog wasn't the root of my problems... All I was doing was giving up something I really enjoy, and not gaining any peace in return."
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Dave Winer observes that "it seems we're just about at the tipping point for lawyer-bloggers. I'm getting a sense that if we have a legal question that's appropriate to ask in public, it's likely one of the lawyers will answer it, at weblog-speed."
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