Friday, September 24, 2004

A call for a terrorism publicity quarantine

The Blog Bloke explains why he quit linking to beheading videos.

Back in May I said the Berg beheading was not an act of war; it was an act of publicity. It appears that the Bloke agrees.

A changing tune

Study: More Net Equals Less TV, by Robyn Greenspan in ClickZ News. It begins,

The fourth installment of the Digital Future Project (formerly the UCLA Internet Report) examined media usage among Americans, finding that there is a distinct correlation between the increase in online time and tenure and the overall decline in television viewing.

But the numbers show a somewhat mixed bag.

Thanks to Seth Godin for the pointer.

The Great Blogs State

Meet the Michibloggers — the people behind the keyboards at the state's best Internet journals, by Mike Wendland. Good piece, with a number of featured links. (Oversight: Slashdot — though not technically a blog — was born and raised in Holland, Michigan.)

Bonus link: Mike's posting of a funny parody of media in Iraq.

To err is inhuman

Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories is J.D. Lasica's latest in OJR. The question at hand: ...do Google's automated search results display a conservative bias?

The report makes Yahoo News' case for human editors.