Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Natural selection
Political Blogger Mass Suicide to Be Discovered in Several Weeks. In The Onion.
The bodies will most likely be found by property managers, long-estranged parents, or neighbors returning copies of Joe Trippi's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Found on the floor: Blogging as Typing, Not Journalism, by Eric Engberg, CBS, ret.
Mega-boiinnggs, Rush
Indexed Forever says Adam Curry is the biggest thing since Survivor. He continues,
I did not expect to like his show. What could that big haired egomaniac from the 80’s have to offer? Teach me to be guided by my prejudices.
Dailysourcecode forever changes the media business. Web-based entertainment heretofore has been like early television - filmed radio shows. Curry shows us how to move the camera and produce content specifically to the medium.
It goes on like that. Read the whole thing. The writer (wish I knew who) nails it.
Kind of like some peace plans
Yasser Arafat's approach to death is remarkably asymptotic.
How you can finish blowing up TV As Usual
Drazen Pantic: Anybody Can Be TV: How P2P Home Video will Challenge The Network News. Drazen is one of my heroes. Read why.
Bonus link: Stop trying to persuade us, in Wired News. About something you might/not want to see on TV tonight. Thanks to Mike Taht for the pointer.
It turns out
Blogging is good business, sez a blogging Forrester analyst, in a CBS Marketwatch story/interview by Frank Barnako. It begins,
Charlotte Li is a market researcher who practices what she preaches. The principal analyst at Forrester issued a report Monday recommending businesses publish Weblogs, as she does.
Maybe I missed it, but I see no links to Charlotte's blog, or to the Forrester report. [Later...] The answer is here.
Huge bonus link: Faustian Bargain, by Michael O'C. Clarke.
What he said
Jim Thompson explains more about The Draft and related post-election issues.
Also along those lines: Restoration of Nuance, by Steve Roberts.
DIY radio, by request
Mary Hodder: Do we still say 'album'? She concludes with a request:
Also, could someone, Adam Curry, or maybe a podcasting protégé, please start podcasting on what music is about, styles, eras, musician's works and eras? And could they comment on the shifting interactions between the loss of physical media, musical development, listeners and the art of making music? I would love to listen to a show that was about the history of pop music, from the 50s forward, that played examples and exposed me to new stuff. I really only get new stuff from friends or by listening to KALX (the UCBerkeley station) but no one really tackles the lineage of the music, the history, the relationships between styles and eras. I'd subscribe to that RSS feed in a second.
Hence the bruise
It's not just all red and blue. Most of the country voted purple.
A strange but interesting list
... and a correction.
Happy Foxday!
Firefox turns 1.0 today. More here.
Note the party from 2-7pm at the Mozilla Foundation headquarters.
In case you're elsewhere, there's probably a party in a country near you.