Much gnashing of teeth tonight in Blogspace. Apparently, CNN has asked reporter Kevin Sites to quit blogging from the war zone. Why? CNN’s not saying. Of course, this is the blog crowd’s prima facie evidence of big media squatting on the Golden Revolution of weblogs. Oh, and while they’re at it, big media’s coverage sucks, […]
Continue reading... March 21, 2003
The Beeb Blogs the War
An excellent idea from the BBC. Its correspondents are flashing three-graf blurbs on what’s going on where they are, and the Beeb is simply running them in reverse chronological order. More detailed communications would probably be difficult and can wait for later; this is a great way to provide a big picture out of small […]
Continue reading... March 20, 2003
MetaWarBlog
My bud Angela — the original Web Doyenne — has scored a gig tracking war blogs for USA Today Online. I’d be even more congratulatory if I weren’t so abysmally envious of her…
Continue reading... March 20, 2003
Forward in All Directions!
Big anti-war protest in San Francisco today. Tied up traffic big-time, which is always a way to gain sympathy for your cause. One friend reports that at one point, there were 200 anarchists marching down Market Street. What I don’t understand is, how do you get 200 anarchists to do anything together?
Continue reading... March 20, 2003
Think You’ve Got A Bad Boss?
Only magazine-obsessed dweebs like me realize the dark secret behind titles like Car & Driver, Woman’s Day, Metropolitan Home, and Boating. They’re all owned by Hachette Filipacci, which is a division of the French company Lagardere, which is 2 percent owned by… Saddam Hussein. No, it’s true. Really. And it’s not such a huge secret, […]
Continue reading... March 20, 2003
Stop the Frickin’ Presses!
From the British magazine Computing: More than half of the emails sent from company systems have nothing to do with work, according to exclusive research for vnunet.com‘s sister title Computing… On average, 53 per cent of emails sent during one week were not related to business. The highest instance was reported at a public sector […]
Continue reading... March 19, 2003
I Can Just See the ‘Think Different’ Billboards
Al Gore was named today to the Apple Computer Board of Directors. The vote margin was not released. I wonder if we’re going to start seeing an iPod on his hip, next to his ever-present Blackberry….
Continue reading... March 19, 2003
Or, Perhaps, Justice Scalia?
From the AP: CLEVELAND — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from his speech Wednesday at an appearance where he received an award for supporting free speech.
Continue reading... March 19, 2003
But Will They Send a Copy to John Ashcroft?
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The FBI has recovered a valuable copy of the Bill of Rights that had been missing for 138 years, bureau sources said Wednesday.
Continue reading... March 18, 2003
Reporting from a War Zone
If you want to know what it’ll be like for the 500-odd reporters “embedded” with the armed forces in and around Iraq, I’ve got a couple of links for you. This one, via the invaluable J.D. Lasica, extracts some interesting points from the Pentagon’s ground rules for reporters. (There’s also a link to the full […]
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