Category: General

FX is touting Over There, a new series about the war in Iraq – a fictional drama about an event that is still unfolding everyday. That seems about as useful as a miniseries about 9/11. This new ‘epic drama’ promises to show us an unflinching portrait of the war and it’s impact on our servicemen […]

The winners of the WordPress plugin content have been announced…

Online Journalism Review makes some cogent points about the wiki model being used in journalism: Wiki writers engage in a group-write process that creates a shared truth. But is this participatory model suitable for newspapers?

Wow. The Wall Street Journal wakes up and realizes that podcasts include profanity and adult content. This is where Apple’s little ploy falls apart: they co-opted the indie spirit of podcasting and walk on the backs of indie podcasters to then promote mainstream/corporate media but they can’t moderate thousands of podcasts that may or may […]

(via Dave) Feedshake tool helps you to generate new feeds by merging, sorting and filtering existing online RSS feeds. This service doesn’t require any subscribtion [sic] nor e-mail adress.

Glibness reigns! Admit it. You don’t know what podcasts are. Your plan is to do that thing of half-reading tech articles and waiting in denial until it’s scarily mandatory that you really understand it -for instance, you have to create your own podcast for some random reason in one hour – and then desperately turning […]

Rupert Murdoch buys My Space for $58 million. Madge and company (me included) launch QPodder Network. Sweatshop labor slaves away in virtual worlds to accumlate virtual goods. Susie’s comparison of various blog tools. Xanga purported to have 40 million users. Nobody knows what the heck RSS is. Nobody cares about podcasting. Jeremy asks when blogging […]

Every once in awhile I type parts of my definition of blogging into Google and see where it pops up – plagiarized or not attributed at all. Affiliate Sphere Computer News and Jokes (emailed) Greenview Online (emailed)

Double header calls tonight! Full details…

[National Guardsman] Leonard [Clark] has been called in to his Commander’s office and threatened with court martial unless he stops posting his thoughts and opinions about the war in Iraq and President Bush. In addition he is being forced to take down his comments on his blog at the “request of his ranking officer.” Leonard […]