Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Social media on June 25, 2005 | 3 Comments »
A few notes:
6/24: This document originally had many, many convenient hyperlinks. But Blogger.com, for all its convenience, makes you choose between links and formatting when dumping a document into a post. I simply don’t have the hours and hours of unpaid hand-coding that it would need to retain them. So, use Google or something. If [...]
Posted in Companies, Free speech, Human rights on June 18, 2005 | No Comments »
Microsoft is assisting the Chinese government in muzzling the Chinese people. It has configured its MSN Spaces blogging software and service to ban words such as “freedom” and “democracy.”
MS’s prominent blogger, Robert Scoble, sacrifices in one fell swoop, every last hint of his credibility with this cheap PR weasel-bark.
It is deftly swept aside not [...]
Posted in Companies, Social media on June 11, 2005 | No Comments »
Via BL Ochman, I was brought face-to-face with a sickening perversion of God’s natural law: the new Technorati beta site. What would compel a person to change a perferctly reasonable site to this monstrosity?
Good lord that’s ugly. It has that natural food store signage vibe that early web design had.
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Technorati, for those who don’t know, [...]
Posted in Human rights on June 8, 2005 | No Comments »
No, seriously. It’s bad. And constantly, repeatedly ignored. Adam, who forged the CPB’s Mojtaba campaign tool, has started the Sudan Activism Blog.
The U.S. uses the recognition of genocide in the Sudan as a political weapon but does nothing. The European Union is so terrified of having to do anything at all [...]
Posted in Superintelligent sea cucumbers on June 7, 2005 | No Comments »
Early this morning one albino cake shimmered suspiciously in the haze.
Chugging Clamato and crunching great handfuls of poisonous snails for strength, we stieg da ab to the crenellated golden parapet when we suddenly realized we were tiny and on a Faberge egg.
That was OK.
We carried Scottish deerhounds in thimbles. They barked tiny, robin’s egg blue [...]
Posted in Book proposal on June 7, 2005 | No Comments »
Thanks to a hand-out by the CEO, I signed up for BookPitch.
I’m not green enough to imagine that it will help get this or this published, but hopefully it won’t hurt, and you never know.
The CEO insisted that 200 publishers will be signing up for the service. Again, we’ll see. Hopefully, it won’t be too [...]
Posted in Writers on June 4, 2005 | No Comments »
I was just reading a lecture by Jorge Guillén on Pedro Salinas (both poets were members of the Generation of ‘27). He quotes T.S. Eliot as saying, “If we have no living literature, we shall become more and more alienated from the literature of the past.”
Well, Eliot was right, as the subsequent years have proven. [...]
Posted in Blogging on June 3, 2005 | No Comments »
As I’ve worked this blog and that of the Committee to Protect Bloggers, I’ve noticed that some countries are super-blogged and others not. The reasons for this are partially common sense.
Those countries that are technologically… What’s the word? I hate to say “advanced.” Those countries where the technology driving blogs is readily available and where [...]
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