Posted in Blogging, Social media, tagged social_media blogging on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Lately, I’ve noticed an increasing number of bloggers I used to read for coverage of, or comment on, social media tools and strategy have gotten odder, more bilious and petulant (and sometimes outright nasty), full of gnomic utterances and pronuncamientos; moving from a giddy sense of discovery and moment to self-aggrandizement, ad hominem attacks and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Censorship, Committee to Protect Bloggers on August 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The cheerleading surrounding the transformative power of the new communications technologies, or “Web 2.0,” is masking an unacknowledged reality: The majority of men and women using them wish for free speech to extend only as far as themselves and no further. Blogging, podcasting, file sharing: all of it, they believe, should be in service to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Free speech, Human rights, Threatened bloggers on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Because I is a idiot, I was considering reawakening the beast that is, or rather was, the Committee to Protect Bloggers. To do this, I need a free blog host. OK, they’re common enough. But since my techno-eyes are always bigger than my techno-stomach, I need a host that would also be available for constant [...]
Posted in Blogging on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Black Weblog Awards are accepting nominations. I’ve nominated Black Looks and microscopiq. Go unto them and register your Afroblogular opinions.
bwa, Black_Looks, microscopiq, blog
Posted in Blogging on April 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Blogrolls are supposed to be dynamic, to change to reflect the ongoing history of the blogger, a kind of map of what the blogger is thinking, reading, watching and so on. I think they tend to grow rather static, though, on many blogs. So, every rare once in a while, I completely delete mine and [...]
Posted in Blogging, News on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
In an excellent essay in the Washington post, “Demise of the Foreign Correspondent,” Pamela Constable writes about the “false economy” of newspapers and television news operations cutting out foreign bureaus.
In a speech at Columbia University last week, veteran TV news anchor Walter Cronkite warned that pressure by media companies to generate increasing profits is threatening [...]
Posted in Blogging on December 8, 2006 | No Comments »
The Committee to Protect Journalists has just issued a report on imprisoned journalists around the world. The interesting thing to me is that many are bloggers as well. Of the imprisoned journalists, the CPJ says, “one in three is now an Internet blogger, online editor, or Web-based reporter.”
The CPJ has created a breakout by [...]
Posted in Blogging, Personal on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
I realized today that I’ve been blogging here for a little over two years. I started on November 18, 2004. My first post was an interview I had done with the Brookings Institutions’ Dr. Susan Rice on the concept of the failed state that was originally conducted for Newsweek.
Newsweek may be the single greatest reason [...]
Posted in Blogging, Theatre on October 23, 2006 | No Comments »
I recently interviewed Nathan Allen, the Artistic Director of the House Theatre of Chicago regarding their blog, which, as I’ve said previously, I regard as the best theatre company blog I’ve yet to find. Don’t blame Nathan for the slightly stilted sound of the interview. I reconstructed it from notes I made just for myself.
When [...]
Posted in Blogging, Human rights on October 9, 2006 | No Comments »
One of my favorite Arabic blogs used to be Haitham Sabbah’s Sabbah’s Blog. Haitham seemed to be a very passionate writer. He was not easily inclined to forgiveness and peacemaking, but he seemed nonetheless to try to see beyond his own horizon. I empathized with that because I think I’m a little like that myself. [...]
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