Month: April 2004
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Weblogs gaining maturity, becoming more useful
Dan Gillmor with a great piece on the evolution of weblogging.
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Keep talking, Miss Alvarez. Nobody cares.
A bored manicurist certainly wants her 15 minutes of attention in the press:
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Hunt is on for ships used by Greece in Persian Wars
Interesting story about the hunt for Greek ships, such as the ones used to attack Troy. And that film will be out in May. The article seems to have been edited badly, it cuts off at the end.
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The Practice and/or The Tool: Journalism and Blogging
Mary Hodder with a view from BloggerCon in Boston posing some interesting questions on journalism and blogging. Quite a witty post. 🙂 Journalism and blogs are the karass and the granfalloon. They need each other, but can we please please please stop talking about either/or or and or but or if? As if? Really. I’ve…
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Casualties in Fallujah
Dick and John both come up with different analyses of the reported number of casualites in Fallujah. Both are worth a look. I too have been reading some wildly different accounts of casualty numbers, thanks to them both for a good roundup.
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Journalism and the Washington Times
Kevin Drum with an interesting memo sent to the staff of the Washington Times. Heavy stuff indeed. To: Everyone in the newsroom From: The Managing Editor Re: Corrections in the newspaper This newspaper has an obligation to its reader to run corrections when we make a mistake. We need to hold ourselves to the same…
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Bizarre, an amazing MC
Rufus Johnson aka Bizarre aka Peter S. Bizarre was born on July the 5 th 1976. There is a story behind Bizarres nickname. He was called Bizarre Kid by a teacher because he used to talk to himself and to rap in the class:
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Carjacker, 16, sentenced as adult in attack on Eminem's mom
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 16-year-old who carjacked and robbed the mother of rap star Eminem was sentenced Monday to at least 4 years and 3 months in prison.
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Facts about Proof
If I was you, suicide would be a way of life. If you was me , you’d kill you.’ (Proof) Before I start talking about D12’s gifted Mc Proof, I would like to thank and to give credit to the webmaster of the following Dirty Harry website for the rare info I found about Deshaun…
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Many Started Web Logs for Fun, but Bloggers Need Money, Too
Interesting story in the New York Times on the future of blogging, and how much money people might be able to make from it. As for myself the donations total since I started this weblog stands at 0. That’s in 2 years of blogging. And paying almost 20 a month for my server means that…