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| Monday, January 3, 2005 |
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The Gonzosphere 
| | The professional journalist is totally part of the story he or she is writing. That they believe otherwise is the major bug in their process. |
| | Bonus Link: Jay Rosen's Top Ten Ideas of '04: "Content Will be More Important than its Container". My own corollary: Worst metaphor in the history of journalism: that writing is "content". Let's call writing writing. Or "editorial". Or "speech". Or "essay". Or "prose". Or whatever. If it helps, remember this: Content can be regulated as container cargo in the shipping system we call commerce. Meanwhile, Writing is protected as speech by the First Amendment. Yes, I know there are exceptions. But the distinction is real, and important. |
| | (Now back to our irregularly scheduled vacation program, in Las Vegas, where it is, improbably, raining like hell.) |
And she's a good writer, too
| | My current day job is the care and feeding of various identity/web services initiatives on behalf of Sun Microsystems, and I¹m involved in the OASIS SAML committee and the Liberty Alliance, among others. |
| | Thanks to Bryan for the pionter. |
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