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| Monday, January 24, 2005 |
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Dysclosure 
| | Since he's a partisan Left-wing blogger not a journalist or, God forbid, a mainstream media representative Kos argues that he's doesn¹t have to worry about some of the conflict-of-interest restraints that tie down others who style themselves as reporters and writers. So he can accept payment from candidates. Or have clients who are advertisers and advertiser who are clients who benefit from his fundraising. It's a convincing argument up to a point. A brief and unstable point. |
| | Seeing Kos he introduces himself with the simple "I'm Markos" -- Saturday at the Western Caucus of the Democratic National Committee brought the back the questions raised last week with full force. Kos, the partisan blogger, was wearing a green card, a press credential. Sitting with a group of Simon Rosenberg supporters, Kos wasn't wearing the yellow cards hanging around staffers' necks or the necks of those calling themselves "observers" folks attending for some particular purpose or cause. Nah. He was wearing a press card. |
| | It isn't going to stop here. Among the other worm-cans laying open is the continuing practice, by many conferences, of drawing lines between journalists who blog and journalists with bylines in print publications. |
| | Whatever else is going on, I'm sure Kos is taking advantage of the very blurry territory in the ever-changing Venn diagram wherein the roles of participants and journalists overlap. |
| | I've been at many conferences where I 've carried (and sometimes worn) three different badges: Press (or "media"), Exhibitor and Speaker. There are distinctions of caste. At Steve Jobs' latest keynote, speakers were more important than media, which were more important than the rest of the throng. Media seating was restricted, and most were shunted to an overflow room. Including me. I left that room to get my cell phone and got routed by security to a stairwell where I was detained with the speakers. When they began letting everybody in, I jumped over to the media herd, which was running, like a freaking stampede, for the doors to the vast keynote hall. I yelled "Where's the cliff! Clear out for the lemmings!" But didn't get many laughs. One can only imagine that the whole thing will only get more silly. And, of course, more serious — for those whose job is continuing to draw lines between those who write on paper and those who write on screens. |
| | Anyway, as Chris says, ... it leads us right back to the path of full and open disclosure, now doesn't it? |
PR cluefest
| | For folks interested in watching public relations adapt to the networked world (led by blogging PR pros), check out Global PR Blog Week. |
Continued erection coverage
At last: a business model for body parts
Rise & Post
| | There's another one going on right now (6:40am); but it isn't the equal of the one I shot on the 17th. I took prettier shots than the one above, but I like how that one shows of the Santa Monica Mountains over the pacific Pacific, which Robinson Jeffers called ...this dome, this half-globe, this bulging Eyeball of water... |
| | If I have time later (I won't, but I might take some), I'll put up the full gallery of shots from that morning. It was, as it so often is here, perfect. |
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