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Thursday, September 26, 2002
Verbatim isn't only overrated, it's not even what we hear. 
| | I got them all. But I knew the trick: read up from the bottom, and make sure you count the small words. Otherwise, like Google, your brain will say "the" is a very common word and was not included. |
| | Everything but the meaning. That's what's generally left seven seconds after you read, hear or see anything. |
Beth gets Registered
| | Of course if she didn't work for The Beast, it wouldn't be an issue. |
| | Of course, it isn't anyway. |
Chat on
| | Julian Missig: Thank you Apple for helping to push Instant Messaging client development into the world of usability — AOL/ICQ certainly didn't seem to care about it very much. Thanks to Matthew Thomas or the link. |
What goes up must get high
| | That headline just came to me, probably from reading RageBoy. He doesn't do drugs any more (other than sex and caffeine, which oddly don't count), but he does remind me of something somebody once said to me when I told them I'd tried cocaine a couple of times and nothing happened. |
| | "Maybe," they said, "your personality masks the effects." |
Locke & Roll
| | There's this: Blogging will get you through times of no sanity better than sanity will get you through times of no blogging. |
| | Then this: I told them I wasn't really Chris Locke -- they wouldn't know -- but that I'd just bumped into him downtown, and he'd promised me 20 bucks if I'd come here tonight and say whatever came into my head. I told them that the secret of my success was lying and making shit up -- and that there was a fine line between those two. Even I had no fucking idea what I was talking about. |
But only one in a proper black shirt
Do any really pay the full price? Just wondering.
| | I have never subscribed successfully to Infoworld. I've filled out and mailed in cards. I've had executives and editors give my name to Circulation. I've filled out forms on the Web site. Nothing has ever happened. |
| | But I still hear every once in awhile from the magazine's automated subscription hustling system. Like this morning, for instance: |
| | Your subscription to InfoWorld has expired, and we'd like to remind you that you can still renew today for the low, low rate of $99 (a savings of $96 - other technology professionals pay $195 for a full year of InfoWorld). |
| | I'm not even going to try to figure it out. |
Good, I can go to bed now
Truth Brigade News
| | ...journalists fucked up Big Time in covering the New Economy, as we were practically mandated to call it at the time. One of the major reasons the press failed was the usual one: we were lied to but there was no money to invest in exposing those lies--and no money to be made from exposing those lies. That helps explain why there's so little investigative reporting generally. It costs lots of time and money; if done correctly, the results piss off important people; and the resulting article or articles don't help advertisers one bit. |
Rock on
| | As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see
how much you'll pay for what you used to get for free
There goes the last dj... |
Daypop culture
| | The first piece is about nothing but blogs. One excerpt (J.D. speaking): |
| | To me, the most serious challenge facing newsrooms today is that readers think we're largely irrelevant to their lives. That's due in part to the fact that newsrooms have no transparency and, worse, no interactivity. Weblogs are a great opportunity for newsrooms to become more transparent, more accessible, more answerable to our readers. Participatory journalism brings them into the news equation. |
| | The second is about "quirky colloquialisms." Here's what it says about blogs: |
| | Blogs, or Web logs. Personal diaries used to be furtively scribbled down and then secured under lock and key. Now they're mostly self-indulgent ramblings for all to see on the Web. Soon "blog" will replace "bloviate" in describing windbags and blowhards. "Turn the TV off, Marge; we expected a stemwinder, but Bush is just blogging." |
| | The piece goes on to dysinform Sunday paper readers about Slashdot ("the Internet version of what happens in the restaurant world when a glut of customers, generated by a sparkling review, descends on and ultimately ruins the place") and Smart Mobs ("what enlightened, IM-enabled masses are called when they converge on, and thus ruin, cool but little-known Web sites"). |
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