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 Thursday, September 26, 2002
started 9/26/2002; 2:31:13 AM - last post 9/26/2002; 7:15:33 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, September 26, 2002 
9/26/2002; 6:31:13 AM (reads: 5281, responses: 7)
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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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Hamish MacEwan - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 8:24:26 AM (reads: 455, responses: 0)
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I think blogs are the salons of the 2000's. A place where brainy people can preen and strut and be fact checked to hell, and all of us can watch, and all of us can contribute, and all of us can have our own place in the blogsphere.
Such a net hippie.
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Fred Grott - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 11:47:02 AM (reads: 469, responses: 0)
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JD should remember that even he got fooled by a fake email or story.. the guy should at least have a little humility..an ego that big doens;t fit in small spaces..
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adamsj - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 12:27:10 PM (reads: 516, responses: 3)
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I think you've picked one poor example to criticize from the USA Today piece (which, I agree, ain't so great).
Here's the full text of the Slashdot item:
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. "We were slashdotted" is a common complaint when unexpected popularity causes an ill-equipped site to crash. Derivation: Slashdot.com, one of the Web's most popular blogs, provides geeks with Web links to wacky and topical technology stories. In the future, slashdot will describe what happens when enlightened crowds ruin really cool things, such as Nantucket, the Dave Matthews Band and the BMW Mini Cooper.
It's pretty clear that the author is defining "slashdot" as a verb, not a noun. The entry isn't so bad--though if I were this author's editor (dream on!), I'd've required these be faked-up dictionary entries, phonetic pronunciation, (n) or (v) marks, and all.
(Come to think of it, that'd be a bad move--USA Today is designed to keep readers from ever having to use a dictionary.)
But, if I were you, I'd've picked on his entry for ping--it's not only clueless, but allows you to point to Ping the Duck.
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adamsj - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 12:28:47 PM (reads: 525, responses: 2)
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Yow! I just read the bio note at the bottom of the article. Can this be true? Contributing Editor Jim Louderback is editor in chief for Internet at Ziff Davis Media, which publishes "PC Magazine", "EWeek" and ExtremeTech.com.
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 1:41:35 PM (reads: 581, responses: 1)
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Yeah, Jim's an old-timer, even for a young guy. I like him, too. But this piece rubbed me the wrong way. The Slashdot item wasn't far off, and some of his other neologisms weren't bad. But he was clearly clueless about Smart Mobs (a meme Howard Rheingold is driving, beautifully), and what blogging is about as well.
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adamsj - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 6:19:38 PM (reads: 655, responses: 0)
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Kinda makes you wonder what the piece was like before the <s>butcher</s> editor at USA Today got ahold of it...which might explain the smart mob cluelessness, as I suspect USA Today prefers stupid mobs for its readership.
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lou josephs - Re: Thursday, September 26, 2002
9/26/2002; 11:15:33 PM (reads: 482, responses: 0)
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Tom Petty most added at all but Clear Channel stations...check the r and r charts...it's very funny
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