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Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Link on 
| | Dave and Steve both have interesting and important stuff to say about links, and the thinking that emerging new standards such as RSS requires that we commit to the subject. |
| | Each of these standards create whole new Internet services. Those services will support whole new classes of activities. They will transform and enlarge old activities. They will change old markets and support new ones. |
| | Syndication — the means by which the world can be notified when something is published, or disributed, or just said by so and so — changes everything. It gives demand the capacity to supply. It multiplies the supply of fresh information (and everything else that can be put in syndicatable form) beyond the reach of any adjective to describe it. And it creates an infinitude of new opportunities around what we do with all that information. The mind boggles. Then it schemes. |
| | "Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy," David Weinberger famously said. Now we're seeing how. And what we build matters more than what we subvert. |
"I'd like to screw the members of the academy..."
| | For years, Motion Picture Academy members have been able to screen nominated movies on tape or DVD. In fact, it's the only way many movies ࡧ especially independent ones — can get a break. |
| | They'll double the number of screenings, but it won't be the same thing. |
Teflon tales
| | Just got this from a reader: |
| | We are sooooooo out of it in Iraq. I remember a dialog from Leon Uris' Armageddon where a American is leading a group into Germany in the wake of the surrender, and it is a multi-national group of military/civil affairs types spearheading the occupation and writing the rules as they go. One night the senior French officer is trying to correct the American's perceptions and he finally tells him that America will never understand occupation, because America has never been occupied. It is portrayed as an arrogant French outlook (world-weary cynicism vs. ignorant innocence), but with an interesting point. |
| | We need the UN in Iraq because we DON'T GET IT. We (America) have no credentials for nation building and no realistic perspective on submission to occupation. America is arrogant - we are still acting out Manifest Destiny. Our way (democracy) or the highway. And by the way, we'll blow the highway to hell if we don't like it. |
| | I am also pissed at the "administration" this morning because I think Carl Rove or someone in the WH did leak the outing of the CIA agent wife of the outspoken ambassador. And that is beyond criminal. Deliberately destroying a life-long career of commitment to the country - and maybe a life - for political expediency, is the lowest blow of all, and beyond forgiveness. Sending troops into harm's way for a false war still had the ring of rationale, but if this was deliberately leaked. And there had better be a special prosecutor for this one! It should be considered an act of treason on a par with the FBI agent, Hanson. |
| | Of course, the Quindlen column was written before the CIA leak story broke. Still, this is the story that's finally burning through the teflon. How to tell? Pro-Bush bloggers aren't cutting the prez any slack on the issue. Witness Drudge (who isn't a blogger, but isn't a Big-J journalist, either) Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Reynolds. |
| | All the fingers pointing toward the White House are converging right now on Robert Novak, who broke the story, and to whom the secret was leaked. According to Abdon M. Pallasch in the Chicago Sun-Times, Robert Novak says would never reveal his sources: |
| | "That would be the end of my journalistic career -- reporters don't divulge sources," Novak said. |
| | (In this morning's column, Novak says "It ws well-known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA." He also ladles a lot of other fudge, none of which re-coats the prez with lost teflon.) |
| | Yet two alpha bloggers (constitutional blawgers, no less), Glenn Reynolds and Eugene Volokh, both say Novak is in fact unprotected on the matter. Sez Glenn: |
| | You can't have a special rule on this for journalists, because journalists don't have special First Amendment rights, and anyway everyone is a journalist now, thanks to the Internet. This will be disturbing to professional journalists, but I don't see an alternative. And this is a national security leak, in wartime, right? |
| | In other words (and mark these), blogging is removing the teflon from professional journalism, too. |
Your very own packet station!
| | I saw an ad for this on TV tonight. Thought at first it was a joke. The pitch was like, OWN AN ATM MACHINE THAT TAKES MONEY! |
| | Still, not a bad business idea. |
Getting down
| | And still... five new blogs every minute. Which are the best we've never heard of? Betcha there are a bunch. Just found this by this here. |
A new meaning for Publicity
RIAAlroaded
| | The point is that the RIAA increasingly comes across as an anachronistic throwback to 19th Century copyright laws. They are the classic bluff and bluster comic book cops that are all about threats and are totally cut off from 21st Century reality. They clearly haven't read The Cluetrain Manifesto (buy it at the Measurement Mall) and have no idea what is being said about them in cyberspace. Ultimately, while they may have the law on their side, their pompous statements continue to undermine their credibility — and their reputation — daily. |
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