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Tuesday, September 28, 2004
For wishing out loud 
| | I'm hoping that someday someone will build a "Photorati" search engine that indexes PhotoRSS feeds just like Technorati indexes RSS feeds.That's Frank Leahy (yes, the same as below), in Articulating a Use Case at PhotoRSS: |
New horse race: 7 vs. 11
| | And the same thing has happened to American politics. The same two chains -- Republicans and Democrats -- are the only two stores in town. There¹s no longer a place to have a conversation about what matters in America. All the real conversations have been relegated to the far back corner, if you can even find them at all. |
| | And what makes it worse is that the two parties aren¹t really interested in conversations, they¹re only interested in messages. Why are there no major newspapers or other media outlets that will present anything but the message of the day? Why is there no way in America to talk about the corporatification of America? No way to ask why health care isn¹t a right instead of a privilege? No way to suggest that maybe locking up people for using drugs might not be the best use of our money or their talents? No way to wonder why teachers are paid less than prison guards, or to do anything about it? No, all the conversations are full of the same empty calories that you buy at the local village shop. There is no place for meat and vegetables in the national conversation. |
Can't wait
| | Adam Curry: It's going to get interesting when iPods are outlawed and assault rifles are legal. |
How we all lose
| | Jay Rosen: Every Four Years Journalism. I agree with all of it. I also believe that the deeper problem is (as I always say) metaphorical. As Jay himself puts it (the bold faces are mine), |
| | The press should be breaking ground in the setting-it-straight business, with new and powerful means for correcting the candidates, the record, and itself. It should be learning how to report the idea race, as well as it does the horse race. It has to get up to speed on the transparency revolution and become a force for good. Having put good journalism on the Internet, it has to create a political journalism of the Internet, which is more difficult. |
| | The problem is the "race" metaphor. It's sports. The media (Jay, myself and other bloggers included) cover elections as sports events, rather than as collective decisions about representation and leadership. |
| | It's unavoidable, and I don't know how to stop it. |
As you suspected
Shaking
POD Pong
| | This is an auspicious day. Not only has Dave announced the release of Frontier (the tech behind this blog, among many other things) as open source (GPL, no less... are you listening, RMS?), but there's this great back and forth between Adam and Dave on various PODcasts. More links, and fresh commentary, in DIY radio with PODcasting, over at IT Garage. (Including an explanation of why I capitalize POD. See if you agree.) |
| | I'll also be talking about the subject on the PODcast we call The Linux Show, tonight. |
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