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Monday, June 20, 2005
And gave it back when I was done 
| | A good piece, from what I can tell (a surprising amount, since it's been 40 years since I took Deutsch in high school). |
Dept. of Prophesy
| | I expect that history will show 'normal' mainstream twentieth century media to be the aberration in all this. 'Please, miss, you mean they could only just sit there and watch? They couldn¹t do anything? Didn¹t everybody feel terribly isolated or alienated or ignored?' |
| | 'Yes, child, that¹s why they all went mad. Before the Restoration.' |
| | 'What was the Restoration again, please, miss?' |
| | 'The end of the twentieth century, child. When we started to get interactivity back.' |
| | Thanks to Kevin for the pointer. |
Be there almost now
| | I don't think there will ever be a conference I'll regret missing more than the Gnomedex that's about to start. More than any other reason, here's why. |
Refiguring it out
Getting abreast of blogging
Trashy meeting you here
| | I lived in the Bay Area for seventeen years, and drove into San Francisco countless times. Except for a few parking scrapes, I've never had an accident. |
| | Until this morning, when my car got rear-ended by a garbage truck on Fulton at 6th, three blocks from the end of my 360 mile trip. |
| | We both pulled over. I told the other driver, "I'm not hurt, and I'm driving a rental car." He relaxed a bit, but still felt bad about it. The right rear was pretty crunched. |
| | Now I've got to waste time swapping out cars at some local Budget Rent-a-Car outlet. If the lights still worked, I'd want to keep it. Alas... |
Whoa, wiki
| | I wasted a bunch of time a few days ago trying to find a link at the LA Times site pointing to its story about turning the paper's editorials into first-draft wikis. After awhile I gave up, because A) the link would scroll behind a paywall after a week or so, and B) I thought the idea was too silly to live, anyway. |
| | Dave quotes Jeff's funniest line. I'll lift & post the bonus money paragraphs: |
| | Let's take it up a notch: |
| | What this really points toward is the death of the editorial page. Why the hell do we need editorials anymore? In their day, they were the voice -- the bully pulpit, as Rupert Murdoch says -- of one person: the publisher, the guy who had the ultimate conch, the printing press. We, the people, never said we gave a damn what he thought, but we had no choice but to listen. And so over the years, he convinced himself that we cared. What if we don't? |
| | The truth is that an editorial is just another blog post written by one person witih one viewpoint. Here's a case where you can't argue that it makes a difference having a journalism degree and a newsroom. Editorialists and columnists get to read the same stuff we do and they put on their pants and opinions just the way we do. So why should they have rights to the mountaintop? Who died and made them Moses? Let the people speak. |
| | Would you believe that my second duty at the first newspaper I worked for (Wayne Today, in New Jersey) was ghosting editorials? (My first was following up on the morning's pile of police reports. Did it without a laptop, which amazes me now. This was 1970. I don't think we even had copiers then.) |
| | On the one hand, even then I thought there was something arrogant and just a little bit silly (you know, like a blog) about newspaper editorials. On the other hand, the first editorial I wrote saved High Mountain from development. Never thought about it before; but that might have been the best thing I ever did as a journalist. |
| | If you live in New Jersey, hike up High Mountain on a clear afternoon. You'll see the whole metropolitain area, including the New York skyline. It's the best natural vantage on the scene. Before the skyline was built, the highest thing you could see from a boat approaching New York Harbor was High Mountain. |
| | Geez, haven't even thought about the whole subject in more than 30 years. |
Podestrian
| | Got into Mountain View at 3am this morning. Slept a lot along the way. Listened to a bunch of podcasts. Radio, as usual, failed me. Of course, Dean has one answer why: |
| | Remember: in broadcasting, especially in radio, listeners older than 54 are merely waste... |
| | I was listening to one when I fell asleep in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Salinas. I woke up when I heard Ben Hammersley tell Nicole Simon that he recognized me as this "chubby" guy stealing his WiFi bandwidth on a street in London in 2002. The new diet began at that moment. |
Look up solstice
| | Google and Yahoo look at real estate: sites. And at one moment in time: Now, or whenever they crawled a site last. |
| | Technorati looks at people and the new stuff they're writing about. (Also just noticed Technorati's new UI is up. I'm on the advisory board and have watched it solidify over the last few weeks.) |
| | Also, if you bother to look down through the full list of finds for Google or Yahoo, you'll find that the actual number of finds is much lower than the number posted. |
| | I mean, here's the last page (69th) of the "1,240,000" finds for my name. Maybe somebody from Google (and/or Yahoo) can clear that up. |
From here on, it only gets shorter
| | Happy Summer Solstice, if you're north of the Tropic of Cancer. The Sun maxes its northward noon journey at 6:46am GMT today. That's 11:46pm yesterday on the West Coast of North America. I'll be on the road to Supernova when it happens. I'm there now, paused for recaffeination at a Starbucks along the way, 1.5 hours before The Moment passes. |
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