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Wacky request
| | Some folks I knew asked me about the difference between blogs and Wiki Wiki Web sites. I hated to admit, as I am now, that all I know about the Wiki thing is that it's hip among certain free/open/Linux cadres . I just reminded myself that I'm too old to care about having my ignorance exposed, and here we are. |
| | So feel free to educate me (and the rest of us). |
Blews
| | What do you call news from blogs? The label above comes to mind after checking out Pah's pointers to this piece (here's a .jpg of the print version) in The Austrailian, which includes this quote from Yours Eventually: |
| | It isn't journalism for distribution. It's journalism for sharing. It isn't about the few writing for the many. It's about anybody writing for anybody — through a publishing medium that has nothing to do with the publishing business. |
| | Pah, by the way, is Dave Golding's blog. He says he "...thinks the piece has a very open, healthy attitude to blogs, not focussed on KC or young love or the other things they usually use to marginalise people with." I agree. Hope we'll be seeing more of that kind of coverage. Not that it matters as much as it used to. (Heh.) |
| | Speaking about blews, I missed meeting Derek Willis of thescoop.org when I was in D.C. Among other things in our email exchange, he writes this, which is too quotable not to pass along: "Some interesting things going on in Congress about Internet issues, but most of it is turf battles between people who struggle to understand any of the issues." |
Reruns
| | Finally, I flew home. Happened yesterday morning from about 7 Eastern to 11 Pacific time. One of the smoothest and prettiest flights I've ever enjoyed in a 757. The pilot even flew an S-pattern over the Grand Canyon to give everybody a look. As a freebie bonus it was pretty darn good. Of course there were groans from jaded too-frequent flyers, for whom all sightseeing instructions from the cockpit are kindergarten stuff. |
| | But I'll always be five years old. Fly me over The West anytime with a window seat on the shady side of the plane. One of modern civilization's finest privileges is watching the planet flaunt its amazing graces from vantages higher than birds have ever flown. |
| | Altitude is also a peerless perspective on what geologists call The Picture. With the Grand Canyon we watch surgery in progress, as the Colorado River cuts down through a vast bulge of high desert plateau comprised entirely of rock laid down in hard layers before the age of dinosaurs. As the plane slides over the canyon the river appears as a green line deep in a slot of gray that is upwards of 1.5 billion years old. If you ask me, watching this beats the crap out of staring at the blurry rerun of some bad NBC sitcom, or pretending to care about the spreadsheet on your laptop. |
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