Analysis of the media’s coverage of the war in Iraq “My partner in production efforts, Peter Shaplen, who began his career as Walter Cronkite’s desk assistant, chimes in. Alas, Peter is blogless, so I’m posting this for him: Once again we are confusing technology with editorial substance. The ability to see a military column with night-scope technology and moving in…
Just got word of this…
Just got word of this BBC Reporters’ Log. Yep, it’s a blog by the many BBC journos covering the War…. [KenLayne.com]
NoteTaker [1]. We all make…
NoteTaker. We all make a lot of notes as information flows past us during the course of a day. I like to make paper-based notes in my book, and then will post some of the more organised ones on the blog. But there are definitely ways this can be improved – it is especially hard for me to search the…
Beware of Obsession With Online…
Beware of Obsession With Online News. : OK, here’s one for laughs, though make no mistake, Internet filtering at workplace is a serious issue for broadband news service. 8e6 Technologies, an… [PaidContent.org]
MarketWatch in Distribution Deal with…
MarketWatch in Distribution Deal with Knight-Ridder. : In a move which further cements MarketWatch’s licensing revenues (it gets almost 50 percent of its revenues from licensing), it has inked a distribution… [PaidContent.org]
Secrets of the XML gods…
Secrets of the XML gods. text, code, data It’s the season for confession. First Tim Bray reveals a dirty secret: “a lot of input data these days is XML…in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it.” Then Sean McGrath fesses up to his Python habit: “I know I should be invoking a WF [well-formed]…
*Information Content Industry to Grow…
Information Content Industry to Grow by 8.5 Percent in 2003. : According to new research by Outsell, the information content industry will grow by 8.5 percent in 2003. The Outsell Monitor tracks the financial condition… [PaidContent.org]
America’s Long Middle Eastern Romance…
America’s Long Middle Eastern Romance. The history of American involvement in the Middle East is long and complicated. Even in Colonial times, Americans felt a special attachment to the region. By Michael B. Oren. [New York Times: International]
About the mobile edition [1]….
About the mobile edition. About “dive into mark” mobile edition, thoughts on “standards”, and instructions for setting up your own mobile edition in Movable Type. (1021 words) [dive into mark]
Weblogs and passion [1].
Weblogs and passion. I had an opportunity to listen to Mena and Ben Trott talk about Moveable Type last night courtesy of AKMA at Seabury Western. They sparked a good discussion around the role of weblogs in creating and sustaining community (two good live blogged accounts from AKMA and Gabe Bridger by way of Mike Marusin). At least some of…