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Adopt (blog) a Reporter

Jan

14

2004

p. Why I Love the Adopt-a-Reporter Scheme. Why I Dread It. – A weblog devoted to watching the work of a journalist is democracy in action. It is bound to be educational, for the watcher and perhaps for the journalist who is watched. But there are reasons to worry. [ “(extlink)PressThink”:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ] p. Joy Rosen ...

This Is Broken

Jan

14

2004

This Is Broken – A new project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it. By Mark Hurst. It’s an interesting spot to rant about what’s broken and needs to be fixed.

Video iPods That Work

Jan

8

2004

The Future of Portable Video Players – But Mr. Jobs outlined three reasons he doubted video players would ever approach the success of audio players – not even counting their high price ($700 and up) and the time-consuming difficulty of loading huge video files onto them. It was clear from his answers that Mr. Jobs ...

Shrook and an Automatic (OPML) Blogroll

Jan

8

2004

I’ve discovered myself relying more and more upon “(extlink)Shrook”:http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/ (my MacOSX RSS Aggregator) to get my daily newsfix. In addition to the standard functionality of allowing me to subscribe to sites, and identifying new posts, Shrook also automatically syncs with “(extlink)Shrook.com”:http://www.shrook.com both keeping track of which stories I’ve read regardless of what computer I’m on ...

Did Blogs Amplify War-Propoganda

Jan

5

2004

Did the weblog world do anything other than amplify the pre-war Bush propaganda campaign on Iraqi WMD? Are we in the worst of all worlds when the mainstream media (our former gatekeepers) buys into a completely false propoganda campaign and that same propoganda is supported online by tens of thousands of mini-Limbaughs? [John Robb’s Weblog] Considering much of ...