We are about to suffer an abundance of riches. So many local newspaper journalists are starting blogs that they might drown out independent voices.
Please offer your advice and ideas in this Philly Future thread.
MLK Day of Service
Philly is inspiring each year on this holiday. How you can get involved here.
Blogs helping political reform in Iran
Update: This just might be bigger news however. More in Metafilter.
You should subscribe to The Atlantic. The current issue features a frightening article by Richard Clarke (yes that Richard Clarke) that is a fictional write up looking back on the next ten years. Much of it based on what would happen if we attack Iran. Scary stuff.
Don’t blog up your gig
With all the talk about blogging ethics going on, this is timely. Read it.
“You link it, you own it”
“…the less something you link to has the stamp of official authority, the more you’ve taken responsibility for it. That is, if I link to the paper of record, then I own the responsibility for it 10% and they own it 90%. But, if I link to “some person on the internets somewhere” who has no established institutional credibility (or lack of) then I own it 95%. In other words, the less likely it is that anyone would have heard about something without my bringing it to their attention, the more I’ve taken the responsibility for verifying the information.”
Eschaton: You link it, you own it: 01/16/05
Yep. And what you say in your link text counts too. Just one of the reasons that power laws (Clay Shirky) do exit on the web. No matter what you might believe.
Are aggregators and search engines copyright thieves?
Conversation at Russell Beattie‘s and at Ed Cone‘s.
Hmmmmm… I think I need to write some posting guidelines at PF.
Woah! You see that Freddie Mitchell recovery? Wow
Blogging while watching game…
Eagles vs. Vikes… and all of Philly holds its breath…
I’m not gonna make any predictions… because I don’t want to jinx my team. But I know all of Philly has been looking forward to today. A real game. And it’s going to be a heart pounder. Go Eagles!
Stress Relievers
For me, it’s playing my guitar, or playing Jedi Knight Academy online, but back in the day there was a game on the Mac called Marathon that I loved. Now I can download it and its entire series for free. Thanks Bungie. You rock.
Response from fellow bloggers – this is old news
Kos and Jerome Armstrong respond. via Ed Cone.
I’ll stick by with what I said. I’ll add that the timing of this is real unfortunate because it is distracting folks from something that occured that used your money for an illegal purpose.
I despise folks that attempt to make people look bad for their political gain.