Librarians turn over new political leaf  [The Shifted Librarian] 

>>  27-year-old Italian "DJ, Webmaster" Foca (is that really his first name?), born in Germany, is the personality behind the site. He's designed a lot of websites and I guess his portfolio is the primary content.  But the site has the appeal of being very personal...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 12/21/02] 

InfoWorld:  U.S. government denies plans for Net monitoring system  [Tomalak's Realm] 

'Too' name too similar, eBay suit says  [via LawMeme] 

Grant Hutchinson:  "How do I loath Microsoft?. Let me count the ways..." 

Sugarfused:  "This one almost made me wet my pants I laughed so much!  Plug in your URL or any other URL you'd like, and get Shizzolated.  The Emily Dickinson poem on my page was just toooo funny.  She'd be rolling over in her grave if she only knew......lol.  via...Daypop."

Dog News:  "Shizzolating can really spice up your writing..." 

Spamnix Eudora Plugin (via Kalsey Group)  [Sanjay's Coding Tips] 

This article says "Trent Lott would probably not be in trouble were it not for one-man Web sites called blogs, which whipped up a national controversy over comments the mainstream media had dismissed as a minor gaffe."  Yet, it says absolutely nothing to substantiate it, in my opinion.

It's one thing to say that the blogosphere was talking about it.  It's quite another to give the blogosphere credit for Lott's fate, as if the contoversy did not exist offline as well, at the same time.  Blogs are, indeed, changing the world.   But the collective ego of the blogosphere seems to distort the facts sometimes.  Can't we just stop trying to sell the concept of blogs for a while. please?  [link via Blogging Alone] 

December 2002

 


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