Saturday, November 15, 2003

Weekend Reading From my news-aggregator subscription list... Paul Jones at ibiblio.org (featured in the Wired article below) may appreciate the juxtaposition: Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word. The University of North Carolina has a wealth of information available on ibiblio, its massive digital library. And it's free. Michelle Delio reports from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [Wired News] 'Lightning Man': Whose Line Is It, Anyway?. The historian Kenneth Silverman lays out with great thoroughness the troubled busy life of Samuel F. B. Morse, the telegraph's inventor. By Richard Brookhiser. [New York Times: Books] 'Doing Our Own Thing': Talk Is Cheap. John McWhorter charts Americans' mounting distrust of written English and the decline in oratory, poetry, music and thought. By Christopher Caldwell. [New York Times: Books] 4:48:08 PM     Weblogs Boffo in Variety Weblogs are big on variety, and now Variety is big on weblogs. OK, it's not a "sticks nix hicks pix" headline, but at least the link works. Variety, the entertainment industry magazine, has joined the weblog scene with three blogs, and an "about" page with a reasonable definition of weblogs themselves, featuring "usually..." as a key word. The site also includes an e-mail address for webloggers to contact if they have an entertainment-oriented blog idea they'd like to add to the mix. Here are the first three blogs: Outside the Box about the promotional items movie companies produce, by Jim Hames. Wicked Little Town about life in L.A., by Rob Kendt. Bags & Boards about the comic book industry, by Tom McLean and Jevon Phillips. Although Variety's home page asks you to subscribe to the print or online version, a few Web links do work for a click or two before you're asked again to at least take the 30-day free trial. The weblogs, however, seem to be fully accessible for now -- despite a note saying you have to subscribe. (Thanks to, I think, Jon Dube for the tip.) 3:35:25 PM

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