Watching the War on the Web
"I've been a little disappointed with the signal-to-noise ratio of weblogs so far in this war." In yesterday's column, I tried to write a primer on following the war on the Internet for a newspaper-and-cable news audience.
I got an email from a reader of the column who suggested that the real alternative to US cable news during this war is less the Internet than Al-Jazeera, which is delivering to a large part of the world images and impressions of a very different war than the one we are watching on Fox and CNN. Point taken, although the multiplicity of worldviews is one of the benefits delivered by the Web.
Lawyered Up
Eric "IsThatLegal" Muller is guest-blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy. Lawyers and law profs -- even law schools -- have emerged as a power center of the weblog universe, more influential than most professional journalists with weblogs. It makes sense -- lawyers write, argue, and have their own strong subculture.
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