Sunday, June 22, 2003

bloglab: (permalink broken: see Domingo, Junho 22, 2003, Postado 13:53)   "weblogs no jornalismo   BloggerCon, conferência na Harvard Law School em outubro próximo, discutirá os weblogs como ferramentas para o jornalismo, entre outras coisas. Inclusive como as mídias tradicionais vão adaptar e incorporar os weblogs e qual o futuro destes em relação a sua gratuidade." 6:45:03 PM    comment []

Chris Lydon calls Emerson “A God for Bloggers.” Amen.   “The modern Emersonian is, in short, an ecstatic melancholic, an unquenchable optimist in a darkening world, aware that the big trick for grown-ups is to look unblinking at the torture and tyranny, the pandemic disease and progressive brutalization of people and the planet—and know that is not the whole story and that this is no time to give up.” 6:39:55 PM    comment []

Mindshare analysis: The New York Times Book Review and “Circuits” sections are hipper to weblogs than the Times business section.    Methodology: Compare today’s Book Review "Boox" cartoon by Mark Alan Stamaty (can’t find it online) to last week’s bloggers-in-search-of-readers story to today’s biz article on blogs.   While the biz writer is still leading the horse to water (“Blogs, short for Weblogs, are Web pages on which…”), the “Circuits” piece jumps right into a discussion of hit-count neurosis, and Stamaty’s whole page is about the interplay of weblogging and book culture.   Discussion: It’s logical, in that readers and geeks are way ahead of business users on the blogging curve.   Question for further investigation: How is coverage influenced by attitudes toward weblogs of biz and tech reporters? 2:47:46 PM    comment []

It's golden goose season, and ACC officials and university presidents keep trying to find a way to kill the world's best college basketball conference. In this morning's newspaper column, I explain why I think expansion is a bad thing. 9:32:22 AM    comment []