Friday, December 10, 2004

Another aggregator for Greensboro weblogs: GSO Live How does it compare to Greensboro101 for look, feel, usability? What would you change about either site? What would you keep? 9:34:56 PM    comment []

A conversation about venture funding and business models for local online alt media. 3:27:47 PM    comment []

Great photo over at Doc's Top to bottom, back to front: "Venus, Moon, dawn, Santa Monica Mountains, Pacific Ocean, night." 3:26:14 PM    comment []

Monkeytime makes up for the NC media's grievous undercoverage of women's roller derby. And in case you were worried, he addresses "concerns about the feminist implications of a sexy, aggressive all-girl sport." Monkey: "(T)he Carolina Rollergirls are serious about doing roller derby right. They seem intent on avoiding stupid punching matches in favor of actually playing the game, which appears to set them apart from many of the other all-girl teams springing up around the country in recent years. Go Carolina." 8:58:25 AM    comment []

ACC Hoops picks up this morning's NYT article on the buzz in Chapel Hill: "Paper of Record likes Ol' Roy." 8:19:13 AM    comment []

Exciting times over at Backwards City, as the first edition of the literary journal goes to print. Maybe the economic developers chattering about Greensboro's "creative class" should get out of downtown and recognize the creativity that's actually in play here... 8:12:55 AM    comment []

Dan Gillmor is quitting the San Jose Mercury News to work on a grassroots blog media project. Venture funded. He's the guy who wrote the book on this stuff... Am I being shortsighted? Should I be out raising money? Or is what's going on in Greensboro working under its own logic? In any case, best of luck to Dan, he's not just a visionary he's a nice guy, too. 8:08:37 AM    comment []