Sunday, July 03, 2005

NYT's Randall Stross on podcasting: "In pre-Web times, marketers counted noses. With the advent of the Web, eyeballs. Mark my words: eardrums are next...Welcome to the post-Web era." 12:39:29 PM   permalink   comment []

Ahearn: "In late April, during an online chat about the Greensboro killings, the landlord, Bill White, posted the names and home addresses of the members of the Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission on his site and wrote that he 'would like to reconcile them with the end of my 12-gauge.'" 8:24:35 AM   permalink   comment []

Dave Winer: "Every company, not just tech companies, needs to have a presence in the blogging world, someone whose feet are planted both in the network outside the organization as well as inside." 8:19:01 AM   permalink   comment []

The Civil Rights Museum in downtown Greensboro is behind schedule and over budget. N&R's Margaret Banks has the story. Building the thing to higher standards is a good idea. But what a shame this project has gone the way it has. In late 2000, I opined against public funding for the project under its then-current management. 8:06:22 AM   permalink   comment []

The Declaration of Independence, signed 229 years ago tomorrow in Philadelphia, is the subject of my newspaper column today. I read the thing -- it's not very long -- and thought a bit about that essential phrase, "the pursuit of Happiness." The first two enumerated rights, life and liberty, are straightforward enough, but this business about the pursuit of Happiness is more complex. Note that it is a right to the pursuit of Happiness, not to Happiness itself, and that despite the messages of our consumer culture, Happiness is not always the same thing as Fun. And nothing makes some people unHappier than the prospect of other people being Happy in a way that does not suit them. Yet this right to a personal definition of Happiness, and the right to pursue it, remains at the core of what Americans want their country to be. It is the Declaration’s most profound idea. Read the whole thing. 8:05:48 AM   permalink   comment []