Carrying the Lantern

Bill R.: I anticipate that the media coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the technology angle in particular, will be studied and written about for years. The affects on the home front clearly have a lot of maturing to go through, both from the perspective of the man on the street getting used to it and from a psychological perspective. One observation: the technology is now at the 'real time / no impediment' point. If an event happens anywhere in the world, the media can cover it - both audio & video - in real time. The issue is, do we want this?

Embedded journalism stokes Information Revolution, an opinion piece on ENN by Bernie Goldbach. Bernie notes that it took 5 people to haul the video gear required for a single crew to cover the Grenada war in 1983, where it's now 2 people with a lightweight camera, laptop computer and USB compatible satellite transceiver. Bernie was kind enough to quote me on the topic of 16th Century information networks (the postal service)... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

Bill R.: Might try this one to see how it stacks up to Radio Userland.

iBlog is a Mac OS X desktop weblogging application with iLife integration. Works with mac.com's iDisk and other WebDav servers. Shareware, get it from Mac OS X Downloads. [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]