Saturday, January 31, 2004

Sushi-HOWTO. Do you like sushi? Do you hate paying £5 for a tiny little bento box from high-end supermarkets? Do you want to have an anime-and-sushi geekfest but balk at the cost of the food? Sushi is really easy to make, and fairly inexpensive if you're keeping it simple. Read on to find out how you can impress your mates and fill your house with anthropomorphic anime catgirls (well, maybe not) with your very own home-made sushi! [kuro5hin.org] 3:56:18 PM  comment []  Trackback []     There are three ways to build a hot weblog. To be a connection machine (people with huge blogrolls and/or RSS lists that point to other weblogs -- they do add their two cents and sometimes their thinking). To be a name dropper (people that imply they understand what is really going on -- and you don't -- given their personal connections that they constantly let you know about). To be an ideologue (people that support a single cause with unquestioned faith). Here are the ways to build a second tier (but still popular) weblog: To be a thinker (people that delve into topics with intelligence and/or wit). To be a topic owner (people that own a topic and report on it with unquestioned knowledge and depth). To be a voice of outrage/affirmation (people that critique others as often as they can or are on the bandwagon). To be a cool hunter (people that find the newest of the new or the strangest of the strange). Which one are you?  Are there more categories?  Am I wrong?  I will add to this post as new thinking arrives. [John Robb's Weblog] 3:55:53 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Wired: "It appears their efforts to save Hubble, along with political pressure, may be paying off." [Scripting News] 3:55:31 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Kaye Trammel: Protecting Your Secret Blog. [Scripting News] 3:55:17 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Citizen's Media Jeff Jarvis occupies a fascinating position at the juncture of old and new media. Now, provoked by a speech given by an old friend before the Software & Information Indusry Assocation, he has put up a long post, arguing that blogs are in fact the Genesis Event for citizen's media, which will bypass many of the limits and institutions of existing media. RTWT. It's an important post, perhaps the more persuasive for its quietness. There is more that can be said in rebuttal to the head of New York Times Digital. Particularly in speaking to the SIIA, the priesthood of professionalized, branded information. For him to doubt that blogs might be the "Pong of Electronic Publishing" is to fail to name the threat. Electronic games may have displaced time and dollars from the traditional media, but citizens' meda are a knife at the jugular of the branded aggregation model that calls itself Publishing (Electronic or not). Here the agenda is clear: "Ultimately, journalism is about trust. In this new product vision, the aggregator's brand must remain trusted..." Trust also arises from voice and authenticity, which are characteristics of individuals. Citizens' media allows them to compete on trust and viewpoint, head to head with professionalized mass media. Machine based aggregation lets the reader pick and choose, not the editor. I get my headlines from Google News and Technorati, I pay attention when Glenn Reynolds does, and I pick up techno-human interest stories from BoingBoing. Every one of them has more influence on me than the editor of the New York Times, whose brand lies sullied in the gutter beside the BBC. Pong? Sword of Damocles, more likely. [Due Diligence] 6:51:54 AM  comment []  Trackback []     There's at least one person in my old group who should read this... uiweb: How to manage smart people. Over the years I've experienced many mistakes and successes in both how I was managed, and how I managed others. What follows is a short distillation of some of what I've learned. There's no one way to manage people, but there are some approaches that I think most good managers share. [Tomalak's Realm] 6:49:56 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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