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Dawn Johnsen discovers the perils of "blogging, advocating, and speeching." - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
Part of the problem is that over the past eight years, Johnsen (whom I know a little and admire a lot) has burnished her academic and professional credentials with punditry, bloggery, and advocacy. This makes her an easy target for criticism. She has spoken out clearly! She has criticized openly! She has used language like "outrage" and "torture" to describe outrages and torture. Curiously enough, nobody on the committee disagrees with these legal conclusions today. They're just mainly bothered that she said them aloud.
Pimp My Browser!
Client-side Enhancements to Improve your Blogging - notes from Scott's NV09 MooseCamp session
The politics of ME, ME, ME | open Democracy News Analysis
This is not just a question of people with too much time on their hands beavering away at the keyboard on controversies that affect nothing – if it were “only” this, there would be little to worry about. The problem goes deeper. It is partly that so much of this activity is harmful and wasteful, in a context where intelligent citizens working in a spirit of constructive dialogue could in principle perform a useful role in clarifying issues and arguments and offering usable ideas to those seeking solutions to the conflicts concerned. [...] In this sense such internet politics is not just self-defeating but also profoundly exclusionary. Only those who are similarly versed in the minutiae of the conflict can participate fully. How telling that the supposedly democratising force of the internet should be subverted in this way! This is politics for insiders. Indeed, the ranks of the insiders may have been swelled by the internet, but the cliquishness of this new political class is no better than the more traditional political cliques. Worse, so obsessed is this clique with its endless internal arguments that the need to connect with those on the outside - both the larger citizenry, and those at the sharp end of conflicts - is largely forgotten. What remains is a mode of politics that has abandoned both persuasion and anchorage in reality outside the discursive bubble.
2008 Blog-to Show: 260 Blogs Aggregate Post! - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You’re only a stranger once.
Lots o' blogs. Even some good ones...
Poets, put up your fists and fight
A writers' spat is not the sole preserve of the big names - the most exciting and vicious scraps are to be found in the poetry blogosphere
Google Earth API - Google Code
The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. [via Iconolith]
Apture
An interesting way to provide rich contextual information along with a link... like SnapIt previews on steroids
27 Secrets to Linking Like a Master Networker at Personal PR
Good advice-- some obvious, some not-- for maximizing your blog (and other social site) linking
New Findings: The verdict on Utterz.com
OK, I have to admit this makes Utterz much more interesting than I thought. If only it weren't tied to a single phone number...
All-Stars of the Clever Riposte - New York Times
Piece on blog comment and comment stars, but even better: a slideshow on MeFi, one of my long-time favorite sites from the days when you had to figure out a backdoor to get in, and one of the few places where I am almost completely a lurker.
The 5-4-3 double play, or “The Art of Conference Blogging”
Some good tips for those who really want to conference blog. Note to my boss: please don't expect this!
GAM3R 7H30RY
Not only an interesting read, but a truly innovative implementation of wordpress and whats became the commentpress plugin... I have to investigate the details of this more.
Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far
Some common sense, some good reminders, some worth thinking about
Leading Learning 2007: Making Connections
Conference community site... interesting blogging engine with entries that can also be viewed as discussion boards. Also wikis, etc.
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