Thursday, April 08, 2004

Sessions: Religion, Presidential bloggers, Blogging as a Business. 

Richard Clarke is interviewed on All Things Considered, commenting on Condoleezza Rice's testimony today before the 9/11 commission.  

This is a great book cover. "A cutting-edge way of surviving change by shifting the blame." Yeah, I know a few people who do that.  

Salon: "It's amazing to listen to Rice discuss the critical role Clarke played before 9/11." 

News.Com: "A Google executive downplayed the looming threat of search competition from Microsoft, saying his company doesn't expect to see a credible product from the software giant for years." 

How to make a financial contribution to BloggerCon. We take Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.  

Government of Canada FAQ on RSS. 

Chris Pirillo: "Lockergnome.Net has an OPML file updated daily." 

The Pomo Blog notes that MediaPost has discovered RSS. But their article about RSS is totally confused. It's much much simpler than they make it sound. 

Reviewing the MediaPost story about RSS. 

Jay Rosen: "Careless writing by a major blogger (Kos) brought a turn in the scandal cycle to Blogistan." 

Gizmodo: "A UK company is working to deploy 150,000 wireless transceivers in lamp posts and signs." 

Wired: "The privacy concerns over Google's planned Gmail service won't die. More than two dozen privacy groups write a letter to the company to ask it to reconsider its plan to scan people's e-mails." 

John Gilmore reviews Google's terms of service for Gmail. 

Register: "In Germany, email, fax and phone conversations are considered to be confidential. Snooping on email is permitted only when substantial criminal activity is suspected." 

Arianna Huffington loves blogs. I know what she means and I know why. Recently I watched an episode of The American Experience about the Three Mile Island disaster. Lots of video, a long time ago, I was an adult when it happened. I remember it well. Very dramatic. At stake was western Pennsylvania, and if the wind was blowing the wrong way, the most populated and richest part of the US. One of the interviews was with a journalist who describes the excitement of covering the story and his own anger and how that changed how he covered the story. At one point he quiets down and says "I guess I wasn't being a journalist." I wanted to shake him. To me, that's just when you started. It was an exciting story, a real drama, and as a user of news, I felt it. That's when journalism is working, when it not only helps you know things, but when it also helps you feel what's going on.