Sunday, April 11, 2004

Hoder explains how to form a local blogosphere in a community, based on the experience of Iranians. 

It's getting close to a month since Rogers raised an important issue of ethics at The Guardian. So far, to my knowledge, we've only gotten an argumentative response, that almost promises that they'll investigate, but not quite. It appears as if they passed off an opinion piece as news. A retraction and apology to their readers is called for, or some kind of detailed explanation why the author was qualified to write an independent piece for their publication, when he was one of the participants in the supposed "war" he was covering.  

Happy to be back in Boston. I remembered to blog something Jay Rosen said at dinner on Friday. He's been following some discussions of BloggerCon that I hadn't seen where people said it's pretentious. I was surprised. Something about Harvard is pretentious? I said that's not exactly front-page news.  

My Dad is convinced that Bush should will go on TV and say "We won in Iraq," and it's time to go home. When you think about it, the whole thing is pretty spooky. We're fighting the people we liberated. I don't see any Iraqis standing beside us. Maybe they're there but we haven't heard about them. Anyway, it seems like now is a good time to take a bow, and get out while the gettin's good.  

Micah Sifry: How to 'Finish the Job' in Iraq.