Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Great meeting tonight at the Greensboro News-Record, talking about blogging at the community, the newspaper. We'll have an MP3 of it in the morning. Everyone who's interested in blogging on a local level should catch the discussion.  

Steve Rubel: CNET to Launch Web-based RSS Reader. 

Here's what Scripting News looks like in their reader.  

Press release: WNYC Radio Launches Second Podcast. 

Podcasting News has a story about a new ASCAP license for podcasts. I don't understand what the deal is. $288 buys you what? If you have an idea, please post a note here. 

One of the strangest blog posts of all time. "Professor Lessig, portrayed by Christopher Lloyd, is in tonight's episode of The West Wing." 

I just booked my stay in Chapel Hill. I'll be there three nights, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday of course is the blogger conference, but I'll be around all day Sunday, with time to spare. Is there interest in a Scripting News brunch on Sunday? Last week's in Alexandria was a lot of fun.  

Sylvia Paull is a Natural Born Blogger, who, until today, did not have a weblog. 

Carly Fiorina has resigned as Hewlett-Packard CEO. 

You may wish to sign the Easongate petition. 

Eason Jordan graced the pages of this site in April 2003, when it was revealed (by Jordan himself) that CNN was tilting the news toward Saddam to protect the lives of CNN staff in Iraq. 

Eliot Spitzer is running for Governor of New York. On his blog it says: "To listen to an audio podcast of Eliot's remarks, simply connect your iPod or MP3 player to your computer and subscribe to the RSS feed within Eliot's blog." The feed is cool, it has an enclosure, all is well. 

CSM: "Suffering from 'pure boredom' while working as a features writer for a North Carolina newspaper, Rachel Mosteller began keeping an online journal." 

Jeremy Zawodny's account of the firing of a Google employee who blogged too much. 

Knock wood, praise Murphy I think I now have a good Internet connection, at least for the next couple of days.