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Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:22:58 GMT

DaveNet: On Beauty in Women.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:40:05 GMT

Happiness is a new RSS application from Wired News.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:12:40 GMT

Jake has the second half of Trackback working for Radio, or so he thinks. Please help him test it by pinging this post.

Humor: FOAF Splinters Into 10 Competing Efforts.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:20:36 GMT

Dan Gillmor: Voting machines need paper trails.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:23:08 GMT

Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse.

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:23:56 GMT

NY Times: "The service seeks to capitalize on the popularity of iTunes, the music service that Apple Computer introduced in April."

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:48:59 GMT

Greetings from Boston, where there's a summer thunderstorm going on as I write this.

Writing without editors

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:54:43 GMT

Excellent Jeff Jarvis piece about editors. I got the pointer from Scoble, who astutely points out that even in the weblog world we have editors, they just don't pay us as well as the ones in the print world. ";->"

At the end of the Jarvis piece he says: "And if I'm wrong, you'll tell me. For you are my editor." I used to say things like that, but it's naive, don't give up your power Jeff, they'll grind you to a pulp and leave you for dead. No editors, and that's an absolute, as far as I'm concerned.

Look at the comments on the Andrew Grumet post I pointed to last night, if Jarvis is right these are Andrew's editors. One says UserLand was a BigCo, the only one in RSS space. Another poster says that the world is more complicated than Dave says it is, but doesn't explain how.

We often wax poetic about how much better it will be when we wrest control from the ink-stained dinosaurs, but when we replace them with people whose main qualification is that they have a laptop and net connection, have we actually accomplished anything?