is providing good coverage of a recent hoo-haw in the newsrooms of Canada. It seems that the new owners of the Southam family of newspapers, the Asper family, has mandated that several editorials a week will appear in each of a dozen papers – editorials written at head office. More disturbingly, the local editors have been spiking editorials or columns that take a different position. Must we now grudgingly admit that at least Tubby Black had a marginal respect for “the newspaper” as an institution?
New at the Infinite Matrix
: an excerpt from Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. Cory and I have never met, but I’ve virtually bumped into him online through at least 3 independent channels, and we have at least one friend in common in the flesh. And of course he blogs at Boing Boing, arguably the ne plus ultra among weblogs.
Glenn Fleishman
weighs in about spam. I think I’m going to start getting a lot more aggressive about my filtering. And I have to dump what used to be my primary address, but sadly is nothing but a spam-collector now. Hmmm. Maybe I should keep it.
Santa arrested
Mr. Dave Winer
waded into it again, something he seems to do awfully regularly. This time it’s about his Scripting News Awards. Cam has a problem with it, and there’s a a thread in MetaTalk about the whole thing. Personally, I don’t care about any of the awards for weblogs. SXSW is moderately interesting, but more in a “let’s cheer them all on” way than this or any of the other small “awards” that are handed out each year. At the same time, though, I know that some reaction to this whole thing is going to prompt Dave to write something that makes me cringe. It’s like watching Three’s Company or something – it’s just so predictable.
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