Blogging — Page 49

Now this is what

October 3, 2001 by Michael Boyle

I want from a computer OS: BlogScript, a script that allows me to post anything to my Blogger site from a menu that’s always available. To me, this is what it’s all about. An OS that lets anyone plug into it. An OS that is built from the ground up understanding that the internet is there, and that it will often be part of it. And always-on networking at a reasonable rate to make that true.

It may seem that I’m going overboard here, but I don’t think so. I’m not saying, “Wow. So wacky, who knew [boggle]?!?!” I just feel happy that finally something is going as far as I need it in the direction I want. They’ve made an OS that, with other elements easily put together, allows me to express myself as I choose, with no encumbrances.

Everyone who reads weblogs

October 3, 2001 by Michael Boyle

should read Cam Barrett’s comments at CamWorld today:

Just because I link to something (this time, the Ann Coulter article) doesn’t mean that I agree with or support those points of views. The astonishing amount of email I’ve received trying to get me to remove the link to that article or make me ashamed about linking to it is absurd. Have we really come to a point in this country where any dissenting or controversial opinion is attacked and not treated with the same respect as an opinion or idea that socially acceptable? How sad for this country, if that is the case.

Hmmm. When did

October 1, 2001 by Michael Boyle

highindustrial come back online? I love his designs. [thanks to alan of the lovely gliff.org for the heads up about missing the closing bold tag]

For my part

September 26, 2001 by Michael Boyle

For my part, personal journalism and/or weblogging has expanded and enriched my media environment, and in doing so has radically changed my expectations of that whole terrain. At one time there was a particular flow: CNN to network documentary and commentary to daily newspaper think pieces to magazine coverage. Or something like that. With the rise of tools that enable individual online publishing, my expectations from magazines and “thinkier” newspapers has changed. I can get a vast range of perspectives from across the waterfront on weblogs, and almost immediately.

So on the front end of a crisis, I rely on both TV and weblogs – “fact” and opinion, right up front. And I expect the print media – daily, weekly, and monthly – to take into account not only that I have the facts already, but that I also have access to a variety of (informed and not) opinions already – something for which they have traditionally been the main source.

Scoble is covering

September 26, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the Seybold2001 Panel discussion about personal and non-pro journalism via weblog as I write this post. It’s interesting, and I think it’s not a bad way to cover an event like this. I’ve done it before to follow breaking news, but the general low-bandwidth character of most blogs suits the format well.

One of the more interesting comments posted early in the discussion: “8:47: Bruce Koon: What was interersting from the news perspective was that Nightline was born out of the American Hostage situation in the 1980s and (paraphrasing) here we’re witnessing the birth of a new kind of journalism.”