Editorial Soliloquy I don't feel like I've hit the mark in my writing here. I've suffered through about twenty years of writer's block: Well, at least for the writing that matters to me. I'm trying to wade through that now and adapt my writing to the web. There is some support for the notion that writing for the web needs to be different. I think most of that notion will be washed away when more varied means of delivery (audio/podcast, streaming video/animation) become more widely used.

My dissatisfaction with my writing has prompted me to return to basics. I'm now rereading Strunk and White's Elements of Style. We'll see if it works.  ¶ 2/27/2005 07:52:00 PM 0 comments

  Intellectual Diversity at Stanford (via BoingBoing) Swartz's blog from Stanford puts the numbers out there in that cold hard way that is more effective than any humor could ever be. I almost posted on the WashTimes story about the scientist (sic) who felt he was being discriminated against by the Smithsonian for his work in Intelligent (sic) Design.  ¶ 2/27/2005 07:35:00 PM 0 comments

  The Libation The previous post was kinda weenie. I'm sorry, I guess I'm a little out of practice. As I've said, Jarvis can be counted on to deliver conventional wisdom: The conventions of which are it's own undoing.

I've been rethinking this whole blog thing and that is largely why I haven't been posting. But Doc Thompson decided to move on and I couldn't let that pass without notice. Thompson apparently shot himself Sunday while alone on his ranch in Colorado.

The truth is I could write a lot about the Doc. I think instead I'll just wander out to find some tequila and a joint. Venceremos, muchacho et Adios.

UPDATE: Dumped the bad link.  ¶ 2/21/2005 04:53:00 PM 0 comments

  The cost of ethics: Influence peddling in the blogosphere We'll get back to this, really. Its a late notice, already, but I will.
Update: posted 3-9-05 and I will get back to this.  ¶ 2/19/2005 11:41:00 AM 0 comments

  TimeMachine... by Jeff Jarvis I'm gone for almost two months to come back to Jarvis still bitchin' about Eric Alterman's comments concerning the Iraqi bloggers.

It appears that a long dormant quality has resurfaced in the journalism of our information age: The most vile kind of partisan warping of facts. I can't blame it (wholely) on the MSM, blogs or the supposed liberal bias of the media.

The innuendo, the lie and the half-baked fact seem to be the coin of the realm. When Hastert can go on Fox to make a connection between Soros and drug money without the slightest bit of support other than Hastert's personal ignorance of how Soros makes his money, something is wrong in the flow of information. But this isn't a "they did it first" defense for Alterman.

No, it probably wasn't Alterman's finest hour. It is not the kind of thing that I'd like to think that I would do. But Alterman has passed over from being merely a journalist to also being a political/idealogical operative.

As for Jarvis; well, I have a little bet for him. I've got ten bucks that says more than one of the bloggers he listed in his Iraqi elections round-up post received significant CIA\Republican\Conservative support. If the dust ever clears from this mess maybe we'll know for sure. I've written on this before.
  ¶ 2/06/2005 09:55:00 PM 0 comments