CNN.com - ‘We got him’ - Dec. 14, 2003
If you see pictures of danish iraqians celebrating the capture on Nørrebro on national danish tv don’t believe that hundreds of people we’re celebrating which was the impression the news crew was trying to create - there we’re though around 15 people celebrating in front of the local grocery store handing out candy and singing!
BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis.
We live in a weird world where the president of Iran knows everything about blogging. What would you get if you asked the danish PM - a “Doh” or some discriminating attitude about experts that wants to have a voice?
“Do you blog? After President Khatami mentions the explosion of weblogging in Iran, Daily Summit asked: do you use weblogs, Mr President?
“I do not use weblogs,” the President replied. “But I do not use many good things. My own daughters do not have weblogs but they are very active in using the internet and chat. Our youth and adolescents during high school - and university - are using weblogs very extensively. In universities, there is a lot of access and there are many internet cafes in Iran. Access for youth to the internet is very satisfactory.”
Weblog culture tipping point - first ad campaign incorporating blogs:
Hewlett Packard in a mainstream advertising campaign: You Blog, Don’t You?
Xeni Jardin tries to explain blogs
“Blogs democratize ideas. They give an almost magical volition to words, images, and sounds. They make art available to new audiences. Unheard voices become accessible in a way that wasn’t possible before. And that is a good thing.”
Over at John Battelle’s Searchblog we’re discussing what rss/the semantic web really should be coined as now that it’s reaching the masses. A term similar to what “the web” was for http/html and “the internet” was for tcp/ip.
jill/txt: talk at brown
“My talk at Brown today is titled “Weblogs: Learning to Write in the Network” and is going to be mostly about using blogs with students. I’m going to stress network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it’s distributed and collaborative; it’s learning to think and write with the network. I’ll also talk a bit about the ethics of insisting students blog in public.
Weblogs are good as learning journals (searchable, writing practice, catching thoughts, intellectual workout, valuing one’s own opinion, discovering interests, even recommended as therapy) but all these things could be done in a paper notebook - though the knowledge that other people are (or can be) reading is important.
What’s more important to teach our students is network literacy: writing in a distributed, collaborative environment. Weblogs are the first native web genre. Serial, unstable (ethics: edit? annotate? delete? change your mind? - compare net journalism, post-editing), networked.”
Worth noting:
Today is the 35th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s “Mother of all demos”.
Little known fact: TeleDanmark 118 directory service does Google!
If you’re based in Denmark you can call TeleDanmark directory service on 118 and get them to do google queries for you. So now you can avoid harassing your friends in front of computers and pay your monopolistic telco $2 instead.
Great! (and pretty innovative that they are doing it - not that it’s new - but for a large telco i believe it is a first).
