BurningbirdRogers Cadenhead: Dave Winer is one of the best bloggers out there. He makes love to us with every post. Ground control to Major Tom Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you…. Here am I floating round […]
Mary Hodder writes on women speaking and has this to say: If you aren’t in the loop you aren’t as important as others with similar skills sets and expertise in the eyes of those who fund, engage for consulting, hire for leadership positions, take in PhD candidates or whatever it is that requires discernment between people. […]
When a Japanese whaler developed a fire and put out a distress call, it was a Greenpeace vessel who responded with offers of help. “No thanks”, the Greenpeace ship was told. More on the Japanese whaling industry incidents with anti-whaling forces.
I guess now it’s OK to be against nofollow. Well, thank goodness our opinions have been validated.
Seth Finkelstein has a Guardian article up on paid blogging and high rent versus low rent bloggers: There’s a class division, where membership is exclusive and expensive, while payment is common and cheap. But both are monetisation of attention. If we want there to be areas of human interaction which have some protection against commercial pressures, blogs […]