Scott Rosenberg's Links & CommentNews of Salon, Salon blogs, and the worldA reminder- July 27, 2006 I've stopped blogging here. The blogging, it is now happening at Wordyard. The new feed, for those who like RSS, is here. If you haven't followed me over there, in the past few days you've missed my posts on outliners, Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net, and more....http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/26.html#a1071 The moving van has left- July 21, 2006 Reminder... this isn't where I'm blogging any more. So, for instance, if you want to read what I have to say about the new Pew blogging study, you'll have to go over here, to Wordyard. The new RSS feed is right here.http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/21.html#a1070 One blog ends, another begins- July 20, 2006 This blog is moving. Almost exactly four years ago, on July 22, 2002, I started my first blog. Blogging felt natural to me since I'd been writing for the Web since 1994 and self-publishing since 1974 (originally via mimeograph). My blog was part of a larger blogging program I'd put together at Salon, in partnership with Userland. It was the tech-downturn doldrums -- an era when every time we at Salon opened the papers or fired up our browsers we knew that someone, somewhere, would be...http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/20.html#a1069 Stem cells: Bush's shameful first veto- July 19, 2006 President Bush appears poised for the first veto of his presidency. The cause that has finally pushed him to reject Congressional legislation An attempt to expand funding for stem cell research that Bush hobbled back in 2001. For millions of Americans, the potential fruits of stem cell research -- in the form of cures to dangerous diseases -- are a serious matter with grave personal import. For President Bush, the issue has always served as a political football. On the one hand, Bush argues..http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/19.html#a1068 Sonic middle age: Everybody's happy nowadays- July 14, 2006 I'm knocked out, stunned, by the new Sonic Youth album, Rather Ripped. I'm not one of the band's cultists. Over the years, from the mid-'80s on, I'd hear, from friends who were, that I was missing out: They'd tell me that whatever their latest album was -- "Daydream Nation"! "Goo"! -- it was the album that would persuade me to join their ranks. I'd listen, feel respect for the legendary New York art-noise band's work, but never feel like coming back for more. So I've been out of the Sonic...http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/13.html#a1067 Mashup Camp 2- July 13, 2006 Yesterday I spent the day at Mashup Camp 2. I missed the first one last winter, but what I read intrigued me enough to make a point of showing up when it came around again. The two relevant things here, one having to do with mashups, the other with that word "camp," which is really a proxy for the whole "unconference" movement of which this event is a high-profile example in the tech world. (Mashup Camp organizer David Berlind wrote about the first event's experience with the format back in...http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/13.html#a1066 (Untitled)- July 12, 2006 Today I'm at Mashup Camp 2. Posting to follow as wireless allows.http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/12.html#a1065 Fallows, PIMs and Chandler- July 12, 2006 James Fallows has been writing thoughtfully about computer software for longer than most of us have been using it. Years ago he wrote a definitive paean (long online here but apparently no longer) to Lotus Agenda, Mitch Kapor's legendary personal information manager. (I say "a" rather than "the" because this program evoked such loyalty from smart writers it actually ended up with two definitive paeans; the other was by Jimmy Guterman.) In the new issue of the Atlantic, Fallows writes about two.http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2006/07/11.html#a1064 |