Friday, January 24, 2003 
Yesterday, JD Lasica published an introduction to news aggregators ("News That Comes to You") at the Online Journalism Review. He discusses the article in his New Media Musings blog, and—as an experiment in transparent journalism—has posted the full responses of all his interviewees on two story pages also at his blog.
(I am one of the interviewees, though none of my comments made it into the article.)
categories: metablog
11:13:32 AM 
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And then we were 9...
Brava to the Julie/Julia Project foodie blog, which passed me yesterday in the rankings, moving me to number 8. Sometime today, the
Devil's Excrement (damn! I forgot to post the 1/23 Venezuela blog-day badge in time!) will pass me as well, leaving me in 9th place. There I will probably rest for a while, waiting for the Raven to surpass me, as he should have done already by now, by all rights. More worthies wait in the wings of the second decade of all-time listings (including the phenomenal Real Live Preacher, old favorite Actual Size, and up-and-coming SRO, among others).
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The Daily Breeze quotes veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas (whose recently exchange with Ari Fleischer about unelected leaders made the rounds of the blogosphere) on the quality of the current presiding executive:
She seemed to have sympathy and affection for everyone but George W. Bush, a man who she said is rising on a wave of 9-11 fear—fear of looking unpatriotic, fear of asking questions, just fear. "We have," she said, "lost our way." ... As she signed my program, I joked, "You sound worried."
"This is the worst president ever," she said. "He is the worst president in all of American history."
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10:17:58 AM say what []
Ron Silliman writes on the curious interaction between the blogosphere and the poetry world.
categories: metablog
10:15:34 AM say what []
Paul Ford publishes a list of exhortations to himself about writing for the web (at his incredible Ftrain site):
This list takes the form of a set of personal, first-person statements ("I do this," "I do that") rather than a set of injunctions ("Do this!", "Do that!") because these are my guidelines, a set of principles which I am trying—slowly, in some cases—to internalize, not a manifesto.He includes 20 guidelines, culminating with "The web is my medium of choice, not a medium of last resort." Bravo.
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