August 02, 2003
RIAA Rocks Around the Clock
Washington Post: RIAA Rocks Around the Clock.
I'm not sure if this is a new practice, or one that reporter Cynthia Webb is employing for this wide-ranging roundup, but I've never seen the Washington Post include so many links to other news outlets smack in the middle of its story.
mary hodder said:
JD, seems like the linking and story roundup is very much in blogstyle; all the links are ones I've linked to in the past few days or others in the blogosphere have talked about in much the same style with much the same kinds of comments and while I don't take any credit for any influence, it does seem like more and more traditional reporters are reading blogs and implementing the style and linking practices.
mary
Mike said:
Cindy Webb writes "Filter" for the Washington Post, which has been like that for a long time, now. It's basically a blog in the style of GMSV. It's often quite good and she does a good job of rounding up related stories from other sites. I'm not sure how long it's been around like that, but for at least a year, I'd say.
Dean Campaign to Run TV Ads -- in Texas
Oliver Willis points to this news release from USNews.com:
Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean will begin running a combative anti-Bush television commercial Monday--in Texas only.In the ad, which Dean taped last Wednesday in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he wears a blue, open-necked work shirt, faces the camera, and says, "I want to change George Bush's reckless foreign policy, stand up for affordable healthcare, and create new jobs... Has anybody really stood up against George Bush and his policies? Don't you think it's time somebody did?"
The media buy cost between $100,000 and $200,000, U.S. News has learned. It will run in Austin, 87 miles away from where Bush is vacationing in Crawford. ...
Ballsy move. Dean has no chance to win Texas, but taking it to Bush's home turf ought to generate some media attention nationwide.
Hyrdra allows simultaneous editing
This week in the Seattle Times, Glenn F. writes about Hydra, a tool for allowing several editors to simultaneously work on a document at once. Says Glenn: "While it sounds like chaos, it actually shows principles of an emergent system with self-generating rules."
