Interesting piece on blogging in the New York Review of Books, entitled “Blogging, Now and Then“:
Whether exchanged orally in a café, scribbled on a scrap of paper, or combined as paragraphs in a newssheet, anecdotes operated as the primary unit in a system of communication. Many of them found their way […]
more→Saw the call for this conference on LinguistList: the 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, to be held in Washington DC in late May 2010. Here’s a short description:
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together […]
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President Obama made some surprising comments today about the blogosphere during an interview with the editors of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade:
“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up […]
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Here’s a “niche blog” that contains a list of books “so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information.” It’s a laugh riot…though with a sobering message. Check it out!
My favorite:
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Absolutely hilarious, and fast gaining popularity: “the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.” My favorite sign:
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