It's News to Me

Reading other blogs is almost always interesting, and sometimes doing so shows that some people may just have too much time on their hands.

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Anyone who works where I do will find this horror story painfully familiar.

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Here's an article about issues at the edge that demands your attention, if you have any interest at all in facilitating the future.

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Here's an interesting little applet. How to create a BlogThis! bookmarklet

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A note in Dan Gillmor's weblog relates how he introduced a class of Chinese journalism students to blogging.

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It's another of those days on which our database is down, thus providing me the opportunity to make a few notes here.

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I prefer writing in the morning. I can't say why, but for some reason when I wake up I can think of more to say then I can late at night. I suppose I'm what people refer to as a «morning person.» However, I have a relatively limited amount of time in the mornings while I'm drinking coffee and listening to the news on the television before I shower to go to work. So on some mornings I give priority to answering email that has arrived over night, and on others this blog gets my attention. Yesterday it was email that took priority and the blog got short shrift; today I am beginning with the blog.

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Here's an interesting article from Business Week Online about the significance of the Web.

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Not much time or news to report this morning. Dan Gillmor has this link to an article on the cost and nuisance of spam. I chose to follow a link to Spamcop, a service I had heard about before but never explored.

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Given the popularity of talk shows, both on radio and TV, where the host appears to be «interviewing» a guest but in reality uses the guest only as an excuse to espouse his own point of view to his audience, there isn't likely to be much interest in logical falacies but I was delighted to discover this site today. It's interesting to me to see how sound logic is done. I'd like very much to be more skilled in reasoning logically and sanely. In fact, I'd like it if all of us tried a more toned-down and reasoned approach to the resolution of differences. I'm afraid I'm a bit cynical though about whether this change in national debates will take place. Volume seems to be more valued than reason nowadays.

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