Blogger Jason Fry im Wall Street Journal über Weblogs:

"My bet: Within a couple of years blogging will be a term thrown around loosely -- and sometimes inaccurately -- to describe a style and rhythm of writing, as well as the tools to publish that writing. This is already happening: One of the chief problems with some chronicles of blogging's demise is their confusion about definitions, a confusion that's mirrored in efforts to measure blogs' popularity or to say anything that can apply to bloggers as a group."

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Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite!

[Google-Catchword: If blogs are hard to pin down, so are bloggers]

...Vogelgrippe

Zwischendurch mal was Aufmunterndes von Joseph Stiglitz:

"If America were not the economic powerhouse that it is, the day of reckoning would already have come. The only questions that the world faces today are how long it will persist, how it will be tamed and how much damage – to America and the world – will be done in the interim. How hard will the landing be?"

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A tale of two deficits

[Google-Catchword: How hard will the landing be?]

Six Apart's Mena Trott helped start the stampede by co-designing user-friendly software. But she thinks the blogging trend is only just beginning:

"Most people think of blogs as being primarily political or tech-focused. To most people, the important things they want to learn about have to do with people they know. So I think personal blogs are really the future, and with that comes a challenge for blogs to be more friendly and welcoming."

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The future of the blog

Zgraggen Schagg hat sie schon, rette sich wer kann...

Metro | Basel versucht sich im Bürgerjournalismus und lanciert Citizen | Basel, dies berichten Cyberwriter und Martin Hitz vom Medienspiegel. Da sind wir ja mal gespannt, was die "Citizen-Journis" über unser Städtchen zu berichten haben. Coole Idee eigentlich.

[Google-Catchword: Basel goes Journi]

Politikwissenschaftler Francis Fukuyama im Interview mit NPQ über den Irak, die USA und wieso das Ende der Geschichte (auf ein paar kleinen Umwegen) vielleicht doch noch kommt:

"Threre are no short cuts to the end of history."

[Google-Catchword: No short cuts to the end of history]

"Must-Have" des Tages:


(via infamy)

Was ist eigentlich bleeging? Gefunden im Blogossary.
Nettes "Dikschonär" für Blog- und andere Nerds. Ob das Ding allerdings damit mithalten kann, ist zu bezweifeln.

[Google-Catchword: I am bleeging! ]

So richtig loslegen will Kurt Aeschbacher allerdings erst ab Anfang März, wie er in einem seiner ersten Blogeinträge mitteilt.

(Aber was erzähl ich da, das wissen ja längst schon alle: Zum Beispiel die und die)