Archive for September 2004
The online BBC technology news always used to be a diet of half-researched excitable regurgitations of anti-virus vendor press releases and oh-look-how-wacky-the-geeks-are stories about Kevin Call-me-Cyborg Warwick — now two days after they hit Slashdot, they’re running stories about rumours of a Google browser and Sony supporting MP3.
What’s going on? Are they now employing someone who’s got beyond the page of cartoons in their copy of Windows 95 For Dummies???
Says the Lib Dems’ Simon Hughes:
“Like Radio 4′s classic Just a Minute, our challenge is to say – give us 60 seconds and we will give you a good reason to vote Lib Dem.”
Only if I can challenge for deviation, hesitation or repetition…
Here’s an interesting summary of the advantages and disadvantages of blogs from an organisational perspective, which starts by pointing out something that I think gets overlooked a great deal:
Isn’t it interesting that some of the most significant ‘revolutions’ of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing? How retro is that? First we had email, then webpages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs. All this reflects a trend whereby the world is becoming more formal in how it communicates. Instead of body language and endless conversations, communication has shifted towards endless words on a screen.
What makes the summary of pros and cons all the more unusual is that they’re written by someone who doesn’t maintain a blog himself:
There’s money in words; real value, real worth. I’m not a blogger but I do have this newsletter and I can tell you that these 500 or so words that I publish every week have seen a major return on investment for me……This is an age where you will build your professional reputation word by word.
Certainly an opinion that we’d strongly agree with.
