[hiredhand]

Pajamahadeen?! HA! HA! HA! That's great! :-)

I said it before, and I'll say it again....CBS (and others) truly do NOT understand the culture of the net. They might use the technology, but they aren't "in" the culture.

:-)

[HawaiianGecko]

Tony Blakely of the Washington Times and Townhall has the pajama people figured out. This is one of the most intelligent and important articles I have read this year.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/tb20040915.shtml
 

[HawaiianGecko]

Bloggers knew!
Kathleen Parker  ----> Has it figured out too!

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20040915.shtml

The implication that bloggers are slacker dust bunnies has delighted bloggers, the best of whom are lawyers, professors, scientists, renegade journalists and techies of various sorts, such as the brothers Johnson (Charles and Michael) at "Little Green Footballs," whose years of experience in state-of-the-art graphics and Web design at the "pixel level" enabled them to quickly duplicate the CBS memos and demonstrate their likely origin on a very modern computer.

All of which brings me to my premise that the blogosphere isn't just a challenge to journalism in its currently stagnant state, but a potential boon to problem-solving of a higher order. The beauty of the blogosphere is that it is self-igniting, self-propelling and self-selecting, a sort of intellectual ecosystem wherein the best specimens from various disciplines descend from the ethers, converge on an issue and apply their unique talents.

Though virtually newborn, the blogosphere has blossomed exponentially in a matter of Earth-time seconds, from a few random voices to a mighty and diverse chorus of sometimes spectacular talent. Bloggers are the Big Bang of the Information Age.

It seems, therefore, not unreasonable to hope that as this new galaxy expands - with the best and brightest emerging as natural evolution commands - bloggers might apply their immense energy and collective intellect to solving an array of human problems.