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---snip--- Monday, 3/17/03 I asked Fred when he this war would start. We have all given into its inevitability weeks ago. Be ready shortly after the President speaks, he told me. President Bush speaks tonight. There will be an ultimatum, we are told. Reporters here whisper in the corridors, afraid of losing a competitive edge. They fill their four wheel drives with petrol and pack them with bottled water. The days of feature stories are numbered. The only question: toward the fires or toward the glory. Or perhaps something worse. ---snip---

Cantina Ping!

Talk about a hard web site to pin down! It has taken the effort of our entire Wed Developer Network to finally locate Saddam Hussein's personal blog site! Here is Saddam's Playhouse

A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. This complaint follows a common pattern we've seen with MUDs, BBSes, and online communities like Echo and the WELL. A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be...

The Blogs of War Dr. Frank presents: bromides for the sensitive war-monger. Don't go back-- we'll be right away. email Archives Good Ones Airstrip OneAlley WriterEric AltermanAmish Tech SupportAndrew Jackson's W*blogAnother SayA&L DailyAsparagirlAthenaBalloon JuiceTed BarlowBennett's OmphalosThe Beauty of GrayBitter GirlTim BlairThe Blog that Dare not Speak its NameBoingBoingMoira BreenBucket o' RantsMark ByronChloe and PeteCinderallabloggerfellaClaremont InstituteC-logCold FuryCoyote at the Dog ShowCountry StoreDackDaddy WarblogsDawsonNick DentonDoc SearlsDr. WeevilDodgeblogCharles DodgsonA Dog's LifeDreaded Purple MasterdropscanThe Edge of England's SwordElectroliteGary FarberFimoculousFlitFly BottleFreedom and WhiskyGeek LifeJonah GoldbergGrasshoppaHappy Fun PunditHawk GirlJohn HawkinsJim HenleyHeretical IdeasHoy StoryDiana HsiehIberian NotesIlluminated DonkeyThe Insolvent Republic of BlogistanJoanne JacobsDavid JanesJeff JarvisChristopher JohnsonJunkyard BlogJoe...

Festering pig repels virtual onslaught, remains dead... by Greg Swann Mail from Billy Beck this morning, referring back to me ranking on the 'blogosphere' for it's hubris over the hounding of Trent Lott: I note Sullivan's cite of "a reader", this morning: "I have been a fan of blogs for a while now, but I have not seen a story happen around the edges of the major media like this one has. Strangely, this could be a watershed moment for the world of blogging. Not because they have done everything in the story, but because they sustained the momentum...

THE LEFTISTS ARE WHINING again. In the ‘80s, they sniveled, "Why is talk radio right-wing?" In the ‘90s, they wept, "Why do conservatives rule the Internet?" Now a new version of the same old complaint has arisen: "Why are all the blog sites conservative?" The answer to all three questions is the same. Talk radio, webzines, list servers, message boards and now blog sites have one thing in common. They are interactive. They let people talk back. Consequently, it is physically impossible for new media to do what old media did – that is, to shove unpopular ideas down peoples’...

Are Weblogs Changing Our Culture?     Kurt Andersen, the author of Turn of the Century, is now at work on his second novel. He's also the host of the public radio program Studio 360. Andrew Sullivan, a senior editor at the New Republic, writes daily for andrewsullivan.com. Slate has asked them to discuss the Weblog phenomenon as well as two new books about blogging, We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture and The Weblog Handbook.     Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri   From: Andrew Sullivan To: Kurt Andersen Subject: The Blogosphere Weighs InPosted: Wednesday, September 4,...

Web news site MSNBC.com will introduce a new Web logs section by the end of August, a move that will allow more editorial control over the opinionated ramblings of its former online discussion boards. Web logs, commonly called "blogs," allow people to post commentaries and other written musings for Web audiences. Blog authors oftentimes include links to other blogs and to articles relating to a particular topic. But for a mainstream Web site such as MSNBC.com, blogs offer a stepped-up level of editorial control over the often raucous ramblings from readers in online discussion boards. The site closed the popular...

We've read the Michael Leeden articles, and we can't stand it any more. So, bloggers are jumping in. There's a Blog Burst going on, starting with John's Open Letter to the Iranian People referenced above (and reproduced/modified on many blogs). As noted on Winds of Change, Iranian blogger "Derek Shan" has already helped start 1,200 Farsi-language blogs inside Iran. We're hoping that will help with translation, and also begin spreading the word in-country. If you have a web site, join the effort! I have.

The staff of CSE have launched a new feature: the D.C. Political Blog! It's off to a shaky start but it is worth watching.