Virginia Tech: A thoughtful piece from Wired

Read this great piece from Wired about over-reaction to the Virginia Tech killings. In light of the recent Blog Day Afternoon over Bullard, this sentence did catch my eye:
A high school student was suspended for customizing a first-person shooter game with a map of his school.
Just the kind of geek that … ?

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Bullard’s blog: Look closely …

Amidst all the brouhahahahahaha over David Bullard - which continues with the launch of his Bullog blog, a little detail has gone unnoticed … Its in the URL, which reads: http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/bullard/?p=2 . Its the little part that says “thetimes” … could this be the start of something great?

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Add to dictionary: Blogissar

A person who acts as the political commissar of the blogisphere and takes it upon themselves to define and enforce the blogma* and to sift out the ”true” blogs and bloggers from the false prophets.
* See earlier entry

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Huge take off in Telegraph blogging

Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has started offering blogging. On the first day, 500 bloggers took up the offer … Take a look at the registration gateway page and the terms and conditions, which include:
5.1.5. you warrant that the material you submit is not: obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive, likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless [...]

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A newspaper by bloggers

The old/new media thing has taken a new twist in Boston where a newspaper has started publishing blog posts, reports the New York Times. Quote:
Last week, editors began culling posts and running excerpts next to articles from reporters and newswires. The blog items, which appear in gray boxes, are still relatively few, but Mr. Wilpers [...]

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Add to dictionary: Flog

A fake blog. As in, they all thought they were reading the faith healer’s darkest secrets, but it turned out the whole thing was being written by a team from big pharma.

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Poynter joins Bullard fracas

Poynter online, which claims to be cultivating a “better journalist” has published a piece by Amy Gahran on the Bullard issue in which she remarks:
Looking over Bullard’s grossly misinformed generalizations and borderline hate speech, I’ve got to wonder: Exactly which “newsprint rules” applied at the Sunday Times in deciding whether to run this particular column?
Great, [...]

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Add to dictionary: Cewebrity

A person who achieves reknown for a sensational act in cyberspace. As in: Suddenly it dawned on the angry bloggers that they had turned David Bullard into a Cewebrity.

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Lessons from the Bullard fracas

Something remarkable happened yesterday. The power of the synergy between print and web publishing was revealed as bloggers climbed into (or defended with varying degrees of conviction) David Bullard’s somewhat over-the-top column on blogging in the Sunday Times. (See the Amatomu stats here)
What yesterday showed was that the two mediums are greater than the sum of their parts, the [...]

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The Bullard Blog

Now see what you’ve done. David Bullard has started a blog … or will it be one of those one-post wonders that litter cyberspace?

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