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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Virginia Tech: A thoughtful piece from Wired
Posted in David Bullard, The Times, blog on May 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Bullard’s blog: Look closely …
Posted in David Bullard, Ray Hartley, The Times, blog on May 14, 2007 | 9 Comments »
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?
Bullard: The message is in the medium
Posted in Amatomu, David Bullard, The Times on May 8, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Is it just me, or is this Amatomu graph of traffic on the Bullard issue trying to tell us all something?
Poynter joins Bullard fracas
Posted in David Bullard, Poynter, Sunday Times, The Times, blog on May 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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, [...]
Add to dictionary: Cewebrity
Posted in Blog dictionary, David Bullard, The Times, blog, cyberspace on May 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »
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.
Lessons from the Bullard fracas
Posted in Amatomu, David Bullard, The Times, Zimbabwe, blog, newspaper, old media on May 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
The Bullard Blog
Posted in David Bullard, The Times, blog, cyberspace on May 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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?
Huh? Am I missing something?
Posted in David Bullard, Sunday Times, The Times, Vincent Maher, Zimbabwe, blog, new media, old media on May 7, 2007 | 42 Comments »
David Bullard’s Sunday Times column was not kind to bloggers. If you missed it, here is a line:
Many bloggers prefer to remain anonymous and with good reason. The content of their sites is so moronic that even their best friends would disown them if they knew they were the authors. As with most things in [...]
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