Papers are full of fallout from Bush's second State of the Union speech last night. Seemed to move us closer to war, but it's always good to get a broad sense of how everyone else sees it. It's times like this, I can't do without The Note from ABC News.
Honestly don't know how I ever managed without it. The Guardian have also done a pretty good job today of rounding up how the US press made of the speech.
This round-up technique is increasingly common and increasingly popular with readers; particularly where there's a precis and a link to the complete article. It's almost an instance where there's a merging of traditional journalism and blogging - linking off to other practictioners.
In fact, The Guardian - ever-prescient again - has been known on occasion to link to the best of topic-related blogs; but, as John Major and I were discussing the other day, once you introduce a filter into what content is offered, then a certain endorsement/and or tacit approval inevitably becomes implied.
Yet the offerings can only be recommended from the content available to the editor, since it's obviously impossible to review and select from every available blog.
Are we heading, therefore, for a similar scenario as we had with the mainstream press in the early days of web publishing; where an established (and supposedly 'trustworthy' name) from the offline world is an imprimatur for the quality of online content?
A pretty cool thing happened today when I got a list note from the Democracies Online list about the latest MeetUp online projects for political activity. In case you haven't come across it, MeetUp provides an online space to establish a virtual community around a single-issue topic.
I went to their index and the first topic on the list is: "Anarchy: next event - Monday 24 February @ 7.00pm".
Fiendishly well-organised, those anarchists.
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Honestly don't know how I ever managed without it. The Guardian have also done a pretty good job today of rounding up how the US press made of the speech.
This round-up technique is increasingly common and increasingly popular with readers; particularly where there's a precis and a link to the complete article. It's almost an instance where there's a merging of traditional journalism and blogging - linking off to other practictioners.
In fact, The Guardian - ever-prescient again - has been known on occasion to link to the best of topic-related blogs; but, as John Major and I were discussing the other day, once you introduce a filter into what content is offered, then a certain endorsement/and or tacit approval inevitably becomes implied.
Yet the offerings can only be recommended from the content available to the editor, since it's obviously impossible to review and select from every available blog.
Are we heading, therefore, for a similar scenario as we had with the mainstream press in the early days of web publishing; where an established (and supposedly 'trustworthy' name) from the offline world is an imprimatur for the quality of online content?
A pretty cool thing happened today when I got a list note from the Democracies Online list about the latest MeetUp online projects for political activity. In case you haven't come across it, MeetUp provides an online space to establish a virtual community around a single-issue topic.
I went to their index and the first topic on the list is: "Anarchy: next event - Monday 24 February @ 7.00pm".
Fiendishly well-organised, those anarchists.
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