Beltway Blogroll: A Luxurious Junket For Bloggers. Bloggers no doubt will justify the trip by highlighting the transparency of the junket. For one year, they must link to the Bloggers in Amsterdam disclosure statement, which itself notes the transparency “mantra.” But curiously, the bloggers just started talking about the trip yesterday — and not all […]
Posts from ‘January, 2006’
Oprah's Wise Reconsideration
NY Times: Oprah Calls Defense of Author ‘a Mistake’. In an extraordinary reversal of her strident and angry defense of the author whose book she catapulted to the top of the best-seller list, Oprah Winfrey said today she believed that the author James Frey “betrayed millions of people” by making up elements of his life […]
Google's Sad Collaboration with Chinese Government
As usual, my new colleague Rebecca MacKinnon serves up the best round-up and commentary on Google’s cave-in to China’s government. Key quote: At the end of the day, this compromise puts Google a little lower on the evil scale than many other internet companies in China. But is this compromise something Google should be proud […]
Iranian Citizen Journalist Heading to Israel
Hoder says he’s “going to Israel as a citizen journalist and a peace activist. A lot of us will be watching what happens next.
Washington Post Fixing Comments, not Killing Them
The Washington Post online executive editor, Jim Brady, just let me know what’s what regarding the comments situation. He says the site wasn’t requiring a valid e-mail address from commenters: because we were working through Movable Type, and we had not synched up our registration system with it. But we are hoping to add comments […]
Skype Claims Five Million Simultaneous Users
This is fairly amazing, when you think about it…
Washington Post Still Not Getting It
UPDATED In her new column, “The Firestorm Over My Column,” the Washington Post’s Ombudsman, Deborah Howell says, “So is it the relative anonymity of the Internet that emboldens e-mailers to conduct a public stoning? Is this the increasing political polarization of our country? I don’t know.” Both are true, but the problem with the Post’s […]
Digital Lifestyle Day in Munich
Lots of folks are posting about this event and using the Technorati Tags to help us all keep track of it. My part of the program is over, and I’m now in a listening mode.
On the Road
I’m heading to Munich later today for Hubert Burda Media’s “Digital Lifestyle Day” gathering on Monday and Tuesday. Limited postings from me, therefore, for the next day or so…
Comments are Worth the Trouble
PressThink: Transparency at the Post. When Jim Brady decides to shut down the comments at post.blog to prevent even bigger problems we’re going backwards in our ability to have a conversation with the Washington Post. That isn’t good. If the press decides to close itself off because the costs of participating in the new openness […]