I’m pleased to report that first Tech Central Station column is now up over at TCS. I discuss the increasingly blurred border between blogs and traditional media:
These days, enjoyable sport can be had observing the ongoing battle royale between the staid defenders of traditional journalism on the one side, and the young punks known as bloggers on the other..
Look closer at the two sides, however, and you’ll find that there’s far more crossbreeding going on between these particular Capulets and Montagues than you might expect from all the hue and cry. The reality is that the line between “blogger” and “journalist” — and between “amateur” and “pro” — is already extremely fuzzy. And if you think things are blurred now: well, just wait a little while longer, because soon enough, things are going to start to really get interesting.
Day: November 29, 2004
TTLB on Pundit Review Radio: Audio Link
If you didn’t catch my Saturday appearance on Pundit Review Radio live, you can now listen via their audio link here.
TTLB EcoTeam Growing
The EcoTeam is going strong, and has now swelled to ten members. Please welcome the latest additions:
Cao’s Blog
Mark A. Kilmer      Rebel Rouser
Broken Masterpieces      Feste…a foolsblog
One Year Bible Blog      Pillage Idiot
And important note: If you want to join the EcoTeam, please be sure to donate using this link, and join the team here. Quite a few folks have been getting one or the other of those steps wrong…
For more on TTLB’s participation in the Friends of Iraq challenge, see here.
Ecosystem Issues
As many of you may have noticed, the Ecosystem is having some issues over the past few days. I’m working to resolve them, but for now, please have patience. And if you know anything about debugging strange issues with MySQL indicies, please read thread at the MySQL forums and let me know what you think…