The Blog Terror

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“It seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industry survive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising--classifieds--is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports.”

-- Michael Kinsley for Time

Don't you have to hate the snobbery of the mainstream media?

I certainly don't see a competition between journalists and bloggers. If it is not exactly a marriage, it is a relationship that is at least good for sleazy recreational sex in cheap hotel rooms that have mirrors on the walls. And there has to be life and money in that somewhere.

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The Blog Terror

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“It seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industry survive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising--classifieds--is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports.”

-- Michael Kinsley for Time

Don't you have to hate the snobbery of the mainstream media?

I certainly don't see a competition between journalists and bloggers. If it is not exactly a marriage, it is a relationship that is at least good for sleazy recreational sex in cheap hotel rooms that have mirrors on the walls. And there has to be life and money in that somewhere.

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The Jon Swift Blog

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This bill takes away the power of activist judges to define torture and gives that power to President Bush, who certainly "knows it when he sees it." Unlike Senator McCain, President Bush has actually had long experience with making decisions about what does and does not constitute torture. When Bush was president of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale, his frat was disciplined for hazing new pledges by branding them. In his first public statement on these issues, the future President Bush pointed out that these weren't "physically and mentally degrading acts," as the disciplinary board claimed but were "insignificant," comparing them to cigarette burns. In addition to this experience with grappling with these questions, I think we can all be assured that his Christian background and the very clear ethical position of the Christian right on torture will enable him to apply traditional torture values in a way that shows why we are a moral beacon for the rest of the world.

-- Jon Swift Blog

A nice, darkly amusing tidbit about our president. I mainly want to introduce 'Jon Swift,' who is an interesting and witty blogger. In this particular post of his, I also liked the idea that maybe it should not be surprising that Christians are favoring the use of torture, since what is Hell but God's own ultimate torture chamber, heh.

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The Jon Swift Blog

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This bill takes away the power of activist judges to define torture and gives that power to President Bush, who certainly "knows it when he sees it." Unlike Senator McCain, President Bush has actually had long experience with making decisions about what does and does not constitute torture. When Bush was president of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale, his frat was disciplined for hazing new pledges by branding them. In his first public statement on these issues, the future President Bush pointed out that these weren't "physically and mentally degrading acts," as the disciplinary board claimed but were "insignificant," comparing them to cigarette burns. In addition to this experience with grappling with these questions, I think we can all be assured that his Christian background and the very clear ethical position of the Christian right on torture will enable him to apply traditional torture values in a way that shows why we are a moral beacon for the rest of the world.

-- Jon Swift Blog

A nice, darkly amusing tidbit about our president. I mainly want to introduce 'Jon Swift,' who is an interesting and witty blogger. In this particular post of his, I also liked the idea that maybe it should not be surprising that Christians are favoring the use of torture, since what is Hell but God's own ultimate torture chamber, heh.

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A Hundred Entries to a Tag

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So, there's a limit on LJ's tagging function. Apparently, only a hundred entries to a tag. Well, that kinda sucks. I guess you need to use rather specific tags, as opposed to catch-all categories such as 'politics' or 'amusement.'

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Oops, I tagged this entry with the term 'lj.' I should change that. I don't suppose I'll have occasion to use 'lj tags' more than a hundred times.

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I suppose one could use years on the tags, such as 'war on terror06.'

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A Hundred Entries to a Tag

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So, there's a limit on LJ's tagging function. Apparently, only a hundred entries to a tag. Well, that kinda sucks. I guess you need to use rather specific tags, as opposed to catch-all categories such as 'politics' or 'amusement.'

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Oops, I tagged this entry with the term 'lj.' I should change that. I don't suppose I'll have occasion to use 'lj tags' more than a hundred times.

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I suppose one could use years on the tags, such as 'war on terror06.'

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