Comments on: A month and a half of thinking about spies, blogs, and clones

By: rootdown

rootdown — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:45:48 +0000

I don’t think that blogs are going to lose their edge as long as everyone and their grandmothers are allowed to publish them. Maybe individual blogs will grow up and sell out when they reach a certain size or have a broad enough reader base that they’ll start to become worried about offending people, but there’ll always be more people showing up who are pissed off and ready to blog about it.

And I’m glad you’re blogging about it, by the way.

By: naomi dagen bloom

naomi dagen bloom — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:35:33 +0000

in your Alternet column, you wrote “…places like the New York Times and the Washington Post have blogs that are often more newsy than the papers themselves…the upstarts are having to follow old-school rules.”

my reaction to that is there are blogs and there are blogs. yesterday i posted about sarah boxer book and narrowness of her view. mainstream media have been working outside their alleged “rules” for a very long time, now one of them proposes to assess what is “good” in blogs.

alternet, huff post, etcetera might throw light on the situation by defining how they see themselves: how does each monitor itself. is fire dog lake one of them or in another category?

thanks for asking the questions!

yours, naomi, an elderblogger

By: Chris Vail

Chris Vail — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:48:51 +0000

The undersea cable sin the Mediterranean may have been severed by submarine, and if Dubai was one of the victims, then perhaps it is not a coincidence that:

1) The LA Times has recently run a favorable article on Dubai as high tech metropolis;

2) Readers responding to that LA Times article said Jewish people with Israeli stamps on their passports are not welcome in Dubai;

3) Other readers then wrote in to say Jewish travelers were welcome in Dubai (but there was no mention of Israeli stamps in their passports).