Posted by: minikristen on: October 7, 2008
I must have been a little grumpy in my last post about Scoble and Israel. By the time I finished their book Naked Conversations, I was applauding blogs and their potential to unite this very fragmented political world. OK, maybe that’s a little hyperbolic (and a big No-No according to the authors when it comes [...]
Posted by: minikristen on: September 30, 2008
I am not a fan of trends. If I were, what would happen if I were to miss the memo that metallic snakeskin and excessive cleavage was no longer in? Bad news, I tell ‘ya.
Some trends are worth a nod, and for the business moguls, it can mean millions of dollars in profit. This is good for corporations and various [...]
Posted by: minikristen on: September 23, 2008
Someone has been picking up my haggard criticisms of the Internet and technological gizmos that keep us connected to others even if we don’t want to be. Am I really wrong for being suspicious of the possibility that giving people more freedom will reap digital unicorns and rainbows (and maybe, just maybe, actual news I care about?), and [...]
Posted by: minikristen on: September 15, 2008
There appears to be blurred boundaries on what exactly is a blogger. Corey Doctorow et al. explain this very point in Essential Blogging (ch. 1) and conclude with various descriptors – “hunks of information,” “a soapbox” where editors and authors can post “whatever the hell we feel like,” etc.
Regardless of the difficulty to really dissect [...]
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