End of An Era in Politics — And in the Media

by | Nov 8, 2006 | journalism

This election marks the shift of the balance of power – and not just from Republican to Democrat.  No, the bigger shift was marked by this kudo from Howard Dean: The netroots community can be very proud.  They’re playing a bigger role. Without the...

The Expanding Blogosphere

by | Nov 6, 2006 | journalism

Technorati does some chest-beating about its space here: An excerpt: As of October 2006, about 100,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there was a slight decrease quarter-over-quarter in the number of new blogs created each day. As...

Dave Mitchell’s blog – a trackback example

by | Nov 6, 2006 | journalism

This is an example of a web function known as a "Trackback;" which I am testing out to see if it works on an intra-blog basis.  Basically, as part of the growing Hard News Inc. multimedia empire (hah!), legenday editor David Mitchell is now blogging at...

Sheik al-Hilali, Rape and the Culture of Fear

by | Nov 3, 2006 | Uncategorized

By now the comments of the Australian Muslim cleric Sheik Tay Din al-Hilali have spread far and wide over the news/outrage cloud.  In among the outrage and the condemnations have come a lot of comments saying that what the sheik is espousing is really not all...