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DaveNet: On Beauty in Women.  Happiness is a new RSS application from Wired News. Jake has the second half of Trackback working for Radio, or so he thinks. Please help him test it by pinging this post. Humor: FOAF Splinters Into 10 Competing Efforts. Dan Gillmor: Voting machines need paper trails. Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. NY Times: "The service seeks to capitalize on the popularity of iTunes, the music service that Apple Computer introduced in April." Greetings from Boston, where there's a summer thunderstorm going on as I write this. Writing without editors  Excellent Jeff Jarvis piece about editors. I got the pointer from Scoble, who astutely points out that even in the weblog world we have editors, they just don't pay us as well as the ones in the print world.  At the end of the Jarvis piece he says: "And if I'm wrong, you'll tell me. For you are my editor." I used to say things like that, but it's naive, don't give up your power Jeff, they'll grind you to a pulp and leave you for dead. No editors, and that's an absolute, as far as I'm concerned. Look at the comments on the Andrew Grumet post I pointed to last night, if Jarvis is right these are Andrew's editors. One says UserLand was a BigCo, the only one in RSS space. Another poster says that the world is more complicated than Dave says it is, but doesn't explain how. We often wax poetic about how much better it will be when we wrest control from the ink-stained dinosaurs, but when we replace them with people whose main qualification is that they have a laptop and net connection, have we actually accomplished anything? |
 
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