http://www.blogpi.net Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:48:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last evening, about two miles of the office building where I work, a crazy guy named John Patrick Bedell opened fire at the Pentagon Metro station, wounding two officers before being killed by return fire. While police are still sorting through his motives, bloggers are combing through the trail of ... http://www.blogpi.net/john-patrick-bedell-pentagon-shooter-wikipedian A unifying theme of The Wikipedian in the first year of its existence -- and will again be now that its unscheduled hiatus comes to an end today -- has been the lag between the public's recognition of Wikipedia as an important if imperfect information resource and the public's understanding ... http://www.blogpi.net/ten-thousand-editors-in-real-lancashire Tomorrow Apple Inc. announces their Mac Tablet Netbook Thingy -- well, that or Steve Jobs sends Phil Schiller on stage to announce: "Made you look!" -- and today the New York Times is reporting on Jobs' vision for the tablet's probable content partnerships with traditional media companies: For now, at least, ... http://www.blogpi.net/take-one-tablet-and-call-me-on-background The New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend features a long article about the fallout between Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs fame and the rest of the anti-jihadist rightosphere. If nothing else it provides a solid overview for anyone who has noticed LGF's change in focus over the past ... http://www.blogpi.net/links-context-and-little-green-footballs Way back in August 2007, I wrote about a blog called Mike Huckabee President 2008. As one might expect, the purpose of this particular was to support Huckabee's presidential campaign. Nothing too spectacular about that, except that Mike Huckabee President 2008, launched February 15, 2005, was almost certainly the first ... http://www.blogpi.net/ing-huckabee-now-more-than-ever CNN.com's Political Ticker reports that the #1 write-in candidate in last month's New York City mayoral election was none other than Charles Montgomery Burns, the fictional, 81-year-old (or 100 or 104) vindictive, ambitious, cruel billionaire owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in that anchor of late-20th century American / ... http://www.blogpi.net/vote-burns I can't say that I spend much time thinking about Conservapedia, the creationist wiki created as a counterpoint to Wikipedia, but today I happened to find myself on the page titled "Examples of Bias in Wikipedia". As you might expect, it's a fun one. The one-line introduction to the page ... http://www.blogpi.net/examples-of-bias-in-conservapedias-examples-of-bias-in-wikipedia Considering that I work in online marketing, I should be a lot better at marketing myself online. Instead, here is a two-week-old video from the 7 o'clock news of CBS's Washington, D.C. affiliate interviewing one William Beutler for a segment about anonymity online, as inspired by the recent lawsuit which ... http://www.blogpi.net/interview-with-the-internet-expert To say that many people do not like TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is some understatement. Anyone who can get the normally laid-back Leo Laporte to start cursing and shut down a broadcast has some kind of unique skills of irritation. (See also: DouchebagName.com) And it's clear he relishes this distinction, ... http://www.blogpi.net/techcrunch-and-the-new-new-journalism On Saturday the 25th I received a notification in my inbox that a new Twitter account had started following mine, something that happens at least a half-dozen times daily. As Twitter has understandably never been able to completely rid itself of its spam problem, many of these are commercially-motivated, and ... http://www.blogpi.net/congressional-quarterlys-shady-twitter-account