Posted on October 22, 2004 5:38 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics
Steve Rubel’s a hell of a nice guy. Really. I was unduly rough in my post this morning, and he was incredibly gracious about it. Now I feel like a heel. After all, it’s Steve’s blog, and if he wants to endorse a candidate, that’s his business. I sure as hell wouldn’t want him—or anybody else—telling me what I should write about.
But as long as we’re talking…
Posted on October 22, 2004 11:17 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
My mother taught me that if I can’t say anything nice about somebody, don’t say anything. So when Steve Rubel endorsed John Kerry for president on Micropersuasion, I just kept my blog shut. Frank Barnako’s mom may have missed that lesson, though, because today the CBS Marketwatch managing editor did say something: “Seve Rubel endorsed a presidential candidate yesterday. His blog usually concentrates…
Posted on October 15, 2004 8:04 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
If you think the blogs have been a battleground in the contest for the White House, you need to see what’s going on over at the Wikipedia. According to a piece in yesterday’s Red Herring, advocates for both sides have been battling over the collaborative encyclopedia’s entries on incumbent President George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry, U.S. senator from Massachussetts.
It’s gotten so…
Posted on October 15, 2004 7:59 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
You don’t have to be a news outlet or a blogger to take advantage of RSS. The city of San Carlos, California, has introduced its first RSS feed, “What’s New on the Web.” According to the trade Government Technology, “This will enable interested Internet viewers with RSS enabled software to receive notification and copies of new information on the city’s Web site the same day it is posted,…
Posted on October 7, 2004 2:17 pm by Shel Holtz | Politics
During the televised U.S. vice-presidential debate, Vice President Dick Cheney directed viewers to a Web site where they could get the facts about the the vice-president’s role in the problems faced by Halliburton, the company where he was once CEO. The site he told viewers to visit: www.FactCheck.com Unfortunately, the site he meant was www.FactCheck.org, a non-partisan site run by the…
Posted on September 23, 2004 9:36 am by Shel Holtz | Politics
Bloggers may be patting themselves on the back for breaking the Rathergate story, but The Washington Post doesn’t see it that way. In an article in today’s edition titled Breaking the news, then becoming it, Tina Brown writes, “Fear of missing the bandwagon is behind all the hype about the brilliance of bloggers who blew the whistle. You’d think ‘Buckhead,’ who first spotted the flaws in the…
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