- Blogopticon | vanityfair.com: Chart professes to track popular blogs along two axes, news/opinion and scurrilous/earnest, but it is ridiculous and riddled with errors (BoingBoing started as a webzine? who knew!) I mean, Valleywag is more earnest than scurrilous? Huh?
- Jane Hamsher: Mayhill Fowler and the Sock Puppetry of Politico: While everyone is complaining that Fowler didn’t identify herself as a reporter to Clinton (and yeah, she should have, but he should have known he was on the record, too, right? He’s the pro?), the Politico editor argues that sockpuppetry (disguising yourself in blog comments) is no big deal. How frequently can the pros shoot themselves in the feet before there’s no foot left to shoot?
- Opera releases 9.5 edition of browser: been using Opera as my primary browser since 2000 or so. Firefox is great too — 3.0 due out soon! — but Opera does some remarkable things, and I still find it more responsive to the way I work (millions of open tabs, nearly all the time). Though with Firefox 3.0 I’ll have to consider, once more, whether to switch.
- Brainstorm: The Wikipedia Style – Chronicle.com: “Wikipedia is, indeed, a marvelous source for a quick date, fact, definition, event. But in style, most entries are deadening. Students assimilate the idiom every time they call it up.”
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