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buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 20, 2008
In my ego searches, I just saw a splog that copied text of mine but ran it through ridiculous almost-synonym replacements. I’m assuming this is done to fool Google into thinking it is original content and perhaps to …
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 20, 2008
Relevant to the discussion of curmudgeonliness…. My daughter asked me for an old book she could destroy in her art class tomorrow. I was so tempted to give her Andrew Keen’s and see what she could do to it. So tempted.
Also tagged: curmudgeons
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 20, 2008
Yesterday, I was on a panel with Terry Heaton at the Public Radio News Directors’ annual confab in Washington. Topic: blogging. Terry and I were almost through with opening tap dances when a hotheaded curmudgeon in the …
Also tagged: journalism, newbiznews, curmudgeons
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 19, 2008
Yesterday, I said this on Twitter: I have felt the heat of hell. It is Washington, D.C. Now we know what God thinks of politicians. To which Forbes’ Jim Spanfeller responded on Facebook: Did you know that before air …
Also tagged: politics, government
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 19, 2008
It’s bad enough that the FCC is against free speech and the First Amendment, now it’s against capitalism. Get a load of commissioner Jonathan Adelstein’s ridiculous conditions on the long, long, long overdue Siriux-SM …
Also tagged: fcc, howard stern
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 19, 2008
The Guardian’s Free our Data campaign — everyone should have one — praises a crowdsourced effort to collect the data that, for some odd reason, London police won’t release. So folks are plotting crimes on maps …
Also tagged: data, government, transparency, wwgd
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 19, 2008
Watching morning TV in DC…. McCain is trying to smash Obama’s cake and smash it, too. He can’t complain that Obama hasn’t been to Iraq lately and then complain when he goes to Iraq. McCain’s ads are running here in …
Also tagged: politics
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 19, 2008
The most overused and unnecessary word on broadcast is “actually.” Start counting how many times it is used by TV people and you’ll hate me for driving you nuts. While I’m kvetching, why do TV people introduce a panel …
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 18, 2008
Read Krauthammer’s column when I hit Washington today and it’s brutal on Obama and “the audacity of vanity”: What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. . . . Who is …
buzzmachine.com » BuzzMachine - Jul 18, 2008
Jay Rosen has been worrying about curmudgeons. I’ve developed a different attitude. I try to just ignore them and if I can’t, I yell at them. The other day, I was on the phone with a few consultants who were getting …
Also tagged: newspapers, journalism, newbiznews