It is odd for Dave Winer to continue to insist that webloggers have an obligation to make sure they are factually correct, when he regularly points to all sorts of nonsense. For example, he continues his passive-aggressive approach toward Google by linking to this article in which Jeremy Zawodny complains about aspects of Google’s page…
May, 2003
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Joanne Jacobs finds a pretty major gaffe in a New York Times story. The story is about a Florida law that requires third graders to meet certain assessment outcomes or be forced to retake the third grade. Times writer Michael Winerip claims that, Florida has set a national precedent, giving the adults who know these…
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I guess I shouldn’t be shocked by this, but reading this paragraph from Scripting.Com did leave my jaw hanging wide open. People want to know why I like the new search so much. I can now easily see what I said about almost anything over time. Sometimes it makes me wince. Most of the time…
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So last weekend I dragged my wife to the Motor City Comic Con in Novi so I could get my geek on. It helped that my father-in-law was able to get us a free pass in (admittance and parking alone would have been $41 — yikes!): For the record, I did accomplish my main goal,…
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Is it just me, or are the screenshots of TypePad’s admin system works of art. This screenshot in particular really shows off an elegant interface for managing often complex settings.
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I’m a pop culture junkie, so in America that means lots of television. The real problem with television these days is the same problem with pretty much everything else — there’s just so much good television out there, that it’s difficult to decide which shows not to watch. My favorite television phenomenon is the season…
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I’m still amazed some days at just how much can be accomplished in Conversant. The basic tools are provided, and you can mix and match them to do some awesome things. For example, check out my demo of a system I’ve been working on to make it easier to navigate and reference certain kinds of…
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This morning I was reading yet another pointless article by John Dvorak, this time about the horrors of realistic videogame violence. As computer and videogame graphics get more realistic, Dvorak wonders, My concern is for the mental health of the game players after years of being subjected to visual images that are just plain disturbing.…
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So Dave Winer offers up a demo of what he’s looking to do by using the Google API to search through the data at Scripting.Com. But, again, why rely on a third party to accomplish this? Want to see every time I’ve mentioned Dave Winer on this weblog? Or how about every time I’ve mentioned…
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CNN reporter John Zarella seems to have out-and-out faked a demonstration of an automatic weapon as well as made a gross error/lie about the “assault” gun ban. And yet, no heads are rolling at CNN. Why? First, Zarella made an error that gun control advocates encourage but that anyone doing reporting on the “assault” weapons…