Daily Pundit redesign

Posted by Richard Bennett

– The Daily Pundit, Bill Quick, has converted his blog to Movable Type and undergone a redesign in the process; temporarily reachable at http://64.247.33.2/~icebergw/ until DNS catches up.While the new design is more fetching to the eye as an aesthetic object, it’s a step backward in terms of accessibility. There’s a large banner on top [...]

Get educated

Posted by Richard Bennett

– Berkeley now offers a course on Weblogs:
Weblogs are a new form of online publishing that have rapidly become a popular way of getting news and information on particular topics. Some are run by journalists, while others operate in competition with journalists. In this class students will create a Weblog to explore the subject of [...]

Related links

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– According to Alexa, , people who read my blog also read:
Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing www.sgtstryker.com/
Dailypundit www.dailypundit.com/
Matt Welch mattwelch.com/warblog.html
Vodkapundit – Chill Before Serving www.vodkapundit.com/
Lgf: Would You Like Fries With That? www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Live From The Wtc www.janegalt.net/
Protein Wisdom www.creatical.com/weblog
On The Third Hand…by A Bellicose Woman site-essential.com/
India : Culture, Travel, Cuisine, [...]

RoboPundit’s kin

Posted by Richard Bennett

– Personal RSS Aggregators
Has RSS run out of steam? Quite the opposite. There’s more action than ever, but it’s shifted into a decentralized mode. That’s just what the RSS network needed to do in order to truly operate at Internet scale.
RoboPundit uses Peerkat, described in this article.
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Decentralizing the Web

Posted by Richard Bennett

– Washtech.com says:
But the company says the number of sites people typically visit in a month jumped 25 percent last year. The average Internet user went to 71 sites from home in February, vs. 57 a year earlier.
This has to be a healthy trend, and blogs might be playing a part in it.
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DNA Bill clears the Assembly

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– Dan Walters, the dean of Capitol reporters in Sacramento, reports that Assemblyman Wright’s DNA bill has cleared the Assembly (Men gain a rare victory in political gender war as DNA bill passes)
The election of more women to the Legislature — itself largely a product of term limits — and the major influence that women’s [...]

Traffic

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– 9014 hits in one day’s a lot, right? I’m gonna have to look at the logs and see what’s going on.
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Technology meets punditry

Posted by Richard Bennett

– John Hiler’s piece on the interactions between blogs and traditional journalism (Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem – How Weblogs and Journalists work together to Report, Filter and Break the News) is the best thing I’ve seen so far on this subject. I was particularly struck by his account of the speed at which the [...]

Red Herring

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– Biddle tells me he writes for Fortune magazine. I’d like to suggest that Red Herring would be a good market for his style of reasoning, given this definition:

A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to [...]

This guy’s an asshole

Posted by Richard Bennett

– Don’t visit The Truth Laid Bear; the dude is suffering from Link Withdrawl ’cause he didn’t know the first one’s free. Instead, go see this wacko, or The Fat Guy, who’s Not-A-Pundit: just a guy writing about food, music, books, and tractors. They make ‘em weird down in Texas, which is why I had [...]