Listics

The masthead at Misbehaving lists ten collaborators.  I’ve met three, interviewed two of those, enjoyed the meetings and the interviews… oddly the one who lives closest is the one I’ve spent the least time with face-to-face.

Of the remaining seven there are three I’d like to meet, three for whom I feel no particular affinity, and one jerk.

David Weinberger ran into some National Institute of Standards (the time machine people) kerfluffle on his Wintel platform.   Rick Klau shares his amusement.  Then some guy (oh… it was me) in the comment thread suggests David should get a Mac.  I meant that he should get a Big Mac!  Can’t visit Denmark without sampling the local cuisine.  (I wonder if they have cheese danish.)

Here’s a link to a work that is perhaps well thought out, if not thought well.

Alex got his post up.  I’m guessing it was completed as a procrastinative strategy in avoidance of preparation for dissertation defense.  I could be wrong.

Well of course I’m pissed!  Mike Sanders is bragging about making the C list and I’m invisible. Everybody knows that Mike is on the B list anyway, so who are these Blogebrity people and why are they devaluing Mike and ignoring me?

But enough about my feelings of rejection, let’s take a look at who else didn’t make it.  Shelley.  Everybody’s A-list bird is totally not there.  Denise.  The goddess of blawging was somehow missed.  Seminal (can I say seminal on a family blog?) blog-sister Jeneane is like totally not there also.

And duh — where is Halley I might ask?

Seth Finkelstein, inhabitant of the A list of all higher dimensions doesn’t show up, but Hugh Hewitt does?

Well, of course Robert Scoble is an A lister on Blogebrity and everywhere else for that matter, but where is Jonathon Delacour in the Blogebrity universe?

Madison bloggeuse Ann Althouse is somehow A-listed while the superior work of Chan Stroman is ignored?  Pfeh is how you spell it and here’s how you yell it..

RASPBERRIES!!!!!!!!!

p.s.  You know these people are arriviste poseurs because they got Manolo’s current link right.  Everybody knows that to view Manolo’s Shoe Blog you gotta go here and link through to the new site.

Trust But Verify —

Rex Hammock says that bloggers should maintain that sense of transparency that blogs engender.  Write from who we are.  Ed Kohn, an editor at the St. Louis Post Dispatch suggests that journalism is the presentation of news in an organized fashion… can be an opinion column (with facts).

Terry Heaton (Donata) cites Chris Lash, "The Lost Art of Political Argument."   "… the struggle between argument and the myth of objectivity."

Jeff Brown - journalism is the presentation of facts in an organized fashion supported by facts and independent verification and balanced through editorial review.

Dave Winer - discovered that as
a journalist one can’t be friends with people he is writing about.  But
there’s some joking back and forth about whether or not we can have any
friends at all if that is strictly the case.

John Jay Hooker - blogosphere is the most important thing that’s happened in our country for a long time.  Journalism is the backbone of democracy.  Without freedom we can’t know journalism.  Opportunitry to protect ourselves against the government.  Hooker has been chairman of the board of UPI, general counsel for the Daily Tennesseean and has a lot of other relevant experience.  but he do go on…  we are journalists to the extent we want be journalists.  (Hooker’s pal, Warren Beatty has just started blogging too).

I’m in Nashville.  I think they make Gibson guitars here or something.  Coming in from the airport I was pleased by the Nashville Skyline. 

First I went to the downtown Marriot Courtyard.  Then I went to the Vanderbilt Marriot.  Then I went to the right place.  At least this is the right place for me, since it’s the one I booked into.  It has free wireless, so it must be the right place.  Nashville seems ever so friendly and the 17 dollar a day car rental is certainly priced right.

The "buckle of the bible belt" our house guest from Nashville called it last week. 

As can be seen by my last few posts, I no longer even pretend to know what’s happening when it’s happening.  I’m good with asynchronous networking.  If I can figure out how to use my MP3 player, I may even take this appreciation of the asynchronous and the audio on the road.