Blog, Blug. To the Writer Doris Lessing, Itâs Whatever.
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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Under the pseudonym of Sarcastic Journalist, Rachel Mosteller wrote this entry on her personal Web log one day last April:
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'Bugger off out the office' FoTW Oh dear, oh dear - it appears CNET's blogging pundits are not actually a legitimate target for us proper hacks, those of us who've done English O-Level and read a couple of novels.â¦
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My Xbox 360 has a blog, and it's starting to get on my nerves.
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Internet bloggers have drawn blood  and American journalism may never be the same.
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Rewrite the book and rule the pages -- take a souvenir.
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Two writers with different media roles, but finding synchrony on some aspects of global warming.
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This two-character play, based on a Doris Lessing novel, exaggerates the bookâs bluntness without capturing its nuanced perceptions.
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Yes, boys and girls, the word for this year is &#39;blog&#39;--that&#39;s blog as in &#39;a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks.
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The more, the merrier -- within reason, of course.
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Technorati is making an attempt to organize the growing blogosphere with their new "Topics" feature.
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An excerpt from lyricist Sameer's biography, A Way With Words.
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Further musings on holiday tipping, in response to questions and comments from readers of this blog.
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The Obama Express. My latest piece on Huffington.  If you like it, please feel free to pass it on.  "cheesecake"
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It may be a little late to the game, but business travel is now the subject of a variety of blogs.
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Life & style: Readers' advice for a woman at the end of her tether, plus Linda Blair's expert view.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.