Posts from January 24, 2004

Republic.net

Republic.net
: Jack Balkin looks back on a year of blogging and uses the occasion to debunk the idiocy of Cass Sunstein’s Republic.com, a tribute to Internet ignorance and technological xenophobia that contended that the Internet would restraint free speech and that argued somebody should tell us what links we’re required to give. I always thought his arguments were so patently inane that they didn’t deserve the bits to rebut them. But Balkin, as he has done all year, raises the level of discourse.

Bush blogs!

Bush blogs!
: Well, that’s Jeb Bush who blogs on his brother’s campaign blog. And it’s a demonstration of why we really don’t want politicians blogging.

Op-ed

Op-ed
: The Star-Ledger asked me to write an op-ed about Dean and blogs post-Iowa (which seems like a month ago already, eh?). It’s appearing in Sunday’s paper. The text is below. I’ll put up a link to the Ledger when it’s up.

For those who’ve been reading this blog, much of it is a rehash meant for the nonbloggers still out there.

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Treo madness

Treo madness
: The Times magazine catches up to Treo madness with Gizmodo‘s Pete Rojas as its guide.

No feed, no read

No feed, no read
: I find that if a blog doesn’t have an RSS feed, I don’t end up reading it.