Two staffers had just passed this site and done two pull-ups. Not to be outdone, Obama did three with ease, dropped and walked out to make a speech. Missoula, Mont., 4/5/2008. (via Callie Shell – Obama – Digital Journalist)
Why I Love Steve Jobs (and Apple)
Steve Jobs just posted the most plain-spoken, honest, open and accurate essay on music and DRM in the history of the Internet. Really. The head of the biggest seller of DRM’d music just laid it all out on the table in a way that no journalist, netizen or corporate drone ever could. Wow.
Journalists Can Be Worse than Bloggers
There’s an ongoing debate about how much the public can trust the information they get from bloggers. The gold standard, of course, to which people compare bloggers are journalists. Journalists, the occasional Jayson Blair aside, have a pretty good reputation for fairness and accuracy. And bloggers certainly can’t compete against that standard.
The problem is [...]
Similarly opposite
Matt Haughey, the brain behind MetaFilter, reacted very differently than I did to Terry Gross’s interview with Paul O’Neill. For those not familiar with the ongoing saga, Paul and Ron Suskind have just published a book, The Price of Loyalty, that claims all sorts of things like the fact that Bush intended to [...]
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