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| Sunday, May 19, 2002 |
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A deeper keeper 
If you're looking for some fun, here's some good news: Fun now has a blog, by Bernie DeKoven the original Dr. Fun himself.
You know that famous Bobby Knight line, "I've forgotten more about basketball than you'll ever know"? Well, when the subject is fun, or play, Bernie enjoys about the same ratio to the rest of us, except he'd never say that. He's too modest and too nice a guy. (And a lot more fun than Bobby Knight.) So I will.
Bernie also puts on a fun retreat (literally). He's got a whole series coming up (at the last link: scroll down). Sign up for one. Highly recommended.
On the road again
Off to another conference. This one insists I sign a nondisclosure agreement, so I have no idea if I'll be blogging from there at all. Kinda doubt it. Even though it's a conference on "The Future of the Networking Industry."
But I don't know. I hope, when I get there, they have wi-fi working (or Ethernet in the press room) and I can at least get on the Net from the show. If not, it's gonna be a thin three days.
What's the opposite of a Hollywood Ending? Just wondering.
Business Week: A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending.
Let's give him a big AND
From Scott Rosenberg's Much ado about blogging, in Salon:
| | Typically, the debate about blogs today is framed as a duel to the death between old and new journalism. Many bloggers see themselves as a Web-borne vanguard, striking blows for truth-telling authenticity against the media-monopoly empire. Many newsroom journalists see bloggers as wannabe amateurs badly in need of some skills and some editors.
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| | This debate is stupidly reductive -- an inevitable byproduct of (I'll don my blogger-sympathizer hat here) the traditional media's insistent habit of framing all change in terms of a "who wins and who loses?" calculus. The rise of blogs does not equal the death of professional journalism. The media world is not a zero-sum game. Increasingly, in fact, the Internet is turning it into a symbiotic ecosystem -- in which the different parts feed off one another and the whole thing grows.
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Once again, AND logic, not OR. Scott's first blog piece was way back here, by the way.
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