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| Thursday, December 5, 2002 |
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A happy beginning 
| | So  here's the good news: we actually came up with the money, Or promises of it, with the help of some big guys. It was enough to get a competitive bid together (the only other contenders are a billionaire family with no local constituency and fairly bad PR). It's an amazing story, considering, and very well told by local papers that have sadly scrolled their "content" away to unlinkable archives and other forms of oblivion — although the current Angry Poodle Barbeque by Nick Welsh takes a fun angle on the thing. Read that one before it scrolls away too. |
| | Anyway, the deal requires that we come up with one small slice of the bid pie: a mere few $ million. Soon. |
| | If you have any leads, or a few large bills you can fish out of the cracks in your couch, let me know. |
Listen up
| | I'm on CNET Radio/910am in the Bay Area right now (10-11am Pacific time). Also XM Satellite radio and the station's own site. |
Redeconstruction
Three French blogs, two turtle doves...
Lowering the threshold of mulltiplied genius
| | But what bloggers do is completely new - and cannot be replicated on any other medium. It's somewhere in between writing a column and talk radio. It's genuinely new. And it harnesses the web's real genius - its ability to empower anyone to do what only a few in the past could genuinely pull off. In that sense, blogging is the first journalistic model that actually harnesses rather than merely exploits the true democratic nature of the web. It's a new medium finally finding a unique voice. |
Gas from the past
| | Just got an email asking to quote something I wrote in 1996. I'd all but forgotten about the piece. Not even sure who I wrote it for. |
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