starting a discussion
February 24, 2004 by Eric Richardson
It's interesting to start seeing online response to my paper on blogs and corporations.
Sean Bonner instigated a lot of the spreading, on his site, blogging.la, and Suicide Girls.
Onlineblog.com, a blogging site "produced daily by the Guardian Online team," has a very well-spoken take. I responded in the comments there, so be sure to give that a look.
MEMORI is in Dutch(?), so I can't really read it, but they gave mention as well.
I don't at all consider myself an expert, just the one who wrote the paper, so I'm really interested in seeing the debate continue from this.
getting ready
February 24, 2004 by Eric Richardson
It's interesting to watch USC preparing for the democratic debate to be held here Thursday. Kerry, Edwards, Kucinich, and Sharpton will be here, debating live on CNN. Business Wire has an interesting release giving all the media instructions. Annenberg will be the post-debate location, so we've been getting emails with moved classes and limited access instructions for the building that day.
From the release, Soapbox will be be providing wifi and voice access to media during the event. I'm curious if that's just an indication of USC's limited involvement (clearly the USC bandwidth could handle adding reporters for a night), or just that it's easier to contract everything out rather than worry about setting up one-time systems. $350 for a press member to get a phone line for the evening. $145 for wireless internet (a steal compared to the $350 for hard-wired ethernet).
The DT had an article today about how USC's putting protestors in a little bit of Trousdale just south of the auditorium. You have to register two weeks in advance to protest, so it'll be interesting to see if a lot of groups did or if people will show up intending to protest and then get the boot from DPS.
I have classes Thursday afternoon, so it'll be entertaining to see the swarm of satellite trucks that descend on campus then.
geography and the Internet
February 24, 2004 by Eric Richardson
My dad sent me a link today to a 'blog post' (it's a magazine. it's an editorial. we just went over this.) on ChristianityToday.com entitled "The Web and the Exaggerated Demise of Geography". This is sort of what I was talking about in my paper I didn't write.
I think the global aspects of the Internet are amazing. Right now I'm working on a project with one developer in Spain, one in Michigan, and me out here in California. The other day all three of us were in an IM chat, talking about what needed to be done, sharing files, and doing things that pre-Internet were simply unattainable.
But the global Internet isn't what excites me right now.
Right now I care about the local Internet. I care about local food reviews. I care about local music. I care about local pictures. These things have a context that's important to my everyday life. It excites me to think about people all across my city adding content to their websites, content that can then find its way to my screen and help me understand the things around me. That's what's cool about the Internet. It's instant access to the information that is relevant to me.
The global stuff's cool, too, just in a less relevent to my day to day life sort of way.
Can Blogs and Corporations Co-exist?
February 23, 2004 by Eric Richardson
This is the paper I thought about, got more confused about, wrote something totally different, and then finally managed to get my head around. I think it came out pretty well, and I've finally got it online in verbal intercourse. So check it out: Can Blogs and Corporations Co-exist?
update... it's alive
February 23, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Today my phone appears to be working like a champ. An hour plus outside exposed to the rainy elements, and it comes away with no noticable ill effects. That's crazy.