Word: blog
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...printed offline, Adam Bellow, a 20-year book publishing veteran (and son of novelist Saul Bellow), is now giving them the chance. Bellow's new project, the New Pamphleteer (TNP), aspires to be the publisher of choice for online pundits. The company doesn't intend to simply recycle old blog posts, but will also commission new work from popular bloggers that is not available online. For now, the print runs are small, in the hundreds, but Bellow hopes it's only the beginning...
...will read them? "The community of people who blog and read blogs, in specific areas of interest ranging from politics to food and from fashion to philosophy," says Bellow. "Beyond that, I have in mind the much larger audience of people who know that blogs exist but lack the time or inclination to sift through the enormous flow of verbiage to find the best that has been thought and said online...
...Steven Aftergood, director of the Project of Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists and writer of the blog Secrecy News doesn't buy that theory. "I just think they're naive," says Aftergood, who was contacted by Wikileaks via e-mail in late December to join the site's advisory board. "They have a very idealistic view of the nature of leaking and its impact. They seem to think that most leakers are crusading do-gooders who are single-handedly battling one evil empire or another." Aftergood declined their offer...
...John Young, who writes the blog Cryptome.org, was also contacted by Wikileaks' organizers and asked to sit on its advisory board. He too declined their offer. "Their idea is a good one, but they're moving too fast without providing any evidence that they can pull this off," he says. Young gave Wikileaks a taste of its own medicine by leaking the organizers' e-mail exchanges with him on his own blog...
...Dwight Schrute’s Schrute Space (blog.nbc.com/DwightsBlog): Finally catching on that “The Office (US)” isn’t just a terrible version of “The Office (UK)?” Then check out Dwight’s blog, in which he complains about Jim and speculates on “Lost” theories...