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Winer—the founder and former CEO of UserLand Software, which specializes in programs for publishing blogs—created one of the first blogs on the Internet in 1996. He has already begun compiling a list of existing blogs at the University. The blog directory, which currently contains 29 listings, can be found at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu...
...don’t think it will save the world or drastically change the University for the better,” said Matthew G. Yglesias ’03, who has been posting for about a year and a half on his blog...
Minutes later, an update appeared on Yglesias’ blog: “Just got a call from a Crimson reporter who wanted to ask me about Dave Winer’s Weblogs at Harvard initiative. I was, as I have been every time a reporter’s called in the past, absurdly inarticulate...
...Blogs have become the supreme information filter, replacing in function the ineffective software that was supposed to help us avoid information overload by supplying us only with information we want. Such software is imprecise, but find a blogger, you like and you will almost always find interesting the links and posts he makes to his blog. Taken together, blogs represent a new addition to the media landscape, filtering the wheat from the chaff, elevating marginal issues to national importance and calling the mistakes of the mainstream media with unrelenting scrutiny (Ira Stoll ’94, former President...
...range of successful blogs is staggering. Little Green Footballs, run by a Los Angeles web designer, monitors the conflict in the Middle East and links to translated articles from Arabic language newspapers that are otherwise little regarded in the mainstream media. Steve McLaughlin’s Saltire blog offers links to the best business and technology stories on the net. Virginia Postrel’s The Scene has made the author and speaker, who is a frequent critic of irrational economic policy like the Bush steel tariffs, one of the most influential libertarians in the country. At Harvard, biology postdoc...