One Web Day only days away
One Web Day, dedicated to celebrating our online life (and keeping it ours), is this Friday. Here’s a list of in-person events around the world. In New York: “Craig Newmark of craigslist fame; Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup and Fotolog; Gale Brewer, NYC City Council member; and Drew Schutte, publisher, Wired magazine, will talk about how the Internet is changing people’s lives every day. The event, sponsored by Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Union Square Ventures, DFJGotham and Cardozo Law School, will take place on Friday, Sept. 22, Noon to 2 p.m. ET, at The Battery, near Castle Clinton, in the park at the southern tip of Manhattan.”
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September 17th, 2006 at 10:27 am
That sounds like a fun even to attend, Jeff I am assuming you too shall be attending If I can make it up there I will look for you it would be awsome to meet you.
September 18th, 2006 at 5:18 am
it is International Day of Peace on 21st September.
peace one day!
September 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Frank Rich, who is doing truly great reportage in the NYT and now in “The Greatest Story Ever Sold,’ makes a point crucial to newsgatherers, and one that fits in with the network or citiizen journalist concept promoted so astutely on this site.
The point, nailed down by RIch and also noted by others, is about the impossiblity of a reporter covering news stories when one side is patently wrong, false, bad, the true evildoers. Someone said covering the Bushes would be like quoting a Nazi about the propriety of exterminating fellow humans.
Normal newspaper reportage, even-handed and unbiased, Rich says, in effect, doesn’t compute when dealing with lying sacks of shit like the Bush people. Would you attentively quote Adolf Hitler about the propriety of incinerating fellow human beings?
Frank Rich points out, among all his other wonderful connecting of the rotten dots, that the average reporter needs to rise above sources, needs to be just as important in the scheme of things as his or her editors, and their owners., particularly the owners.
And that struck me, JJ, because this is precisely what the network journalists can do; Rich is laying it out there for all the reporters of our future, and if Rich, and his likes,are not recognized and followed, we’re truly fucked.
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