: The Today Show had on ladies wearing the TV screens on their chests today. Katie Couric said they were flat screens and then said, "Sorry, girls."
Freedom of speech but not for ferners
: The U.S. is making it tough for foreign journalists to renew visas and is telling visitors on tourist visas they may not represent foreign media.
One heckuva way to demonstrate the power of the First Amendment, eh?
Two problems with this: First, foreign governments will retaliate against American journalists. Second, in this day and age, everyone is a reporter. Does this mean that a blogger over here posting about America is violating a visa?
I'm tougher on homeland security than most, but this is just stupid. We're supposed to believe that freedom of information is a good thing, remember? [Thanks to Ernie Miller and Michael Froomkin]
Big and bigger
: Technorati, as many will report today, just passed 3 million blogs tracked (our equivalent of 300 million burgers served) at a rate of 15,000 new blogs per day. Technorati founder Dave Sifry reports that of these, 1.65 million are updated actively, though Mary Hodder emphasizes that that doesn't mean the rest are abandoned; blogs are used for many reasons (for example, for the once-a-year conference) and they still have information and value. At any rate, the conversations keep growing: Technorati is seeing more than 275,000 posts every day; three blogs are updated every second. The people are talking and the volume is growing.
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