Bloggers and Journalism Oh My

Baloney. It's one thing to have a voice, it's another to have an audience. An influential, reasonable, and engaged audience is another thing altogether. The idea of a grassroots community of bloggers is a lovely idea. So were communes - just ask the ex-hippies. Changing the world a blog at a time?

The argument is that these bloggers are having an impact on the mass media news agenda. Sure. Try this: Congratulations, another cultural form has just been assimilated into the existing structures.

Fact: there is a wealthy, powerful elite. Fact: They want to stay that way. Fact: Yammering away in an impermanent, "virtual forum" isn't going to have a huge effect on the power structures. Fact: Just when claims of a new world communication order ring their clarion call over the land... that's when the feel-good crap is going to sedate everyone again.

Bah.
USATODAY.com - Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism

Yippee, ads. Interest in this is probably a throwback to my "academic wannabe" days. Slashdot | 10 Ads The US Won't See

This could be interesting - Geographically located photography. GeoSnapper - GPS Photography

This is a magazine that Simone likes a lot (if I've got the same publication. COLORS 58

What can I say? Jimmy Buffett is pretty cool, so's his Web site, and the radio station is pretty neat too. Yippee.

Jimmy Buffett's Radio Margaritaville!

Civil Rights

Civil Rights - always good stuff to know about.Reporting Civil Rights - Presented by The Library of America

Aussie High Commission in Ottawa

Wanna move to Australia? Here's a good place to start.

AHC - Ottawa - Visas & Immigration

First Post! Whoopdy-doo.

So I started an online journal. Lucky me. So far, I have about as much to say as most of the people in the blogosphere. Don't you just love those newly coined buzzwords?