I’m sure the majority of you have heard about the blogger who killed a 10 year old girl in Oklahoma, last week. After a little bit of work (and thanks to Blog Herald), I discovered a link to his blog, and some of the posts. In particular a post – where he makes a comment about wanting to kill people – sticks out in my mind. In this post, the majority of comments about the situation are being left.
Needless to say, a lot of anonymous people are leaving comments. Contrary to the way these events usually play out, there is actually quite a bit of discussion going, including a comment by a guy who uses the name Nihilator:
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I’m sure most of you have heard of the Official Google Blog SNAFU. On the 27th, the Google Blog went offline for a while. Google reported the following, once they brought it back online:
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The year is 2015, and The Museum of Media History has released a ten minute video presentation detailing the history of the current media style.
Beginning with the invention of the Word Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in the 1980’s, and culminating in the final face-off betwen Google and Microsoft, the joining of forces between Google and Amazon (to create GoogleZon), and a landmark case heard by the supreme court that – as an eventuality – forces The New York Times to go off line and become solely a print-only media unit, once again, this video shows not only what could happen, but actually provides a very logical possbility of what will happen
in the coming years, as media seeks to re-shape and re-define itsself, and companies like Google and Amazon spend more and more processing time exploring the social make-up and demographics of each individual user’s life and society.
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The Blog 50 is the newest in a slowly building line of blog ranking sites. The Blog 50 appears to use some unknown method (which, thus far, they have evidentially refused to discuss, as I do not see any information on it) in determining the top 50 blogs in the blogosphere, from week to week.
The first list is availible here, for Feb 25th, 2006. It reads like a Who’s Who of A-List Bloggers (with a couple of B-Listers thrown in for good measure).
The second list, for March 4th appears to be a continuation of that list, with a few new folks.
The Blog 50 is trying to make it seem as if anyone can make it on the the list. Their "hype" paragraph states:
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Scoble, Winer (who may be aptly named), Carr, even Newsome, are weighing in on blogospats. What are blogospats? Spats (arguments, difference of opinions, downright (short-lived) feuds), between bloggers. (Carr link is from Winer, who claims Carr is being too "snarky".)
Who the hell cares? Honestly. The blogosphere, lately – at least, amongst the geeks and techies – sounds like a bunch of six year olds on the playground. Get over yourselves, people.
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