Archive - 2004
December 10th
Gillmor to leave San Jose Mercury News
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 12/10/2004 - 11:00In Dan Gillmor’s eJournal yesterday, he announced that he “be leaving the San Jose Mercury News next month to work on a citizen-journalism project.” I’m very excited about this, and I wonder how it will related to the Investigative Blogging project. For those who are really curious about the project, visit the prototype of our community site that is currently in development. Note: it is still very early on, so don’t expect a lot of things to be working yet. However, comments are appreciated.
Also, if you haven’t checked out Epic yet, please do. I’m very interested in how all of it fits together.
December 9th
Yesterday...
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 12/09/2004 - 14:11“It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, “
It was twenty-four years ago today, that I woke up in an old spice factory that had been converted to loft space in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. I was working as a computer programmer for a large life insurance company. One of my roommates was a food service manager at CBS. He had to get in early to feed everyone who wanted breakfast at the broadcast center.
December 8th
Quick comments on a sunny Wednesday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 12/08/2004 - 09:38Quick comments on a sunny Wednesday
DD has an amusing post about a Blog Explosion banner he created that got rejected. Too bad. It was a cute banner. He also posts some of his blog explosion statistics. Click on Read More to see the statistics and how they compare with mine.
Also, I want to highlight Epic as well as Blogger Challenge.
December 7th
Epic
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 12/07/2004 - 15:45In my discussions about Investigative Blogging, I have started getting great information from all kinds of sources. Krista Bradford forwarded a link to >>>>this<<<<. It is a presentative by alums of the Poynter Institute which she received from Nora Paul.
If you use Blogger, Google, buy things from Amazon, use Microsoft or Sony products, or read the New York Times, you must watch this.
It takes about eight minutes to watch the whole thing, but it is worth it. It should open up in a seperate window, so those of you who are coming through Blog Explosion can watch it without it messing up your BlogExplosion windows.
I would love to hear people's reactions.
Update: Via Blog Explosion, I just found another blog pointing to this site.
December 6th
The direction of the Democratic Party, and the role that Blogs can play
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 12/06/2004 - 15:39(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
The talk today is about how Oregon DNC member Mary Botkin has been unseated by Jenny Greenleaf! Blue Oregon has particularly good coverage of this, and Political State Report and DailyKOS are also talking about this.
Blue Oregon also notes that Sal Peralta decided not to run against Wayne Kinney. I am disappointed that Sal didn’t run. I love democracy and I love to see it take place when it comes to electing the leadership of the party. I am very excited to see the democratic fervor sweep parts of the party as we decide who the next DNC Chair will be.
