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A nice quote from Kevin Anderson on the difference between news stories and blogs :
"News stories should answer questions and tie up loose ends. Blogs should pose questions and leave some ends dangling to encourage debate."
via Richard Sambrook.
(on a side note, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy seeing the Director of Global News at the BBC blogging panel discussions)
mn tweeted "On conference call with IDC discussing online video trends" 7:30am#
mn linked to Web Strategy: The Three Spheres of Web Strategy (and the skills required) 6:43pm# mn linked to Conscience of the Israeli spymaster's daughter 6:42pm# mn tweeted "Trying the Drupal Activity Stream moudle by @akalsey on my blog" 6:11pm# mn tweeted "@daiski good pagerank = current pagerank + 1" 2:15pm# mn tweeted "I have a scheduling problem of note. Is it possible to be in Barcelona and Doha at the same time? !`" 2:13pm# mn tweeted "There is nothing worse than someone in a meeting repeating back what the previous person just said" 9:01am# mn tweeted "Speaking at NEXT in Barcelona next week. Think I'll call it "From live streaming to lifestreaming"" 7:00am# mn tweeted "@solanasaurus just saw from their twitter stream that they're trying to recruit you ;-)" 8:13pm# mn tweeted "@fredwilson Heh...I thought the same thing a few minutes ago until I realised how down GOOG and APPL are from a month ago *g*" 8:06pm# mn tweeted "If you missed the "...is an Arab" meme, @jilliancyork has a great wrap up with reactions from real Arabs ;-) http://tinyurl.com/526rgd" 5:05pm# mn tweeted "@solanasaurus It seems two have : http://tinyurl.com/4jm87t" 5:03pm# mn tweeted "@solanasaurus that means they must be estimating getting over $10 CPM which is impressive...although I don't see any advertising." 4:53pm# mn tweeted "OH: 'we don't want to set ourselves upfor failure fro" 8:26am# mn tweeted "Trying a asmallworld - anyone there? ping me...." 5:46am# mn tweeted "@zephoria because they have the game "Doom" as part of the in flight entertainment system ;-)" 5:44am# mn tweeted "@akalsey thanks for posting your Drupal scaling deck http://tinyurl.com/66uwpe" 7:31pm# mn tweeted "East Coast tweeps : What is the best way to get from JFK to Yale, New Haven?" 6:24pm#
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Assalaamu alaikum. I was reading Ray Hartleys blog & through clicking on links to other blogs, made my way to yours. Interesting blog. Btw, it's Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla from campus, 2000 eager first year volunteer for MSA, then somehow getting on to SRC. (& I started wearing scarf again a year & half after I took it off:-p)
It seems that only dear ol' Bullard is against the masses having the right to be read. Although with the amount of drivel that enters the blogosphere, it's easy for one to be cynical.
I think it's our duty to constantly question what we see in the news and media, and search for the story behind the story. If we do this, we aren't reduced to being just mindless numb-absorbent consumers.
Instead of just regurgitating other people's thoughts, we learn to think for ourselves, and challenge our intellectual thought skills. And being exposed to a vast number of views never hurts. Viva blogging!
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