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23 Aug 2003 by Scott Heiferman

Brilliant: This guy seems to have coded a webpage to pull random excerpts from random LiveJournals and put them into a newspaper front-page format: LJ Times. Pointless and ugly, but is somehow a glimpse into some part of the future.

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23 Aug 2003 | kev said...

"this guy" ??? Have you never used Transmit? or Audion? Or are you a PC drone?

23 Aug 2003 | josh said...

"PC drone"

Please don't say stuff like that. It is mind-numbing. It makes me want to give my powerbook away.

23 Aug 2003 | Brad Pineau said...

Weblogs will soon become the main source of news.

24 Aug 2003 | suppafly said...

"PC drone" is what's wrong with mac drones..but lets not start a flamewar

24 Aug 2003 | hurley#1 said...

Nick Bradbury's excellent RSS reader " Feed Demon" does exactly this: it creates a personalized online newspaper that's populated with the latest info from the blogs and news sources that you select. It's quite nice, but available for Windows only, I'm afraid (I'm a Windows and Mac drone.

Will Weblogs soon become the main source of news? I dunno about "soon," given that a hefty portion of people online probably still haven't even heard of blogs, and you also have to remember that the majority of people in the world still don't even have access to the Internet.

But I agree that blogs are rapidly emerging as a news source; I'm just not sure whether that's a good thing. I mean, it's great to get firsthand reports from soldiers blogging in Iraq instead of watching Aaron what's-his-name on CNN spinning his dramatic stories, but I'm worried that many people see blogs as a source of "real" news when so frequently it's even more distorted by the blogger's ideological prism than what you might read in the mainstream media. People are so conditioned now to distrust what they read/see/hear in the media that they seem to automatically place more trust in grassroots reporting by part-time, untrained people who are equally capable of spinning the truth to reflect their agendas.

24 Aug 2003 | kev said...

sorry about the drone comment. we're all drones of some kind. i had just been dealing with my own personal flame war. didnt mean to drag it out into the public.

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