links for 2008-05-16

There is "also a passive-aggressive attitude towards citizen journalism: passive on the citizen part, aggressive on the journalists that defend their status as news bearers tooth & nail, even if most don’t take any effort to understand the new reality."

"American bands such as My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte and Blink 182 are particular favourites". I think you can judge how on the ball this article is by the fact that they claim Blink 182 are 'emo'. See Yahoo! Answers - "Is blink 182 emo?"

"Note: Please ignore the troll writing the post. Oh hai, Mac-bashing troll, how original!". Sugarenia notices some odd pro-Microsoft anti-Apple quirks with the ZDNet design, and blames her inner troll.

Hang on a second...an award...that only women can enter? Isn't this just the kind of politically correct nonsense that normally sends the Mail into an indignant frenzy? Where is the Daily Mail award for Inspirational Men?

"This made the original internet users very sad. Many of them fought back against this abuse of what they saw as their system. They would try to enforce the rules but, of course, they had no power to do so". I think, by this definition, I am non-geek!

"Interestingly it was the Beeb that did much to pave the way for video blogging with Video Nation". I'd never thought of it that way before, but Video Nation deserves some further historical investigation.

“Search in the future needs to lead us to people, to places, to voices". [via Sacred Facts, erm, which is I guess an example of just the sort of homophily that the article is saying is bad. D'oh!]