http://bloggasm.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:12:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en See the screenshot below of the front page of Technorati? See those blog and news headlines? If you were a rational human being you would think that by clicking on those headlines it'd take you to the blog post or article in question. You'd be wrong. Instead, it takes you ... http://bloggasm.com/technorati-still-stupid-as-ever Back in July I published a piece at Bloggasm arguing that the episode of This American Life called "The Giant Pool of Money" -- where the show spent an entire hour recounting the steps leading up to the mortgage meltdown -- was a form of journalism called "Explainer Journalism." The ... http://bloggasm.com/explainer-journalism-part-2 If you've gotten tired of the Instapundit-esque rapid fire links that have run rampant on this blog lately, and miss those Simon Owens feature articles, you're in luck. My latest article is now up at PBS: Journalists Consider Risks, Conflicts of Running Personal BlogsShareThis http://bloggasm.com/the-blogger-journalist-divide How long will it take Michelle Malkin, the sewer of the blogosphere and lead Sarah Palin cheerleader, to address the recent findings that Palin abused her power in firing her police commissioner? How quickly can she create a post worth of spin to try to attack the investigators? Also, as of ... http://bloggasm.com/question-of-the-day If you're tuned in to all things Digg, you likely know that another round of power users have seen their accounts shut down because they were allegedly using scripts to auto-digg friends' submissions. Every time the spotlight becomes focused on the man behind the current -- i.e. power users -- there ... http://bloggasm.com/misconceptions-about-online-democratic-communities You know you're scraping from the bottom of the barrel when you scream about liberal bias just because a picture of your candidate didn't get airbrushed: ShareThis http://bloggasm.com/charges-of-liberal-media-bias-get-dumber-and-dumber I certainly hope that Rich Lowry isn't doing Google Blog Searches on himself, for his sake, because the search results make for some delightful reading.ShareThis http://bloggasm.com/national-reviews-rich-lowry-now-the-joke-of-the-blogosphere