Let’s Go Get Stone’d

Did I peak your interest with such a provocative title? Heh, it’s getting tough to get heard out there in the blog-slog. You gotta resort to dirty little tricks..all about the pimping, ya know. I had thought about going with, “NAKED PEOPLE BEATING THE HELL OUT OF EACH OTHER!!” Maybe next time. Today’s little title alludes to the actual content. Hmm.. “ACTUAL CONTENT!” ..now there’s a conceptual-title to bring the peeps through the virtual door.. sounds good anyway.. Well, too bad today’s content is actually entirely nabbed from today’s broadcast from the estimable Democracy Now.

Heh, thought I had an original thought did ya? Forget it! No one has an original thought..We just sort of snip and paste.

In light of this morning’s cyber-wandering, whereby I finally (seemingly after the party ended, but I’m used to that) became aware of the discussion I was looking to see develop over last month’s HTA sponsored blogger spectacular. It’s here at David Shapiro’s blog, Volcanic Ash. Anyway, it’s pretty rich. People showed up (as opposed to my little chicken-blog) and the discussion is quite educational. I especially like the way the sponsored co-opted blogladites try and defend their sincerity (very little persuasive chops..but hey! they do digital content, so can not help, right? One guy at the end of the discussion even started pulling virtual hair. Pretty silly.) Also picked up a new term, SMORE — as in Social Media Whore. Ain’t that great? (apparently and ironically coined by one, Guy Kawasaki.) Anyway, that discussion may or may not be your thing..

What I was getting at, is that after such cyberclusterfuckery (is that a term?) it was all the more edifying to hear this piece concerning the remarkable and excellent journalist that (who? whom?)* all of us blogcheeseheads would do well to emulate or at least be aware of:

I. F. Stone

This is the link to Democracy Now’s audio stream of said presentation, which (don’t ask) play’s on dial-up connections and RealPlayers.