Live from Vienna: BlogTalk2.0

looking forward to meet you in meatspace, you know.
Live Konferenz-Stream: http://www.machfeld.net/blogtalk.html

Nachtrag:

Und wer die Konferenz "Live gebloggt" miterleben möchte liest: http://smi.twoday.net/

Dies meint wenigstens die Seattle Times:
Bill Gates has a reputation for coming late to the party, then making a big splash when he arrives.That's what happened after the Microsoft chairman realized the potential of the Internet. And it may happen again if he starts his personal Web log. Bill's blog won't be all business, either. He's expected to share personal details such as tidbits from recent vacations, according to tech pundit Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch newsletter. Citing unnamed sources, she reported yesterday that Gates is about to start blogging "real soon now."Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray would not confirm the story, but left open the possibility, saying, "Bill would love to do his own blog at some point in the future, time permitting."
Weiterlesen: Bill Gates could join the ranks of bloggers
[ Via: BlogHerald ]

Namensvorschläge für Bills Blog nimmt das ScaramoucheBlog gerne entgegen.

Und Jay Rosen liefert die "Blog-Bedienungsanleitung" in Form eines Briefes gleich mit:

An original weblog by Bill Gates--rich, famous, powerful, controversial person--could be a fourth way a business titan deals with the press: as author and critic, reading the headlines, putting certain ideas at risk, inserting himself into public conversation as a citizen of the planet, a reader of the news, (a sharp, funny person) editing the Web like all good weblogs do, and finding a honest voice in which to speak. Cure your blog of public relations, every hint and drop, or don't do it at all. [ Via PressThink: Letter to Bill Gates, Soon to be a Weblogger ]

Machtübergabe in Irak - einige Irak-Blog-Einträge:

bremer, the new ugly Iraqi "president", the cia agent "P.M.", another couple of losers were standing in a small circle at the sunrise, clapping their hands and trying to smile. some hours later, bremer ran away in a black military plane god, dont you call this a historical carnival? :*)
in arabic we say, "sharro el balyyati ma yodhek", the worst catastrophes make you laugh. haha? [Raed in the Middle]

The handover of the above mass killers will happen in the next few days.
We need to see Saddam and Tali Chemical and their thugs in a TELEVISED trial direct on air. Our wounds will not hell without seeing Saddam and his thugs in that long awaited trial. Hurry it; let the souls of the victims of mass graves, Halabja and others rest in peace. [Hammorabi]

Congratulations and thanks to all the Iraqi Bloggers for all the months of debate central to the future of democracy in Iraq!! Thanks to Paul Bremer for 14 months of tireless service to the American and Iraqi people. You have my utmost respect and only the enemies of democracy will cast stones at your service.
Today is a wonderful day for me and all my friends in Iraq. Congratulations! Live long and prosper! [Iraq Bloggers Central]

New Day
Today is new day and it is a great day for all Iraqis and for freedom lovers. I have been waiting for a day like today for the last twenty two years I have lived here in the states. I as well as so many Iraqis thought we would never see a day like today. However, the day the coalitions decide to proceed toward Baghdad, I thought that is the beginning to a new era. Anyway that is that and we have to look forward and toward the future of Iraq. There are so much potential for Iraq as a country not to mention the people of Iraq. Now they have tasted some freedom they will never let go of it, I am certain of that. I am extremely optimistic about the new government and the new Iraq. [Iraqi American]

Great moments ,great time ,here in Iraq , The transfer of power to Iraq sovereignty has been completed 2 days in advance ,this was ,a great news for the Iraqis . From this moment we started to celebrate ,and people ,all over here conciliation each other ,this is a great moments ,I resaved calls from all over the world greeting me for this happy moments . [road of a nation ]

It’s a great day for all the freedom lovers. No doubt is left now that we’re winning while the forces of darkness and evil are losing a key round in this war.
With great delight we received th news. this is the right and important step to build the free Iraq and It’s a painful strike for terrorism and its allies.They really missed this surprising and brilliant timing. And I guess they’re deeply shocked right now.
their luck couldn’t help them to scar this glorious day with a crime of theirs. [Iraq the Model ]

From today and on the areas which were linked to Iraq by force by the Britons in 1920 will be known as Iraqi Kurdistan Federal State officially (excluding Kirkuk and Mosul for the time). So no more Northern Iraq bulls***s please..
congratulations everyone.... Bye bye Bremer... [ Kurdos World ]

This is a great day Iraq gets the Power back and we should give the new government a chanse to see what they going to do to slove Iraq problems and espicilay the Iraqis problems. I wish they will do good. [ Nabil's Blog ]

Wow, this was a real surprise. I didn't expect an early handover of sovereignty to the new interim Iraqi government. I'm actually so happy for this decision. It was a very smart decision. It reminds me of smart chess moves.
I'm sure the hopeless terrorists from Falluja didn't see this one coming.
I hold high hopes in Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his courageous team. Yes, you could say every negative thing about them. But, those people wake up every morning to go to work not knowing if they'll be alive be end of the day. Cowards don't do that. [ Live from Dallas ]

Congratulation to the Iraqis and to the Americans and to all the world a new nation is born a new Iraq it is not yet easy but the thousand miles walk start with one step. [ Baghdad Dweller ]

SURPRISE PARTY!! CONGRATULATIONS IRAQ!
Iraq (temporarily on loan) has been returned to Iraqis, two days early. It was a surprise. It puts a smile on the face. A big plateau has been accomplished.
Today, Iraq belongs to Iraqis. Not just a few, not a small group, not a tyrant, Iraq belongs to Iraqis. Special Congratulations to All the great Iraqi Bloggers. Special hope for the Bloggers who did not have hope for a new Iraq; it could be a new start for you, a new hope for you, too. [ Hello IRAQ ]

At the end of a frantic day in Istanbul, I must make a confession. - I was tempted.

This afternoon I attended a news conference by President Bush and Tony Blair -- arguably the two most powerful people in the world. After passing through the tight security cordon, and waiting for a couple of hours in a holding room at the Hilton hotel Istanbul, I found myself face to face with the two main architects of the war in Iraq. The world's media was watching as President Bush and Mr Blair hailed their success in the war against Saddam Hussein. And as I sat there, headphones clamped to my ears and listening to the news conference, the temptation to speak out was overwhelming. What would happen, I wondered, if I removed my artificial leg*, waved it in front of Bush and Blair, and proclaimed "See this. This is the outcome of your war. Iraq may have been liberated, but I -- and hundreds of others like me -- will be burdened with this artificial limb every day for the rest of my life because of the conflict you created." [ Beyond Northern Iraq - STUHUGHESIRAQ@MAIL.COM - *Stuart Hughes, BBC-Korrespondent hat in Irak ein Bein verloren]

Journalnow.com über Kulinarisches im Zusammenhang mit Blogging,...oder umgekehrt: Blogs With Flavor - Cooks can create and commiserate on the Web

Barry Parr hat auf seinem Weblog den letzten Teil seiner Serie: "Why can't a newspaper be more like a blog?" veröffentlicht:

Perhaps newspapers will never understand the Web.
We're approaching the ten-year anniversary of newspapers on the Web -- Mercury Center (my site) and SFGate launched at the end of 1994. Our vision of the Web has changed a couple of times in the last decade, but newspapers vision of their online edition remain unchanged.

Right now, we're in the middle of a bottom-up revolution in how the Web is created and how people use it. OK, all real revolutions are bottom-up. That's how you know it's in a revolution.

Right now, Technorati is indexing 2.5 million blogs. Most of those are inactive, and most of the rest suck. But there is a huge, unmanageable number of sites remaining that are changing the way that people use the web. And the tools they use to create their sites and reach their audiences are steadily improving.

The title of this piece is deliberately provocative. I don't expect newspapers to mimic blogs. But I don't understand why they haven't learned some broader lessons about how our use of the Web has changed in the ten years since we first went online.
Und weiter:

Publishers don't understand that the home page is no longer the gateway to their site. Every well-designed page has enough navigation and headlines to draw you into the site.

Publishers don't trust their newsrooms to deliver headlines that will bring you to their site because you have to read the story.

Publishers are anxious because they can no longer get you to pay to have them deliver a package on your doorstep that you feel compelled to read because you paid for it and because you'd feel guilty to toss it out unread.

Publishers want you to read their sites because it's a habit and not because they're producing must-read journalism.
[Quelle: http://mediasavvy.com ]

Hier gibt's die einzelnen Teile zum Nachlesen:

* RSS feeds put your headlines on readers' desktops
* Comments let your reader participate directly in the reporting process
* Archives should no longer be in a separate database
* Trackback points to people who point to you
* Your community should be the focus of your site

Interessanter Artikel (Teil I) von Thomas Pany bei Telepolis: Blogger sind derzeit die Stars im Netz, sie leuchten um die Wette, keiner kann sie zählen, ebensowenig wie die Meinungsartikel zu den meinungsgeladenen Infoteilchen im Netz: Unzählige Abhandlungen über ihre Wirkung, ihre Macht, ihren Einfluss, ihre Rivalität zum etablierten Journalismus sind bereits verfasst, unzählige immer noch enthusiastischere Konferenzen - selbst auf dem elitären Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos waren Blogger ein großes Thema (Lesenswertes dazu hier) - abgehalten worden. Die so genannte Blogosphäre ist, so sehen es die Enthusiasten, ein unübersichtlicher, prächtig lebendiger Kosmos, eine eigene Welt aus konzentrierten Informationspartikeln, die das geneigte Publikum demokratischer und besser informiert als alles, was je an Kommunikation gab. Eine neuer Quantensprung à la Gutenberg in der Vermittlung von Realität? Der Einbruch des "Laconic Turn" in der Welt der langatmigen Artikelprosa von angepassten, etablierten Mainstream-Journalisten, welche die Tinte nicht halten können und mit mehligen Erörterungen die Überzeugungen der Alte-Säcke-Welt nur festschreiben, statt sie frisch und frech zu demontieren wie eben die Blogger?

Weiterlesen bei Telepolis: The Revolution will (not) be Blogged - Teil 1

Grosses gut gelungenes Special im TIME Magazine zum Thema Weblogs:

Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they're fast, funny and totally biased
Und wiederum...

We may be in the golden age of blogging, a quirky Camelot moment in Internet history when some guy in his underwear with too much free time can take down a Washington politician. It will be interesting to see what role blogs play in the upcoming election. Blogs can be a great way of communicating, but they can keep people apart too. If I read only those of my choice, precisely tuned to my political biases and you read only yours, we could end up a nation of political solipsists, vacuum sealed in our private feedback loops, never exposed to new arguments, never having to listen to a single word we disagree with.

TIME Magazine: Meet Joe Blog (by Lev Grossman)

http://www.nobodydied.com/

Über den sogenannten FreewayBlogger wurde auch schon in der Zeitung le Monde geschrieben.
[Via: rtfm ]

Interessantes Festival zu den Themen Jugend, Weblogs und die Informationsgesellschaft in Teheran:

The First of its kind in the Middle-East, the 3-day festival titled "Youth, Weblogs and the Information Society" started in Tehran. The fast growth of Internet users in Iran, the phenomenal number of Persian language weblogs on Internet which make up a considerable portion of the worldwide web's Persian language content, has been pointed out as the motivations for this festival.

This weblog festival not only encourages Iranian bloggers, but also as Hoder wrote a couple of days ago, it will help the computer-illiterate officials in judiciary and elsewhere to understand more about weblogs and realise that Internet is not going to doom them all together!

[Via persian students in the uk ]

Seit anderthalb Jahren betreibt Martin Hitz seine Site medienspiegel.ch. Der Dienst fasst die medienkritische Berichterstattung der Schweizer Presse zusammen und kommentiert Entwicklungen -- seit dem 2. Juni mit sechs regelmässigen KolumnistInnen. "persoenlich.com" hat sich mit dem früheren NZZ-Online-Redaktionsleiter Hitz unterhalten. Und ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Frage des Copy-Paste-Journalismus geworfen:

Hitz: Ich finde das nicht verwerflich, so lange man der Leserschaft einen Dienst erweist. Tatsächlich trifft der Befund -- zumindest in der Schweiz -- ja auf die meisten redaktionellen Sites zu, selber recherchierte Geschichten sind online selten. Darunter hat übrigens damals auch das Team von NZZ Online gelitten, man hätte gerne mehr selber nachgeforscht und geschrieben. Ich habe hingegen immer die Meinung vertreten, dass unser Selektieren, Redigieren und Aufbereiten dem Leser ebenfalls dienlich ist. Diese Auffassung entspricht möglicherweise einem neuen journalistischen Rollenbild, dass sich stärker an der angelsächsischen Unterscheidung zwischen "Writer" und "Editor" orientiert. Online-Journalisten sind so gesehen eher Redaktoren, welche die Texte anderer auswählen und bearbeiten. Ich selber halte das Gewichten, das Agenda-Setting für eine der wichtigsten journalistischen Arbeiten.
Das Interview: "Martin Hitz, machen Sie mehr als 'Copy-Paste-Journalismus'?"

[Via Persoenlich.com resp. Dienstraum ]