Liners: Fear and Loathing
Scoble’s on the warpath, calling Adsense-supported bloggers Google employees. Meanwhile, Boing Boing band manager John Battelle beats on the brat Google jr. sales rep with a baseball bat. All as Google’s stock hovers around $100 less than it was just a month ago. Is the summer(s) of Google love drawing to a close, or just about to unleash its next wave of dominant web tools? We’ll see if this week’s Time Magazine cover proves to be the start of the GOOG bounceback, or the “official” shark jump point.
On Friday the government went all war games on the Internet, unleashing “Cyber Storm — its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.” That’s right–bloggers.
Meanwhile, down in Texas, Cheney’s out shooting people. Publicly (albeit accidentally). And yet we, the bloggers, are the threat to American safety?
The Northeast is buried in snow, and worse yet, junk journalism.
Finally in TV land, critical darling/ratings dog Arrested Development sailed off into the sunset on Friday with a 2-hour megaepisode that had the misfortune of airing opposite the Olympic opening ceremonies. Everyone’s going to say they’ll miss it, but obviously something wasn’t working–the finale finished in 5th place for the night, behind the Olympics, Dancing with the Stars, WWE’s Friday Night Smackdown and a re-run of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Ghost Whisperer. Farewell, beloved Bluth clan….hopefully we’ll see you again soon, somewhere that wit is prized above dancing celebrities, fake fighting, and large breasts.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go down to the bunker, listen to some Nico songs, and wallow.
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on February 13, 2006 at 2:41 pm coglethorpe wrote:
Adsense bloggers are Google employees, but at least they are paid. The folks at http://www.dmoz.org toil for hours, hand vetting sites for Google and other search engines. They don’t get a dime for it.