Via RWW, "A survey of more than 3000 people performed in the two days after the US Presidential Election found that 37.6% of respondents considered the Internet the most reliable source of news, 20.3% consider national TV news most reliable and 16% said that radio is the most reliable source. ... It's quite striking, though, that we're at a point in history where the internet is trusted more than TV and the Radio!" (more)
A rundown on some of the updates with SSR's blog software. (more)
Some more changes/updates. An alternative intro could be, "what cam did on his friday night ..."
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Via Bill de hora:
I [Bill de hora] am moving off Movable Type. In favor of my own codebase. I've decided weblogs are to this decade as editors were to the 1970s. You have to write your own. It's a pretty thin rationale - the 1970s more or less sucked as I recall.South Sea Republic has done the same. I have moved it from scoop to a homebrew. (more)
A sad fact of American news media is that comedians have had more political courage than professional newscasters. Comedy Central's Daily Show (which is uncensored in Australia on SBS) pretty much snatched that courage away from the likes of CBS, CNN and Fox. Former Daily Show correspondent, Stephen Colbert, spun of a satire of the O'Reilly Factor as the
Colbert Report
. In an interview he discusses authority.
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