More will appear here on the Edwards poverty center in North Carolina and the use of the Net to make community connections. Ideally the center’s wonks will not be as clueless and arrogant as both the Edwards and Kerry campaigns were at times. Not sure about the timing of the list of recs for the center. But this is still on the TeleRead to-do list. I just want more time for reflection, and there are some e-book-related items I want to run first, including Daniel Smith’s pleas for more e-content from best-selling writers–the kind mentioned on NPR. I’ll also be sharing a U.K.-based writer’s list of tips for e-book authors in dealing with publishers, including the recently mentioned Writers Exchange Publishers.
Meanwhile, speaking of Carolina and blogging and the related conference, let’s not pick just on those who see blogging as a panacea. A blog-based economy can’t replace textile jobs. But really, is blogging as nefarious as a semi-coherent Charlotte Observer column would have you believe? Observer staffer John McBride wrote a beaut headined Will blogs liberate us or just bog us down? (password required). Just what qualifies McBride to knock blogging? It’s more of a social thing than a technical thing. Who cares if his column identifies him as an applications analyst with Microsoft training? Maybe he also holds a Ph.D. in sociology, but from afar, this guy strikes me as totally clueless about the possibilities of the Net’s many-to-many mode. Read a rebuttal from Anonymoses, aka David Beckwith, spotted via Ed Cone’s blog.
Related: Anonymoses finally got his wish, from David Hoggard, as well as coverage of the blogger’s conference in Chapel Hill from the Barber Shop Blog, Science and Politics and others. You can also hear Dave Winer–the blog-based economy guy–via an MP3 from a Greenboro blogging conference recorded by audioactivism.org. Actually I think he did a pretty good Phil Donahue routine in drawing the audience out.
