(This is the other side of the Google issue: they can't give you a Page Rank™ if you don't publish anything on the web. And all the old media joints, like the NY Times -- remember them, the paper that prints "fake" stories -- that complain blogs shouldn't show up in searches ranked ahead their stories are just being hypocrites. Is blogging journalism? No? Is blogging web-based publishing? Absolutely. The old media don't publish on the web, except in a half-assed way. And when they do it's either repurposed or they put up so many barriers between the reader and their "content" that it's not worth the effort, because there's so much choice. I hardly ever visit washingtonpost.com any more because every f*cking time I go there, I have to fill in some zip-code and gender form. If they had something worth paying for -- like WSJ does -- I'd cough up money. But since most papers report the same things, from the same AP, UPI, and Reuters feeds why even bother with that old skool sh*t? (b/w zeldman)) « 10:37:55 PM »    

(Good for her. She's already won. Women can play with men.

Update:
5/24/2003 - Sorenstam misses the cut by 4 (ESPN.com)) « 9:47:23 PM »    

(Is this what it means to bend it like Beckham? Good thing soccer is not very big in America, or we'd have to brace for a flood of blonde-haired cornrowers. The little Eminem wannabees, like that kid in the Apple iPod spot (Quicktime), are already too much for me to take without breaking into laughter every time. ) « 2:46:33 AM »    

(A recent ugly incident centered on a Seattle schoolteacher who used the 'N' word is troubling. The incident has generated some eloquent discussion on some of the blogs I check out now and then. And that's the problem: this word, it consumes so much of our energy, energy that could be channeled to much more positive and creative endeavors. To me, that's the real tragedy of the 'N' word. We spend our energy reacting to the word when the real issue should be correcting the mind (and mindset) from which the word dribbled out. (b/w allaboutgeorge)) « 12:57:32 AM »