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I haven't seen any news article on it yet, but I had to say something about it. There's apprently some uproar about Bobby Bowden's FSU football squad using "Let's Roll" as a theme song. The uproar is that the guy who (name escapes me) led the passenger revolt that thwarted the Sept. 11 hijackers from rweaching their destination and crashed the plane short of their target had used the phrase to commence the plan. Bowden actually used the connection between the two and thought it a theme worthy of veneration for just that reason.
Regardless, "let's roll" has been around for years. Bowden using it for a football fight song is no different in my book than any of the much less serious uses to which the phrase has been employed. One might argue that Sept. 11 changed all that. It now invokes images of that fateful day and the heroism of that group and that individual. Does this preclude the use of that term forever in the lingo of our everyday lives? I think not.
10:32:44 PM 
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The "Blogroots" site doesn't have "permalinks'? What's up with that?
I was noticing as I linked to an article about deep linking from the Blogroots site, that this link will be useless as soon as that content drops below the line of sight on the Blogroots Home Page. I use permalinks whenever possible (as do many of the tools that allow for easy linking...such as Radio Express). I'm gonna email 'em and ask "what's up?")
10:21:59 PM
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Some wierd stuff with my home page when I try to upload an edited 8/6 page... I had to put the whole path for my story link, which had been broken.
8:24:34 PM
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From WIRED: makes me think I ought to start a blog on religious publishing and the use of Blogging as a means to open up a net-enhnaced dialogue among the religious-digerati.
Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of One of the country's most respected training grounds for professional reporters has become the first school to offer a class on the 21st century symbol of do-it-yourself journalism.
Next fall, a handful of students at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism will convene weekly to learn about blogging from John Batelle, a co-founder of Wired magazine, and Paul Grabowicz, the school's new media program director.
7:12:39 PM
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This survey of blogging picked up my
I've been Doc-Blogged! ..... post from Aug.6
I don't know if they archive these things or not. I didn't see one.
CORANTE ON BLOGGING
A new section on the emerging blogosphere that's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante who believes blogging's more than mere fad and that what will flow from it will have major implications for media, marketing, distributed thinking and business in general.
6:28:02 PM
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Doc points the way again, citing a report about UNC Chapel Hill coming under attack by the people who still want to associate Islam with the terrorists:
The Doc Searls Weblog : Thursday, August 8, 2002: "the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill was attacked by state legislators for including a book about the Quran among required summer reading assignments for incoming Freshmen. "The requirement has sparked intense criticism from people who say teaching about Islam undermines national unity in a time when the United States is at war," the story says. "Just think of what it costs to protect ourselves from this faction, and here we are promoting it," said Wayne Sexton, a Rockingham County Republican. "I see this as insensitive, arrogant and poor timing to allow students to read about our attackers," said Rep. Gene Arnold, a Republican from Nash County."
How utterly ignorant to utter something like "Just think of what it costs to protect ourselves from this faction, and here we are promoting it", totally oblivious to the fact that there are millions more Muslims who abhor what happened than who santcion what happenned. I point again to the article I wrote just following Sept. 11 , as something to ponder....
7:19:36 PM
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On the subject of "deep linking", this has Theoblogical Implications. The Bible, or any other Holy Book for that matter. These books DEMAND deep linking. They have been "Deep Linked" for centuries, just with older technology (like word of mouth or scribal notes in the margins)
Another Run to a Deep-Link Suit (WIRED)
7:19:35 AM
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I like this description of the WallStreet article below , as well as the site (Blogrroots) that is the site from the folks who wrote an about-to-be-Published bookl: We Blog
Blogroots | Home: "Large Media Companies Continue to Demonstrate Their Overwhelming Cluelessness About the Web or, as the Wall Street Journal would have it, "Publishers Fight 'Deep Links,' Despite Popularity of Practice". Probably not much new here for anyone who has been paying attention, but it's a nice summary of the problem in an awfully high-profile place. posted by thereisnocat to culture at 6:58 PM PDT "
7:18:14 AM
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How utterly "old world" can a publisher get? This is akin to saying that if you want to refer a friend to a news article, you can't tell them what sectionor what page it's in, but only say "Look for it". A good inidcation of utter cluelessness re: the Web
WSJ.com - Technology .....explains the policy in the terms-of-service section of its Web site: "If you operate a Web site and wish to link to this site, you may link only to the home page of the site and not to any other page."
7:12:32 AM
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