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I don't know how many people caught it, but there was a riveting interview this evening on CBC's As It Happens with Scott Taylor of Esprit de Corps about his Iraq ordeal. I typed a few notes into my blog. They are available here: http://billdoskoch.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/13/140238.html There's a link in it to the As It Happens page. [...]
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Scott Taylor — publisher of Esprit de Corps magazine – gave a riveting interview to CBC's As It Happens. (Update: Go here and click on Part One — Absurd observation: For copyright reasons, CBC can't play music on the web so there's weird audio gaps) This man, held captive by al Qaeda operatives and other militants in Iraq, is [...]
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BizReport.com has a story with the following stunning revelation: Bloggers find clicks don't mean cash. The writer, Ellen Simon, talked to Andrew Sullivan, considered one of the more successful and high-profile U.S. bloggers. However, he admitted that he couldn't make a living on blogging alone. Here's an excerpt from the story: “Henry Copeland, owner of [...]
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BBC Online is reporting that North Korea will allow a blast site visit to the British foreign minister. Pyongyang sez the explosion, which happened Thursday in north-central North Korea near the Chinese border and was reported late Saturday, was the demolition of a mountain as part of a hydroelectric project. How, exactly, do you blow up an entire mountain [...]
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From BizReport.com … Bill DoskochToronto, ON —————– Bloggers Find Clicks Don't Mean Cash Bloggers at this summer's political conventions brought heightened visibility to blogging, but the money, for most bloggers, is still missing. by Ellen Simon Monday, September 13, 2004 If you think those Web journals of opinions and obsessions are a way to get [...]
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It's a day off in BillWorld, a perfect time to get groceries and do other life maintenance errands, like picking up a new inkjet printer cartridge. This I did at a computer store at College and Spadina in downtown Toronto. While approaching the store, I was accosted by two eager, friendly CityTV people — a [...]
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This passed CAJ-L without notice (unless I was the only one not to get the memo): >>>Publisher of Frank to leave magazine Friday, September 10, 2004 – Page A6 The publisher of Frank is expected to announce shortly that he is leaving the troubled satirical magazine for a job as yet unspecified. Fabrice Taylor, a [...]
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This CBS memos controversy tells us a great deal about investigative political journalism in the blogging era. I'll deal with that in another post, but first, here's some background. The story, if you aren't familiar with it is as follows: CBS's 60 Minutes II ran a story on Wednesday night called New Questions on Bush [...]
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