Opinion: Does i-Technology Matter?
When Nicholas Carr posed the question 'Does IT Matter?' in his now-famous Harvard Business Review essay, he clearly knew that it would provoke discussion. He probably didn't know, on the other hand, that it would eventually cause the world's richest man - whose wealth is derived 100% from IT - to call the essay, during a dinner party at his home, 'the dumbest thing I've ever read.'

Message to Antigay Fundies Who Insist They Love GLBT People, They Really Do
The sublime Ex-Gay Watch features a brilliant posting by Timothy Kincaid that encapsulates my oft-hurled message to anti-queer fundamentalists oh, so nicely and neatly. The story Kincaid addresses is about the Soulforce Equality Riders , a student offshoot of the nonviolent direct-action group that visits gay-unfriendly college campuses to spread a message of tolerance for all GLBT (Gay,

Starting a blog is easy
By the time you finish reading this, 367 blogs will have been created, including, in all probability, one by a close relative of yours. I arrive at that number the way people tend to do in the so-called blogosphere: by making up something that sounds plausible and assuming it wont be challenged.

GOOD MORNING LOWCOUNTRY
When GMLc tells friends and readers that we have a blog, some say, "What's a blog?" Some 40 million people worldwide have Web logs, which are personal, interactive Web sites. Scholars, scientists and journalists have them, as do broadcast media; many newspapers have them, and so does The P&C.

North Shore writers are blogging on in earnest
By Stacie N. Galang THE SALEM NEWS (SALEM, Mass.) SALEM, Mass. Dont know what a blog is? Well, get with the times. A blog short for Web log is an online journal format, the popularity of which has skyrocketed in recent years.

Wordpress.com Blog Network Outage
Wordpress.com Blog Network Outage In what may just be an Easter fluke, it seems that the entire Wordpress.com Blog Network is down for the day, and has been dead for at least an hour. The outage comes after complaints from some blog owners (including SEJs Greg Sterling) that posts placed over the past day were lost. There [...]

A major social shift
To say that a weblog or blog is just an online diary for people to read is to over-simplify one of the biggest revolutions we have had in publishing in our generation. Never since the inventing of the printing press has the locus of power shifted so much in favour of the average person.