I do like reading the mass media's take on different technologies or aps/resources like Web 2.0 resources. As I was flying on Southwest on Sunday, I thumbed through Southwest Air's in-flight magazine, Spirit. Over the past few years I've seen a number of pieces of interest, such as an article about iPods, and last year met guests of friends who had a short piece on Wikipedia and I was called upon to explain it. I got the same look that I get from my students -- what the heck is he talking about?
If you thumb through the current Spirit, you'll find an article titled "Everyone Should Blog." I don't think it will convince other readers that they should be blogging. However, the author did get the point across that blogs serve different purposes and beyond sharing your laundry mishaps with eight of your friends, blogging is good for engaging in journalism or political activism. It opens a door "that the media and political establishments used to keep shut to people like you and me."
In a totally different part of the magazine, the Free Time section, is a very short piece about a blog called License to Rant. Seems someone saw a license plate with the tag SIZZRZ and found the idea that anyone other than Edward Sizzorhands would want such a vanity tag was too bizarre for words. So, Kjaere Carpinteria started License to Rant. So people shoot dig photos of the oddball vanity tags they see and send them for the blog. Nothing particular philosophical about it but I find it fun to look at. And if I ever have my EasyShot with me when I see one of those stupid plates, ...
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