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I'm going to hit you with bits and pieces of interesting stuff today. Everything in small doses.
I guess you heard about George Carlin passing away. I happen to like him–even though he's not everyone's favorite. Jessica Hagy at Indexed apparently liked him, too, as you can see from her post Well, shit.
Regarding Tim Russert's passing, Silicon Alley Insider ran the story Wikipedia Updater Fired For Scooping NBC on Tim Russert's Death. According to the article, a Wikipedia Updater may or may not have been fired after changing the Wikipedia entry about Russert to use past tense before NBC wanted the story released.
Glynnis at MediaBistro commented that Sometimes it doesn't pay to be first.
By now we're all familiar with the fact that NBC held off reporting Tim Russert's death for an hour or so until they could notify his family, at which point Tom Brokaw broke in to programming to make his announcement. The other networks were aware of what had happened, but apparently networks have a "tradition" that allows the network that suffers a death to be the first to report it. However, that was before the darn internet, its enterprising twitterers, and wikipedia.
Laural Papworth tells us that we can get Twitter updates from outer space in Mars and Twitter. She says,
Cool, no? An example of original source material, indeedy.
Does every Tweet begin with "star date log . . ."
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog announced a new ebook in Get the Insider’s Guide and Get Your Voice in the Conversation. The book is called “The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation that’s Changing How Business Works.” Liz explains,
Who needs to read it?
Everyone who wants more community participation, more comments, more referrals for their business — Marketers, PR folks, Educators, Business Professionals, and New Bloggers.
AND
Anyone who’s been trying to figure out or explain what a blog is.
It’s took a career of education, business, educational publishing; several weeks of research; and over 3,000 posts and almost 70,000 comments in blogging conversation to learn what I’ve condensed down to these practical pages.
It looks like a good book. She doesn't have to sell very many to make quite a tidy sum of money. Do you know enough about something to sell an ebook about it online and make a tidy sum of money yourself? I'll bet you do.
About a thousand of us are getting ready to go to San Francisco for BlogHer08. Just in time for that event, Celine Roque at Web Worker Daily tells us How to Travel Light With Web Working Gadgets.
Many web workers are drawn to the nomadic lifestyle, but it’s not as tempting when you consider all the equipment you’ll be lugging around. From basic tools such as your laptop to optional gear such as a Wi-Fi signal amplifier, you’ll be carrying some things that the random backpacker won’t. So how do you travel as light as possible with all the extra load?
I'm planning to travel light. By bringing fewer clothes!
