dangerousmeta!, the original new mexican miscellany, offering eclectic linkage since 1999.

Belated happy birthday,

Cam.

04/14/04 • 04:59 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Correction:

My link to the “Complete Review” yesterday caused some personal angst, and a bit of sleeplessness.  Some of you may find this needlessly melodramatic, but my nature requires I do this.

I’ve been very busy this week.  When that happens, I don’t have the same time to spend double-checking my linkage.  I may not do the deep read required, because I’m multitasking.  So when I’m busy, often an uncontemplated link will slip through.  I can be quite blinkered and clinical during busy moments.

The “Complete Review’, at the bottom of the page, made some really hideous insinuations about First Lady Laura Bush.  I was focused on the AP news report ... this was an aspect of our First Lady that I was unaware of.  I linked it and then went off in pursuit of other information about the First Lady.  After all, I realized, I don’t know much about her.  What else do I not know?  Link it, and move on.  Link forgotten.  There was no malicious intent in my link, nor was there an intent to promote this view.  If you’ve read here long, you’ll recognize how anomalous the link was.

Our weblog posts are not benign; we may have 1000 readers that day, but possibly a million over time through our archives.  This is not a small matter.  We sometimes say things in our weblogs that we would not contemplate saying to a group of friends, much less a crowd equalling our daily readership. 

Once upon a time, this same behavior ... unreflective linking, uninformed theorizing, hopping on the bandwagon, accepting other interpretations without checking sources ... nearly destroyed my livelihood shortly after I started weblogging.  Theorizing and interpretation, in a vacuum of real fact, can do significant harm ... indeed, it took stripes out of my own flesh at a time when I was on the ropes.  I lost faith in humankind for a time.  I would never wish to do that to another.

And for that reason, I offer this apology ... and this link, which will further explain my need to perform reparations [esp. info on page three].  I will leave my previous post up, as a case-in-point, a lesson for myself and for those who care to experience the same lesson.

I apologize for raising yesterday’s article further, Mrs. Bush, and I abhor the craven insinuations within.  Mere idealogical differences should never stand in the way of simple human lovingkindness and faith in the good nature of fellow human beings.

And I apologize to my readership.  I will practice ‘eloquent silence’ more often, when I’m busy.  We’ll both be the better for it.

Off to more meetings.  More links later as I have appropriate time.

04/09/04 • 03:37 PM • CorrectionsWeblogs • (10) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Happy four years of weblogging,

Monsieur Splorp.

04/05/04 • 06:45 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

VFIH:

Welcome to the world, wee Bethany.

04/04/04 • 03:48 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Motto for webloggers:

Scribo ergo sum.  I write, therefore I am.

04/02/04 • 08:39 PM • Weblogs • (2) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Congrats!

I’m a little late, but I hope Barb and Roland forgive me.  Born on a Thermarest!  You have to bring him down to Santa Fe, so I can take him places he can *use* the Thermarest ...

03/31/04 • 09:21 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Sounds like a weblogger.

“You’re incurable: your eye glued to the magnifying glass, your mouth to the megaphone.”  — Jean Giono.

03/31/04 • 12:02 PM • PersonalScholarlyWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Reader revolt.

An avid reader just informed me of their preference: “Less politics, and more pictures, PLEASE.”  I’ll ease off the Clarke issue, since I’ll be getting the book soon.

03/30/04 • 03:45 PM • PersonalPhotographyWeblogs • (5) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Happy four,

Mr. Booknotes.

03/29/04 • 03:05 PM • Weblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

New Republic:

The web won’t topple tyranny.  We are too easy to shut down, censor, or intimidate.

03/28/04 • 03:07 PM • Human RightsInternetWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

SF New Mexican:

Julian moves to Santa Fe, makes the papers right away ...  Coffee, Tea, Wi-Fi?  Good grief!

03/28/04 • 02:17 PM • Santa Fe LocalWeblogs • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

O’Reilly Onlamp:

Top Ten Tips to Make Attacker’s Lives Hell.  And you don’t need the Patriot Act to accomplish it.

03/26/04 • 03:35 PM • InternetSoftwareWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Progress for the progressive.

Noam Chomsky has a weblog.  Via wood s lot.

03/24/04 • 08:57 PM • Weblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Happy three,

BillSaysThis.  I’m a bit late, I know, but my excuse is preoccupation.  I look forward to your next three years!

03/16/04 • 06:00 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

CNet News.com:

MySQL to add clustering.  “For business-critical applications, it’ll provide subsecond failover ...”

03/15/04 • 03:15 PM • InternetSoftwareWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

And one more.

My host’s driving me nuts.  Does anyone who reads here use Dreamhost?  They look pretty outstanding, in my research.  Drop me a note, let me know your experiences.

03/13/04 • 02:46 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (10) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Whack me over the head.

Matt, I apologize.  I got busy and overlooked your new endeavour.  Matt at Earth-Info.net has a new site, an environmental breaking-news style weblog:  Earth-info-net-news.blogspot.com.

03/05/04 • 02:30 PM • EnvironmentalWeblogs • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Guardian.UK:

Why Drudge is bad for online journalism.  “Heard a juicy rumour about a presidential candidate? Know it’s probably total rubbish but want to print it anyway? No problem! Just leak it to Drudge, wait for him to print it and then run it in your own pages as an ‘internet rumour’. ”

03/01/04 • 04:09 PM • NewsWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

JiWire:

WiFi Hotspot Locator.  Free.

02/27/04 • 09:33 PM • HardwareSoftwareTravelWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Well, now.

 


This site is certified 38% EVIL by the Gematriculator


I do quote a lot of sources&emdash;so it’s not just me.  It’s that evil monopolistic media, right? Then again, looking at the stats, it seems like I get marked evil for using ‘big words.’  Via We Are Not Sheep.

02/27/04 • 08:27 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (3) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

RSS freaks, take note.

I’m experimenting with category RSS feeds.  You can filter me as you see fit.  Look on the lower left, under the Feeds section for “Experimental.”  It will open a popup window with my category choices.  They ought to work ... all RSS 2 for now.

02/24/04 • 09:20 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Jeremiah’s

tired me out.

02/20/04 • 08:04 PM • PhotographyWeblogs • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

About.com:

Apparently there’s some sort of dustup about race and weblogs.  Good advice at the bottom ... read and judge for yourself.  There are more important race-related matters, it seems to me.

02/18/04 • 04:50 PM • Human RightsInternetWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Moved again ...

Ed Bilodeau’s switched services again.  Here’s a man who should write a book on the pluses/minuses of weblog software!  Well, he’s here now: http://www.coolweblog.com/bilodeau/

02/17/04 • 09:41 PM • PersonalWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks

Design is not for the faint of imagination:

netdiver.net.

02/11/04 • 09:40 PM • DesignInternetWeblogs • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks
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