Lazy Journalism

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Lazy La-Z-Boy

Lazy La-Z-Boy 05/26/2004 09:01 AM
The recliner specialist reclines after a soft close to its fiscal year.

Lazy Tool

Lazy Tool 01/04/2005 01:44 PM
New screenshot..

Lazy Friday

Lazy Friday 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
Delta called me at 7AM to say they'd deliver my missing luggage by noon. They were late. Customs did not...

Data-Lazy-0.6

Data-Lazy-0.6 01/05/2004 12:01 AM

An enterprise lazy web.

An enterprise lazy web. 06/22/2005 02:20 AM
Ed Sim writes: "One of the ways we like to invest is by talking with the buyers in the market,...

Lazy Hobby

Lazy Hobby 03/13/2003 10:14 AM

Spent the weekend building a custom ASP.NET server control that does dynamic data-driven page generation.  I'm planning to give it away publicly, so it needs docs and a setup.  I used Ant to build, although NAnt is also a good choice.  It was a breeze to integrate NDoc into the build, and in no time I had MSDN-style help files being automatically generated.  It took a little longer to decipher the XML format used by msi2xml/xml2msi, but with a little bit of help from MSDN and Orca (for looking at what other MSIs do), I have a nicely-branded MSI autogenerate from XML as part of the build, even installing my assembly into the GAC.

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I've been using RSS Bandit to read my news.  Now you can, too, and you can even mess with the source code.

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Today I got the first 65 episodes of Hikaru no Go on DVD.  It's a pretty good series; very dramatic.  If we had a hit song based on the game chess, why not a hit cartoon based on go?  I also just saw an episode of Rurouni Kenshin for the first time.  It's one of the most inspiring I've seen in a long while.  It looks like another looming expense.

 

PHP and Databases (for the Lazy Sod)

PHP and Databases (for the Lazy Sod) 11/08/2002 11:10 AM
A very cool approach to working with PHP and databases "PHP and Databases (for the Lazy Sod) from PHP Builder leading me to "Database Journal". No this isn't using PearDB or ADODB. I've never seen an approach like this before. I really need to think about this. [ Go ]

Lazy Man's MKV 0.92

Lazy Man's MKV 0.92 09/04/2004 10:05 AM

It's Not That They're Stealing, It's
That They're Lazy

It's Not That They're Stealing, It's
That They're Lazy 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Exhibit A: An unattributed article on Google Bombing posted last month on the Web site of Glenn Beck, a radio talk show guy. Exhibit B: An article on Google Bombing from 2001 on Uber.nu, attributed to Adam Mathes. Compare and contrast. It's possible Beck purchased the article for reprint, but the lack of attribution, either to Mathes or So New Media, suggests against it. Assuming plagiarism, two questions: 1. After a decade of the existence of the Web, how is it that people still don't get the concept that content plagiarized from the Web is easily discoverable, particularly when posted on the Web? 2. Honestly, now, is it really that hard to rewrite? Unrelated article on the Glenn Beck site: The Death of Shame. (via Oliver Willis)

Lazy Evaluation for Python 0.1.0

Lazy Evaluation for Python 0.1.0 12/26/2004 11:14 AM
Lazy evaluation for Python functions and classes.

People have a problem with me, cause I
ain't lazy...

People have a problem with me, cause I
ain't lazy... 04/16/2005 06:40 PM
"I Ain't Lazy" (lyrics NSFW) featuring Skratch Bastid, John Smith & Pip Skid. A day-in-the-life indie hip-hop video directed by Jason Lapeyre featuring another top notch crew of PCRs.

6 Stocks for the Lazy Investor

6 Stocks for the Lazy Investor 05/13/2004 03:27 PM
A half-dozen stocks that measure up to a system of strategic sloth.

Gettin' Lazy on the Job: PHP and
Databases

Gettin' Lazy on the Job: PHP and
Databases 10/23/2002 08:04 AM

Dynamically Typed: Lazy PHP - Part 3

Dynamically Typed: Lazy PHP - Part 3 05/06/2004 08:42 AM
In a new posting from Dynamically Typed, the "Lazy PHP" series is continued (based off of Part 1 and Part 2).

Lazy men shirk housework (Reuters)

Lazy men shirk housework (Reuters) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters - A woman's work is still never done -- official statistics show men opt for DIY or tinkering with the car while women tackle most of the housework.

Prayers for athletes not to be lazy
(Reuters)

Prayers for athletes not to be lazy
(Reuters) 08/08/2004 10:28 AM
Reuters - Greece's Orthodox Church says it is praying for athletes competing in the Athens Olympics not to be lazy.

We're not lazy, just busy reading (and
emailing) The Reg

We're not lazy, just busy reading (and
emailing) The Reg 04/15/2005 12:14 PM
Letters Procrastinate this...

Here come the uninformed, lazy,
opinionated masses...

Here come the uninformed, lazy,
opinionated masses... 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
The Fortune Magazine MySQL story I mentioned the other day (which is also being syndicated on cnn.com) has just been slashdotted. Slashdot is a lot like a car accident on the highway. You know it's gonna be really bad, but somehow you can't stop yourself from looking (or reading in this case). News flash, folks: MySQL has transactions. Yes, the ACID kind, just like Oracle and PostgreSQL. They've been there for a while now. Really. I've been using them quite...

Lazy Zope / CMF installer by acki on
2002/09/08

Lazy Zope / CMF installer by acki on
2002/09/08 09/08/2002 04:35 AM

Note to MSDN: make friends with the Lazy
Web

Note to MSDN: make friends with the Lazy
Web 07/02/2004 10:09 AM
A couple of months ago I spoke with Jeffrey Snover, who is the architect of MSH (aka Monad), Microsoft's new object-oriented command shell. At the time, I didn't get to see a demo. Yesterday, Chris Sells p ointed to the episod e of the .NET show that includes a Monad demo by Snover and Jim Truher. Sells also notes that the beta of Monad is available for XP and Server 2003, so I've registered for the download. The concept is wonderful: a Unix-like shell where the stuff that gets piped around is self-describing, either in the form of .NET objects or their XML serializations. Although it targets "the Longhorn wave," I'll be curious to see what Monad can do on current Windows OSs. ...

Oh Lazy Web, please aggregate all of
Phil Ringnalda's comments for me

Oh Lazy Web, please aggregate all of
Phil Ringnalda's comments for me 09/21/2004 03:10 AM
Almost every night, I find somewhere on the web a pithy and interesting comment that Phil Ringnalda has left on somebody else's weblog. When I do, I often wonder what have missed, what other comments he has left elsewhere. I have remonstrated with him in the past about saving his gems for his own weblog, but he prefers cruising the wilds of cyberspace scattering jewels as he goes. I ask the lazy web to find all those comments every night and create an rss feed (of any flavor) than I can subscribe too. I and Phil's legion of fans would be truly grateful....

Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Accept
imitations

Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Accept
imitations 11/06/2003 07:24 PM
A search on Google for the words "Bush speech generator" throws up more than 25,000 results, showing the incredible popularity of such sites. ...

End of the thin blue line for fat, lazy
PC plodders

End of the thin blue line for fat, lazy
PC plodders 11/01/2003 09:46 PM
Scotland on Sunday Nov 1 2003 8:11PM ET

Lazy New iPod Owners Rescued By Ripping
Idea

Lazy New iPod Owners Rescued By Ripping
Idea 07/28/2004 11:07 AM
US-based LoadPod will come to the door, pick up the CDs, rip al, the tunes to an iPod and return them within five days. By Jo Best, Silicon.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Sofa + iTunes = Lazy man's album covers!

Sofa + iTunes = Lazy man's album covers! 01/26/2004 09:54 PM
Russ Miles: "Thankfully, the software being developed under the Sofa Project is NOT one of those tools. It's free and it is a simple addition to iTunes. But what we have here is no simple applescript frenzy ... this one gets up in front of iTunes and uses Apple's music management system as it's puppet, with some interesting new features thrown in that just might work their way into the main tool in the future."

Man Sues Cable Company For Fat Wife And
Lazy Kids

Man Sues Cable Company For Fat Wife And
Lazy Kids 01/08/2004 08:44 PM
It reads like a parody, but, unfortunately it appears to be real. I'm still waiting to read that this is just a very early April Fool's joke, but this article (found at broadbandreports ) says that a man in Wisconsin is suing Charter, his local cable company, for making his wife fat and his children lazy channel surfers. His argument is that he called to have the cable disconnected in 1999 - and Charter stopped charging him, but kept the cable service going. He claims that he and his whole family became addicted to the free cable, which has led to all sorts of problems: "I believe that the reason I smoke and drink every day and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years." I'd say this one may beat out previous lawsuits for the perfect example of how people simply refuse to take responsibility for their own actions. Please, someone, tell me it's a joke.

Church Prays for Olympic Athletes Not to
Be Lazy (Reuters)

Church Prays for Olympic Athletes Not to
Be Lazy (Reuters) 08/09/2004 07:54 AM
Reuters - Greece's Orthodox Church said on Sunday it was praying for athletes competing in the Athens Olympics not to be lazy.

Russian Grand Duke was too lazy to
labour (Reuters)

Russian Grand Duke was too lazy to
labour (Reuters) 05/20/2004 11:23 PM
Reuters - King George VI helped Vladimir Kirillovitch, exiled heir to the Russian throne, to find a factory job before World War Two, but he was not up to the work, released government files show.

MySQL Backup for lazy sysadmins 0.5
(Default branch)

MySQL Backup for lazy sysadmins 0.5
(Default branch) 03/24/2005 01:30 PM
mysqlblasy is a Perl script for automating MySQL database backups. It uses "mysqldump" for dumping mysql databases to the files sytem. It was written with automated usage in mind. For example, it is silent during operation, and only produces noise on errors/problems. It rotates backups automatically to prevent the backup disk from getting full when the administrator is on vacation (or is lazy).

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Changes:
An obscure bug in File::Spec->abs2rel() was worked around. Using a tilde for home directory expansion is now possible for all configuration values using paths.

Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead / The manly
veep has himself a lazy, "canned"
pheasant slaughter, and we are so
impressed

Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead / The manly
veep has himself a lazy, "canned"
pheasant slaughter, and we are so
impressed 01/24/2004 06:07 PM
Mark Morford: Dick Cheney Kills Birds Dead; The manly veep has himself a lazy, "canned" pheasant slaughter, and we are so impressed 1/24 .. details .. More

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ESP Journalism

ESP Journalism 07/28/2004 09:54 PM
At 8:50 this evening, CJAD, 800 on your AM dial, reported that John Edwards accepted the party nomination and recounted what he said in his speech. Only problem: It's now 9:50 and Edwards has yet to give his speech. Apparently, Canadian Press jumped the gun with the transcript - explicitly embargoed - circulated by the Democratic PR folks, and CJAD ran with it. Not surprisingly, it made the top listing at Google News....

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism 08/14/2004 08:22 AM
Jay has blogged an atypical piece that is typically brilliant. He asks: Did 9/11 change journalism? Should it have? What story do journalists tell themselves about their role in the "war on terrorism"? Are journalists who inform citizens of the most powerful and influentual nation in the world participants in the war on terror, in the worldwide struggle for democracy, freedom and markets, because their country is a participant—the biggest by far—and they inform it? Don't miss the discussion in the comments. I only have a simple-minded answer to the question Jay poses in his nuanced post: 9/11 should have...

a primer on how not to do journalism

a primer on how not to do journalism 05/31/2004 02:30 AM
scathing self-rebuke .. Editor & Publisher .. this E&P piece .. credibility

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Reverse Journalism

Reverse Journalism 03/23/2005 01:22 PM
Yesterday I had a long talk about the search competition between Google and MSN. That competition is interesting, but so was the conversation, and what I can say about it. I was talking to a journo from a big-name mag that you see on every newsstand. He’d just been briefed by one of the search titans and wanted some insight from an independent search expert. The briefing was along the lines of “We’re gonna kill ’em dead because of X, Y, and Z” and he wanted my take on X, Y, and Z. Here’s the problem: X, Y, and Z are real interesting, and in particular it’s interesting that the vendor who’d briefed him thought they were important. But you know, I don’t think I can ethically say who the reporter was and who briefed him and what X, Y, and Z are, even though these are things that the vendor was trying to get published; because I didn’t think to ask the journo. Hmm, looks like I covered this ground once already, in August of 2003.

Backchannel Journalism

Backchannel Journalism 05/22/2004 12:30 PM
Journalists have their sources, but usually have to find new sources for new stories that don't reveal themselves while on the investigative trail. One tool they use is Profnet, an expert system for journalists. I have been on the expert...

Fairness in journalism

Fairness in journalism 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

There's an interview with author Michael Pollan (he wrote the highly regarded The Botany of Desire, which I have yet to read) on AlterNet. The teaser indicates the piece is all about food and the environment, but most of it ends up being about journalism, including this good bit:

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. Fairness forces you -- even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done -- to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Many blog evangelists point to the success of blogs, many of which are about as far from objective as you can get, as evidence that objectivity isn't required in telling a story, sharing a viewpoint, or in the search for truth. But it's important to keep Pollan's thoughts about fairness in mind before we throw the fairness baby out with the objectivity bath-water. So be subjective, but be fair also...you'll find you may get more mileage out of your arguments that way.

Stand Alone journalism

Stand Alone journalism 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Standing room

Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to sell ads and subscriptions.

Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for "Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the San Franciso Free Press experiment, I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my own publication on the Web!

So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature, and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad (hey, here's an interview with Marc Canter! Here's a satirical take on the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).

What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo banner, giving away T-shirts.)

After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print. Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate has felt a little crowded).

Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into far better organized online networks to spread the word of their activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash. But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and, in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's undertaking.

When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist, the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.

So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless without being connected.

[Scott Rosenberg]

Innovations in Journalism

Innovations in Journalism 02/16/2004 01:22 PM
Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I'm actually going...

Bloggers vs. Journalism

Bloggers vs. Journalism 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Mieto Marinadi talks about how a column by Matt i Wuori in Iltalehti is asking if blogs could be journalism and whether they will overrun the traditional media. I think the fact that the question is being asked now shows clearly how much Finland is not a front-runner in the information society game. In fact, this question is not even asked yet by journalists, but a lawyer.

You see, PressThink says the conversation on this subject is already over.

But in order to overrun media, there has to be first a Finnish blog that has something to say in a way that is interesting and new. I much enjoy the writings of Sedis, for example, and I am expecting much from Haltia (and some other political bloggers), now that the Helsinki City Council is starting its work. The new Finland for Thought (in English) keeps also asking important questions, and Kari Haakana is probably the foremost journalistic blogger in Finland. At the moment, Sami Köykkä of Pinseri and Alex Nieminen of sukellus.fi are arguably the most influential bloggers in Finland[1].

But this is not enough. I don't know whether it's even a good start. Most of the "internet discussion" in Finland is done in the scary, yet boring discussion boards of magazines, such as Iltalehti, Iltasanomat, Vauva-lehti, etc, and it is pretty much failing to impact anything. There is little danger to any sort of professional journalism from these discussion boards, who mostly just consist of rehashing the same arguments all over again. The USENET has been in existence for twenty years, and every time I go there, I see the same discussions but with different people. Or sometimes with the same people. It makes you wonder whether these discussion boards ever contributed something to anything, other than in the sense of community creation.

To me, blogs are different from the discussion boards because they are individualistic. A news group is usually referred to by its name, say "the people in sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet say that...". Similarly in a bulletin board: "Hey, I found this from Vauva-lehti..." On the discussion board, you lose yourself and become a part of a bigger crowd, all shouting at the same time. But a blog is attached to a real person (except for some weir dos who can't seem to be able to decide whether they exist or not). Therefore, whatever a blog says carries more gravity than a random rambling on a news board. It is essentially your own personal publication, and the comments are only a side story - much like "from the readers" -sections on newspapers. Therefore, bloggers are not a community, any more than newspapers are. Some bloggers form communities, yes, but blogs are far too good a ground for egocentrism for communities to become prevalent.

The reason that I find blogs interesting is that they might be the avenue to a real way for individuals (particularly non-journalists and non-politicians) to influence local and national decision-making; the real "information society" that the

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