Craig Burton

Microsoft temp worker Michael Hanscom is now known as the first Microsoft employee to lose his job over his blog.

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I found these Windows error messages very funny.

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They’re used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 examples
The Web site you seekCannot be located, butCountless more exist.
Chaos reigns [...]

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Jay Rosen list 10 things that are conservative about weblogs:

“To ask whatís conservative about weblogs as a form for journalism is to ask: whatís ìoldî about the new?”

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Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group now has a blog. I like her ideas about the Mono project.
 

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Robert Scoble documents how he tracks 618 blogs per day.

“If you are surfing with your browser you all are wasting so much time it isn’t even funny. Get into the RSS news aggregator revolution. Yesterday another team at Microsoft did. Will you get it in time?”
Scoble uses Newsgator, I use Amphetadesk. Even though I use [...]

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Jay Rosen has a great set of 10 items on things radical about the weblog. Read the comments as well. Nicely done!
Mr. Rosen then follows up with When the Learned Rant at the Times. A great post with a lot of insight. It seems that a lot of bloggers are talking about Mr. Markhoff’s interview with [...]

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Doc Searls writes eloquently about weblogs;

“…Weblogs are journals. Newspapers are journals. Both have their place in the market ecology. All blogs do is change that ecology. Thanks to blogs, there are more writers, more angles, more ways to come at stories, dig up facts, float ideas and develop understandings.”
This was in response to OJR’s interview [...]

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