“The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream”

hurricane blog

“I have in mind especially the throat-slashed seven-year-old girl who had been gang-raped at the convention center – didn’t happen. In fact, there were no rapes at the convention center or the Superdome that have yet been corroborated in any way.”

“A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers – often seen as barometers of popular trends – found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging.”

Gulfport blogger w/cameraphone. Coverage of relief efforts by ordinary people.

A photojournalist working in Iraq.

“O’Reilly Media’s first Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco illustrated one key fact: GIS people are welcome so long as you leave your desktop mapping software at the door.”