Sunday Morning Reading

 Some Sunday morning reading to share. Interesting thoughts on blogging, politics, and squids.

"The consumption of blogs, is often avid and occasionally obsessive." So says this article in The Wall St. Journal. Blogs are 10 years old. Om Malik links to that Wall St. Journal article that celebrates the decade. Some interesting interviews with interesting folk. Tom Wolfe ain't too happy about the whole thing.

David Ignatius in The Washington Post takes on the whole right to privacy issue and says that bloggers, along with journalists, should have standards about what they write about, otherwise everyone will become too careful about what they say and we will see a diminishing return on human stupidity. He sells humans far too short.

And in another Washington Post article, Anthony Faiola, discusses geek culture and how geeks banding together and creating a geek social scene, which is changing the definition of nerd.

Uber-Geek Chris Pirillo has been pushing politics lately. He's own a tear ranting about how the financial lever pullers really run things. (Amazing he's just figured this out.) And he's been sorta hyping Ron Paul because of his stance on this issue. Chris has put a long list of quotes together on the issue that is more than worth the compilation.

This week, we saw an outgoing Surgeon General say he was muzzled by the administration and an incoming Surgeon General in a confirmation hearing say he would let science not politics govern his approach. Good luck on that one.

They used to be thought of as mythical, but giant squids keep making the news lately. One washed up on a beach in Australia.

Jim Gilmore pulled out of the presidential race. Did anybody notice?

The only folks doing more video than Robert Scoble these days are the Al Qaeda folks. Lots of noise and chatter there. Is there something going on, or are they just taking advantage of the huge lack of trust that is out there and trying to terrorize in a different way? Al Qaeda, not Scoble.