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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: March 22, 2004

  • Kind words for CNET News.com

    NPR’s Neal Conan reads listener mail on Talk of the Nation (apparently a Monday task). Today, one reader asked how he could trust anything on the internet. Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia University new media professor and a columnist for the media Web site, Poynter.org, runs through some obvious good ideas (check facts, etc.) and then…

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  • What’s the right tool?

    I’ve been using Radio Userland for my blog for a while. I actually tried it first back in 2000, around when the boy was born… I’m not sure it was even called Radio then. I’ve been publishing this blog for nearly a year, and my year license is about to expire. That event is triggering…

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  • Technorati: from one beta to the next

    Glad to see Technorati take another step forward. Still labelled beta, but clearly much further along than previously. Good luck Rich, David, Dan, et al.

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  • Movie: Lost in Translation

    Yeah, I finally caught up with the rest of the you and watched Lost in Translation (thank you, Netflix). A quiet movie that didn’t drag = worth the time. And, maybe, the hype. (Although I dislike the pop-up on their website trumpeting the awards the film has won. If you’re that thrilled, put it on…

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