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Going mainstream?

Just when you thought it was safe to blog —

Blogs and advertising:
"Most corporate agency Web sites are really just fancy billboards," he (Steve Hall) said. "It's pretty much impossible to have a face-to-face with every single business contact out there. What better way than to put your voice out there on a regular basis with a Web log?" Read the article: Madison Avenue Ponders the Potential of Web Logs, By Nat Ives, published in the New York Times.

posted by: howard at 14:46 | link | comments (26) |

Nobel Peace Prize 2004

Motime congratulates Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai

Leader of the Greenbelt Movement wins Nobel Prize:
There is little doubt that the world could use a lot more peace and many, many more trees. Dr. Maathai's work was not restricted to her important environmental activism -- she was also a strong opponent to the brutal Kenyan dictator Daniel arap Moi.

"Wangari Maathai is the founder of the Greenbelt Movement and the first woman to earn a doctorate in biology in East Africa. A recipient of numerous awards for her work on environmental and social issues, she was elected to Parliament by an overwhelming majority in 2003 and is currently the Assistant Secretary for Environnment, Wildlife, and Natural Resources in the new democratically elected Kenyan government. She lives in Nairobi, Kenya." (Quoted from Lantern Books, the first link, below.)

Read more about this extraordinary person by following these links:

The Greenbelt Movement, Sharing the Approach and the Experience, by Wangari Maathai
The Greenbelt Movement website
National Public Radio story (audio)
Kenyan activist plants tree to mark Nobel Prize (Reuters)

posted by: howard at 02:51 | link | comments |

Listen to this...

Have you heard the term "podcasting"?

Mixing in the audio channel:
To keep you up-to-date on trends in the blogosphere, I would like to invite you to listen to a recording of a recent conference which took place at Gnomedex 4.0 just a few days ago, on October 2, 2004. The focus of the discussion is "audioblogging" and "podcasting". What's it all about? Is it a fad, a future trend, or here today and to stay?"

Listen to a compelling and well-argued manifesto against audioblogging by Maciej Cegłowski paradoxically audioblogged to make his point... Still interested? Read a brief definition of podcasting here and here. Still interested??? Visit podcaster.net for a list of podcasts and how to listen to them. Podcasts are like personal radio shows and vary wildly and widely in quality and content...

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