It's well past time I should have moved my blog to an on line blog service. I've been doing something like this for more than a few years (four or five) and have long wanted a simple, fast way of doing updates. If it's not simple, it very often doesn't get done. That goes some way toward explaining the ever decreasing number of updates my site has seen over the last year and a half.
It's my hope that creating this new home for my writings will allow me to recapture some of the fun that posting used to be. It is also my hope that interacting with the blogging and blog reading community will fuel my thoughts and keep me tethered to the earth.
My old home can still be viewed at Virtual Planet [link deleted], but I don't expect to add anything to that site if I can get this to work satisfactorily. And I'm pretty optimistic about that.
Makes room for CanWest to join the majors
Kudos to CanWest for calling a terrorist a terrorist . Many, including The Last Amazon , will be happy to hear it. Reuters is among the worst of the major western news services, where I would also place the BBC and the CBC.
Unsurprisingly, Reuters is not happy about the changes CanWest made to Reuters wire stories:
Our editorial policy is that we don't use emotive words when labeling someone," said David A. Schlesinger, Reuters' global managing editor. "Any paper can change copy and do whatever they want. But if a paper wants to change our copy that way, we would be more comfortable if they remove the byline." Mr. Schlesinger said he was concerned that changes like those made at CanWest could lead to "confusion" about what Reuters is reporting and possibly endanger its reporters in volatile areas or situations. "My goal is to protect ...
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