The new model of publishing is the stable of bloggers. That's the way the world is moving. Foreign Policy, firedoglake, antiwar.com, and the Atlantic have all chosen this model, replacing the professional guild/captive-advertising model of the late great newspaper. The blog-stable is a highly-evolved social organization that mingles great individualism with antilike cohesion and scraps of income.
There seems to be an understanding born of the blogosphere that an informed society depends on the accretion of tons of information, and individuals cease to matter. Notwithstanding stars like Sullivan and Greenwald, the good stuff is quickly sorted out and shared. There is a democratic leveling at work. Steve Walt and I were born a month apart. He achieved considerable status, I didn't. Now we're both bloggers. And we take Muslim voices from halfway around the world seriously too.
I'm trying to move this blog toward the Stable model and lessen my presence. This week my better half, Adam Horowitz, is away but I hope to have him back soon. I rely on him, as on Jack Ross and Saif Ammous and Jerry Slater, and several unnamed informants. I am still looking for an institutional home, and I don't mean McLean's. I can be franker about seeking donations, my chief source of income right now, when those monies are being shared with others.... Ala, the old Katz's Deli sign: Send a salami to your boy in the Army. --Phil Weiss
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I'll one up Jim Haygood. Instead of donating money to already remunerated adults, donate some money to starving children in Palestine:
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=1171
RE:
"If you really want to send something of meaning to someone doing something important, fuck Phil, and click below.
link to pizzaidf.org
This is of course not Jim Haygood/s comment. As usual, it is Bill
Pearlman's, aka SOG's. Bill is the weakest link in the Hasbara crowd, though he does his best to make up for quality propaganda with his quantity of personal insults.
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Your donations of over $250 are eligible for a US IRS tax deduction. ALL USA taxpayers are happy to feed pizzas and soda to IDF soldiers. Starting at the minimum order, one pizza and one soda for an IDF patrol of five young Jewish troopers will cost merely $25.99. Such a deal! And you get to walk with G-D yet!
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Bill Pearlman, who are you?
Why the vile theft of a brave, benevolent person's identity or the wretched sentiments toward courageous Phil?
S Kneedler,
You are obviously new here. Save your keyboard and your time and desist from engaging in a dialogue with SOG. Dialogue is not what SOG is about.
Eva
Watcher's right; that isn't my comment above. As is obvious.
'Notwithstanding stars like Sullivan and Greenwald, the good stuff is quickly sorted out and shared [in the blogosphere].' — Phil
In some ways, the sorting process is like meta-analysis in science. Individual studies whose sample sizes are too small to draw valid conclusions, can be combined in a meta-analysis to produce statistically solid conclusions.
Similarly, individual bloggers may have their biases and errors. But synthesize a large-enough sample of trusted sources, and it may be as much or more credible than a single MSM source — even a soi-disant 'newspaper of record' — which can have its own errors and biases.
Remember 'Saddam's WMDs'? That wasn't no blogger mistake.