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The increasingly inaccurately-named blog of journalist and futurist Chris Taylor. Either the most sporadically brilliant amateur blog, the most brilliantly amateur sporadic blog, or the most amateur sporadic brilliance on the Web since 2001.
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Daily Blah FAQ
Who are you?
I'm the newly-appointed Future editor at Business 2.0 and the former San Francisco correspondent for Time Magazine.
Wow, so does this mean everything you write reflects Time Inc's opinion? Or do you perhaps have some sort of standard disclaimer to the effect that it doesn't?
Naturally, the opinions contained in this blog are not those of my employers. In fact, some opinions may be the polar opposite of my employers. Some may be the same, for all I know. Hey, it's not like I ask my employers their opinions about everything in the news, okay? Let's just say that if this were a Venn diagram with one circle marked "my opinions" and the other one marked "my employers' opinions", there would doubtless be some overlap. But neither I nor my employers are able to pinpoint exactly where that overlap is.
What is this Daily Blah thing?
An experiment for a column I wrote about blogging back in December 2001. All these years later, I haven't been able to kick the habit.
Do you write any other blogs, by chance? Could that have something to do with the fact that Daily Blah isn't always Daily?
Yes -- the Future Boy blog for Business 2.0. And yes. If you want true, editorially-mandated daily coverage from me, that's probably the best place to look.
Mister, you talk funny. Are you one of them furrners?
Why yes I am, as it happens. I was born, raised and educated in Great Britain. I've been living in the U.S. since 1996 and identify as British.
I say, old chap, you forgot the "u" in "colour."
No I didn't. I may identify as British, but I am also an American journalist writing for an American audience about mostly American issues. These two different sides of me are a constant source of tension. Nevertheless, Daily Blah will adhere to American English grammar and spelling.
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Daily Blah for... Monday, February 04, 2002
Debbie Russell writes to ask: where are some of the best places to get news stories from around the world? Good question, Debbie. Or rather, it's one I can easily answer by cutting and pasting a few of my bookmarks and adding a pithy comment to each. Let's go.
BBC News. This is my new homepage, edging out CNN since September 11th when my corporate bretheren in Atlanta got just a wee bit too patriotic and unquestioning for my news tastes. Besides, it loads fast, there's a wonderful news ticker at the top of the page, they pack an extraordinary amount of world news and weird news on one screen, and there has seldom been an occassion where I've fired up my browser to do something else and haven't been distracted by a BBC story.
Ananova. She started out as a gimmick, but the green-haired virtual newsreader is turning into the best source by far for quirky and underreported stories. About half of the e-mail forwards I get from my friends started life as Ananova reports. Besides, she's rather sexy. It's not exactly Naked News, but you can still get lost in those peepers.
Wired News, Slashdot and NTK are my favorite sources for tech news.
A quick plug for Time.com. It's more than just the weekly magazine, folks. There's up-to-the-minute news analysis from a very smart bunch of cookies, too.
And finally, let us not forget Drudge. Sure, you have to take his massive headlines with a pinch of salt, and his conservative leanings pepper the page. But he's a great one-stop resource for just about everything news related: wire services, columnists, local papers, the mainstream news sites. Ultimately the man is a news junkie, and as such, his heart's in the right place.
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