Category: Media & Weblogs
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There will be light or no blogging for the next week to ten days. I expect that most readers as well as our bloggers, will be busy with travel and family get-togethers in the coming days. Even if there are new posts during the holidays, please expect to see more links than commentary. Hopefully, blogging…
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Chris Mooney of the science blog, Intersection, reports that a category 4 or 5 cyclone is poised to devastate Bangladesh. (Mooney began reporting on the storm long before the US media had published a single story about the impending disaster.) In his estimation, the damage caused by the storm is likely to match Katrina’s devastation.…
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In my more than two years of blogging and commenting on blogs, I have been accused of ranting just twice – both times on someone else’s blog. I am sure many more of my commentaries have qualified as rants – just that no one has said so. Ranting, in my book is not necessarily a…
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After the horrors of plumbophobia , the next big meme in the media : Cough syrups and how bad they are for the youngest and most vulnerable among us. From the MSNBC article: Over-the-counter cough syrups generally contain drugs in too low a dose to be effective, or contain combinations of drugs that have never…
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No time for a commentary – I am in a hurry to leave on a trip. This story speaks for itself. Questionable 4-year-old FBI memo presented as new to stoke terror fears Did al Qaeda start the California wildfires? As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn’t help speculating about…
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Sometimes it seems like only yesterday and at other times depressingly long since I set a tentative foot in the blogosphere. It is neither. Today is Accidental Blogger’s second anniversary and we at A.B. are probably as surprised as our readers by the blog’s moderate longevity. On our first anniversary, I was effusive and adopted…
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Here at Accidental Blogger, we can’t boast of being the biggest, funniest, most interesting or influential blog.…
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Yesterday morning I came across this article in the Houston Chronicle. The story is of a law suit involving free speech and privacy rights of an anonymous blogger who has been relentlessly critical of a medical facility in Paris, Texas. An unlikely Internet frontier is Paris, Texas, population 26,490, where a defamation lawsuit filed by…
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Close on the heels of our recent post and discussion on China’s Great Firewall, comes this story. Not satisfied merely with blocking and banning "objectionable" internet sites, the government of China has devised a unique way to warn web browsers that their internet habits are being watched and monitored. The alert will come in the…
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I received the following e-mail from fellow blogger Namit Arora who is traveling to China later this month and has just discovered that his blog (where I am a co-author) is not accessible from China. He checked and found that Accidental Blogger too is blocked. Namit wrote: I found out that my website and SN…
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Ian of Letters Home to You has postulated a list of guiding principles of blogging, twenty commandments if you will. They are not written in stone as you will find out (see commandment # 19, if it has not already changed). Although I have been blogging for more than two years (including my guest blogging…
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Science blogger Bora Zivkovic (aka Coturnix) interviewed Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards about various issues pertaining to science, society and education. See the interview at A Blog Around The Clock. Good job, Bora!
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