I keep hearing this advertisement on KPOJ for Washington Post’s website.\u00c2\u00a0 None of it is that interesting — it’s a continual series with a woman generally selling that day’s opinion offerings interspersed with a couple of stand-bys.\u00c2\u00a0 One hawks a voting record database, which is fair enough.\u00c2\u00a0 The other stand-by is an aggravation.<\/p>\n
The ad copy goes something like this: “Every election cycle brings with it new terms.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2000 it was ‘hanging chads’.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2004, we had ‘locked box’ and ‘fuzzy math’.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a feeling in 2008, “blogs” will rise to the top, and Washington Post dot com has a lot of blogs.”<\/p>\n
The problem is that the phrases for 2004 are connected with the 2000 presidential campaign, and the 2008 phrase came into the force in 2004.\u00c2\u00a0 Beyond which, the thought of a professional top-down group of blogs offered to us from this inside the beltway news source as something cutting-edge is fairly depressing — that famed top-down hierarchy that was so a part of Web 1.0 but is dashed away with Web 2.0 — or so the hyped frame of references works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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