Supreme Bourne: Unusual thing this summer: Sequels that equal great first movies. First Spiderman II and now the Bourne Supremacy. Just saw it and it’s great. And here’s a great deal: we purchased the DVD of the Bourne Identity earlier and it contained a free ticket (not a coupon, but a “check”) to the Bourne Spremacy.

Cool (but so-long-privacy) stuff update: A friend e-mailed me a link to the Eliyon Buisness People Search Beta and suggested I type into the search box a name of a person or company. My response to the results are something akin to the first time I typed my name into Google: Awed, but wishing I weren’t so on the grid. Some funny results occur, however, when there are two people with the same name. For example a certain well-known blogging friend appears to not only be a journalist of some repute, but also a noted jazz instructor.

Convention blogging, missing the point: That a group of A-list bloggers are being credentialed to cover the party conventions is more novelty than news. It’s great that some writers-without-editors will be posting their observations and experiences but that merely extends the current “reporter-pundit” paradigm of traditional journalism. The true break-through will come when all delegates, party operatives and candidates start blogging. Dave Winer is helping the ball get rolling by setting up ConventionBloggers.com, an aggregator of DNC blogs that not only pulls in all the “credentialed” blogs, but delegate blogs as well. As usual, Dave’s thinking ahead of us. (Have I mentioned he’s a great humanitarian recently?)

This is making me think I should go to NY and blog the RNC. Hey, I’ve got some experience.

Update: David Weinberger blogs the same “A-List bloggers story misses the point” issue. It doesn’t surprise me that I would anticipate David’s concern as most of what I believe along these lines has been lifted directly from influenced by his Cluetrain writings.

To the print and broadcast media, bloggers usually look like little, vanity-press versions of the mass media. That’s because the media focus on the A-List. After all, the A-Listers are the ones who have succeeded in the mass media’s terms: By definition the A-Listers have accumulated masses of readers. And then we get the gotcha, for the media have additional values, such as striving for objectivity and polish, that are not necessarily the A-List’s values. So, blogging looks to the media like a home-grown mass medum that’s amateurish and unreliable. At worst, to the media we look like self-deluded egomaniacs who have convinced ourselves we’re competing with national news organizations.

Gentrification: New on the nouveau niche magazine front, the Mercury News is reporting (reg. required) that a new version of Gentry Magazine is being planned for “South Valley.”