If this guy has unraveled the secret of aging: How come he looks so old?

(via: Instapundit)

Rogers Cadenhead: Enjoys doing
the
same kind of goofy things I do. (Remember, he registered
several potential papal domain names, including the “winning” one.)

I protest: This should have been a Nashville blogger, really. While his application sounds clever and I’m sure he’s suited for the job, blogging for the CMT about the Dukes of Hazzard from New York City, well, ain’t right. Although the thought of Slick hanging out with the Gawker crowd is amusing.

(via: Steve Rubel — who I feel, from the concerns he expresses about the potential ethical dilemmas this blogger could face, has never seen an episode of Dukes of Hazzard)

Print is dead: No, wait. It isn’t. At least not yet. I think we have at least a couple centuries left.

Which reminds me of a quote I missed when it appeared in March, but I’ve had in my “blog this” folder for months. It’s from a story in USA Today:

“Pat Schroeder, the former Colorado congresswoman and now president of the Association of American Publishers, cites a survey that found 82% of Americans want to write a book.”

My thoughts were twofold when I first read it: 1. Another example of the misinterpretation of research. 2. How come more Americans want to write a book than want to read one?

(via: Shawn Zehnder Lea, who, by the way, has a mighty fine ride and a photo that makes me chuckle.)

One era’s Wayne’s World is another era’s… (from Wired’s News.com): “Jason Scott, a 34-year-old documentary filmmaker from the Boston area,
has saved and cataloged more than 340 GB of online amateur radio since
he started in February.”

My 17-year-old daughter recently completed a major research project
that depended on contemporary news accounts of fiddle competitions
sponsored by the Ford Motor Company during late 1925, early 1926
– many of which were broadcast on that new-fangled medium called
radio. If someone like Jason had been around to record and compile all
of that programming, the Smithsonian Institution and the Country Music
Hall of Fame’s Museum Library would today consider it a national treasure.

(rexblog flashback: A post from last October comparing the early days of podcasting to the birth of the Grand Ole Opry)

B2B media podcasting: (From this press release) “CMP Media’s VARBusiness this week launched a podcast series to benefit its readers and web visitors with choice and flexibility in obtaining editorial content from the award-winning magazine. VARBusiness is the first high tech publication to launch a Podcast series.”

(Note to long-time rexblog readers: As this weblog’s traffic today is heavily skewed towards new readers who are interested in podcating, I’ll skip my typical rant on press releases claiming to be “the first” of something. )

The CSPAN of blogging: Patrick Ruffini has created the blog equivalent of “Road to the Whitehouse” with his 2008 Presidential Wire. Despite a historic citation on his resume (first official blogger of a winning presidential campaign), “The 2008 Wire” appears to be a tool that will be helpful to political junkies of all persuasions. As I’m already on record of describing presidential campaign coverage as exiting as the two-weeks before the Superbowl, I doubt I’ll be tuning in for a few years. But he makes a point, key decisions in a presidential race are often front-end loaded. But, still. Cool stuff, however.