Sometimes, really awful people figure out how to game search engines. You can get mad, or you can do some reverse g- bombing. (Background and code: here. If you’ve got a blog, help out.)
Martin Luther King - Wikipedia entry
Martin Luther King - The official website of The King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Martin Luther King - Nobel Prize biography of Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King - Article from the Seattle Times about the life and impact of Dr. King.
Martin Luther King - Time Magazine explores the way in which Dr. King helped shaped the political and social fabric of the times.
Martin Luther King - Text and audio of King’s speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Martin Luther King - MLK time line
Martin Luther King - A collection of primary and secondary documents pertaining to Martin Luther King, Jr., held at Stanford University.
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I guess I would think the Vanderbilt chancellor’s salary of $905,000 per year plus benefits and expenses is pretty robust if I hadn’t read just a few days ago that the average — let me repeat that, average, salary of a Division I-A college football coach is $950,00 plus benefits and expenses.
Newscorp. chairman confesses to ill-considered idea in the first degree and cancels publication of the O.J. Simpson “psuedo-memoir” called If I Did It.
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“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” Mr. Murdoch said in a statement.
Judith Regan, psuedo-publisher of the book — I mean, pubisher of the psuedo-memor — is not quoted in the statement. Perhaps she’s working on a sequel psuedo-memoir by O.J. called, “The Glove Fits, II: If I Were Going to Murder Rupert Murdoch, Here’s How I’d do It.”
First, stop making fun of Ashley Judd’s twang. Second, uh, I forgot what the second thing was.
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People employed by the mainstream media (MSM) are always intrigued (threatened?) when powerful people who used to get their news from the MSM begin to mention that they also get their news from people who create personal web-based media. When big-names in a specific industry start referring to a blog or another form of web-based media created by a person not employed by a media company (note: I didn’t call it “user-generated-content”), the legacy media in that arena become curious — and feature stories follow. Today’s example is this piece in the New York Times about Brian Stelter, the college student who created TV Newswer.
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“Perhaps this is what the techno-geeks had in mind when they invented the Internet — a device to squash not only time and space, but also social class and professional hierarchies, putting an unprepossessing Maryland college student with several term papers due in a position to command the attention and grudging respect of some of society’s most famous and powerful personalities. Or maybe it just worked out that way.
Such fascination (fear?) has been around since the mid-90s, but my first recollection of it rising to the level of obsession is when the MSM discovered the Drudge Report. There began an ever-escalating coverage of him until one day, Matt Drudge was invited to speak at the National Press Club and he actually made sense and didn’t bite any heads off live chickens. And so, he was accepted with some begrudging legitimacy as a new form of news gatekeeper with an occasional scoop.
About the same time, in the movie industry, an ubber-geeky guy named Harry Knowles of Ain’t it Cool News was doing the same thing. He’s even been parodied on Saturday Night Live and in an HBO series.
For a segment of college-aged males, Drew Curtis became the keeper of the gate of news of weird pop culture stuff with his forum-like (and not always safe for work) meme-tracking website, Fark.com.
And then, along came blogging and nearly every niche and cranny has the potential for someone who cares about the topic enough to devote the time and energy necessary to stay on top of what’s happening.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll be the next person the New York Times wants to feature. All you need to do is devote 24/7 to knowing more than anyone else about the inside happenings in an niche that a passionate group of people have an obsession.
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