A journalist is someone who won't spend five minutes on Google. And a blogger is someone who won't spend five minutes on the phone.

The Clue is that what is true for the software business is also true for the journalism business, and for business generally. It's also true for politics, and for society. The result may look messier, but it actually gets you closer to the real facts, faster, than a closed-source process.

Let's look into it. And then decide what to do.

Iran is paying less for more military might today than ever before, thanks entirely to Bush Administration policies.

Johnson was not an idiot. He was many things, but not an idiot. He was, in the end, a tragic figure. His whole term was a great tragedy. But the end of an era is always a great tragedy. From tragedies the Thesis of a new future rises, phoenix-like.

What is war good for? It holds us in amber, chains us to the past, and makes all those who yearn for peace, for real peace, seem like idealistic fools.

Can you head-butt a sitting U.S. Senator?

Dealing with these thieves, scam artists, and bullshitters is a growing problem. It's polluting RSS, it's polluting our ability to use the Web, it's costing Web advertisers money, and it's costing Google credibility.

Credibility is the coin of the realm, and yours is always on the line. (Start lieing on your blog and you can hose your career before it starts.) Journalism is a business, one that has just begun to bloom, and if you want to work there you must be a part of it. Editing means bringing stuff to your reader, becoming their advocate, organizing and advocating an industry, place of lifestyle.

At the end of this process, the value of a wireless bit falls to nearly zero and nearly everyone goes under.