Ed Cone has a new op-ed up: The way we politick now:
Use new media to influence old media, for example, and read the Web to find out what people are talking about outside the campaign bubble. Understand that the news cycle is dead and that stories don't just fade away anymore; the Web operates in an eternal present, where information gets posted in close-to-real-time and remains a click away forever.
not to mention that once you blog a word, google, which could care less about context, will dredge up that word for anyone, anytime after the next crawl of their indexing engines. We only know of the sexist, racist and otherwise politically damaging things said in the old-media days if someone with [a] good memory was listening but [b] they were not clued in about old-boy network omerta...or later get an axe that needs grinding.
OK so NOW I've RTFA. At least I can claim I didn't need Ed Cone to tell some things any blogger should know.
That is his op-ed in the hardcopy - aimed at non-bloggers.
Greensmile nails it. Every now and then I'll google Truthspew and my old blogger site is cached pretty much everywhere.
I'll stand by everything I've written and I've written some very critical things about people.