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But I will give a shout-out to Mark 'rizzn' Hopkins (of Mashable fame). He and I exchanged some words the other day over whether or not one of his posts was appropriate for a "serious" tech blog.

We may agree to disagree on some things. I won't go into the substance.

But some things I said and the context they were said with other people's comments made him rather angry. He posted a video rant about it. That's ok, I can take it. But I exchanged some emails with him last night and it appeared we had been talking past each other.

And today he posted an update, an apology of sorts. He didn't have to do that.

But he did. That's more than many bloggers will do, and even many newspapers - publish a correction or clarification with same prominence of the original material. It's a weakness of many media outlets. One of my favorite practices of some bloggers is to strike out things in place
and put corrected language in.

What Mark did was real, and public, and honest. And as much as I respected him before, that respect has been multiplied. He says he's going to be writing on blogging versus journalism and the state of media today, and I can't wait to find out what he has to say.

Steve Hodson has a guest post at Mashable on the Freemium ad + subscriber value-added model for online media.

It would be far better if he could write coherently. One commenter went so far as to pick apart every single error in the whole post.

How can anyone influence if they can't communicate effectively?

The Congressman was good enough to speak to me today about the growing flames over his use of Social Media, which I've written about in today's Washington Internet Daily.
He and I talked for a bit about his opposition to the rules. There is more video, but for some reason Qik only loops the first part. Still, here it is

When  Robert and I interviewed Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, I knew that people in Congress were starting to understand how to communicate. Now? I'm not so sure. Aaron Brazell has a good thread going on on a plan to restrict Congressional media postings. I've written on it in WID, so I can't comment, but please look at Aaron's thread, and his original post.

I guess we're going in reverse order? This was the last one we did, but obviously Robert's favorite. Not a bad choice.

...by using my photos in their Mission of Burma write-up.

Thanks!

Here is Peter Corbett's great montage:

Robert posted an exhaustive list of videos from this week on his blog. I'll have to get around to doing the same later on, as well as posting photos and videos I took from my point of view during the week, including some great ones by Robert's son, Patrick Scoble, who grabbed my camera during some of the interviews. 

Thanks to everyone who attended!

If you have videos, photos, or anything else of the sort, send them to me, (andrew)[at_symbo](capitolvalley.net]

I hope everyone had a good time!