Infomaniac: WeBlog

Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor

What they're saying today 

A roundup of some things people are talking about on the Web:

Joel Achenbach says the parents of the 'runaway bride' should be charged, for helping plan a huge wedding. Achenbach (a former Herald reporter) prefers a wedding like his own, held on a pier, "so austere that it was only at the last minute that I succumbed to social pressure and invited my fiancee.". I'm with Joel. Big weddings are an abhorrance to me. Mine was in the Key West courthouse, just the groom and me before a 20-year-old clerk. That's the way I wanted it.

Bob Herbert, in the New York Times, writes about a Florida man who became a conscientious objector after seeing soldiers mistreating Iraqis, including detainees in Abu Ghraib, while he was stationed there.

"Mr. Delgado confronted a sergeant who, he said, had fired on the detainees. "I asked him," said Mr. Delgado, "if he was proud that he had shot unarmed men behind barbed wire for throwing stones. He didn't get mad at all. He was, like, 'Well, I saw them bloody my buddy's nose, so I knelt down. I said a prayer. I stood up, and I shot them down.' ""

If any of you are bloggers who dream about getting to make a living blogging, feast on the story of Brittney, a waitress, who just started a new job blogging full time for a local Nashville TV station: Nashville is Talking.

And, on the subject of blogs, a question on a researchers' group I belong to elicited a link to Rebecca Blood's history of Weblogs, a fascinating essay on where blogs came from, what they are, and what people use them for.

posted by liz at 2:29 PM