Actually, Greg Kihn is a local radio personality in Silicon Valley..and a pretty easygoing guy. You might try calling him up and asking him to be on the show. After all, he does a variety of charity events.......

Someone. But not me.

e-buttal? Um....

I actually quite like the term "fisking." On the other hand, I hate "blogosphere." Actually, I hate the word "blog" as well. It's such a silly word. Sounds like something you'd be doing in the bathroom whilst battling food poisoning.

I'm kind of partial to replacing "fisking" with the more colorful "shithammering" myself.

I don't know. I don't do this for a living.

Crap. I thought you were Brian C. Anderson.

Oh well.

Maybe you are, and you will be doing some Senor Wences-like fast talkin' on the show. 'Sallright? 'Sallright.

Ah ha. Got it.

Shadow media? Yeah, right.

Doesn't work, Ace. You need a single word, or a word that can be easily switched to a simply acronym, like MSM.

I fear that blogosphere is here to say.

Then again, if we want to change the name, perhaps we can get Fox to call it "homicide media"?

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

What to call the blogoshpere, besides "blogosphere". I'll submit two ideas:

#1. BOB -- it's simply easy to type and has that humorous je n'cest pas twist to it.

#2. THE PAJAMA PRESS -- Speaks for itself.

I am partial to the more descriptive, yet elegant, "evisceration."

"what the hell happened to Billy Squier(?)"

Don't know what happened, but I do know why it happened.

The video for "Rock Me Tonight"

"Blogosphere," hmm . . .

The Electric Horsemen of the Apolcalypse

Digital Information Consultants (DICs)

The Underground Media

The Backwater Media

The Headwater Media

The Backchannel Media

The Pure Rocky Mountain Streamwater Media

The Digital Alternative Media

The Alternative Stream Media

The Digital Stream Media

The Digital Alternative Media (DAM)

The Horizontal Media

The Public

Shadow Media sounds kind of ominous.

It obviously wouldn't apply to all blogs, but what we're seeing is a new Reformation, this time not of the church but of the media. We are witnessing the dominant power losing their control of information and their ability to pre-interpret that information for the public.

shit

I've always liked "fisking". Partly because it refers to a specific person, with major negative connotations. And partly because it's one consonant off from a deviant sex act.

I use and I like blogsphere (without the "o"). Don't see any need to come up with or use something else.

"Fisking" makes my skin crawl. No matter what Sullivan says, it was intended to invoke "fisting", a fetish that creeps me out big-time (even if hot lesbians do it I look away). I especially don't like it when people who obviously feel the same way as I do throw it around. How do you get around the fact that it implies a violent and damaging sexual violation? Isn't that what you're saying if you write I "fisked" or Kaus "fisked" Paul Krugman? Nails on a freakin' chalkboard.

I like 'blogosphere.' But for when you want to lump everybody - - blogs and non-blogs -- together, how about The Internet News Media-

The IN media.

The Shadow Media sounds so, well shadowy, kind of like your logo ACE. lauraw is right:

I like 'blogosphere.' ... how about The Internet News Media-

The IN media.

I hate the word "blog." Sounds like a cold and flu symptom. "Yeah, I got the blogs. Sniffling and sneezing. Runny nose." Who the hell thought up "business log" anyway? It's more of a media or news log. "Mogs" or "Nogs."

The Shadow Media sounds so, well shadowy, kind of like your logo ACE. lauraw is right:

How about The Freedom Media?

rdbrewer, I think blog is supposed to be a shortening of 'weblog.'

Young Media? That's all you could come up with, Ace? Young Media?

I was thinking along the lines of "Young, Supple, Easily-Plied-With-Alcohol, Nubile Media" would be something you'd come up with.

kelly :-)

for Ace it would be Not So Young Media ;-)

"fisk" is how one pronounces "fsck" - as in "resolving UFS file system inconsistencies", for example. I could not believe the enlightened geekitude of blogdom when I found this term in use. Alas, yet another long-held acronym (well, phonetically, anyway) of UN*X has absquatulated. Look it up. Fsck, I mean. The parallels of fscking a filesystem and fisking someones bloggerel (q.v. doggerel) are surprisingly analogous. Except, with an inconsistent filesystem, you can REPAIR or REPLACE the jiggly bits. I suppose to the user community that the outage required to repair the filesystem might border on the obscene... "I even look away when I see two hot systems admins fscking each other's servers" but dammit, sometimes this sort of activity needs to be brought out into view. Even if it is scheduled for 2AM.

An NRO Corner-lanche for this post, nice

Ace, I love it.

So, who is going to invent the emblem and html code to place it on the sidebars of blogs everywhere?

"Proud member of The Shadow Media" -- yep, it would look sweet I think.

How 'bout "freedia" now the the NY Times will be charging for access to their website?

How about a play on samizdat? Like 'samiznet'

Grassroots Media

Citizen Media

Reformedia

GeekMedia

NerdMedia

iNews

newmedia

Kicking-the-MSM's-Ass Media

KickAssMedia

?

New-And-Improved Media

Better Media

Faster Media

SmarterMedia

BetterFasterSmarter Media

The BFSM?

The "blogocube"