Remember Michael Malone?

He was the dude that interviewed Carol Bartz of AutoDesk, and was one of the first reporters on high-tech. 

Read his recent article.  Very interesting reading, dude.

On Tuesday, the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced. And if they are anything like last year, the journalism awards will go to the usual collection of dying newspapers: the Oregonian (which my great-grandfather helped found), the L.A. Times (where my grandmother was one of the first women in the newsroom), the Miami Herald, and Newsday. There will be the usual flurry of media, and then those newspapers will go back to dying.

Meanwhile, the people who should be the winners of these awards will be ignored — indeed, many aren’t even eligible. For example, after I tossed the Merc aside and drove home, I went on the Web and read a fabulous entry in a blog called Kaboom by a soldier known only as “Lt.G.” It was some of the best first-person reporting I’ve read all year.

The single most worthy recipient of a Pulitzer this year is Michael Yon (with fellow Middle East blogger Michael Totten a close second). Yon’s reporting from Iraq is so superior to anything being done in the mainstream media that those other reporters should hang their heads and go home. But Yon doesn’t work for a newspaper, he survives instead on donations from readers, so he probably isn’t even eligible.

There’s a bunch of other stuff in there and it’s good. 

I have to go, dude.  See you later.