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HARRY KIRSBAUM
Staff Writer
oward Lovy, former Jewish
Telegraphic Agency managing
editor and Detorit Jewish
News copy editor, took his love for all
things extremely small to the Web
when he started his nanotechnology
NanoBot blog,
nanobot.blogspot.com about a year
ago.
Nanotechnolgy is defined as the
manufacture of systems of molecular
size that emulate the behavior of larg-
er systems.
Nanobots are programmed molecu-
lar-sized robots that may some day in
the future treat disease from within
the human body.
Lovy of Ferndale was always
interested in the technology he
described in a Wall Street Journal
column as "nanomaterials ...
substances smaller than 100
nanometers, or 100-billionths of
a meter or . . . well, maybe this
will help: Close your eyes and
picture particles so small that
you can line up between 5,000
and 50,000 of them widthwise
on each strand of John Kerry's
hair or about 500 on each of
Dick Cheney's."
While he worked in Jewish
Howard Lovy of Ferndale works on his
journalism, Lovy kept up with
nanotechnology blog.
his secret interest in technologi-
cal news and nanotechnology.
On any given day, 800 - 1,500
otechnology, and I'm finding•that it
people will visit his Web site, he said.
had influence way beyond what I
When one of the big bloggers,
thought possible."
instapundit.com which has an inter-
He found people reading his blog as
est in nanotechnology, links to Lovy's
a supplement to Small Times, "kind of
site, the Web hits go "off the charts,
like, here's some news behind the
thousands and thousand of people
news in addition to my opinion," he
read it."
said. "It doesn't pretend to be unbi-
Blogs are increasingly the way a lot
ased journalism. It's all point of view."
of people are starting to get their
Lovy wouldn't want to replace tra-
information, he said.
ditional
journalism with blogs, "but
Covering nanotechnology is similar
blogs
are
a great way for people who
to covering Jewish news because you
really know things, who are part of a
get to cover a little bit of everything,
group or technology or advocacy
he said.
organization, who have a point of
"Jewish news covers human issues.
view that is very important, to add to
It's not so specific that you keep cov-
the debate, whether it's the war in
ering the same thing over and over
Iraq or nanotechnology.
again," he said. "Nanotech has appli-
"They are important points of view
cations in life sciences, consumer
that aren't getting out there through
goods and chemistry."
the traditional gatekeepers."
Lovy left the Jewish News four years
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ago to become news editor for Small
Times Media, a bimonthly print mag-
azine and daily updated Web site cov-
ering the business side of nanotech-
nology. Now he's working independ-
ently as a nanotech writer, editor and
consultant.
He began NanoBot to create more
of a buzz about the technology.
"The way to do it these days is to
put a little bit of yourself into it,
rather than the traditional journalism,
which is still necessary," he said.
"That's what the Internet was created
for — anything from a news editor of
a news organization to just some guy
in his basement who has a point of
view.
"In my case, it really added to the
debate over the future course of nan-
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