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| Monday, November 10, 2003 |
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Elsewhere in the world 
| | Im just wondering if I need a Windows box to get it set up and working, like it suggests here. I don't have a Windows box here. I've got Linux and OS X. |
| | As for default Windows-only jive, I have two working Linksys WAPs with documentation that says the same kind of thing, and all I needed to config 'em was a browser. Is this the same kind of situation? Or does Garmin's proprietary mapping system only relate to Windows somehow? |
| | DeLorme has the same restrictions. Or says it has, which is annoying either way. Meanwhile, I still have an older Earthmate that works swell with the company's own software on OS 9 and with Kismet on a Linux laptop. |
| | This offers some help on the OS X side. This too. |
| | [Later...] Thanks to Dave for the pointer, and the "human semantic Web" challenge. |
Cost somebody an arm and a leg
Bookmarking time
| | Judith makes a good point about pointing to stuff in our own blogs (in this case a blog tutorial by d2r): |
| | The reason I point to it is because I want to be able to come back to it quickly and permanently. I want other people I get started on blogging to read this introduction. By pointing to the intro in my blog, I make that referring very easy. Another good reason to blog things. My blog is a permanent record of things I want to refer to at a later date. |
Out-thinking louder
| | I'm always amazed, though I shouldn't be, when I talk politics with people who get all their news from newspapers, radio and TV. Last night, for example, an old friend talked about the degree to which Howard Dean was hurt by his confederate flag remarks, which brought a torrent of faux sincere opprobrium from his Democratic rivals, as well as the usual war stories (no other metaphors allowed) in the press. |
| | I wondered: Was he hurt? Really? Or did he just get yelled at? Hey, maybe it was a dumb remark, but if those matter all that much in a political campaign, George W. Bush would never have been elected to anything. On the contrary, Dubya's tongue-tripping seems to mask a real intelligence that in fact serves (perhaps not by intent, but effectively none the less) as a rope-a-dope strategy against opponents who underestimate him. |
| | As for Dean's decision, supported by his hundreds of thousands of paying constituents, to decline federal matching funds, the transmitted wisdom on the matter generally seems to miss the point. Yesterday on NPR, Daniel Shorr drew parallels between Dean's decision and the Bush Administration's castration or obliteration of other 70s-era reforms (environmental ones, for example). What about the idea (if not the fact) that Dean's decision blows up the old money game, regardless of the politics involved? |
| | There's only one real issue the Dems can use against Bush, and that's cronyism. On that one, Dean is cleaner than any serious candidate we've ever had, and Bush is at risk of drowning in it. |
| | It is the K Street politics of the savvy class. Its members are the insiders. They are the pros. They are the pundits, handlers and funders, vultures and parrots who run and staff the campaign story, which is above all the inside story of how you get elected in this country. Its outstanding feature, Joan Didion wrote, is "remoteness from the actual life of the country." They are the people of this remoteness. The people of the campaign bus, the war room, the press lounge. They surround the campaign, travel with it, come under its employ. They create the public narrative of politics, which is about the candidates but controlled by the pros. |
| | Some live off politics, some live for it-- but they are all in and out of the same hotels. The pros are realistic. Their job is to understand how things really work. But then they also tell you they understand because their class includes people who bring us news of politics, and talk on television about it. When Lydon writes about "a drastic subversion of a discredited game," he means the whole game of Get Elected, starring the savvy class in ten different professions. And if there is anyone who is the big winner in that game right now it is Karl Rove, savviest of all, wizard to the White House, which is still winning big... |
| | Tools that match the intensity of convictions. Christopher Lydon, New York Times reporter at 33, discovered that the New York Times was not going to be one of those tools. In a way, he's been looking around ever since. Now in his 60s, he found inspiration in the "open style," which I would call politics in a different key. It's not in charge, this new politics; it's just different because it can handle high participation. It has a bottom up energy that the top down people are still figuring out. It has tools that match its convictions. And it has a grave to stomp on: one-to-many man is dead. |
| | While we're on the subject, listen to Chris Lydon's interviews of Stirling Newberry and of Cameron Barrett. These contain some of the most vivid and instructive commentary I've heard yet. They cover not only What's Going On (Stirling's specialty), but What We Can Do (Cam's) as well. Has anybody transcribed this stuff yet? |
| | Here's a serious question for you: What would you recommend to local and state party organizations? Especially ones on the Republican side? Bush's $.2 billion (or whatever) campaign war chest is a side issue for these people. It's a TV fund. Party organizations are where grass roots have grown into trees and forests. How should they adapt within the newly networked political environment, where we're all in a position to get smarter, and where the best selection of smarts isn't on TV or in the newspapers, but rather amongst each other? |
| | Here's another angle on i: What are the parties good for if not just raising money? |
C on N
| | Craig is blogging again, and that's a Good Thing. His latest is on Novell ("We put the N in Linux"), about which he knows a great deal. |
| | In fact, if it weren't for Craig's smarts back in the 80s, when he worked there, we wouldn't still be talking about Novell today. |
Valvation
| | Endless self-congratulatory whining about how the Big Media that blogs will crush don't mention you in their articles. Poor Chris Lydon. Has to read a story in the NYT about politics and it doesn't mention blogs! Not ONCE! Jesus, talk about a single-interest group. Hey, the new breed is taking over, man. It's the people, man - like Jeff Jarvis over at that hotbed of populism Conde Nast, or Chris Lydon at Harvard, the People's University. |
| | Hey, if Big Media are so fucking clueless, why do you care so much about what they think? You're like a bunch of broken records (or mp3's - The Man Can't Bust Our Music, Dude.) Find something to write about besides blogging, for Christ's sake. |
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