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| Tuesday, December 9, 2003 |
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Al Bore 
| | Dave says BTW, the Gore endorsement means bupkis to me. I thought the guy was a weenie in 2000. Imagine losing to George Bush who's an even bigger weenie. |
| | I just feel sorry for Joe. |
Funrolling
Blind Bloggers Frisk the Elephant
| | I depressed the switch on the side of the kettle. The water began to heat up until it reached boiling point. The kettle then turned itself off, requiring me to take no further action. |
| | This is followed by 113 comments. Imagine Slashdot on 'ludes with no moderation. Funny shit. |
Rewords of wisdom
| | There is a human need to be right and to be recognized as such. In the blogosphere you can always find someone who agrees with you - and you may in fact be very smart and often right, but the path of "I am right" never will lead to greater understanding and to increased wisdom. |
The VidiDigiCam Chronicles, cont'd
From the Dept. of Regurgitation...
| | I was just reading Doc Searles' weblog which has an entry about the Howard Dean campaign for president. There are several references to how "Big Media" (of which I'm a small cog) just do not get the way Dean's campaign is "using" the Internet, specifically the weblog, to communicate and listen to supporters and voters. Permalink at Doc Searles |
| | I'm not too concerned or surprised by the "not getting it" criticism. |
| | But, it did spark a small -- an likely unoriginal (but I hope not) -- thought based on Steve Gillmor's eWeek article "John You Ignorant Slut" about a John Dvorak article -- slamming blogs -- jeez, this post has so many sub-references I'm starting to expect a Dennis Miller jokes. The phrase that sticks in from Dvorak is about blogs being co-opted by Big Media and "stern corporate editors." |
| | When the dust settles, I think it will be these "stern corportate editors" that separate the 'blog from Big Media. "Big Media" will become the fallback for reliability, as far as thatcan be established in any sort of journalism. Most blogs won't can't don't rise to the level of fact-checking and editorial standards of a good newspaper. Chew on that. |
| | Okay. Just one small fact-check. It's Searls, not Searles. (Oh, and "corportate," whatever that is.) |
| | I suggest naming (perhaps as "ruminant") the kind of editing we do here after the compartmental digestive systems of livestock, which regurgitate what they eat, chew as cud and re-swallow. |
Excellence in decadence
| | Choire Sicha, back from a trip: Miami Beach is chock full of hotel lobby bars, and there's nothing I love more than sipping decaf cappuccinos at 4 a.m. in a gorgeous hotel lobby with drunken dear friends. |
| | Okay, I have stayed far too long in Miami, so I'm hopping a plane back to Man-fucking-hattan today. I need to see a man without pec implants or a woman without two shades of lipliner and fast. |
So?
| | At each moment, he appears outspoken, blunt and honest. But over time he is incoherent and contradictory. |
| | He is, in short, a man unrooted. This gives him an amazing freshness and an exhilarating freedom. |
| | Everybody talks about how the Internet has been key to his fund-raising and organization. Nobody talks about how it has shaped his persona. On the Internet, the long term doesn't matter, as long as you are blunt and forceful at that moment. On the Internet, a new persona is just a click away. On the Internet, everyone is loosely tethered, careless and free. Dean is the Internet man, a string of exhilarating moments and daring accusations. |
| | The only problem is that us rural folk distrust people who reinvent themselves. Many of us rural folk are nervous about putting the power of the presidency in the hands of a man who could be anyone. |
| | Joshua Micah Marshall calls it "a weird column." |
| | Hmmm. I don't know. Hasn't Dean lived in a predominantly rural state for like twenty-five years? (According to census data, Vermont is the most rural state in the nation.) Every pol likes to suit his biography to the needs of the moment. But that fact would seem to give Dean's statement at least a measure of credibility, no? |
Clues
| | It's been a long time since I checked Cluetrain's Amazon sales rank. It's #822 for the hardcover, which is, technically, out of print. The paperback, still in print, is #29,949. |
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