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| Monday, March 1, 2004 |
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Blogging at GandhiCon 2.5 
| | 44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files |
| | In a national phone survey between March 12 and May 20, 2003, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that more than 53 million American adults have used the Internet to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online. |
| | The full blog bullet point is this: |
| | 2% maintain Web diaries or Web blogs, according to respondents to this phone survey. In other phone surveys prior to this one, and one more recently fielded in early 2004, we have heard that between 2% and 7% of adult Internet users have created diaries or blogs. In this survey we found that 11% of Internet users have read the blogs or diaries of other Internet users. About a third of these blog visitors have posted material to the blog. |
| | Hey, what percentage of the adult population would describe themselves as writers at all? Earth to AP: blogging is driving that percentage up, hard and fast. |
| | Reminds me of Gandhi's oft-quoted line about disruptive movements that are misunderstood by the institutions they disrupt: |
| | First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. The you win. |
| | Seems to me we're midway between 2 and 3 |
Tech support question
| | Here's the problem: My wife's Eudora (6.0.2) mail client on her Powerbook (TiBook 500, OS X 10.3.2) can't connect to our searls.com mail server over our Cox Business Internet Service connection. Worse, it hoses the wireless access point when it tries. I can be running a ping of some site, and watch the connection go to hell while Eudora initiates the session. Eventually the whole connection is hosed. Once Eudora stops trying to connect, the connection comes back, although that sometimes requries quitting Airport and reconnecting to the wireless access point. Here's what we have so far for trouble-shooting. |
| | - Mozilla works fine on the same account. But she's been using Eudora for 8 years and doesn't want to give it up.
- Eudora works fine over the Cox residential service (we have both biz and residential). But I'd rather have us all working with the business connection. (Residential is faster but blocks port 80 and 25 and the service isn't quite as good.)
- The Cox Business Internet people see no problem with the connection.
- When we try getting her mail with another copy of Eudora on another laptop, it has the same problem, so it's not limited to her copy of the program or her machine.
- Her Eudora client has no trouble getting mail from my account on the same server.
- Eudora tech support says the problem isn't with the client, but with the server — there must be a corrupted file somewhere.
- I went in with telnet and deleted all the mails on the server, and the problem perists.
- I've tried three different wireless access points. Same thing happens with all three.
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| | What doesn't work is the combination of Eudora, Cox Business Internet Service and her mail account on the server. Change any one of those (to a different client, a different connection or a different mail account) and everything is fine. Unfortunately, we want the combination that isn't working. |
| | Please, no snarks about the clients or the machines involved. I'm gradually moving to a Linux laptop, but there's no way my wife's gonna do the same. And this problem should be solvable, no? |
Multi Micahmedia
| | ... Nader is now a leftist prophet, not just a tribune of the angry middle or the little guy. |
| | To fully fathom Ralph Nader the presidential candidate, you need to understand the old Ralph Nader -- the dark-eyed, tousle-haired lawyer who did stand up for the little guy and who grabbed the public's attention over car safety long before he veered off into presidential politics. |
| | Nader's crusade follows from what the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes purportedly exclaimed while illustrating the principle of the lever: "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world." Nader has leveraged all kinds of societal changes. With a dash of determination, a sympathetic press and a friendly Congress, he helped bring about the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environment Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He also championed the passage of such laws as the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Freedom of Information Act. At the zenith of Nader's influence, President Jimmy Carter appointed Naderites to top regulatory positions. The outsider was almost an insider. |
| | The anti-corporate wave that Nader rode in the '60s and early '70s triggered a powerful counterreaction from the business community. Soon companies were pouring funds into political action committees and think tanks, which asserted that government, not business, was the source of our troubles. |
| | In the late 1970s, the efforts of the public interest community Nader had helped spawn were regularly trumped by equally well-organized and better funded business groups. It was hard to get anything done, Nader told audiences. Congress was falling in thrall to big money, with both Democrats and Republicans racing for the gold. The media were doing fewer investigative reports, he lamented, and those weren't producing legislative action the way they used to. The White House was what he called a "corporate prison," hemmed in by powerful special interests no matter who was president. |
| | So Nader began to experiment with a different kind of lever: electoral protest politics. |
| | In less than an hour (at 1pm EST), Micah will also be live online at the Post for a Q&A about the Sunday piece. |
| | I'll be moving boxes and pulling wires to make the rest of the network actually work in our new house (I'm the only one getting online at the moment), so I won't be able to write in. |
| | But here's my question anyway: Do the destructive unintended consequences of Ralph's presidential ambitions now exceed the constructive intended consequences of his consumer advocacy? |
Wondiring
| | Wondir Land is A blog about eliminating the barriers between questions and answers through social software. It's by Allen Searls, whose latest gig is with Wondir, a new site that deals in Good free answers from people and the Web. |
| | It was from Allen that I first heard about the World Live Web — a frontier in the space between the Now when things happen and the Eventually when conventional search engine bots get around to crawling them. |
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