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Friday, March 28, 2003
started 3/28/2003; 1:54:42 AM - last post 3/29/2003; 2:01:23 AM

Doc Searls - Friday, March 28, 2003

3/28/2003; 5:54:42 AM (reads: 7133, responses: 3)

Since warblogging went literal...

Steven Levy: Blogger's Delight. Will the war become the breakthrough Weblogers have been waiting for?

Uncommon wisdom

The Sunday Los Angeles Times carried an outstanding piece by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with the dual title Good Foreign Policy is a Casualty of War and Today, It is We Americans Who Live in Infamy. It's already behind the costwall at the LA Times, but Common Dreams is hosting it at the links above.

An excellent read. Highly recommended.

[Later...] Nice follow-up by W. A. Gerard.

On the other head

Common Dreams carries this report of a Scott Ritter speech at Cornell in which the former weapons inspector says the U.S. will lose the war. Ritter is much reviled by the warblog community, who think he's fulla shit. I sure hope so.

Venture clues

Digging Ventureblog.

Operation Making Sense

Deborah Branscum is in great form lately. Today she paused amidst some excellent peaceblogging to smack down dumb marketing by the apparently delusional CI Host.

... a human billboard? Bah humbug. Buddy, it's been done. It was stupid the first time and it's stupid now. Get a fucking clue.

More lucid peaceblogging coming from Dan Shafer's corner:

Bush and his cronies are clearly hell-bent for leather on parlaying their non-mandate into a New World Order. And that cannot be allowed to happen.

Compare and contrast

Last night's seconds-long NBC news feature on Weblogs verged on the meaningless.

Meanwhile this piece in the Baltimore Sun is a real story.

The war of art

A friend writes,

Thought you'd be interested in the online music distribution channels that're popping up to route around Big Media's disinclination to air anti-war songs. Artists are taking it directly to the people (listen to REM's "Last Straw" at http://www.remhq.com/finalStraw/finalstraw.html) and at least one new site has sprung up: http://www.protest-records.com, from Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. Take that, Clear Channel.

Start fooling around

Corante's newest blog is Andrew Phelps' Got Game?

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lou josephs - Re: Friday, March 28, 2003

3/28/2003; 1:43:37 PM (reads: 511, responses: 0)

I don't think CC is worried. If the songs start to test well maybe will see them added on someones playlist. Remember the corporate control of radio now is strong enough to make or break songs.

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lou josephs - Re: Friday, March 28, 2003

3/28/2003; 7:47:33 PM (reads: 546, responses: 1)

currys talking weblogs in Dutch on demand..http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/ latest show is going on now but it will be online tmw morning.

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Joshua Koenig - Re: War of Art

3/29/2003; 6:01:23 AM (reads: 749, responses: 0)

Don't Forget the Beastie Boys latest jam: In a World Gone Mad.

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