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Renaissance Twitter Reading
Reading David Armano from Marcus Brown. Wicked, but funny. Wish I could embed videos here, but I haven’t mastered that yet. Continue reading
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Getting to the bottom of what happened at the top
Investigating the Financial Crisis and My Passion for Borsalino Hats is an outstanding post by Stephen Lewis — one that characteristically combines several things I didn’t know, starting with a helpful suggestion for incoming administration: a sweeping inquest into the twin housing and stock market crashes to create both the intellectual context and the political… Continue reading
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Let it Snow
We were flying along in the bus when wham: it started snowing. Heavily. Now we’re creeping along through Westchester, and the road is clearly getting a little dangerous. There’s an inch or so on the ground now, and it’ll probably get a lot deeper before it starts raining later and turns it and turns it… Continue reading
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Tweet on
I’m at the WBUR open house “tweetup”, where I just learned about Tweetworks from Mike Langford. Thus the lego-like greater Twitter add-on zone grows. Continue reading
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Grinding at the hub
We left SFO at 11am yesterday, and got into BOS at 3am. The delay in the middle was at ORD: O’Hare. We arrived at 6pm to find that our 7pm flight had been delayed to 9:10. After going to dinner at the Macaroni Grill (chosen after tweeting a request that was answered nicely by Todd… Continue reading
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Bailing on the bailout
Back in September or so I blogged in favor of the $700 billion stimulus package. In those days, now so long ago, I thought, against my otherwise better judgement, that we needed to do something. Now I don’t. Now I think we need to let the train wreck finish happening before we “stimulate” anything. If… Continue reading
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Quote du jour
“…the Because Effect feeds on openness. And it’s more than an API.” — Dave Wallace Continue reading
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Quote du jour
David Sedaris on undecided voters: To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of… Continue reading
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d’bait
Watching the “debate” between McCain and Obama. Hard not to. After eight years of a truly bad presidency, it matters more than usual who our next prez will be. But these guys aren’t saying much. Worse, I don’t believe either of them are going to do what they say they’re going to do. Anyway, I’m… Continue reading
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SeeMail
Who else reads your e-mail? is an op-ed by my colleague Harry Lewis, in the Christain Science Monitor. At its core is a loophole that’s sort of a peephole: The Fourth Amendment states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,… Continue reading
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Roast maverick
If just some of this is true, it’s bad news for McCain. Continue reading
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Talking to lenses
It’s been suggested that Sarah Palin hasn’t had much media training. On the contrary, she had plenty enough as a sports reporter. Check this out: In that video, from her days reporting for an Anchorage TV station, she’s clearly not Major Market. But you can see how her persona today is a combination of aw-shucks-doggone-it… Continue reading
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Speaking of blogging and, um, stuff
Here’s a Web Pro News interview of yours truly by Abby Johnson at Blogworld in Las Vegas a couple weeks back. I think I said “um” about a hundred times. Gotta work on that. Continue reading
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Quote du jour
Shel Israel: I think that www.whitehouse.gov should just show the Fail Whale from now through the next inauguration. Continue reading
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Same you can believe in
Just arrived at LAX, taking a few minutes before flying off to LAV (to which I would like to append oratory) to post a couple of pointers to what I read and heard on the plane. First is A Conservative for Obama, by Wick Allison, who actually gave the maximum sum to McCain earlier this… Continue reading
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Putting the buyer in charge
The Buyer’s Envelope, Please is a post over at the VRM blog in which I do some thinking out loud about a topic I’m still learning about. Continue reading
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omfg
I’m currently #2 on this list, behind Clay Shirky. (In spite of what may be the worst picture ever taken of me.) Context from Dan Thornton. Continue reading