July 2010
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June 2010
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March 2010
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Scary stuff →
Wisdom of the Morning: Daniel Ellsberg on the... →
February 2010
25 posts
Come to think of it...
There was no cross talk or conversation in any of the panels I saw, at all.
John Boehner has the scariest microexpressions
Another difference between progressive conferences...
Way more spokesmodels at CPAC.
No comment yet at CPAC about the possible Tea...
Why am I not surprised that this particular airplane-flown-into-a-federal-building isn’t getting a lot of traction here?
Mitt Romney is still smarmy and boring
Not that that’s news. Liz Cheney, on the other hand, is terrifying.
Romney’s charicature of Obama: condescending, pedantic, aloof.
Bigger applause for Scott Brown than for Romney, who Brown introduced.
Progressive vs Conservative conferences
CPAC has way more plenary panels with the whole conference in one room. Very few breakout sessions. As you’d expect, it’s a bit whiter. But CPAC is actually younger than, say, Take Back America.
“The only way to make an impact in media is to be interesting. You can’t...”
– Tucker Carlston paraphrase
Dick!
Liz introduces Dick Cheney. Huge, huge standing ovation —90 seconds or more.
An oldie but goodie: this Netflix presentation is... →
Introducing Google Buzz: Filter bubbles in your inbox. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/introducing-google-buzz.html
Filter Bubble Alert: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/search-is-getting-more-social.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/MKuf+(Official+Google+Blog)
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress/
January 2010
87 posts
Elliott Spitzer on the bailout: Never have so many done so much for so few who needed so little.
This Obama profile is worth rereading (from the... →
G. Michael Flores of the financial services consulting firm Bretton Woods estimates that the average customer paid 12 overdraft or other insufficient-fund charges in 2009, often at $25 or $30 per transgression.
Apple Sees New Money in Old Media →
As suspected, looks like the iTablet will come with TV download subscriptions.
“‘Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says...”
– New York Times
Published: November 30, 2003
(via spencerfry)
“If the Democrats run for cover, if we become pale carbon copies of the...”
– Ted Kennedy
New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web... →
This oughta be interesting.
“Though Google is driving some traffic to newspapers, it’s also taking a...”
– TechCrunch
Lieberman unelectable?
“The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Connecticut provides a further data point that independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is next up for reelection in 2012, may be unelectable. In a two-way race with second-term Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, Lieberman trails Murphy by a 45%-26% margin. In a three-way race with Gov. Jodi Rell, who is retiring this year, Rell comes in first with 47%, with...
GhostNet for everyone →
How long before someone uses the same Trojan horse techniques but publishes all of the data publicly?
Wonder if the new all-HTTPS-all-the-time Gmail has anything to do with the Chinese hacking attacks.
Here's a big fun project
Make good more scalable than evil.
“In a watershed 1909 story, published when science fiction was known still as...”
– http://www.newsweek.com/id/229664
