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Chris Lydon interviews Robert Fisk from Beirut. "We went to war based on lies."  The Guardian reports that Tony Blair has an email address. Don Park: "Unless I am mistaken, RDF fragments are being inserted automatically by Radio Trackback script. Yikes." Michael Feldman: "Putting a huge dick shot on the front of my Blog where my mother could see it, even if it is growing out of an arm, is over the line."  Had lunch today with Kevin Marks at Jing Jing in Palo Alto. I'm writing this from the Starbucks on University Ave. Steve Gillmor called to say that my RSS feed wasn't updating. Sorry about that. It is now. I'm drinking a venti iced coffee. It's sunny and cool outside. Life is good. Today's song: "The West Coast has the sunshine, and the girls all get so tan.." Ed Cone reports that "whining works" when trying to get information from the Edwards campaign on how they're restructuring their campaign around the Internet. From what Ed says it sounds like a half-step, not a leap--frog, which is what they need to do to challenge Howard Dean. Meanwhile Betsy Devine whines that I am too tough on her guy, Howard Dean. Not sure what she's talking about, but Betsy, I want an election in 2004, not a rout. If Dean is going to be the Democratic nominee (not a foregone conclusion just yet), he has to use the Internet more effectively. Suggested next step, teach your reps how to advocate for your cause, with cheerful respect.  I read Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men on the flight today. It's the story of the coup that threw out a budding democracy in Iran in the early 1950's in a vain attempt to restore the British oil monopoly. He explains some history that puzzled lots of Americans, in the late 70s in the Iranian revolution, why did they hate us so much? It turns out it wasn't hate as much as it was fear -- fear that we'd do to them in 1979 what we did in 1953 -- bring back the Shah. Maybe we did the right thing, Kinzer posits -- the doubt lingers, perhaps the Soviets would have taken over from Mossadegh if we hadn't thrown him out. In retrospect it seems less likely. We could have saved a few decades and supported democracy in Iran in the 50s. But that's not what the US was doing then. Are we doing it now? Steve Outing: With Email Dying, RSS Offers Alternative. JY Stervinou translated the RSS 2.0 spec to French. Burningbird: "I never thought I would get to the point of welcoming emails offering to enlarge either my penis or breasts." Andrew Grumet debugs Instapundit's RSS feed. First the good news. My hotel has high speed Internet, and email works. The bad news? Over 1300 messages. |
 
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