Wednesday, July 14, 2004

NY Times: "Within an hour or so, Mr. Bush's team, at the campaign's headquarters in a corporate office building in suburban Virginia, across the Potomac River from the White House, had sent a release via e-mail to hundreds of journalists, supporters and campaign surrogates." 

When I read the article above, I thought -- that's something we, in the blogosphere, can probably do better than they can. First, you don't have to be in Virginia, you don't even have to be in the same place. Just need to hear every word Bush says in public during the day, and post the lies, publicly, adjacent to something he did or said that contradicts it. And second, no need to route through only through journalists, and campaign insiders. Politics in 2004 is retail. Go direct, cut out the middleman.  

Ed Cone: "Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq." 

Today's audio blog post answers a reporter's questions about RSS. I usually do these verbally over the phone. This time I decided to do it via MP3. It's fairly well-rehearsed by now. On reviewing the recording I realize it begins with two outtakes. Oops. Luckily I didn't use bad language.  

A new CEO at SixApart. Congrats to everyone! 

Dan Bricklin: Software That Lasts 200 Years. 

Dare Obasanjo: Is the W3C Becoming Irrelevant? 

Neat public domain footage of an F4 jet crash test.  

Political Wire: Kerry Leads in Battleground States. 

Wired: "How can the mighty New York Times, which considers itself America's paper of record, be the paper of record in cyberspace when its articles barely show up on Google?" 

5/18/03: "If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web." 

Looks like Borland is getting into blogs and RSS. 

Six years ago today: XML-RPC for Newbies.