Saturday, October 02, 2004

RFC: Anatomy of an iPodder. 

Newsweek: "The president’s lead in the race for the White House has vanished, according to the latest Newsweek poll." 

NY Times: "Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, asserted on CNN on Sept 8, 2002. 'We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.' Before Ms Rice made those remarks, though, she was aware that the government's foremost nuclear experts had concluded that the tubes were most likely not for nuclear weapons at all." 

Joshua Allen: "History is written by people with agendas." 

Now this is something. The Lone-Star Iconoclast, based in Crawford, Texas (President Bush's hometown) is endorsing Kerry for President. 

Fantastic movie that summarizes the RNC in less than three minutes. Saddam Saddam Saddam. Terrorist. 9-11. Over and over.  

Russ Beattie: "I don't care if you have a 'tech blog' or a 'art blog' or whatever, you need to start making your voice heard." 

Okay Russ. Here goes. I'm voting for John Kerry. I believe in this so strongly that I relocated to a battleground state, so my vote would mean something. The war in Iraq is a very poor use of the US military. The Patriot Act should be repulsive to any American, this is not a Republican or Democratic issue. I think he has either very sinister motives, or a terribly poor appreciation for freedom. When I hear Bush talk about bringing freedom to Iraq I keep thinking about the freedoms we're giving up here. For what? And I'm sure that we are missing huge opportunities to prevent the next 9-11, which will probably involve nukes, and will probably target all of Manhattan, not just one skyscraper. 

NY Times: "Official corporate blogs are still rare, said John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School." 

Rogers Cadenhead: "Kerry shredded Bush, who spent the entire debate crouching behind his podium in a defensive Nixonian scowl, fumbling for words to defend his record in Iraq and the war on terror, two subjects that were supposed to be his strengths." 

Scoble via email from Gnomedex: "Everyone is talking about Podcasting here. It's a big deal."  

Next week is going to be pretty busy. On Monday and Tuesday I'm at Microsoft, along with a bunch of other bloggers being briefed on a new service. Then on Thursday morning I fly to San Jose for a couple of days of meetings about BloggerCon at Stanford and elsewhere. I'll fly back to Seattle (first time for that) on Sunday.  

Today's song: "La! La! La! La! La!"