Soon political parties and social networks will be the same thing. #
The Dean campaign in 2002-04 was on the verge of turning a campaign into a social network. I was there. Here are my notes from the last night of the campaign, the Iowa Caucus in 2004. I was at Dean HQ in Burlington. I was blogging on Scripting News and on the main Dean weblog. We also rolled out Channel Dean that day, basically a linkblog managed by campaign people, linking to articles and blog posts their community would find interesting. These were all precursors to the social nets of today.#I'm watching Better Things very slowly, one episode a night on average. The nice thing is how the mom and her three daughters have open affection for each other, it's their baseline. They get pissed off, mostly the kids with the mom, but they quickly get back to hugging and being motherly to each other, across generations. It's sweet. Nothing at all even remotely like the environment I grew up in btw, just sayin. Anyway, I'd kind of like to see Donald Trump as a guest on the show. They would listen to his sad stories, and try to help him. I think there could be some good jokes in there. #
I used to put Donald Trump's image in the right margin of this blog quite frequently, but I've stopped. He's a vampire we've managed to lock in a crypt, and I worry that just showing his image here might wake him up. He's now got the smell of loser on him, like an old version of Sarah Palin. She was pretty charismatic too, in her day. And about as talented as the lame duck. Better to let him fade away. Think of him as a dead relative. Maybe he was an asshole, it's hard to remember, it's been so long.#Trump did Barr a favor by firing him. In the future it will be better to have been fired by Trump than not fired by Trump. #
Ok, Warner plus HBO is going after Netflix. Theaters are kaput for Christmas so Warner will to stream new movies on HBO. Seismic. But — what about the other studios and their new releases?#
One of the nice things about using an outliner to edit my blog is that I can move things around quickly, but sometimes things get moved to the wrong place. That happened yesterday. I was writing about my new TV and all of a sudden there's a paragraph about how screwed up journalism is. And then there was a post that I thought I had deleted and didn't. Oy! That was pretty disturbing. I left it there, but edited it a bit so it made more sense. Yesterday was a good day in general, but a bad day on the blog. Anyway, I've corrected it on the web. Ooops. I'll try to do better in the future. 😄 #