Year: 2004

  • Blogging the vote count / election fraud story

    in Freeing the facts, California Insider Dan Weintraub writes: This NY Times piece on the role of blogs in fanning, and then debunking, stories of fraud in the presidential vote carries at least a mildly handwringing tone, as if somehow this turn of events was unfortunate. I disagree.

  • So I’m reading the Oakland Tribune today…

    …and the front page headline sez: “Rush to Fill Void Left by Arafat.” And I’m sorry, but I just don’t think he’s up to the job. I just don’t.

  • What good is sitting alone in your room?

    It’s time for a (dance) holiday!

  • Kevin Sites: photoblogging Falluja

    in Kevin Sites: photoblogging Falluja, Boing Boing : “Xeni Jardin: Link”

  • half tank full

    ok. I confess that since 10 pm pst 11-02-04 I have been under the covers since I began to realize with a giant stomach aching nausea that exit polls ain’t what they’re cracked up to be and I was living in a dream world. Albeit the dream world of what used to be known as…

  • Skype for Mac OS X

    Say, no one told me Skype had come out for the Macintosh (as of October 25!). This is great news. I’ve been waiting to try this out. All the kool kidz are using Skype (a free Internet telephony solution): Download Skype for Mac OS X

  • Power to the tin-foil hat people

    You hear it all the time: “Oh you know, he’s a tin-foil hat guy.” And “I know I may sound a little tin-foil hat here but…”. And “Hey! — nice tin-foil hat, Betsy. Metaphorically speaking.” And I ask you: What about people who really like to wear tin-foil hats? Did anybody ever stop to think…

  • My interview with Dr. Moira Gunn on TechNation

    Back on October 19, Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn aired an interview with me which is now available for listening online in Real Audio format. I’d like to get the Bloomberg interview in some online format as well (note to self). Also, now that I’ve kicked this bronchitis and election season is past, it’s…

  • So-called conservatives don’t deserve civility

    A nonpublic mailing list I’m on is discussing politics, and the subject of maintaining civil political discourse came up. I invested enough time and emotion in my contribution that I want to log it in public view. It’s just preaching to the choir here on Edgewise, but it gives me a URL to point my…

  • Call for non-profit, activist blogs

    via Call for non-profit, activist blogs (Joho the Blog): Rebeccca MacKinnon: …it would be interesting to build a public aggregator of blogs by non-profit and activist groups. Please list any you know in the comments section and I’ll start putting it together as soon as I gain critical mass. Note: Please add them to the…

  • 51/48

    51% Bush + 48% Kerry =” from jwz

  • Falling rain jig (electric rawk)

    headphones on? falling rain, electric rawk remix.

  • Falling rain jig (old timey)

    From English hymn to African-American spiritual to Fahey acoustic guitar blues to christmas carol to jazz piano to cabaret to falling rain version, another improvised arrangement on a theme.

  • by jove

    i think i’m getting the hang of this fretted instrument thing. also, anyone speak french? some ukulele guy wrote something on his blog. jeff? annie?

  • Press more embedded than they realize?

    In PressThink: Not Up to It, Jay Rosen predicts a sea change in the journalism’s ability to explain itself.

  • Conservative label poised for stigma

    Liberals often complain that the liberal “brand” has become sullied by its relentless tarring from the right as the philosophy of weakness, equivocation, elitism, wastefulness, and self-delusion. This is nothing new. Kennedy had to defend the term liberal long before Dukakis danced around it. Kerry ducked it and couldn’t resist the liberals’ favorite sophist tactic:…

  • Google's hosting the Firefox start page

    With the hard launch of Firefox 1.0, Google appears to be hosting a Mozilla Firefox Start Page that will probably help with bandwidth management. Andy Baio calls Firefox “the best consumer product out of the open-source movement.”

  • Blogs no threat to mainstream media (CBS news)

    With apologies to Truman Capote, CBS News writer Eric Engberg says blogging during the election was typing, not journalism: The public is now assaulted by news and pretend-news from many directions, thanks to the now infamous “information superhighway.” But the ability to transmit words, we learned during the Citizens Band radio fad of the 70’s,…

  • WWPKDD

    My new motto is What would Philip K. Dick Do?

  • Did Bush beat Kerry in the spammer war?

    In How BC04 made better use of its email list, Daily Kos points to Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated, usability maven Jakob Nielsen’s “interesting analysis” in his Alertbox web column: Although I don’t actually claim that Bush won because of usability, I do think that wise use of email newsletters contributed to his victory.…

  • How Different Are We?

    “…a poll taken just before the elections showed that 75 percent of Mr. Bush’s supporters believe Iraq either worked closely with Al Qaeda or was directly involved in the attacks of 9/11.” (NYT 11/04/04.) Not only that, according to the original report, they also thought this was the belief of “experts” in the field. We’ve…