Category: Paleoblogs

  • What's a 'community advocate'?

    Last month I posted an entry about Platial and commented that “I think it’s kind of cool that so many of these new companies have community outreach people, even if it is still sometimes hard to tell them from publicists or PR professionals in general.” This prompted Tracy Rolling to write me a long interesting…

  • Funny blog spam today

    It was actually trackback spam: Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.

  • Grattan School evening lecture program (SF)

    Robert Birnbach, who shot the awesome author photo on the page-cover book-jacket flap of The Power of Many writes to tell me about an evening lecture suries he is helping start called The Grattan Speaker Series, “featuring locally and nationally renown authors, educators, activists and thinkers, and focused on themes that resonate with San Francisco…

  • East Bay Exhortation Sensation: Phone Banking for Moveon.Org

    This is an offical, authenticated exhortation to East Bay folks everywhere. Well, East Bay folks in the East Bay. Short version: The last two nights I went to the MoveOn office in Oakland. These folks have their act together. It’s fun, easy, and unintimidating. You can volunteer any day, any time o’ day between 9…

  • Raw notes from technology roundtable with former Presidential candidate Mark Warner in San Francisco on November 17, 2006

    When I have a moment, I’ll upload the lo-qual cellphone pictures I snapped and embed them here. Maybe I’ll even get around to cleaning up these raw notes into something coherent or even listing who all was there. For now, all I have time to do is dump the notes I t9’d into my “smartphone”…

  • For election junkies only

    Wondering if the Democrats are really about to take the House or if a dirty trick or surge of evangelical voters will deny them (ok, us) the majority? Keep an eye on the odds at Majority Watch. Think that people betting real money (ok, one dollar per share) have a better take on upcoming elections…

  • Glorum, a tagged forum about anything

    Mario Rizzuti pointed me to his vaguely Digg-looking discussion-forum project called glorum. I asked him to describe the purpose or “mission” of the site and he responded thusly: >It is an attempt at building a concept for online discussions alternative to the usenet model. > >The key ideas are > >1. using tags (no groups)…

  • For the Baker-Hamilton Suggestion Box

    Note: This is very dense and wonky, and only marginally informed considering how definite it sounds. I’m just noodling with limited information, but I have a realpolitik suggestion for the Baker-Hamilton Commission. It can’t be much worse than what has been bruited about so far. It is a variation on the federated partition idea, and…

  • Chris Bowers’ Google Bomb

    Chris Bowers of MyDD.com has put together an excellent list of links to articles on various republican candidates. By having large #s of folks duplicate this list of links, the odds go up that when someone searches, for example, Pombo, their results will include this article. Never let it be said that I wouldn’t post…

  • Is North Korea Nuts?

    This viewpoint should be common knowledge. North Korea: A Nuclear Threat–An exclusive account of what Pyongyang really wants. Newsweek International Edition On Sept. 19, 2005, North Korea signed a widely heralded denuclearization agreement….to “abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs.” In return, Washington agreed [to] “respect each other’s sovereignty, exist peacefully together and take…

  • Well, they’re not all that concerned.

    “The Republican Party is taking pro-family conservatives for granted,” said Mike Mears, executive director of the political action committee of Concerned Women for America, which promotes biblical values. –“Some Seek ‘Pink Purge’ in the GOP,” LA Times DKo: No, it’s not a mistake; I’ve seen him quoted before.

  • MAPlight helps you ‘follow the money’

    Years ago B and I dreamed about something called the “Senator From” project, based on the idea that, for example, Scoop Jackson used to be known as “the Senator from Boeing.” We’d take the public info available and identify the largest contributors to candidate and officeholder. Great idea, but we didn’t know how to execute…

  • Take election day off

    The Democratic Party is asking people to take election day off to do last minute get out the vote work – The Democratic Party | Take a Day Off for Democracy – an area where the Republicans traditionally beat us. I’m in.

  • Bush insider: Bush administration used and mocked Christian right

    MSNBC reports that a new book called Tempting Faith, by former administration official David Kuo, gives an inside look at the Bush administration that’s bound to give some of the Christian Right pause on election day. He says some of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist…

  • John Murtha’s not mincing words

    Here’s an amazing snippet a friend just emailed me. This is from a new MoveOn.org exhortation written by Congressman John Murtha: A year ago when I presented my plan for Iraq, I did it to provide leadership and protect our troops. The Republicans have spent their time name-calling while the situation for our troops in…

  • The Democrats Will Have to Be Detained

    I’ve put together a couple of things President Bush has revealed recently about the Democrats in Congress; it is awfully sobering, but very clear, what he is going to have to do. (My italics.) Bush: [I]f somebody from al Qaeda is calling into the United States…we need to know…what they’re planning …. 177 Democrats voted…

  • The real mistake in the first moon words was ruthlessly suppressed.

    I first reported years ago the real mistake in the first moon words, and that mistake’s potentially staggering costs to our nation. When I give you the details, the words Why didn’t the biggest newspapers in America grab this story and run with it as front page news? will leap to your lips! This is…

  • Flat Daddies

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  • What did Bush do about Al Qaeda in his first 8 months?

    After the back and forth ‘tween Bill Clinton and Condi Rice this past week re who did what to stop Al Qaeda pre-9/11, Countdown took an interesting look at how the Bush Administration’s spent its first 8 months. The transcript is posted online, as well as a video that’s well worth watching. Note: The meat…

  • Get-rich-quick blog spam

    It’s been interesting to watch the evolutionary dance of spam and blogs. Comment spam. Trackback spam. Splogs. Now here’s a bit of email spam targetting the would-be pro blogger: >Hi, > >I don’t like to waste valuable time of creative blogmasters. >But I cann’t resist myself from this tempting offer too. Hello, you may know…

  • Getting tough, within reason.

    “Don’t even think about it! “Uh, well, of course, you can think about it. I mean, you couldn’t resolve not to do it, if you couldn’t think about it. “But, don’t even contemplate enacting it!”