Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Squeaky wheel gets the juice

    Coincidence or response to my gripes, it doesn’t matter which, but the three blogs featuring most of my convention blogging have finally been added to the Convention Bloggers website, yielding 130 additional readers in the last half day (at this moment – updated stats at the RFB referrer rankings page at Salon). Most of my…

  • Fear itself

    Dave Johnson picks up on a Reuters article on an interesting study of how “fear of death wins votes”: President Bush may be tapping into solid human psychology when he invokes the Sept. 11 attacks while campaigning for the next election, U.S. researchers said on July 29, 2004. Talking about death can raise people’s need…

  • Journalist at work!

    Journalist practicing archaic form of notetaking involving making marks with graphite and wood on wood pulp held together with metallic ring bindings

  • Chivalry dead?

    Alison Teal notices that the bloggers have been fiercely territorial about seating and vantage points in the blogger section, and that there seems to be a politeness differential across the generation gap(s): There is a reserved section on the seventh floor for the bloggers, but I’ve stopped going there. The Internet has been a little…

  • To err is Truman

    Dave Winer is annoyed about journalists mangling his web address. I know how he feels. I’m still sort of annoyed that none of the blogs I’m covering the convention for are included in Dave’s aggregrator. I don’t believe – as Liza suggested in a comment elsewhere – that this is a deliberate oversight. It’s a…

  • Michael Moore’s speech

    Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest points to this transcript of Michael Moore’s speech from Tuesday: AlterNet: Election 2004: Michael Moore’s Speech in Cambridge, Mass.. I was culling through my notes from that day, so here are some of the highlights, based on my own transcription. To the press: We need you to do your…