Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • 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…

  • Movable Type 3.1 will offer more to non-developers than 3.0 did

    The release of Movable Type 3.1 is currently scheduled for August 31: Dynamic PHP publishing, controllable on a per-template basis: You can control whether you publish a dynamic or static page on a per-template basis, letting you balance the publishing and traffic for your weblog. For example, high-demand documents like XML syndication files can be…

  • Good analysis of convention blogging

    Dan Bricklin has put together an insightful analysis of how “event blogging” works and has pulled together a pretty accurate view of what the bloggers have been experiencing and writing about, in What we learn from the Convention blogging. Reminder. I blog about blogging on this here metablog about blogging about blogging. I write about…

  • Blogger's convention post scroller

    Jason Shellen dropped by the blogger area last night and showed me this experimental scroller showing political posts related to the convention: This version of the post scroller has been customized to track posts from the blogosphere about the Democratic National Convention.

  • The future of the Democratic Party

    Barack Obama’s speech got more and more intense as he went along. Jerome Armstrong from My Due Diligence said at first he was worried that Obama might pull an ’88 Clinton and just meander on and bore people, but the energy built and built and by the end of the speech the convention hall was…

  • Blogging not being at the convention

    Jim Allenspach of empty-handed.com is giving us blow-by-blow coverage of what it’s like not to be blogging the convention: … I didn’t fly in yesterday on a hastily scheduled flight, after not receiving late word that my credentials were approved for the event. Already this morning, I’ve not gone to breakfast with Illinois senate candidate…