October 18, 2007
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Nice Vue
To Andria Krewson at Global Vue for the kudos. Good stuff there, btw. Also at Andria’s other blog. Continue reading
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Aiding asses at altitude
Just got turned on to SeatExpert.com, which competes with SeatGuru.com, a service I use all the time. Both are exceptionally helpful for choosing seats on airplanes. Always keep one or both open when you choose seats on your booked flights. Not long ago I had to change flight plans while in the United Red Carpet… Continue reading
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Winning at the low jump
Kevin Marks: In the Blogosphere, like Lake Woebegon, everyone really is above average. Continue reading
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Getting worse before it gets worse again
China is reportedly blocking and redirecting queries of Google Blogsearch, Yahoo and other search sites, all to its own Baidu site. While one can see this in political or economic terms, it’s much deeper and sadder than that. There has long been a trend toward seeing the Net as a plumbing system for “content” all… Continue reading
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Yes and know
Stuart Henshall asks, Are Many Blogging? He suggests one reason some may be blogging less is that “You are no longer on Doc’s blogroll”. ouch. Anyway, I’m blogging more today, because … I don’t know. Just a lot of spillover from other work, mostly. On the whole, however, I’m blogging less. I think that’s because… Continue reading
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Live, though dead
James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti. Thanks to Jim Thompson for the lead. Continue reading
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Brother, here art thou
Every family has a black sheep. That’s what Bill Burton, an Obama spokesman, said after discovering that Lynne Cheney revealed that Barack and Dick are 8th cousins. Continue reading
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Watch your money
From TechRepublican: Ron Paul’s supporters have provided a measure of radical transparency into his fundraising that would make most political operatives suffer heart failure. Going well beyond the now-passe end-of-quarter fundraising “bat,” the Paul campaign has set a public goal of $12 million raised for the quarter, posting their current total live on the… Continue reading
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Candidate Q&A
On the Q side, the TechPresident folks have just launched 10Questions.com, with help from the The New York Times Editorial Board, MSNBC and a total of 40 sponsors. Fun to see that the first video question was posted by my old pal Ruby Sinreich. : On the answer side, here are the editors: Why… Continue reading