Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Jan 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
If you have TIVO, tune into Nightlline right now. If you are already watching, you will know what I’m talking about.
In an amazing hatchet job on Governor Dean, his “rebel yell” is compared to Clinton/Jennifer Flowers and Gary Hart/Donna Rice. I am in the process of getting a transcript to post for you.
As [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Jan 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
Scott Rosenberg deconstructs the notion of “defining moments” in presidential campaigns:
http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2004/01/2…
What I am more and more experiencing, from the inside of a campaign now, is the extent to which the mass media (1) defines the process of choice for Americans, and (2) trivializes the choices available to folks. The media wants the public to [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Jan 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
Why doesn’t the mainstream press pick this up more systematically: This is the first story in the print edition today of the Wall Street Journal:
Halliburton told the Pentagon that two employees took up to $6 million in kickbacks in return for awarding a Kuwaiti company with lucrative work supplying U.S. troops.
http://users1.wsj.com/WebIntegration/Web…
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Jan 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
The video of the Judy Dean and Howard Dean interview that is available on the Dean for America http://deanforamerica.com website has been viewed by over seventy-five thousand people today. One supporter called to suggest a “Judy Dean for First Lady” campaign. The tag line could be the same as Howard’s: “The doctor is [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Jan 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
Traffic isn’t everything, but it is interesting. Here are the latest
numbers from Truth Laid Bear
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/TrafficRank…
Name
visits per day
http://www.dailykos.com/
95534
http://instapundit.com/
95420
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
52478
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
45290
http://www.gizmodo.com/
35243
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/
33746
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Jan 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
Scoop sites may be the next big thing for political communities. DailyKos
has pioneered a site that is growing well, and the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee just put up this one:
http://www.fromtheroots.org/
The secret sauce: “dairies” allow commenters to construct what are
essentially their own blogs–and to attract comments of their
own. The opportunity to have a free blog-like diary–or at [...]