Magic Bus (3)
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Note: If you think Twitter is a joke, or that Microsoft has no chance of being trusted with anything, or that Apple will fall to the surging citizen militia, or any other common wisdom of the Internets, please move along, I beg you. I thought I’d take a little more time to explore the reasons why I think Microsoft’s Live Mesh can emerge as the host platform for a large percentage of Twitter-like behavior, and ...
Jon Stewart Slams the Media for Perpetuating Outrageous Obama Smears (4)
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“The Daily Show” was in top form last night as they called out every single cable news network for helping spread the myriad scurrilous and unfounded rumors about Senator Obama. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t to the wonderful Heather) Obama’s camp initially agreed that the cartoon was “tasteless and offensive”. Really? You know what your response should have been…let me put this statement out for you. Barack Obama is in no way upset ...
Bruce Wilson: 87.5% of "Family" & DLC Affiliated Senate Democrats Voted Yes on FISA (2)
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In early July 2008 Senate Republicans voted, with astounding conformity, in favor of the controversial electronic surveillance FISA bill update that was condemned by American civil liberties advocates across a wide range of the US political spectrum; two GOP Senators, John McCain and Jeff Sessions, abstained from voting and so 95.9 % of Republicans voted "aye" on FISA. But there was one specialized subgroup within the Democratic Party that voted with almost as much uniformity ...
New York Magazine: Joe Scarborough Is The Darling Of The Left (1)
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Like most Republicans these days, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough doesn’t mind taking pot shots at George Bush. Hell, it’s easy to do with the worst president in modern history, but jumping into the anti-Bush column certainly isn’t an act of bravery or a sign that he’s moved to the left. It means he knows which way the political winds are blowing and he needs good ratings. I truly believe Joe is unhappy with the direction the ...
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Karoli said:
Here's one for Francine Hardaway. :)
Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC (15)
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An anonymous reader notes a recent post on the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center site estimating the time to infection of an unpatched Windows machine on the Internet — currently about 4 minutes. The researcher stipulated that the sub-5-minute estimate was valid for an unpatched machine in an ISP netblock with no NAT or firewall. The researcher, Lorna Hutcheson, called for others to post data on time-to-infection, and honeypot researchers in Germany did so the ...
The Company We Keep - Friends and Reputations Online (1)
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As blogging and ways to monetize high-traffic content evolve, the pairing off of power bloggers into friends, allies, and business partners becomes more interesting.The lotto-sized win in the battle for high-power friendships is, as everyone knows, Mike Arrington. To be a FOA (friend of Arrington) is to be anointed into a lucrative Web 2.0 economy.As I watched the Winer-Scoble-Israel vs. Arrington-Feldman-Calcanis feud this past week, I had some of my own observations about the tricky ...
Note to McCain: Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist anymore (1)
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This is almost certainly going to sound nitpicky, if not actually petty, but bear with me. It’s not unreasonable to note that John McCain continues to make references to a country that doesn’t exist. At a press conference in Phoenix today, for example, McCain referenced Czechoslovakia. Again. “I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that ...
THEY WILL CAMPAIGN AGAINST US UNTIL WE'RE ALL DEAD - AND MAYBE AFTER (1)
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From the day Richard Nixon was nominated in 1968 until Tuesday afternoon, forty years later, when John McCain began running this "Love" commercial, Republicans have been running against us. All of us who share a history of opposing the Vietnam war and working to elect an anti-war president. Against everything we ever were, believed, dreamed, voted for, marched against, volunteered to change, spoke about, created, sang, wrote, painted, sculpted or said to one another on ...
The iPhone’s Missing Copy & Paste: The Dog that Didn’t Bark in the Night (1)
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The great american philosopher Steven Wright wrote this profound fragment about the Network and Identity, or maybe it was just a joke. I woke up one morning and looked around the room. Something wasn’t right. I realized that someone had broken in the night before and replaced everything in my apartment with an exact replica. I couldn’t believe it…I got my roommate and showed him. I said, “Look at this–everything’s been replaced with an exact ...
Tom Hayden: Chasing Needles by Burning Haystacks (1)
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Barack Obama restated his Iraq phased withdrawal play in response to public questioning today but committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any proposal to transfer American troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan is sure to cause debate and questions among peace activists and rank-and-file Democrats. The proposal potentially represents a wider quagmire for the US government and military. On Iraq, Obama said nothing especially new in his July 14 New ...
GOP, the Know-Nothing Party (3)
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Republicans have been in a lather since Barack Obama commented that American children should learn a foreign language in school. It demonstrates the extent to which they've become the party of ignorance. Responding to a voter in GA who'd like more bilingual education, Obama said: "Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. But understand this. Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they’ll learn English — you ...
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jborneman said:
People against bilingual (or multilingual) language education at a young age are STUPID. There's no other way about it.
Doctors turn to the web for disease tracking - Internet - iTnews Australia (1)
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US researchers believe that data from sources including discussion forums and news websites can help them better cope with outbreaks of disease.. The team from the Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School has launched an automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to collate, organise and disseminate this online intelligence.
Boundaries of the Real-Time Conversational Flow through the Network (1)
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There are many kinds of “time.” Sometimes we use the adjective real to describe time. As we talk about the Live Web and begin to imagine the possibilities of XMPP, a new set of online experiences come in to focus. Real time computing has come to mean very short system response times. But how short is short? Where are the borders of the real time experience? What are the human factors? Jakob Nielsen is as ...
Do Startups Need Community Managers? (8)
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One of the things I've been advising clients to do a lot lately is consider hiring a full or part-time community manager to communicate closely with their users online. I thought I'd write a post about why community managers are good to have, but then I thought that instead I'd ask it as a question. Do startups need community managers? If not, I'll stop suggesting that so many of them make that type of hire! ...
Viewing All Criticism of Obama Through Left/Right Prism (9)
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In the last two weeks, there has been a flurry of stories, both in the traditional press and in the blogosphere, that has tried to portray criticism of Barack Obama's recent stands as the sole province of disenchanted members of "the left" -- also referred to as "the far left" (New York Times), "left-winger bloggers" (also New York Times), "the liberal blogosphere" (USA Today, Christian Science Monitor), and "left-wing supporters" (The Telegraph). And many of ...
President Bush Lifts Off-Shore Drilling Ban, Blames Democrats for Energy Crisis (2)
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Today President Bush lifted the executive ban on off-shore drilling first enacted by his father is 1990, and had the audacity to blame Democrats for the high price of gas. No, I’m not kidding. Download | Play Download | Play Bush’s cynicism on this issue is simply breath-taking. He’s trying to exploit the anger Americans are feeling over the crushing price of fuel by blaming Democrats and challenging them to allow a vote on a ...
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Chad said:
George W. Bush: I know we've been in charge the whole time, but it's not our fault.
Iglesias: Ashcroft Was ‘Pushed Out’ Because He ‘Refused To Sign Off On The Warrantless Wiretaps’ (3)
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Not that this is a huge surprise, but I really, really want full disclosure on these warrantless wiretaps and the US attorneys' scandal. That means that grants of immunity should require disclosure.
