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October 29, 2004
dumbasses gone wild.
if anyone comes across a copy of this online, please let me know. i can think of at least two parodies and one iMovie hack job i want to make of it.
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the power of nightmares torrent files.
that power of nightmares documentary i talked about the other week? bittorrents are up on suprnova.org. (thx. kathleen)
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October 28, 2004
join chelsea piers today!
snippet of a conversation between me and j staring at a phone booth ad for a gym membership:
j: wow. that [gym] sounds great.... is that the phone number?
k: that's the price.
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there's a muji store @ moma.
there's a muji store @ moma! there's a muji store @ moma!
i have a confession to make: i'm allergic to brands. i can't watch television with anyone b/c i point out the technique in every commercial. i haven't been in a proper "mall" in years b/c i used to get all freaked out when confronted with a controlled marketing environment. (no, i don't do too well at things like the NAB conference, either.) on days when i absolutely must walk through soho, i avoid the sidewalks and walk in the street for fear of the inevitable confrontation between me and a shopping bag with its attendant person. if someone gives me a gift, i have to assess my reaction to the size, shape, and intrusiveness of its logo before accepting it. (christmas with me is usually very unfortunate.) in some cases, the allergen is literal. i started developing a rash from the tags on the inside of my clothing so i had to rip them out. (do a body check next time you see me.)
so when i first learned of the japanese mujirushi ryohin line of consumables that emphasize, among other things, products without labels, i thought, "wow. most americans don't need that here but i need that here." ten years and one failed online US store since my personal discovery, i get an email from brian telling me that moma has started selling muji products at their momastore.
so granted, there are only 28 items in the catalog and there's no way i'm going shopping in soho (unless it's at nine o'clock in the morning on a sunday.) but it's their first "store" in north america and it's a start.
and yes, i have read pattern recognition and yes, the main character is me in some gender-altered fictional universe.
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just the one finger victory salute.
and nothing else.
original here.
it's a shame that this is the fun part of the video, since what's really interesting is his expression and body language just after it. methinks someone's looking to be well liked.
you can press the [pause] button whenever you want it to stop. not that you'd wanna. it's kinda mesmerizing.
via boingboing.
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October 27, 2004
queer eye for the yatta guy.
so i had an casting interview for queer eye today. my sister sent in an application for me a while ago. she and my friends described my style as "frumpy with potential" and my apartment as "absolutely and entirely devoid of personality". wow. thanks guys. (i actually think they went easy on me.) anyhoo, i'm pretty sure i blew it. how do you express a desire to do a better job at some things in your life but not everything? i must make a note to myself: no matter how content i am, no matter how at peace i am, when the casting folks from a self/home/karma improvement teevee show ask you "what's your favorite thing about yourself?" and "if you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?" don't give the following answer:
"nothing."
or if you do, explain that it's because you ARE okay with who you are and what you're doing in life and you ARE changing the world, because these people want to make you and your place look good for chrissakes.
oh well. there's always wife swap.
trying to get my second videoblog entry up tonight. in the meantime the geeks should go check out adrian miles' hyperlinked videoblog file. very cool. also the ssg folks are working hard on the election night project and i need to catch up. they have some fun stuff planned. here's a sample:
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October 26, 2004
eliot shitzer in engrish.
Found this in Google News the other day.
Xinhua has just become my news source of choice.
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October 25, 2004
is this a videoblog?
or a vog? or a vlog? do i need to enable video comments? can i play it on my teevee? is that allowed?
i just switched out the dead powershot for a working one. so far, i've captured more avis than jpegs. that's a good sign.
give me some time to shake off the editing rust. until then, you'll get unedited clips like this:
[QuickTime, 13.4MB]
(by the way: cally doesn't have a lisp. it's the mic.)
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October 21, 2004
Sweet Living.
From the folks who brought you "Fuck New York"
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October 19, 2004
harner meets sedaris.
i knew i shouldn't have left the streetmemes event so early on saturday.
harner stepped out to get some coffee and ran into amy sedaris.
all i saw on saturday were some squirrels.
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October 18, 2004
home broadcasting. for real this time.
Had a conversation with Jay this weekend about bittorrent and podcasting and video distribution. We're both in agreement that p2p works well for time shifted content, but it sucks for stuff you need to see live "event " coverage and interactive TV content. For those things, TV is still the best option.
So we just have to get people broadcasting from their homes to TV, then. No problem.
Here's an idea I just presented to Jay and Daniell:
[1] Set up a Mac with iChatAV, an AIM account, and a broadband connection. It sits there and waits for incoming video chat invitations. The audio and video go out of the computer to the switcher by way of either s-video out or VGA to a scan converter and miniplug audio out to RCA. We mirror the desktop. We connect a character generator to an analog to DV bridge that connects to the Mac. IChatAV will think it's a firewire camera. The character generator runs an animated loop to the TV screen that says:
"LIVE from Home, it's YOU on TV... Use your IM account to start a video chat to get on TV!"
[2] When someone invites the Mac to a video chat, you accept it, the CG gets squeezed to the corner and the person is on the air.
[3] As the person is on the air, change the CG to read:
"You're watching someuser@aol.com LIVE from Home. You on TV.... Live...."
The title emphasizes the fact that this is live video and that it's coming from someone's home.
[4] Give the person five minutes to do their show.... Next person.....
[5] For liability issues, you can limit it to people who have already signed producer agreements and give you their usernames ahead of time. Computers could also be set up for Yahoo Video IM or MSN video messenger to accept PC users.
Yeah, it's basically the WiFiTV and ITJ stuff we're already working on. The important part in this is the process stuff.
By the way, I have no idea who the guy in the image is. It's something I picked up while doing a Google image search for 'iChatAV'.
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October 16, 2004
there is no boogeyman.
Dirty bombs aren't real, Wolfowitz is the disorganized brain-child of Leo Strauss, and al-Qaida doesn't exist. Sounds plausible to me.
Adam Curtis has a new documentary series coming out in the UK next week. It's called "The Power of Nightmares." Here he speaks about the 'manufacturing consent' media recursion terror thing:
"They are not the only ones who find opportunities. "Almost no one questions this myth about al-Qaida because so many people have got an interest in keeping it alive," says Curtis. He cites the suspiciously circular relationship between the security services and much of the media since September 2001: the way in which official briefings about terrorism, often unverified or unverifiable by journalists, have become dramatic press stories which - in a jittery media-driven democracy - have prompted further briefings and further stories. Few of these ominous announcements are retracted if they turn out to be baseless: "There is no fact-checking about al-Qaida."
It airs next week on the BBC2. (Who do I know in Great Britain with a TiVo?)
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October 15, 2004
Jon Stewart jacks CNN's Crossfire. Alt torrent on DV Guide.
I just finished watching Jon Stewart's appearance on today's Crossfire for the second time. It was one of those truly surreal moments that just aren't supposed to happen on teevee.
The original place where I found the torrent is down so I posted a mirror to DV Guide. Enjoy.
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my powershot is dead. long live my powershot.
Yesterday I learned that the E18 error on the canon powershot s110 means that the lens door won't open on the camera, sorry, please don't try it again. While some people have been able to bang on the side of the camera to get it working again, my camera refuses to cooperate with the abuse.
This is a little bit upsetting as the S110 has accompanied me every day for the past three years. It's been to four continents. It's inadvertently been dipped into six oceans. But it was also starting to show it's age. The 2.1 megapixels were fine for dumbing down to the web but not so great for prints. I couldn't zoom in movie mode. The movie mode is limited to 10 second clips. I think I pushed it too hard. Maybe the camera knew it was due for retirement.
So now I need to replace it and I need suggestions.
My criteria:
I want it to be tiny. It needs to fit in a small backpack pocket or the big pocket on a pair of outdated cargo shorts. I want more than 3 megapixels. It's not a lot, I know, but the largest prints I make are 5x7. I want a sub-3 second startup time. Most importantly, I want a movie mode that'll record 320x240, 30fps in at least 3 minute chunks. I'd rather have the recording length be limited only by the size of my memory card, but that only seems to be possible on larger cameras or those that need Sony's Memory Stick Pro format. This is important b/c the only way I'm going to start videobloggging is if I start recording stuff with my camera and not my camcorder. Oh yeah, and i don't want to spend more than $400 for it. That new Treo is coming out in a month and I'm already subsisting on a diet of peanut butter and soup preparing for that one.
Okay, so with all that said, here are the nominees so far:
Canon Powershot S410 - Small size. Sturdy construction. 4MP. 3x optical zoom. Kin to the S110. Movie mode limited to 3 minutes. Doesn't take CF Type II cards.
Sony CyberShot DSC-W1 - Small size. Sturdy construction. 5.1MP. 3x optical zoom. 2.5in LCD.
Casio Exilim EX-S100 - Frikkin tiny. 3.2MP. Does 320x240@15fps. Not sure about that "transparent ceramic" lens. Nice but seems overpriced.
Canon Powershot S1 IS - Records 640x480@30fps onto cards as big as 4GB. 10x zoom. Only 3.2MP. Bigger than I really want but it does 640x480 video(!)
So what to do? So far I'm leaning towards the S410, but I'm gonna go check out the Sony and Casio this weekend. I was about to rule out the S1 when I read that happykatie got one and seems excited about it. I need to find her contact info and ask for all the geeky details. I also need to check in with Jay and ask what he uses. He's one of the biggest access-heads I know and I doubt he's using tape. Good for him. Anyhoo, gonna make the decision this weekend. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
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mo' servers, mo' problems
I had an iraq of a time moving unmediated to a new server this week. first, there was the upgrade of movable type. then there was the upgrade of the reblog. then there was the import of the old reblog to the new reblog. and going with the stylesheet redesign earlier than expected (i figured, what the hey?) and three days of worrying through dns propagation where the site and feed traffic fell off by 80% (it's rss! what'd you do, folks? unsubscribe?) but now here we are at the end of the week, the site is coming up fine, traffic's back up to a place where i'm worried about overages again, and everything seems to be back to normal.
now it's time to do the same shuffle with this site. fun.
(funny thing happened on the way to the newsreader - just took a gander at we make money not art. seems they went through the same exact thing. chuckle.)
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October 14, 2004
transgender bike messengers/actors wanted.
This weekend I logged in to Friendster for the first time in about a year. Had to b/c Denise Gaberman still sends messages out to folks that way.
Anyway, Denise produces the most badass public access cooking show this side of Jay Dedman, The Post Punk Kitchen. The PPK should be on a major cable network but isn't. That's an injustice that needs to be set right one day.
Anyway, it looks like the DRG's casting for her rock musical about bike messengers:
VICIOUS CYCLES IS CASTING!!!!
Please pass along to friends and friends of friends....
Casting actors for VICIOUS CYCLES trailer. A bike
(read bicycle) movie about two rival bike gangs, one
failing bike shop, treachery, friendship, love, and a bike
race that lays it all on the line. Shooting starts in early
November. Auditions and rehearsals in October.
Open to all sexual preferences and ethnicities:
OIL SLICKS-GREASERS (if the Ramones where the T-
birds on bicycles)
JD, 20s, male, leader of the Oil Slicks, tall slender,
chiseled jaw
Wrench, 20s, transgender f to m, small, resembles
Fonzie
THE DABELLAS-Neighborhood gang
Mad Dog, 30s, Dabella leader, Patti Smith look alike,
tough but has a big heart.
Tina Marie, 27, curvy, sexy not sleazy, "den mother" and
Mad Dog's best friend.
Tadpole, 17, is E-Z’s younger sister and least
experienced of the bunch. She is often mistaken for a
young teenage boy.
THE DERAILERS- bad asses
Vicious, female, 30s, rival gang leader of the Derailers,
tall, lanky mean-name says it all.
Da’ Bomb, 20s, sleazy straight out of a 1950s JD movie,
has curves and “knows how to use them”.
Sprocket, early 20s, punk, sporting a mohawk, she will
do anything to protect her little man Freddie.
Freddie, 19, shaved head, small, goth, easily agitated.
Doris, 50s, female, D's mother, think single sleazy sexy
stripper mom
Chris, 20s, transgender f to m, leader of the transgender
messengers
This is so gonna rock in a "1980's American metal band plays Eastern Europe" sort of way. Casting is in a week or two. Drop her a line if you're interested.
By the way, here's the Friendster testimonial I wrote for her last year, back when I was convinced that I was funny:
I chuckled over that one for weeks.
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a user guide for reblog 0.9.
For months, people have contributed to the unmediated reBlog by posting to their own blogs or their del.icio.us links. I'd take these posts in through reBlog and add text, images, and reformat links as necessary. Since upgrading to reBlog version 0.9, I've handed over reBlogging duties to a group of eight editors (including myself) who are responsible for reBlogging up to 3-4 posts a week, and hopefully spreading the reblogging love across several people.
Because of this, I've put together a quick "user guide" for reBlog 0.9. It doesn't cover reBlog installation or upgrade, but it does give basic instructions for sorting, editing, and publishing a reBlog.
An incomplete user guide for reBlog 0.9:
The idea of reBlogging is pretty simple:
Find posts of interest from RSS feeds, publish each post to your own blog with a link back to the originating post. You may have to do some formatting changes, add images, or add your own comments along the way.
The way it works is also simple:
Sort through RSS feeds and click "publish" on the posts you like best. This puts them all into a single reBlog rss feed that you then go into Movable Type to import, assign categories, and publish in your blog.
Logging In:
When you install reBlog, you install two components: the reBlog plugin for Movable Type and the ReceSS RSS filtering system. The ReceSS files are the ones you will use primarily to reblog. You can find them in the "recess" directory that you uploaded to your server (unless you decide to rename the directory when installing.) Open a browser and go to this directory: http://mydomain.com/the-directory-you-uploaded-recess-to/
reBlog Control Panel:
After logging in you will be presented with the reBlog control panel separated into two sections. At the top you will see what I call the reBlog Main Menu for viewing new items, adding feeds, and updating the feeds you're already subscribed to. There are a couple of other links up there for viewing your reBlogged RSS feed and getting the feed list as an OPML list but we'll talk about that later.
Underneath the reBlog Main Menu, you'll find a list of all of the rss feeds you're subscribed to, separated into "Feeds with new posts" and "Feeds without new posts."
reBlog Control Panel > Subscribing to Feeds:
If you haven't subscribed to any feeds, go to the reBlog Main Menu and click "add feeds." Here you can add feeds by pasting the URLs of blogs, their feeds, or a list of feeds as an OPML file. A handy tool to have is the "FoF subscribe" bookmarklet just below the reBlog Main Menu. Drag this link up to your browser's bookmark bar. Whenever you come across a blog you'd like to add to the reBlog, click the bookmarklet. It'll take you back to the "add feeds" page and attempt to subscribe to the feed if possible. After you've subscribed to a number of feeds, return to the reBlog Control Panel.
reBlog Control Panel > Updating Feeds:
If there are no items listed under "Feeds with new posts" go to the reBlog Main Menu at the top of the screen and click the "update all" button. This will pull any new posts into the reBlog for you to read through. When it has finished updating feeds, go back to the reBlog Control Panel. You will see a list of new "Feeds with new posts" to read through.
You can read the feeds one at a time by clicking on the red "new" link to the left of each feed or by going to the reBlog Main Menu and clicking "view new items."
reBlogging a post:
There are four actions you can take when looking at a post: publish it, delete it, preview/edit it, ignore it.
publish:
If you like the post and want to reBlog it, click the "publish" radio button. This will send the post to the reBlog rss feed and it will disappear from the list.
preview/edit:
If you like the post but think that it needs editing, click the "preview/edit" radio button. This will take you to a page that will allow you to edit the html of the post, add image links, and add your own comment. (Feature alert: sometimes editing the post before publishing will insert a backslash "\" before your quotations and other special characters upon publishing to the reBlog rss. So check your entries after importing your reBlog posts into Movable Type.)
preview/edit: trimming a post
I will usually trim a post down to about 250 words and create a link back to the originating blog in the form of a "Continued at Originating.Blog" link. I'll snip the post in a way that summarizes the main idea, gives a bit of detail, and ends in a place that will hopefully entice the reader to click through for more.
preview/edit: adding images
If a post does not have an image in the body, I will sometimes go out and do an image search to find an appropriate image for the topic. Once I find an image, I download it, rename it, upload it to my own blog either through FTP or the Movable Type interface, and insert the new img tag in the body of the post. While not necessary, adding images both pretties up your reBlog and allows you to make clever juxtapositions of image and text that readers will appreciate.
If a post already has an image in it, I will usually download that image to my desktop, FTP it up to my own server, and change the code in the post to point to my image instead of the originating image. Serving images from someone else's server without their consent is usually considered bad form, so it's best to copy the image over and have it link back to the originating weblog post. Plus, you never know when that originating image will disappear, so better to have your own copy than have it result in a error 404 later down the line.
preview/edit: adding your comment
If I add a comment to a post, I'll usually put it at the end of the post, in italics, signed, and after a line break to visually separate my thoughts from the original blog post. So if I were adding a comment, the code would look like this:
<br>
<i>(This is my comment. -kc.)</i>
delete:
If you click the "delete" radio button it deletes the post.
Importing your reBlog posts into your blog:
Once you've published a bunch of posts to your reBlog rss feed, go back to the reBlog Control Panel and click on the "rss" link in the reBlog Main Menu. This is your reBlog's RSS feed. Copy the URL to your clipboard and log in to your Movable Type installation.
Once you're logged in to Movable Type, go to the "Entries" page for your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page. If you've installed the reBlog plugin correctly, you should see a link under "Plugin Actions:" named "Configure your Reblog Source RSS Feed." Click on this link and paste in the URL to your reBlog's RSS feed. Click submit. Return to your "Entries" page. You should find a new link under "Plugin Actions:" named "Import Entries from your Reblog Source RSS Feed." Click on this link. It will import any new entries from your reBlog RSS into Movable Type.
When it is finished, return again to the blog "Entries" page. Your reblogged posts will have been imported into your blog and should show up on your main index page. You may want to go into each entry and set the category for each post.
I'm fairly certain that I've forgotten a bunch of stuff. If you're a reblogger and you've spotted something I've forgotten, leave it as a comment and I'll add it to the post.
For more on The Art of the reBlog check out:
Tom Moody's reBlogging Philosophy.
Tim Shey's thoughts on reBlogging.
Other ideas spawned by tim Shey's thoughts (kottke.org).
Adam Greenfield on the problem of resyndication in the reBlog.
Tom Moody's response to Adam Greenfield (plus some gay furry porn).
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October 7, 2004
drm that works.
i copied Adam Curry's daily source code over to my iPod for the first time today. I wanted to listen to it on the subway ride back from Manhattan.
About three minutes into the show, he starts to make his sponsor pitch for plasma TVs. I have no need for a plasma screen so I try scrolling past it and my iPod freezes up. Damn it. Reset. Play. Sponsor message. Scroll. Freeze again. Damnit!
I hereby promise that I will never try skipping past his ads again. :)
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Scoble to Gates: everybody's mediating.
I told him to understand the content-creation trend that's going on. It's not just pod-casting. It's not just blogging. It's not just people using Garageband to create music. It's not just people who soon will be using Photostory to create, well, stories with their pictures, voice, and music. It's not just about ArtRage'ers who are painting beautiful artwork on their Tablet PCs. It's not just the guys who are building weblog technology for Tablet PCs. Or for cell phones. Or for camera phones.
This is a major trend. Microsoft should get behind it. Bigtime. Humans want to create things. We want to send them to our friends and family. We want to be famous to 15 people. We want to share our lives with our video camcorders and our digital cameras. Get into Flickr, for instance. Ask yourself, why is Sharepoint taking off? (Tim O'Reilly told us that book sales of Sharepoint are growing faster than almost any other product). It's the urge to create content. To tell our coworkers our ideas. To tell Bill Gates how to run his company! Isn't this all wild?
CEO's are the only folks that need to hear this.
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"Man, they sound like airlines trying to argue over who has the better bagel."
Jarvis blogging the VOIP panel at Web 2.0.
Thanks, Jeff. I just spit coffee all over my screen.
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October 6, 2004
President Kindergarten Cop
Not that I'm much of one for Pat Buchanan-style nationalism, but this juxtaposition of image and text scared the crap out of me:
You ever feel like you're being set up for some sh!t?
In some weird alternate reality deep within my mind, Arnold didn't win the Cali guvn'r spot, a Diff'rent Arnold did, and the highlight of the DNC was Gary Coleman standing at the podium barking, "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, G-Dubya!?!"
{{sigh.}}
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nail + hammer = gonze.
"Let it not be so that sleek white computers which resemble nothing so much as a pantsuit are a requirement for fighting to keep the man off our backs, man. MTV is the enemy in every particular and the iPod is as MTV as it gets.
"The point, the thing that matters, the part of the action that isn't cynical puffery, is democracy. This movement is about the ways that centralized media undermine democracy and the hope that a free and well maintained internet can decentralize the media."
:).
We've been democratizing the spread of ideas through technology since before Gutenberg. Now we just have to make sure it's evenly distributed.
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reformatting, reblogging, and the rocket.
I've been busy with movable type templates as of late. (note to self: if the tail end of your template body disappears after saving, it's probably b/c you've got a bad html tag in there somewhere. there. now maybe I'll get this line when I google it next time.)
besides a planned move to the 0.9 reblog, i've made the jump to 3.1 after playing with an install of wordpress for a bit. In the meantime, reading a bunch of comments by reblogging converts got me thinking about installing reblog for the yatta site (although managing two reblogs a day might get to be a bit too much. besides - that's what I use del.icio.us for.)
Anyhoo, go check out tim shey's newly reblog-enabled shey.net.
And check out this pic Justin sent me of him and the Rocket down in Houston the other week. Lucky bastard.
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October 4, 2004
draft vs. published.
wrote a piece for urbmag this month on "blogs to watch" leading up to the november election. funny, this journalism thing: seems there are these "editor" folks who take your original text and "edit" it to fit the space alloted. so the intro that i spent so much time tolling over doesn't sound much like my voice anymore.
i mean, it's totally my fault: i knew and approved of the edit. i was crazybusy and behind schedule. I didn't have time to proof my own stuff so I asked them to do it for me. all the standard excuses in journalism. now i regret it. i messed up and lost my voice.
oh well. they say they liked the piece, so perhaps they'll ask me to do it again. if they do, i'll be better prepared this time and get in with a more concise intro and stay under the word count. until then, here's the draft of my original intro for the nov 2004 urb blogwatch:
BlogWatch - In the 2004 US Presidential election, all politics are contextual.
by kenyatta cheese
You’re either in a red state or a blue state. You either support the president or you’re un-American. You’re either for us or you’re against us. God versus the devil. Paper or plastic. Which side are you on?
The 2004 US presidential election is going down as one of the most divisive in decades. If you listen to the campaign rhetoric out there, the nation’s been polarized like the sunglasses on a sheriff looking to perpetuate a bad stereotype. The political parties are spending record amounts of money trying to convince you that there are only two sides to every story and if you don’t stand on one of them, you stand for nothing. Somewhere along the line, they forgot that it’s not where we stand that’s important – it’s where we’re going.
As long as you know where you want the country to go on the issues that matter to you and you’re registered to vote, you’re good to go. (You are registered to vote, aren’t you? No? Go to http://declareyourself.com and get that cleared up as soon as possible.) But issues don’t matter alone. You need context to help give them meaning. What good is advocating for a policy if you don’t know how it applies to you?
Unfortunately, you’re not going to get any meaning from the mainstream media – they’re bogged down in a war over thirty years old, recounting who did (or didn't do) what, while we wonder what’s going to happen to our jobs, how much longer we can use our TiVos before Congress tries to make them illegal, and whether we’re going to end this war before they decide to reinstate the draft. While mainstream journalism is caught in the quagmire, people like you and I have taken the media into our own hands, creating over 3.5 million blogs covering the issues that matter to us, in our own words, and catapulting our ideas into the nation’s consciousness.
The people have come knocking at the door of the Fourth Estate. It seems they want their public discourse back.
It's kinda clever, right?
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October 1, 2004
terizm terizm terizm terizm terizm...
check this out. it's like badgers for politics:
i think i'm gonna put it on a loop and watch it all day.
thx cally!
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forget the debate. just read tvnewser.
i skipped the debate tonight but got a wonderful eyeful as bar after bar in new york turned down the audio on the yankees game and everyone was glued to the debate. who says that people don't care about politics?
when i got home, i felt like i got more info on the coverage from tvnewser than if i were to surf through the channels myself. even better, i felt inoculated from the crap of having to reinterpret anything that anyone says. thank you tvnewser.