Coyote Gulch

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Iraqi Election
I have no idea about the politics or beliefs of the people who've started the website Friends of Democracy. I just ran across the link on Iraq the Model. The friends tell us that they are reporting, "Ground-level election news from the people of Iraq." This should be an interesting week.
7:03:59 PM

Colorado Water
The National Center for Atmospheric Research thinks that global warming is a factor causing "the percentage of Earth's land area stricken by serious drought," to more than double, "from the 1970s to the early 2000s."
10:40:37 AM

Blogging vs. Journalism
David Weinberger: "The other big gap between us is easy to state but hard to explain: The media is owned. The blogosphere isn't. We together are building it. The media have to try to get us interested in what they do, but the blogosphere is constructed out of our interests. It's ours not (just) in the sense of ownership but in the sense of what we care about and what we are."
7:07:44 AM

2008 Presidential Election
Here's a Wellington Webb centric view of the regional DNC meeting held yesterday in Sacramento from the Denver Post [January 23, 2005, "Dem hopefuls woo delegates"]. From the article, "The race to replace Terry McAuliffe as chairman comes at a strategic crossroads for Democrats. Bruised by defeats in the last two presidential elections, they milled around the hotel lobby discussing whether the party should sharpen criticism of the Bush administration or soften its tone to appeal to independents and moderates."
Taegan Goddard: "Who can stop Howard Dean?"
6:32:08 AM

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