Thursday, October 27, 2005

There is a serious and important business story about blogs and business buried beneath the sensationalism and hype of this Forbes cover story by Dan Lyons (free registration required). What a shame the magazine obscures the issues with alarmist generalizations. Update: Dan Gillmor: "Overall, what a pile of trash. More: Doc weighs in. 8:53:22 PM   permalink   comment []

I've complained about Radio (my blog software) residing on my hard drive, because hard-living laptops like mine eat hard drives like M&Ms and so the whole thing goes kaflooey from time to time. But hosted blogs have issues, too. Via Dave, who says, "Scaling is a science, an art, voodoo, and more than a little luck." 8:17:56 PM   permalink   comment []

Having noted this morning that I'm not in the downtown power-group loop, I should add that this applies to my roles as a journalist and blogger, and that the disconnect is at the program level, which is what makes it curious. I am reasonably well-connected at a somewhat higher level, via my board seat with the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation, in which capacity I attended a meeting this afternoon of the various foundations that fund Action Greensboro. It was an interesting meeting, the details of which I cannot divulge, but I was able to make a suggestion that I hope will have a quick and meaningful impact on Greensboro, its creative culture, and its national reputation... 7:42:16 PM   permalink   comment []

Almost as qualified as Miers. 1:35:29 PM   permalink   comment []

DC decides blogs are important. Except Trent Lott. 1:32:57 PM   permalink   comment []

Beyond Plame and Wilson and Libby and Cheney lies the question of the documents that claimed Saddam was shopping for uranium in Africa. Josh Marshall has been covering this closely. Start here, and click through the posts from the previous couple of days. It's complicated stuff, but important to understand. I've said it before: Josh Marshall will be the first blogger to win a Pulitzer (or other major journalism prize). 1:24:12 PM   permalink   comment []

7:30 breakfast meeting. Set the alarm for 6, although I'm usually awake around then anyway. Restless, look at the clock, it's 3:40 AM. Open my eyes again, it's...light outside. Clock blinking in that power-went-out-kinda-way. 7:27, everyone including the dog still slumbering peacefully. Wake up the kids, wake up Lisa, take a really fast shower...at the meeting by 7:50. Stupid electricity. 9:46:40 AM   permalink   comment []

DarkTimes: Brooks ("Patching the Presidency") says the Bush administration is fixable. "Remember, every president since Grant has had a miserable second term." Written before Miers withdrew. Interesting POV: "There is no one big scandal (sorry, Plamegate is not it)." Check back with us on this one, Brooksie. Herbert: "Driving Blind as the Deaths Pile Up." "Much of the nation is mourning the more than 2,000 American G.I.'s lost to the war in Iraq. But some of the mindless Washington weasels who sent those brave and healthy warriors to their unnecessary doom have other things on their minds. They're scrambling about the capital, huddling frantically with lawyers, hoping that their habits of deception, which are a way of life with them, don't finally land them in a federal penitentiary... "...You can spin it any way you want, but Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of Karl Rove, Scooter Libby et al. is ultimately about the monumentally conceived and relentlessly disseminated deceit that gave us the war that never should have happened. "Oh, it was heady stuff for a while - nerds and naïfs swapping fantasies of world domination and giddily manipulating the levers of American power. They were oh so arrogant and glib: Weapons of mass destruction. Yellowcake from Niger. The smoking gun morphing into a mushroom cloud." Kicker: "Thousands upon thousands are suffering and dying in Iraq while, in Washington, incompetence continues its macabre marathon dance with incoherence." 9:27:38 AM   permalink   comment []

CNN: Miers withdraws. 9:18:39 AM   permalink   comment []