Friday, October 10, 2003

Misinterpretation Taranto recanto (low in column): "(W)e misinterpreted a statement in an article in The Hill newspaper that Howard Dean is "paying 'bloggers' or professional Internet surfers to keep the enthusiasm up on his website." Peer editing works. [EdCone.com] 2:11:20 PM

PunkVoter.com Via Generation Dean Around the Blogs: PunkVoter.com. Alison Byrne Fields, our GenDean advisor, sent us a link this morning to PunkVoter.com, a site dedicated to involving and educating our generation about politics through punk music. They've signed on bands like the Foo Fighters, Good Charlotte, Pennywise, and... [Generation Dean] 1:44:39 PM

Indie Oregon Film Indie Oregon Film. Corvallis native Brock Morse put together an independent, feature-length film called Westender. It's a medieval period film shot entirely in Oregon. (The film's website has some great photos of Oregon scenery.) You can see the... [onfocus.com] 1:26:04 PM

Not a Paid Advertisement From Howard Dean Note: Mediaburn has endorsed Howard Dean for President. Mediaburn has not been paid to support Howard Dean. The weblog's primary author is an (I)ndependent. Again, thanks to all the readers for supporting Mediaburn and independent digital surf media. The blogging scandal that wasn't. Lots of blogging goin' on claiming that this article says the Dean campaign is paying independent bloggers for their kind words. Suspects named in various blog commentary range from Oliver Willis to Glenn Reynolds . Not so, says Dean blogger Zephyr Teachout. "We have one paid fulltime blogger, that's Matt Gross. I am a paid staffer, I blog sometimes, but mostly do online organizing." She says nobody who is not a staffer gets paid to blog for Dean. I also asked Alex Bolton, the staff writer at The Hill who wrote the article, if he meant to imply that any blogger other than those appearing on the Dean campaign weblog is getting paid by the campaign. "No," said Bolton. "I meant people contributing to Dean's own site." The sentence in question reads: "Dean has done other things to maximize his online fundraising punch, like...paying ?bloggers? or professional Internet surfers to keep the enthusiasm up on his website." I can see how people might have been confused. Yesterday. [EdCone.com] 1:22:34 PM

Hot Stuff It won't be long before every household in America has one of these. 12:45:25 PM

Via Arizona Daily Star Democrats mix it up. PHOENIX - It was a night of beating up the new guy. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:42:35 AM

Introducing 'Jowai' Into the Web of Ideas Kudos to my bro Ben on the new journal Jowai: "the journal of words and images (OCC's first publication) is seeking your artwork, photography, poems, essays, etc for issue number 1.   2 versions will be produced: a free pocket sized, printer and copier friendly version, and a larger full color version." [nick gaydos > thynk] 1:14:20 AM

Liberty Bell Moves 300 Feet Crack Team to Move Liberty Bell. The Liberty Bell is moving on Thursday to a new home 300 feet from its current site. Engineers will be keeping close tabs on the bell to make sure its famous crack doesn't get any worse. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 1:11:04 AM

Via Marc Canter Video Riot last night. The video artists came out in force and took over a city block wall. It was called the Video Riot and it was put on by Dimension7. [Marc's Voice] 12:45:33 AM