Oh, man…
I believe that he’s refused to rule himself out of the running for 2008! Please let him run, please!
Category Archives: Politics
Record Industry Goes After Personal Use!!!
They have to be joking; this is madness. They’re just killing off their own business…
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use – washingtonpost.com
Why?
Fortune, has a list out of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. At number eight is the story about a video of Rats in Fast Food joints…
101 Dumbest Moments in Business – KFC/Taco Bell (8)
Why is the video a dumb moment in business?
The moment that they stopped the quality control of franchises; dumb! The moment that the guy stopped cleaning his resturant; dumb. But why is the video a dumb moment in business? Because they got caught?
When you don’t know your subject; write professionally.
blog.pmarca.com: When non-technologists write about technology
This post reminds me of something that my Dad used to say; “I’ve never read an article about a subject that I know well that was correct”. It always made me wonder but I’ve spent years since reading articles about subjects I know looking for the exception; I’ve not found it.
The Economist is an extreme of this, I read it for over a decade and was subscribed for years. Then I realized that all articles about technology, the UK and France annoyed me because of their gross oversimplification and constant application of “Economist hope” over experience. However, the rest of the paper made sense.
Then I got thinking…
If that’s the case, does it mean that the worst written articles were always on the subjects that I knew best, or simply that I agreed with the other articles because I didn’t understand the situation and the Economist was over simplifying it?
In the end I unsubscribed and read more blogs instead!
MediaBloodhound’s 2007 Fact or Fiction Challenge
MediaBloodhound: MediaBloodhound’s 2007 Fact or Fiction Challenge
I failed badly! Don’t know if that is a problem with me or the state of affaires!
blog.pmarca.com: Why did Albert Einstein hate freedom?
The story goes from bad to worse…
blog.pmarca.com: Why did Albert Einstein hate freedom?
What is worth noting is that they fabricated the reason to put him away rather than just say that he was an Austrian with extreme political views (extreme from their point of view).
Why does information like this come out when nobody is looking?
How scary would this be? 12,000 people on a list to be locked away and they never knew that they were on the list.
blog.pmarca.com: Good news, bad news
Actually seeing the list would be interesting, I bet that we’d all learn how bad intelligence agencies are at targeting people.
All news is local…
The saying goes that all news is local. AP have confirmed the theory with their Top Ten stories for 2007.
The Associated Press: Top News Story: Virginia Tech Killings
That number six is global warming and seven a small bridge collapse says a lot.
Interestingly one of the quotes goes on to point out how important the stories they choose were…
“Anyone who picks the Anna Nicole Smith story in the Top Ten should be beaten with sticks,” commented Mike Bailey, managing editor of The Courier News in Elgin, Ill.
Where in all of this is Darfour, torture or human rights in general from China to the US, the floods in Asia, Russian democracy; the list is enormous…
Why did he have to leave office before starting down this track?
Al’s Journal : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Does he still have a speech writer?
Wikileaks
Wikileaks isn’t talked about a lot in the press but I think that it could be one of those applications like Wikipedia that will start as a cult, have a tipping point and then explode onto the political scene.
There is something wonderful about governments refusing to admit that rendition flights exist but then I can go online and read the operating manual.
PS – Does anyone know the name of site in the UK that duplicated Hansard? I’ve lost track of it. Thanks.