The first day of the RNC had interesting blogger moments - mostly
from outside of the convention, where both Liberal and Conservative
bloggers placed their attention. Much of the following information is
taken from Technorati's Politics
Attention Index™, a new feature on politics.technorati.com
where we watch the most authoritative bloggers following the US
Elections - both liberal
and conservativ
e, and track the stories they are monitoring, and in some cases,
breaking.
Conservatives happy with McCain and Giulani: Roger Simon, a blogger at the
convention, remarks, "John Kerry should take speech-making lessons from
John McCain. And if McCain is busy, he should try Giuliani." Blogs
for Bush's Mark Noonan wrote,
"tonight, for all practical purposes, the critics of the war have been
answered."
Bloggers claim another scalp? When asked about blogging's
effect on the political discourse in the United States, many people
point to the loss of Trent Lott's speakership as the first time
political webloggers kept a story alive and had a real effect on
inside-the-beltway actions. We now may be witnessing another story in
the same vein - that of the resignation of Rep. Ed Schrock, a two-term
Republican from Virginia's Second District, after pernicious reporting
from Blogactive. Daily
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The Kerry sisters get boos at MTV AwardsThe Conservative
blogosphere was abuzz with links to the video clip of the Kerry sisters getting boos
and then "shushing" the
crowd.
Bloggers reporting from the convention hall A number of
credentialed RNC bloggers have been posting on their experiences at
the convention, akin to the DNC bloggers who wrote of the events that
occurred while at the convention itself. Ann Althouse reports on her day 1 experiences,
as do the folks at Wizbang!,
where they report on the issues in the
Blogger's Corner as well as an interesting run-in with Ari Fleischer
getting interviewed by the bloggers.
More highlights from Liberal Bloggers: Liberals were spending
a lot of time watching stories outside the convention. One item that
created a buzz in the Liberal
Politics Attention Index was a story in The Washington Monthly by bloggers Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rosen, and Paul Glastris,
the editor in chief of The Washington Monthly. In it they delve
deeper into the FBI investigation of Larry Franklin, a veteran Defense
Intelligence Agency Iran analyst. Juan Cole has additional commentary.
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RNC-NYC: daily geek protest roundup
RNC-NYC: daily geek protest roundup08/30/2004 05:32 PM Xeni Jardin:
A slew of riot nrrd updates from BoingBoing readers about protest,
art, and tech mixing at the Republican National Convention in NYC this
week.
* Bunnyhero says, "The RNC mobile network, or RNCmobnet, is a moblog dedicated to
utilizing the power of the collective cell network during the
Republican National Convention demonstrations by enabling mobile
postings by just about anybody with a properly enabled mobile
device."
* Phil Haack points us to the image
shown here, and says, "This is the geekiest protest sign ever -- photo
taken by a friend in New York." Link to
full-size.
* Eli says, "A group of us
are using wearable computers, wifi, and souped up camcorders are doing
an interactive web and tv broadcast tonight of the RNC. We have one
crew inside MSG near the bloggers and three crews in the streets.
We'll be broadcasting live from 7-7:30 PM EST on MNN in NYC and over
the web at Konscious.tv.
Participants can watch live streams and chat over the web with
camerapeople live while they're shooting. More info here."
* Blogstar Anil Dash tells
BoingBoing, "The Village Voice has got a number of new blogs
they've been launching, but the most interesting one to me was the
diary of a (clothed) cocktail waitress at a strip club -- Link. There's
only one post up so far, but if she keeps updating, it promises to be
the most compelling record of the convention that I've seen."
Axis of Eve, a women's rights group, is planning a
10-minute mass panty flash on Appointment on Wednesday, September 1 to
protest the policies of the Bush administration. Over 100 women will
flash panties emblazoned with anti-Bush slogans like "give Bush the
finger," "cream Bush", "drill Bush, not oil", "Ballot Box," "My Cherry
For Kerry," etc."
RNC-NYC: daily riot nrrrd roundup09/01/2004 01:43 PM Xeni Jardin:
News, links, and updates related to this week's Republican National
Convention in New York, from geeks who read BoingBoing:
* Joshua Dickens says,
"Webzine founder and filmmaker Ryan Junnell is doing this documentary
installation on the RNC and managed to find his way not only into the
convention center but also onto the news with this 'Girly Man for
Arnold' sign. He's selling it on eBay to hopefully help fund the
project and get his producer out of jail." Link
* Christian says, "CNet's Download.com lists among the 'New Releases,'
a 'Re-elect George Bush Screen Saver.' Hilariously, the W-saver
installs spyware. Even funnier are the negative comments submitted by
CNet readers --"Since installing I've lost my job and all my private
files were stolen."... "This is the worst software ever. Since
installing I lost my job to India, my child owes $24,000 plus interest
to pay off the national debt and my buddy who got injured in Iraq came
home to no job and no benefits. I tried to call tech support and was
told I was an enemy combatant for calling to complaign (sic).'" Lin
k
* Tim says, "My friend Mark
was arrested at the same Critical Mass rally that Joshua Kinberg got
nabbed at. He wrote a real harrowing and detailed account of his
experience; it is worth reading. The story actually lives on his
website (Link),
but that server is down now, so I've sent you the url for my mirror of
it: Link."
* Anonymous says, "A look at the soon-to-be-launched (right before
9/11) Emergency Preparedness Month, in which the White House and more
than 50 other agencies will spend a month reminding us that terrorists
could strike at any time. This should be a nice bump for Bush leading
right into the election. It examines the elements of the 'fear appeal'
propaganda technique, and includes an interesting side-by-side
comparison of 'Duck and Cover' propaganda from the 1950s, with an
eerily similar image from FEMA's website today." Link
* Jean-Luc says, "Edouard,
a French guy in NYC, photoblogged a lot about the anti-Bush march in
NYC this Saturday." Link
* And following up on our earlier mention of a clever geek protest
sign, reader Bing says, Here's a /BUSH shirt that predates the sign
you posted (and subsequent cafepress store)." Link.
Technorati improves Blog Search Function02/10/2004 03:12 AM Technorati is getting busy improving their site with their improved
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Unfortunately, while the Zempt website is still around, I
haven't been able to get any of the download links to work for over a
week, and there haven't been any updates or news for months.
DOA?
I haven't heard boo out of Adam
Kalsey for months on Zempt (his name being completely written out
and linked in the hope that he'll pick this post up on a Feedster or Technorati search and stop by
to comment...).
Hurricane Frances bl0g roundup09/05/2004 11:56 PM Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing pal in France Jean-Luc has posted a roundup of blogosphere
coverage related to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Frances. Link (Thanks, Jean-Luc!)
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Free WiFi Hotspot Roundup, If One Site Can Be a Roundup
Free WiFi Hotspot Roundup, If One Site Can Be a Roundup04/13/2004 07:23 AM JOEL JOHNSON -- So as is typical, after a full day of responses to my
request for some of your favorite chain restaurants that provide free
WiFi, I get one big, fat link that trumps them all, and includes all
of your Schlotzsky's, Apple Stores, It's a Grinds, and New...
Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features Hot Topic, General Electric, General Motors, Eli Lilly, Apple Computer
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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group bl0g, and bl0g of the year!
Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group bl0g, and bl0g of the year!03/14/2005 05:29 PM Xeni Jardin:
Boing Boing pal Scott Bealeinforms us that our blog just won Group Weblog of the Year at the
Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly
didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were
many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who
work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in
their honor: check 'em all
out. On behalf of my blog-mates Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager"
John Battelle; our sysadmin
par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended
family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most
of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise
productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and
for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered
things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to SXSW in person to accept the award,
but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at ETCON (
all five of us will be in the same place for the first time).
Boing Boing sprouted online a little over
five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder
and Carla
Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look
forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come. Link
Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley
sez, "Not only did BB win best group ‘blog, it won “blog of the
year/best weblog overall” – congratulations!" For those keeping
track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these
two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're
speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity.
What's up with Technorati
What's up with Technorati11/17/2003 05:46 AM David Sifry's Technorati
service -- a blogmining and analysis system that can tell you the
shape and velocity of the blogosphere at any given moment -- has been
cranky and creaky for a couple days now. Sifry has posted an update
to his blog, with info on how things are going and the difficulty of
keeping pace with blogging's amazing growth.
Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I
started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding
between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who
were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year,
when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with
about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding
8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million
weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand
new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about
100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average,
a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.
Technorati main page layout has changed and looks great. [Technorati]
Technorati Gets a New Look
Technorati Gets a New Look06/24/2005 04:40 PM It was in beta for a little while, but it looks as if Technorati's new
look has gone live at http://www.technorati.com . Aside from the page
redesign, there's also most...
A slew of riot nrrd updates from BoingBoing readers about protest,
art, and tech mixing at the Republican National Convention in NYC this
week.
News, links, and updates related to this week's Republican National
Convention in New York, from geeks who read BoingBoing:
