Drop Out and Take Over, It's a new world with the same old politics

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BlackBerries Play Politics (PC World)

BlackBerries Play Politics (PC World) 08/11/2004 09:23 PM
PC World - Wireless devices slip past anti-gadget policies to open a new communications channel to lawmakers.

Do Politics, Economics Boost Linux? (PC
World)

Do Politics, Economics Boost Linux? (PC
World) 01/22/2004 07:35 PM
PC World - Open source's accessibility and price tag encourage international adoption, Linux advocate says.

Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the
Dean Campaign

Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the
Dean Campaign 01/07/2004 06:30 PM
The Dean campaign is reliant on small-world dynamics for its power.  The cross connections of egalitarian weak links of Deanie weblogs and the aristocratic Dean hub weblog serve to amplify good or positive information moving through the system.Of course, this can cut the other way too.  Bad or negative information can be amplified out of proportion in this type of network.

My guess is that the Dean network is composed of relatively isolated clusters of nodes that rely on high throughput conduit nodes for connectivity.  If this is true, then the Dean hub and software strategy is correct. It is using the hub weblog to pump information to the high-throughput conduit weblogs using RSS (which strengthens them).

Of course, the Dean campaign isn't the only organization using the power of Internet enabled small-world networks.  Groups across the world are doing the same, including terrorists.  Terrorists?  Yes.  The rise of both the Internet and the first global terrorist organization (that could challenge the world's only remaining superpower) is closely linked.

Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the
Dean Campaign II

Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the
Dean Campaign II 01/07/2004 06:29 PM
The difficulty in building a political network like Dean is that it is extremely difficult to manufacture small-world dynamics.  The weak links derived from weblogs and other forms of social technology are made via intentional actions by the network's participants.  They can't be forced or planned.  They also are unlikely to form without help.  These intentional cross connections serve to radically reduce the average connection length of the network (the distance between any two nodes on the network).Hence the perception that the community is a small world, even if it is composed of hundreds of thousands of participants.  Operationally, short connection lengths translate into a community that acts with a speed and decisiveness not seen in authoritarian or random networks. 

The knee-jerk reaction among political managers looking at the Dean network would be to set up a candidate weblog, set up some meetup.org gatherings, and build some software.  However, that is far from what is needed to set the process that would lead to small-world phenomena in motion.

Notebooks Tempt as Prices Drop (PC
World)

Notebooks Tempt as Prices Drop (PC
World) 08/02/2004 03:11 AM
PC World - Portability becomes more affordable, but you'll make tradeoffs for a budget notebook.

Dear Free World (politics): Turk
Beheading Next Video?

Dear Free World (politics): Turk
Beheading Next Video? 06/28/2004 06:30 AM
Turk Beheading Next Video? .. Dear Free World

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World Shark Attacks Drop as Swimmers
Learn to Fear (Reuters)

World Shark Attacks Drop as Swimmers
Learn to Fear (Reuters) 01/28/2004 11:25 AM
Reuters - Shark attacks around the world declined in 2003 for a third straight year, partly because swimmers and surfers grew more accustomed to thinking of the ocean as a wild and dangerous place, and possibly also because of a decline in the global shark population.

"Indeed, such is the nature of the
new anti- Semitism that everyone can now
play at it — as long as it is cloaked in
third-world chauvinism, progressive
thinking, and identity politics."

"Indeed, such is the nature of the
new anti- Semitism that everyone can now
play at it — as long as it is cloaked in
third-world chauvinism, progressive
thinking, and identity politics." 11/01/2003 06:24 AM
a new Hanson column .. Victor Davis Hanson .. Those Jews

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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
world beard and moustache championships .. German crowned world beard champion .. Beardy Weirdies!

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3233833.stm
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Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World

Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World 06/18/2004 10:08 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 19 2004 2:20AM GMT

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world"

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world" 09/21/2004 04:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: David Weinberger, author of the brilliant and seminal Small Pieces Loosely Joined, has posted a draft of a great speech on copyright that he's giving at the World Economic Forum in NYC tomorrow:

[F]or one moment, I'd like you to perform an exercise in selective attention. Forget every other consideration — even though they're fair and important considerations — and see if you can acknowledge that a world in which everyone has free access to every work of creativity in the world is a better world. Imagine your children could listen to any song ever created anywhere. What a blessing that would be!

...We publish stuff that gets its meaning and its reality by being read, viewed or heard. An unpublished novel is about as meaningful and real as an imaginary novel. It needs its readers to be. But readers aren't passive consumers. We reimagine the book, we complete the vision of the book. Readers appropriate works, make them their own. Listeners and viewers, too. In making a work public, artists enter into partnership with their audience. The work succeeds insofar as the audience makes it their own, takes it up, understands it within their own unpredictable circumstances. It leaves the artist's hands and enters our lives. And that's not a betrayal of the work. That's its success. It succeeds insofar as we hum it, quote it, appropriate it so thoroughly that we no longer remember where the phrase came from. That's artistic success, although it's a branding failure.

Link (via isen.blog)

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games 01/07/2005 04:22 AM
Ubi Soft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers has selected Eiko Media Inc. as their preferred agency to assist in bringing real world products into their suite of video game titles. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World 06/24/2005 03:20 PM
VOIP Video Phones (Voice Over Internet Protocol) by Packet 8 and 5 LINX are revolutionizing the communications industry as you read this and reuniting families that in many cases haven't seen one another in years. There hasn't been a cultural or business change as dramatic since trains were being replaced by airplanes as the common way to travel. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World?

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World? 12/04/2003 03:52 AM
Last month when everyone was making a big deal over the news that the online game Second Life had decided that players own any intellectual property they create in the game, I said it was a bad idea, since it basically took all of the problems of our intellectual property system and moved them into the virtual world - where it was likely to get more confusing. Over at LawMeme, James Grimmelmann, has been thinking a lot about that very idea and has written an insanely long - but absolutely worth reading - discussion about intellectual property issues as it relates to games. It's impossible to summarize his points, but he explores many of the issues in-depth and appears to have thought about these issues in much more detail than the designers of the various games. What it really seems to come down to is the question of whether or not in-game actions are simply covered by the End User License Agreement (which basically becomes the Constitution for that game) or if real laws in the real world should apply.

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes 06/03/2004 07:16 AM
Technology business magazine PC World has announced the winners of its 2004 World Class Awards, and Apple is on the list. The magazine's editors make their selections for the awards "based on exemplary usability, design, innovation, features, performance, and value from a reliable manufacturer."

politics

politics 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
Bill Clinton to become Secretary-General of the United Nations?

Policies vs. Politics

Policies vs. Politics 12/19/2004 03:12 PM

Virginia Postrel hits on something interesting in a New York Times article based on a paper by a group of Harvard economists. The paper is about religion in politics, but she draws two broader conclusions:

Yet abortion rates show no significant change with the party in office, while tax rates rise significantly under Democrats - the opposite of what the political rhetoric promises. This result suggests that politicians move away from the social center mostly to get votes ("strategic extremism") and diverge from the economic center because they actually prefer those policies ("nonstrategic extremism").

Since the success of extreme messages depends on keeping your supporters better informed than your opponents, the model suggests that changing news media could be as important as changing social groupings.

Sounds right to me. The second point is intriguing because it suggests that getting the "liberal media" out of its elite, coastal shell might actually hurt the cultural conservatives who complain about it.

Politics by other means

Politics by other means 02/10/2004 06:47 AM
The Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net -- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true believers.

Seussian politics

Seussian politics 03/20/2003 01:04 PM
Bush and Chirac debate Iraq
"I will bomb him in his car; I will bomb him from afar.
I will bomb him in his house; I do not like him, he’s a louse.
I’m going to bomb him here and there.
I’m going to bomb him everywhere."

Neighborhood Politics

Neighborhood Politics 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

scary, and terribly voyeuristic:

Fundrace 2004's Neighbor Search

[via This is not your practice blog]

This is politics at it's most disturbing

This is politics at it's most disturbing 09/24/2004 01:55 PM
What if we voted on issues? .. hurt the parent's brains

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Box office politics

Box office politics 06/16/2004 11:25 AM

Internet and Politics

Internet and Politics 12/19/2004 03:18 PM
I'm attending (and speaking at) this conference today and tomorrow. There's a webcast, too.

Don't Dismiss Net Politics

Don't Dismiss Net Politics 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
John Kerry's victory in the 2004 Iowa presidential caucuses tells us that politics remains in broadcast mode. We haven't arrived at a technology-fueled, post-broadcast era. But anyone who doubts that the Internet is changing politics in major ways just isn't paying close enough attention.

Texas Politics

Texas Politics 05/15/2004 02:39 AM
Before Enron Houston, Texas had been the locus of a stock scandal of a slightly different sort. Growing up in Houston in the 80s and 90s, I never associated the word "Sharpstown" with anything but a mall, but the area underwent a development mired in scandal.

In the late 1960s Frank W. Sharp, a Houston businessman, negotiated a deal with a few Texas House Democrats; they would help pass a piece of legislation, and in turn, he would ensure that they would make a profit from his company's stock. In 1971, the dealings came to light. Most of the public officials connected with the scandal were run out of office, but somehow one man beat the resulting karma, even it was a a few decades later. But some good did come out of this, as the Texas Open Records Act was expanded in the aftermath of the scandal.

XFree86 Politics

XFree86 Politics 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Pivot writes "Keith Packard wants to fork the XFree86 effort. 'It has been brought to the attention of the XFree86 Core Team that one of its members, Keith ...

Reed on politics

Reed on politics 01/24/2004 12:38 PM
David Reed — you know, the End-to-End guy — goes through the candidates one-by-one. He's captured a lot of what I think and feel about these guys. This dance remix of The Scream that's been going around makes me laugh....

RSS Politics and Microsoft

RSS Politics and Microsoft 05/26/2004 09:06 AM

Joshua Allen says the "debate" over Atom vs. RSS is a complete non-issue for Microsoft.

Four Myths About Politics

Four Myths About Politics 06/30/2004 02:22 PM
Chris (sorry to pick on you) gives a perfect example of the logic that’s causing Democrats to lose so badly:…

Disintermediation and Politics

Disintermediation and Politics 12/12/2003 03:05 PM

Metal Politics

Metal Politics 12/27/2004 09:02 AM
Progress - Dec 2004

Look to Tech, Not Politics

Look to Tech, Not Politics 01/29/2004 02:48 AM
And the techies were out in force. Here was Google's Sergey Brin standing with a bunch of us at lunch gobbling down finger foods from the buffet. ...

Joe Trippi on E-Politics

Joe Trippi on E-Politics 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
I'll be filing my impressions of Joe Trippi's spe ech here today at the Emerging Technology conference. I prefer to listen at the moment.

Using M.R.I.'s to See Politics on the
Brain

Using M.R.I.'s to See Politics on the
Brain 04/20/2004 01:51 AM
Researchers using brain imaging do not claim to have figured out either party yet, but they have noticed intriguing patterns.

XML-Deviant: Politics By Any Other Name

XML-Deviant: Politics By Any Other Name 05/12/2004 06:55 PM
The recent News.com interview with Bob Glushko spawned a rash of debate among XML developers. The topic? Standards, of course! Kendall Clark offers his own views, and reports on the surrounding community debate.

Politics and Taxes

Politics and Taxes 09/03/2004 10:01 AM
Will Uncle Sam subsidize contributions to your favorite candidates?

Who said Politics were boring?

Who said Politics were boring? 08/27/2004 02:04 PM
If they can't wow you with dirt on the opponent they'll wow you with smut of themselves don't believe...

Alliteration in politics

Alliteration in politics 01/24/2004 07:14 PM
Earliest use I can find on the Dow Jones database Factiva -- which sometimes out-googles Google -- is in 1996 at the AFL-CIO convention held annually in Bal ...

"politics.technorati.com"

"politics.technorati.com" 07/22/2004 09:19 AM

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