Archive for February, 2003
On the road again…
I’m en route to San Francisco, where I’m speaking at the CIO Forum. And instead of leaving SF and returning next week ( for the LMA Annaul Conference), I brought the family with me and we’re staying in town until next weekend.
Of course, by the time this post hits the Net I’ll have arrived in San […]
So why did Google buy Blogger?
Pyra’s servers. As a former search engine worker, the answer seemed pretty obvious: The deal’s terms made it more attractive for Google to buy rather than build a blog-scraping system to improve their search results. Automatically scoring human behavior on the Internet is Google’s core competency, and high-availability Web services are one of their strengths. […]
Ripple effect from the DNC meeting
David Korn gives a thorough breakdown in the Nation of the post-DNC landscape, giving Dean high marks and rating only Edwards as a solid competitor (though the article still says that Kerry is the presumptive front-runner). The conventional wisdom seems to be that Dean is the passionate “idea” candidate, while Edwards is the central casting candidate who […]
Gasoline prices
[Ian’s Messy Desk]
Six Degrees of … Warren Buffett?
Four Handshakes. America’s Corporate Boards are Separated by Just Four Handshakes, U-M Study Shows
Much like the Hollywood association game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, corporate America is an interlocking network of company board directorships separated by just a few handshakes, say researchers at the University of Michigan Business School. In a study of the connectedness of nearly 7,700 board directors […]
Video on the web? No way!
Ed Helms of The Daily Show shares the joys of multimedia with the masses in this week’s “Digital Watch”. Or not, as the case may be. Particularly funny? Reading out the incomprehensible real.com URL (or “web thingy”) to download Real Player, downloading the Real Player (“Great! Only 92% left to go!”) and buffering (“What the […]
Two “new” articles about Governor Dean
Just updated the press page, courtesy of “A Dean Supporter” (no name or contact info, unfortunately). Both articles are “old” – one from the May 22, 2002 Christian Science Monitor and one from August 24, 2001 in the Portsmouth Herald.
A few random details that emerge – that he’s an accomplished guitarist, and that he completed a […]
Chicago Sun-Times: Dems keen on Dean
Some good quotes from attendees at the DNC meeting:
“He was the star of the show,” said a surprised Tom Lakin, a Democratic National Committee member from a town near East Alton in southern Illinois.
Dean’s appearance Friday—along with an appearance last month before a dinner for NARAL Pro-Choice America—earned him lots of political points from people […]
Google polling
(cross-posted to both my personal blog and my Dean campaign blog)
Howard Dean gave a magnificent speech last night at the DNC Winter Meeting. (You can watch the video yourself – I’ve got a video archive of his speeches here; you can also read some of the post-speech reactions from the press clipping page.)
And if you […]
A little less conversation, a little more action please
Just read the lyrics to the JXL/Elvis tune “A little less conversation” (Dean’s entrance tune at the DNC meeting) and you have to believe someone picked it deliberately:
A little less conversation, a little more action pleaseAll this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning meA little more bite and a little less barkA little less fight and a little […]
