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Entries from December 2007

links for 2007-12-27

December 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Stumper : Ron Paul Is the First ‘Long Tail’ Candidate. He Won’t Be the Last.
(tags: campaigns election)

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Bhutto in the Blogosphere

December 27th, 2007 · No Comments

As always, I fired up my feedreader first thing this morning to go through headlines for today’s Daily Digest. I found out about Benazir Bhutto’s assassination from an unlikely source, William Beutler’s Blog P.I. blog, where Beutler, a conservative blogger, usually writes about the 2008 election and conservative politics.
Leaving aside for a moment the fact [...]

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Tags: media · politics

links for 2007-12-07

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

VermontBobcat
This is why I’m proud to be a Vermonter.
(tags: Vermont wildlife)

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This is one of the best things ever

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Barack Obama meets Bollywood.  Note the dancing in the street and the punching bag.

Money quote from a YouTube commenter: “I think i’m going to watch this video every day for the rest of my life. “
Tags: BarackObama, Bollywood, election

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Tags: general · newstalk

links for 2007-12-04

December 4th, 2007 · No Comments

2008 U.S. congressional elections - Congresspedia
All of the open Congress seats in 2008.
(tags: congress elections)

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While I wait for my flight

December 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday I had the chance to see John McCain at a MTV and MySpace co-sponsored event in Manchester, NH (liveblogging and coverage here and here).  These events are pretty much updates of the old townhall “boxers or briefs”  TV forums MTV put on in the ’90s, with a really innovative use of the web. 
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Tags: Internet · media · newstalk

TVLand

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been on TV talking about the CNN/YouTube debates three times now: once on Al-Jazeera (totally weird, talking into a camera with a little disembodied voice in my head) and twice on G4.
Don’t know G4? Neither did until they asked me to be on. It’s the game/technology cable channel that is apparently aimed [...]

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Brian Wilson rapping, in 1989.

December 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

It’s even worse that you can imagine.
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Tags: general