Sisters with video cameras as a business strategy 

Stephen Colbert interviewed Damian Kulush about his band -- OK Go -- their YouTube strategy, amateurism, giving things away, record companies and more.

I saw OK Go three or four years ago as a warmup act for They Might Be Giants, who also get the net. I think John Flansburgh was their manager for a while. Maybe still is. I don't know how I'd like OK Go to listen to in my car but in the rowdy theatre club on the near north side where I saw them they fit right in. They also did the theme song for my favorite, now cancelled, NPR talk show, Odyssey.

Later: They share a manager with the Giants. Check out the rest of This Might Be a Wiki. It's a complete and well-run example of wikiosity.

Also since I posted this I was informed that my little guy can't go with me to the Giants concert at the zoo tomorrow night because his girlfriend is mad at him. I don't know anyone else who likes them. I can go to a movie by myself, but I don't know about a concert -- even a kids' concert at a zoo. I probably won't go. I prefer their adult shows anyway, really.

Opml.org support 

Open All Night: best thing to do is post a comment on support.opml.org if it falls under a logical heading, as your report does. That way your comment will get cataloged with the recent server changes. If it's a new problem, I guess you post to the opmlsupport mailing list. Dave will see it in due course. For share.opml.org, you might try contacting Dan MacTough directly. Somebody tell me if that's not the right answer.

I've noticed that the OPML Editor blogs are loading painfully slowly, too. But it's variable, isn't it? More slow than not slow the last 24 hours, I think.

Later: Lots lots better! Some stray process gone nuts, or something?

Bloglines mobile 

Browsing through Dave's new directory of mobile services (from all over, not just his new stuff), it looks like Bloglines just repurposes the left frame from the regular interface and somehow strips out the images. How, I don't have time at the moment to investigate. Smart, though, no? I'll give you a link, but it will only make sense if you are already logged into Bloglines. If you get trapped there in mobile land and don't want to be, just go back to the main mobile page and take the link called "Full Bloglines."

Tweety? 

Why is Chris Matthews called "Tweety?"

A journalist doing his job 

Thank you, Chris Matthews. He and Democrat Paul Hackett took Van Taylor apart limb from limb in a Hardball interview on Iraq, calling him on his reliance on talking points. Here's the blogger take on it from Technorati. The interview video is at Crooks and Liars.

Now I want to see Matthews do the same thing with a better-coached neo-conservative on fiscal policy. Shoot, I want all interviewers to do it. It's about time reporters stopped letting people off the hook by allowing them to answer questions other than the ones put to them.

Real people 

Hackett seems like a real person. That must be why the Democratic party couldn't support him in his Senate bid. He probably couldn't be trusted to stick with his party's talking points. It's all about the genuine personhood issue that came up in the questions to John Edwards at Gnomedex. You can't say what you really think and win a national office. Isn't that a horrible shame?

The whole campaign system is broken. Too much TV, too much money. Way too much guarded speech.

I guess that's why I can't get with Hillary, even in the name of sisterhood. I always feel like she's measuring her words. I'm probably being naive in thinking that Biden is more geniune. He's probably just a better actor.

*Sigh.* Let's all go live in little bitty countries where things can be real. No! Let's introduce legislation to mandate every state to secede. I have an outline around here somewhere for a fantasy story with that premise. Seems like I heard somewhere (read everywhere) that small is the new big.

Fallen into the crypt 

Maybe the left should take over the states' rights standard, since the right has defaulted on its contract with it.

If you don't know what I mean by this, that's because I'm taking cryptic lessons. Steve Gillmor has an online course on it. His new LMS is over at gesturelab.com.

;-)