Snap on the wide-angle lens 

It's true, as Doc Searls points out, that Obama's NATFA flyer copy was at best sloppy and at worst a little misleading. They should have been more careful.

But!

What's the story? It's "Whose record on international trade agreements is cleaner?"

The mailer copy

is to foreign trade policy differences

as

The Texas Air National Guard memo's authenticity

is to which 2004 candidate had the more admirable military service.

Tour of my iGoogle start page 

Did a quick screencast of the Gadgets on my Google start page. I rambled a little, forgetting that Jing has a 5-minute limit. It sure is a handy little service, improving all the time, and you can't blame them for having a limit, those things can get really big real fast. I use it some for process documentation at work.

It's such a throwaway thing that you tend not to fuss with it, like I do if I make a screencast with something like Captivate. The audio level is too low and I'm croaking, but there's something so temporary about the kinds of things you're moved to illustrate with it that you just don't fiddle. I never thought about it but it would be a good tool if you thought you might like to do a more formal screencast. You could dash off a draft in Jing, then judge if the topic would even make a good screencast.

Should have pointed out that the Grazr widget was generated from a Terraminds search feed.

Let's buy us some of that interest in him 

Interesting. In NYTimes search, which uses Google Ad Words, Hillary's campaign has bought "Obama" and "Hillary" but Obama's campaign only bought Obama.