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President Bush == Senator Joe McCarthy? 
Can we begin to honestly and fatually draw parallels between Senator McCarthy's tactics and those of King Bush, Cheney, Rove, and friends? And what happened to our two-party system?
| | One is hesitant to descend any further and beg for comparisons evel less savory. The information presented by the commercial media, tame as they are, and the more reputable of the blogosphere would indicate that the President continues to lie to the American People. He and his multi-billion dollar propaganda public relations efforts continue to trumpet provably false stories. It, and the bluster, were Joe McCarthy's favorite tactics that meant misery to thousands of otherwise harmless Americans. |
| | There is no accountability. There is no functional opposition party. There is no energy to refute the lies claims.There's a little irrelevant and meaningless Op-Ed blathering and demogogary or dictatorship business as usual continues. |
| | One wonders what happened to the opposition. It is fragmented, silenced, and irrelevant. it worries about its candidates but nobody has a voice worth listening to. |
| | The incumbents are fighting an image of deep and frightening corruption and dishonesty. yet the opposition can't mount a single coherent and consistent voice of reason, suggesting a path forward. Their voice is as muddled and mired in the problems of the incumbents as to indicate that they are, at some deeper level, complicit. is that what we are to conclude? |
| | McCarthy would have been in his element. Witch-hunts rather than due process. Bluster rather than information and the rule of law. Slander rather than reason. |
| | Lovely day in the neighborhood. |
Full versus Partial Text RSS Feeds
An Argument from Points of Taste
Scoble's back on his rant that he won't subscribe to anything less than a full-text RSS feed (except his brothers) and others like Tom Morris are chiming in. My own long rant follows.
| | Two points worth touching on. One, preferences are preferences. Difference of opinion are legitimate and should be respected. Two, ads are one value to bloggers and don't always drive design. |
| | Scoble reads everything in the RSS reader. He doesn't like to click through to the site. He doesn't discriminate and, apparently, doesn't mind scrolling through pages of material he simply doesn't care to read. Either that or he has an RSS reader that arbitrarily lops off content past a further point and lets him ask for it. Either way, The writer's complete information is presented and has to be dealt with. |
| | I find full-text feeds to be deadly. I only read a small percentage of the items in the feeds I track. I skim what I hope are well written headlines and such. I read the full body text when I see something of interest. I subscribe (in OPML Editor's newsRiver aggregator) to feeds which let me do that and move feeds with bigger entries to Bloglines or out of my lists. |
| | That's why I no longer read Robert's blog. I get the more outrageous items from secondary sources. Generally I have no idea what he's writing about. The post referenced above is a perfect example. It's very long. It's totally uninteresting because I've read and heard his opinion before. It would be a huge obstacle in my newsRiver. |
| | If a blogger cares about reach, she or he should consider pandering to both tastes. It would seem that some blogging tools let you generate both full and partial feeds. If you want to attract the extremes, consider offering both forms. |
| | Advertising is the stylish mode of monetizing content these days. The magazines and newspapers have taught the Internet the model. It is just as CBS proved in the 1960s in Ridgewood, New Jersey. That triggered the Prodigy strategy which predicts the Internet with some accuracy. |
| | Content purchases, mostly today in the form of music, are another source of money. So is the purchase, online and offline, of goods and services of other types. These are the commercial content and intent. Bloggers aren't, generally, intentionally commercial in their content. They're playiing the church and state game of the traditional print media: editorial and advertising competing and attempting to support each other. |
| | There are other forms of compensation available to bloggers (and others on the Web). Direct sale of goods and services can be the direct result of blogging, for example. So can the construction of reputation which leads to income from other contracts. Advertising is, in these other scenarios, a distraction for reader and producer/writer. |
| | I'm sure Scoble and friends will offer me another chance to refine this rant in a few months. |
A side though: Joho on the Open Source Analyst
Actually Jeneane's thought, "The major analyst firms either need to offer a price/plafrom for indies and new media folks, ...". It's a half-bakery kind of thought. A little later in the post, she says, "The model now with the big analyst firms holding the high-priced keys to the kingdom of research needs an overhaul. At the same time, enterprises wouldn't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars have a report done on their offering/product."
| | The next paragraph says, "It's a need just waiting for a business model." Now that's something to sink your teeth in. |
| | Remind me to dig into that  . |
S5: A Simple Standards-based Slide Show System
S5 is a slide show format based on XHTML, CSS and Javascript. Nice stuff, but loosely linked to OPML.
Amy pointing to an OPML renderer 
Today
VIrtual rowboat went 5606 meters in 30 minutes. Just fair. Busy day on all fronts.
| | Lots of posting. Lots of work. And a few good things in the volunteer side of the univers. Donovan is off on All The Right stuff IMHO. Good to see that energy in the OPML Editor space. |
| | Another day at 218ish. 16 + 17. |
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