I’m sure of it.
Monthly Archives: November 2004
frontline: is wal-mart good for america?
Tomorrow night frontline investigates wal-mart’s far reaching effects at home and across the world. Yeah, the show the other night didn’t connect the dots the way I had wished, but I’m sure it was an eye opener for many. This is bound to be the same.
A related blog I’d like you to see is Northeast Pennsylvania Whirl-Mart. It’s a great example of how a focused weblog can be a useful activism tool. Too many of us blog just to hear our own voices in the echo chamber.
Kerry campaign scrutinizes Ohio
Cleveland.com: Among many issues in Ohio, “a confusing counting method used in Cuyahoga County’s election totals wrongly suggests that more than two dozen suburbs had more votes than voters”.
Hmmm.. I don’t like Rense, but maybe it’s on to something here.
Damn near the perfect RSS reader solution for the newbie
Finding and subscribing to RSS feeds is a bit of a hurdle for some folks. This solution makes it easy:
1. Use Firefox as your browser.
2. Use bloglines as your news aggregator.
3. Install the Livelines browser extension and configure it to add RSS feeds to Bloglines.
4. Whenever you are browsing a site that has an associated RSS feed (if its site maintainer has followed standard practices for publishing RSS feeds), you will see in Firefox’s lower right hand corner a Live Bookmarks icon. Click and choose the latest version of the feed that that site is publishing.
5. Bloglines will then ask you how you want the feed organized on your personalized page there.
Bingo – all done. No more “find RSS URI and copy, go to some form and paste, process.
“Don’t Blame Me, I’m From Pennsylvania”
Check out our little store: t-shirts, bumper stickers and more. Profits will be donated to Operation USO Care Package. Richelle did a fantastic job on the logos.
Sorry for the deleted comments folks
Sometimes I need to deal with comment spam posted here. Today it got brutal and I lost a bunch of legitimate comment postings. One way I deal with this is to close every comments thread on the site after the post has just about fallen off my home page. It takes work, but ya do what ya gotta do.
Thank you
A thank you for all those who have defended us and continue to defend us. This veterans day and every day.
Rule of Law is an American Value
But apparently it’s not for President Bush’s choice to replace Ashcroft – Alberto R. Gonzales.
Write your representatives and let them know that the former counsel of Enron isn’t fit for the post. We want a law enforcer. Not someone who writes the law as he goes along.
I like the theme. I’m going to continue it.
We’re re-connecting, but marketers have been working against it for the longest time
Tonight on frontline will be a documentary I hope you’ll take the time to see. Rushkoff, the author of the documentary (Wired) gives voice to a concern I’ve probably chatted the ear off of one too many people – that marketer’s slicing us into smaller and smaller sellable demographics is bad for our health, and he recognizes a truth that I believe in my heart – we have a need to connect to other people.
Should be an interesting show.
Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated
Jakob Nielsen rates Bush campaign email newsletters as far more effective and lists the reasons why. For the national campaign, I’m forced to agree, but if he were to judge the campaign in Pennsylvania, Nielsen would have give the Kerry campaign proper compliments on the criteria he is using.