Andrew Golis

• Scoble Interviews Twitter Founders Evan Willams and Biz Stone
  Wow, do I feel for these guys. I’ve been there on 1/100th a level and hated it, I can only imagine what having a failing piece of software is in the midst of super web 2.0 hype.
  (tags: twitter video scoble techcrunch failure)

• MSNBC, Leaning Left And Getting Flak From Both Sides – washingtonpost.com
  Good piece.
  (tags: msnbc msm bias wapo)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Financial models for “difficult” journalism
  A rundown of the possibilities.
  (tags: new.media finance advertising ethan.zuckerman tpm)

Pandora is pretty awesome. After telling it about 4 songs I like, it figured me out and started playing back pieces of my own library, with some fun new stuff. Amazing.

• Causes Reports On Its First Year – $2.5 Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits
  Nice job boys.
  (tags: causes facebook philanthropy non.profit finance)
• Google Rakes In Campaign Contributions From Obama; Facebook Defeats MySpace! | paidContent.org
  Hmmmm…
  (tags: obama advertising tpm finance)
• The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Four Harvard Students Arrested in Gay Rights Protest
  Right. On.
  (tags: the.crimson sexuality protest harvard military)
• Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April
  Too early to tell much, but worth watching.
  (tags: mashable facebook metrics advertising)
• Death Of Print: New York Times spent $40 million for ability to link
  OMFG. These people are retarded. I couldn’t spend $40 million on software if I tried.
  (tags: new.media nyt hyperlinks msm newspaper)
• Video of MacArthur Forum now online | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH
  Fascinating.
  (tags: new.media youth social.networking danah.boyd video)

• Etaoin Shrdlu: ‘Content just isn’t enough …’
  Content isn’t king, context and community are.
  (tags: new.media msm blogging community)

Looks like my Gavin Newsom idea wasn’t so crazy after all.

• Welcome to The Next Right | The Next Right
  A right roots that goes beyond the id?
  (tags: conservative.movement new.politics next.right)
• techPresident – The Anatomy of a Perfect Email
  Very h elpful.
  (tags: email pdf new.politics hillary)
• Matthew Yglesias (May 27, 2008) – Ixnay on the Ebbway (Politics)
  Kathy G makes the definitive case against Webb. VERY persuasive.
  (tags: jim.webb yglesias kathy.g race class inequality gender 08 obama)
• Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap – NYTimes.com
  Good times.
  (tags: nyc nyt youth finance economics)

Via Politico, which I guess isn’t all bad.

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Not only are we bad for democracy and journalism and know it and don’t care, but we feigned respectability and outrage that anyone would accuse us of those things last year when asked directly.