June 24th, 2008
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Gives to NY cause mad that Harvard is dominant.
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June 23rd, 2008
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Dude dances across the world, literally. So fun to watch.
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Me interviewed at PDF.
June 23rd, 2008
John McCain is old, but is aware of the internet’s existence.
Saw it live, but Eve Fairbanks at TNR has the quote from Mark SooHoo, McCain’s “e-campaign” dude:
You don’t necessarily have to use a computer to understand, you know, how it shapes the country. … John McCain is aware of the Internet.
June 23rd, 2008
I was live on the web, and you missed it.
I talked to Deanna Zandt using her nifty live video tool qik early today here at the PDF conference. You can watch it here. I’d embed it but wordpress sucks.
June 22nd, 2008
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Great terms.
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Fascinating piece about a professor of mine from college.
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A longer wonkier piece on unger.
June 21st, 2008
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Debate on new media in sports.
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Rospard, Dauo and people who don’t really know anything from McCain and Romney’s campaign discuss the new politics.
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The Netroots stood strong against its own leaders. Will the Obamaroots do the same?
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A great conversation. Jones has an appealing combination of balance and seriousness of purpose. Notice at the end a lot of talk about the internet and tech literacy as a basic tool for activism.
June 21st, 2008
The future of politics is now.
Joe Rospars of the Obama Campaign, Peter Daou of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, Mindy Finn of the Mitt Romney Campaign, and Mark Sohoo of the McCain Campaign discuss new politics.
[youtube="http://youtube.com/watch?v=PS3Oy2DlccU"]
You can really see that Rospars and Daou have things to contribute and are pushing boundaries, whereas Finn and Sohoo seem to be re-explaining the basics that most liberals in this sphere grasped in the ’04 cycle.
June 21st, 2008
The truth about John McCain.
This is goddamn brilliant.
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLztKVLAFqs"]
If it’s a combat media world, we need more people combating stupidity.
June 20th, 2008
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Want a huge dose of self-important old media lecturing in the guise of a profile of a prominent blogger?
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Karp explains what’s so deeply wrong with the AP’s link/quote/copyright scheme.
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Interesting.
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V interesting
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Wow. Um. WOW.
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Want to know how Politico sells itself? ESPN for sports with a huge dose of insidery goodness.
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Forgot to delicious this earlier. Summary: BHO’s is the biggest political operation put together in the history of the US, what happens next is a BIG DEAL.
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Learning from the mistakes of others.
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Silly, hilarious, “groundbreaking.” Probably won’t be that interesting.
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Huh. Another bad public analytics measure to add to compete.com and alexa.com?
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DUDE.
June 20th, 2008
Why is teevee sooo white?
Jonathan Adams over at RaceWire is wondering why it is that “According to an Entertainment Weekly study of scripted-programming casts for the upcoming fall 2008 season, each of the five major broadcast networks is disproportionately whiter than the United States population.”
The best answer to that question I’ve ever heard actually comes from Shonda Rhimes, founder/head writer of Grey’s Anatomy. In an interview in 2005 with Tavis Smiley, she described the bizarre and pretty shocking uphill battle to cast people of color on the show:
Rhimes: What was interesting about it was we sent out the script and they only sent us white actors.
Tavis: So even when you didn’t specify that the actor had to be white, they still sent you white actors.
Rhimes: Yes. And we had to call back and say, excuse me, where are all the actors of color? Where are the Hispanics, where are the Asians, where are the African Americans, where are the actors of color? And they went, oh, so this is a diverse role. And I said, they’re all diverse roles. All of the roles in the show are. And now we’re at a point where when our casting director sends out something for a guest-starring role, everybody knows. If you have an actor who you think is great, we don’t care what they look like. We don’t care what color they are. Send them over, because they might get the part.
It’s times like this I feel bad about making funny of my lefty professors who would talk about the “invisibility” of whiteness.