May 2010
16 posts
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Polarization Does Not Affect Trust in Government →
So says John Sides of the Monkey Cage and he has the data to back up the claim.
April 2010
26 posts
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Nobody Leads the Party →
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press on the the public’s ability to identify the leader of the Republican Party (via Political Wire).
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“The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so...”
– Rick Webb about texting (via toldorknown, marco)
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Biden and Geithner Go to Milwaukee →
See also my pictures from the town hall meeting.
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PowerPoint Rangers & Hypnotizing Chickens →
It’s just a tool. It can be used for good or for ill. If an argument is complicated and would take an hour or more to understand while reading a written article or a report, software and a projector can’t help. A clever slide deck can’t condense the learning experience so that it happens in 30 minutes. That’s just asking too much. Besides, thinking you can cure weak...
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Anthony Bourdain, Unreserved →
Tony on food, food culture and politics.
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Dave Eggers and His 328-Page Paper →
I guess a funeral is a type of celebration.
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“The people in this community, they all want to read the same 10 stories. And to...”
– Politico’s Mike Allen
Every community needs this. Even if they don’t know it.
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“So, in a way, it’s like all the effort of the Mac plus all the effort of the...”
– Brent Simmons on developing apps for the iPad
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“I find out about bands through TV shows and commercials. For example, the Dodos...”
– Carl Newman of the New Pornographers on (not) selling-out
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“I want [the iPad] to become the new normal as fast as possible, I figure the...”
– Jim Ray isn’t embarrassed to use his iPad
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“No baseball fan has to explain his mania to any other baseball fan. They are a...”
– John K. Hutchens (via randomsox)
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“You can’t elect Haley Barbour governor of Vermont. You have to understand that...”
– Haley Barbour on Tea Party politics
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iPhone OS as a Generative Platform →
Steven Johnson:
a “generative” platform translates to something like this: a platform that is constantly being re-invented in surprising new ways by a diverse group of creators, where individuals, hobbyists, small startups, and amateurs compete on a level playing field with large incumbents.
Sure sounds like the iPhone OS Era to me.
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I just created some content.
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“Whoever takes my seat, and hopefully it’s going to be a Democrat, will be...”
– Bart Stupak on his retirement (CNN 4/9/2010)
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“So much of our cultural industries have been built on consumer mistakes and...”
– Tyler Cowen on the ongoing changes in the film and music industries
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“I covered Pedro when he was with the Mets. After his first season was over, he...”
– Peter Abraham for the Boston Globe (via Captain Furious)
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All Partied Out
Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele seems to be steering a rudderless ship.
No one seems to like him very much and he just lost his chief of staff.
Top fundraisers are breaking ties with the RNC and citing Steele as a major reason. While former high ranking Republican party officials have started a breakaway organization.
Reasonable people are returning to that late-2008 idea...
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“The killer app of the iPad is reading.”
– Joshua Gans of Core Economics (via Seth)
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No More Laptops →
Amit Gupta predicts that tablet computing will kill laptops. I think this is probably right. Most of us need 4 screens. Before I said 3 screens, but now that I am consumed by launch day iPad lust, it seems pretty clear we need 4. Or at least I do. And by need I mean like water.
Once the iPad gets a good PDF reader/anotater I will stop killing trees.
Andy Ihnatko:
I’m already impressed as hell...
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“Without intending to — while intending, in fact, to do just the opposite — the...”
– Joshua Green on the Grateful Dead, via Bobulate