Blogging
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An odd mention
Matt Yglesias asks “How many moody loners are there” in this episode of Blogging Heads.
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I make the big time
And get meaningfully quoted and answered by another blogger. Thanks Subadei! I’ll have my response soon.
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A useful meme for ideological bloggers
I think it would be useful to list the downsides of your own ideology, specifically, who would be hurt if all of one’s policy ideas would be enacted. I don’t mean the left saying that rich people wouldn’t like paying their fair share of taxes, or social conservatives saying that adulters wouldn’t like jail (or whatever), but more along the lines of the isolationist saying that tens of thousands of Iraqis would be killed if there were an immediate pullout from Iraq.
I’ll have my list soon. I dub the meme “Napoleon’s Sink”.
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Best characterisation of Iraq
From Winston Churchill “An ungrateful volcano”
via Andrew Sullivan on BloggingHeads
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Everyone should read this
Dan Habbot over at TDAXP has the single most informative article on the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam I’ve ever read.
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An odd fact
Yesterday was the highest traffic day this blog has ever had.
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My blog rule
As some people have asked; my profanity rule is that I only speak profanities, never write them. I think it works rather well.
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Blogger is finally recovered.
Or so it seems. The Blogger site has been out all day.
The big news of the day is that happy occasion of al-Zarquawi’s demise. CNN actually has video.
John Robb has an interesting post about the event, and the meaning of Zarquawi in general. Short version – Zarquawi was more venture capitalist than general or cult leader. RTWT. It provides a lot of perspective about the nature of the conflict.
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Web video is on it’s way
In particular there is Video Egg. Very cool.
I stumbled across it via Pamela of Atlas Shrugs. I do have to say that pro-Bush apparachiks with strong New York accents give life a new horror. Hot Air does a better job with both the video and the vitriol.
Granted, I think partisan bickering is a sign of strength and self-esteem, but at some point it gets silly.
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A nice feature
The Knoxville daily newspaper has an interesting feature, called Random This, where they send a correspondent out with a video camera to document some feature of life in Knoxville. It’s not hard news, but it is much more detailed than a column would be. 800 words about a visit to a tattoo parlor or shooting range would not be terribly interesting, but the video version is. It’s a good example of something that could only be done online.