My two cents on this week’s Bitchmeme

A Bitchmeme is something that happens on weekends when new stories are in short supply so ideas that otherwise would be buried on Techmeme rise to the top. Usually they’re people complaining about something or other which is why they’re called Bitchmemes and not Happymemes or Sarcasticmemes.
This week’s Bitchmeme is about comments on blogs and […]

Is my candidate too elite?

I winced when I heard the quote that’s making the rounds this week in the political blogosphere. I didn’t like it because unlike the Rev Wright controversy, I doubt if much good can come from it, and because my guy, Obama, was, imho, wrong. By his own standards, the comment was wrong, and I hope […]

Political notes

Jay Rosen reports that the Obama quotes that are driving the political talk today came from Mayhill Fowler, a reporter writing for OffTheBus, an organization he founded with Arianna Huffington. Jay’s piece is a must-read if you want to understand how the people are reshaping political discourse in 2008.
Update: The NY Times, unlike other MSM […]

A little help?

I woke up the other day motivated to learn XCode 3.0 and make some small improvements to the OPML Editor. I want to add a few verbs that make it easier to monitor object databases that grow large. I would have put these features in years ago if I knew that this would be the […]