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« For Sale! | Main | CharacterStore.com Ruined My Son's Halloween Plans » October 28, 2005Today's Reading ListThe War: Thunder 6 sheds light on nocturnal driving in Baghdad. ... Politics: Here's a possible poster-child for the Porkbusters campaign. Mark Tapscott has two updates on Porkbusters, here and here. ... Mark Rose reacts to federal budget-cutting... And Tapscott puts pork into perspective: "Japanese gardens for the CDC bureaucrats in Atlanta. Slow, painful, unnecessary death for people with HIV. That's what we get with pork." In Tennessee politics, The Tennessean's Trent Seibert reports that lobbyists are hosting a big fundraiser for the governor. Bob Krumm comments: "Though perfectly legal, it sounds like a politically tone deaf thing for the governor to do." Religion: Last week I encouraged you to follow online a series of lessons, from Fellowship Bible Church in Nashville, titled Beyond Belief: Living a Life that is Global, Generational and Generous. The sixth installment, titled "The Model for Generational Influence," is now on the web, in audio and video versions. Blogging: Forbes attacks blogs, slandering millions of bloggers because of the excesses of a few. The Media: Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott says he will never read blogs. Meanwhile, House Speaker Denny Hastert has started writing a blog, though he has some things to learn about the medium. In his first blog post, Hastert enthuses that blogs are "a new way for us to get our message out." But a blog is not just a way to get your message OUT, it is a way to invite others to put their message IN, and to engage in the big conversation - if the blog allows reader comments and uses trackback - or at least provides an email address that the blogger regularly checks and responds to and posts from. Without all the things that make a blog a hub of conversation - generous hyperlinks to other blogs, a blogroll, and some level of published interactivity with readers via comments or email - it's not a blog, it's a website. Here's hoping that Hastert's "blog" actually becomes one. Posted in Today's Reading List
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The Dan Lyons piece on Forbes is probably just an extravagant way for him to hit at the Groklaw site. Dan has been defaming that site and its writer for a couple of years now. He seems a bit unstable if you read his stuff, and in fact he's at this point possibly the only person on earth who still believes the claims of the SCO Group in their frivilous lawsuit against IBM. He brings in page hits with his loony rantings, probably best to not bring him more page hits. Posted by: Michael Chaney at October 29, 2005 9:18 AMPost a comment
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