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Political Wire: Frist's White House Ambitions Hurt
Frist's White House Ambitions Hurt
My first reaction when I saw this headline: They're killing me.
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Political Wire: Frist's White House Ambitions Hurt
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Jeneane said this in regards to what I found to be a pretty snotty post over at Halley Suitt's this am. Apparently we have a new meme starting to take form amongst the non-existent A-list. The way this one goes is roughly:
People say bad things to me, and I don't like it. It makes me sad. How do you expect me to make more rich, savory posts about conference going and airport wi-fi if you keep saying bad things about me?
The first example I saw of this was a post from Joi Ito, in which he wondered out loud whether his blogging was becoming boring due to a sudden bout of self-consciousness. It actually had a certain amount of thoughtfulness to it, and wasn't just the standard "wahhhh meanies!" type deal. Unfortunately the comments to same post rapidly degraded into a ton of bloopies (blog-groupies; I can make these up all day) saying:
Joi, you rock! Don't listen to all those losers who wish they were one-billionth as kewl as you. Please visit my blog at unctuoussycophant. blogspot.com.
Though the fact that he felt compelled to write "I'm not fishing for compliments here" indicates that he knew he was going to get pretty much just that.
Then we get Halley, in the post Jeneane commented on above:
Man, it must suck to be you. But then further along in the same whine, we get this:
Jeebus, it's amazing to see how fast the populism and digital democracy and such devolves into this sort of "MY ball" sentiment in the presence of dissent. Even Jarvis did a version of this 2-step recently, where he told us all that he was 'Mr. Transparency" (if only) but he was only obliged to fearlessly crusade against back-room, off the record deals that didn't involve him. Why? Because it's bidness. And that's different somehow. Then they're "conversations." And nobody blogs all their conversations, right? Hoo boy. Interesting take. Transparent as mud. But wholly necessary if you're going to milk this blog thing to resuscitate your career. All of a sudden, "our new media world that we're all creating as citizens but only I'm profiting from" has borders.
Also, interestingly enough, it's sort of the next fractal level down in the media food chain. A-list makes a career out of wailing on the big bad old media. The SCMSM responds by largely ignoring the A-list. Now that the SC-A-List is itself starting to become the BigBlogs (translate: assimilated,) we get them wanting to ignore any dissent or criticism of them or their actions.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Tom Watson: Moving Comments Up II
MSM doesn't get it. Check.
Dean's campaign was just the start. Check.
The gatekeepers are toast. Check.
The revolution is being led by a hundred or so paunchy, middle-aged, all-white, predominantly male cybergeeks clinging to laptops like life rafts on the Lusitania. Check - no wait, that was just a snarky observation Andrea and I made about the audience.
In any case: blah, blah, blah, blog, blog, blog.
This is a remarkably economical and precise observation. Better yet, it pretty much sums up what you'd read any given day on BuzzMachine or Jay Rosen, save the condescending chanting of "citizens media." So just read this post 2 or 3 times per day and now look at all that time you've saved on blog triumphalism.
You know, there may be a need for a Blogging Bullshit Generator. Maybe this afternoon....
Main Gallery :: First Warm Night :: 44
Great picture. Go look. Also check out first warm night.
On the WFMU blog, WFMU's Beware of the Blog: French AIDS PSAs
Very, very creepy. Also very realistic - nice touch where the pincers press into flesh. You'll see what I mean. This is pretty NSFW (though I looked at it there anyway.)
Good Lord, this Microsoft is unstoppable. Is there NO END to the tsunami of innovation sluicing out of Microsoft every single goddamn day? Tabbed browsing. Jeebus. IncroyABle.
Let's run that through the DeRedmondator, shall we? Translation:
We didn't invent it, so we thought that if we ignored it it'd just go away.
My upgrade to Tiger went pretty smoothly, save one thing: iSync. I am trying to sync my Cingular Treo 650 to my new 15" Powerbook, bought to replace a 17" (which will soon be for sale, if you're interested.) For background:
The Treo synced fine via Bluetooth on the 17", but it was an upgrade from a Tungsten T, and I just basically plugged the Treo in instead of the Tungsten, and everything just worked. Just like it had before.
The 15" shipped with Panther on it, so I used the migration tool, which worked fine. I was able to sync the Treo without any problems.
After a couple of post-upgrade days of playing with various aspects of the system and getting app updates in place (had to rebuild Carbon Emacs), I decided that maybe I better sync the damn phone. When I plugged in the cable and hit the HotSync button, iSync started up and presented me with the "Merge? Overwrite? Decide!" first sync dialog. Well, dear reader, I did something stoopit. I panicked, thought "later for this," and cancelled the dialog.
Fatal mistake.
It's been like a week now (or at least it feels that way,) and I cannot get the Mac to
I have tried any number of things, read far more support forums than I find tasteful, uninstalled Palm Desktop, reinstalled Palm Desktop, bought and installed Missing Sync. I've trashed Bluetooth prefs, iSync prefs, device caches, you name it. Incidentally, how do you reinstall iSync?
Still, every time I run iSync and select "Enable PalmOS syncing", just when the line at the bottom of the Helpful Dialog says "Installing the Palm OS conduit..." iSync says "Nuh-uh" and just quits.
I am not normally the "pleeeez help me" type; I usually get a great deal of pleasure out of hunting this kind of twiddly shit down. But, man, I am stuck. This afternoon I found myself contemplating pairing the Tungsten with the laptop and then just using the Treo instead, given that they both have the same HotSync user id. If anyone has any helpful ideas, I am all ears.
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I wanted to mention a blog I have really been enjoying lately: WFMU's Beware of the Blog, the "blog of the freeform radio station of the nation." And how, kids. And how. Boing Boing is the sitcom version of this blog. They find the real interesting shit while BB hipoisie Cory and Xeni and Marky waste bits acting like the hoary SRL are even vaguely relevant to anyone but people obsessively refreshing the same query for ReSearch back issues on eBay.
Anyway. Aren't you glad I'm back? Guess what I was doing. I was WORKING! Jeebus, how scary.
BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis
This quote is what happens when you decide that glib is better than thoughtful. Plus, a) I'm not really sure what this is supposed to mean, and b) it's not true. I for one don't want every aspect of my life - and I tend to mean all of my life when I say "my life," I'm funny that way - searchable. Then again, down here underneath the long tail, or as we sometimes like to call it, in the asshole, our lives may not even be considered Google-worthy.
Plus it's just further proof, populist yammering by highly paid media executives who don't seem to ever actually be working aside, that the A-list is completely about the starfucking. Note that 12-ton namedrop there at the beginning of the sentence. It's all about the egoboo, kids, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.