Category Archives: Blogs

I'm back in Miami, but very very tired. The conference was great fun, and I learned (and ate!) a lot, but the journey home was long. Got up early this morning (before the hotel was serving breakfast), drove from beautiful Santa Fe to Albuquerque, changed planes in Dallas, then finally got home around dinner time.

So here are short links to some blog stuff that hit my feed reader. Several deserve more reaction or praise, but I haven't the energy.

• Talkleft, CEO Paid To Go To Prison. You are a financial services provider. Your CEO is going to jail for 18 months and is fined $2 million. Let's pay him $4,611/day plus a $2 million bonus to make up the fine, plus more bonus to be announced.

• Kevin Drum points to Gadflyer's Amy Sullivan, pointing to the US's leading political analyist noting that the CIA really is in trouble:

“the CIA's credibility has never been lower. Crazy people no longer believe the CIA is implanting a chip in their heads to listen to their dreams. They just don't think they can pull it off. It's a sad day for America when even our paranoid schizophrenics realize they don't need to wear the alumnimum foil hats anymore.”

• Anti-mega gets a farewell t-shirt from his old job.

• My Scholarati standing is no great shakes.

• Kevin Werbach teams up with other wireless pioneers to lauch the Wireless Unleashed Blog.

• Stirling Newbury has a great graph and explainer that plausibly tells Why Bush Seemed Popular.

The Houston journal wants a final draft of the paper in two weeks, so I think I'll do fixing and tidying before posting anything. If anyone is really keen to have it now and will promise comments in exchange for an e-copy now, drop me a note.

This Chun fellow could be very dangerous if we didn't all know that academic blurbs are written by university administrations and forced on unwilling shy and retiring academics.

That said, I genuinely believe that some of my colleagues really are the leading authorities on certain things. But better not to name names.

I love the look of the blogbook, evoking as it does that Book which is the bane of every law students' first year, and of every law journal editor's third year, albeit the guarantor of employment for legions of research assistants. That said, the project itself—finding a standard way for legal authors to cite blogs—produces decidedly mixed emotions of 'makes sense' and 'neutered already?'.

A proof by example that economics need not always be the dismal science: The Idea Shop.

A little puzzle for the procrastinator. What do the following blogs/websites have in common? (Hint: It has NOTHING to do with politics.)

• Tapped
• Poynter Online – Romenesko
• Needlenose¹
• Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor's eJournal
• Wonkette
• Eszter's Blog
• Roger Ailes
• Daily Howler
• Media Matters for America
• Times on the Trail

Answer in a later posting if no one figures it out. (PS. Yes, they're all interesting. That's not it either.)

¹ Stumped? Second hint: Needlenose currently belongs to this list but sometimes doesn't.

It seems that Jay Allen, the author of the essential MT-Blacklist anti-spam plugin, lives in Hungary — although he's not Hungarian — and has an interesting life, albeit one he worries about.

Hmm…since when do programmers get to have a life?