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Here we go… Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire DeLay Admits Role In Searching For DemocratsHouse Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) “admitted” he “provided Texas Speaker Tom Craddick® with the same information that state police used to enlist a homeland security agency in the search for runaway Democratic legislators” last week, the Houston Chronicle reports. Meanwhile, the…

Zen and the Art of Data Restoration Standardization is elusive, even though there are so many standards to choose from. Or perhaps because there are so many. Nevertheless, for many years I have been pursuing an elusive goal of digitizing, standardizing, and archiving all of mydata. In this chapter of the journey, I ended up…

Wasn’t Google’s acquisition of Blogger heralded in part for the move to “Google’s more reliable servers“? From status.blogger.com yesterday: BlogSpot has been especially sluggish recently and we are working hard to improve the situation. We sincerely apologize that the problem has taken longer to resolve than expected and for the frustration of having poor performance…

Josh Marshall may be at it again. You may recall that he was widely credited for sticking to the Trent Lott story late last year, ultimately resulting in Trent Lott stepping down from his leadership position in the Senate. Now he’s picking at the threads of a story that may result in Tom DeLay getting…

The New Republic Online: Dean.com Some campaign managers devote their energies to working the elite press or courting union leaders or wooing donors. But Trippi seems to spend an inordinate amount of his time checking Meetup numbers, posting to liberal blogs, sending text messages to supporters who have signed up for the Dean wireless network,…

From one of Forbes’ top-ranked tech blogs (Techdirt), comes this acknowledgement that if you’re into technology and you are interested in politics, you’re likely to keep hearing just one name… Techdirt:Internet Fund Raising Pays Off For Presidential Hopeful The one name I keep hearing come up in conversations concerning how the candidates use the internet…

Nice to see Professor Larry Lessig excited about some recent comments from Governor Dean: MediaCon: two truths from the dean Howard Dean says at least two important and true things here: (1) “The way to deal with a leader is to be another leader, and to be strong in your views and present the American…

ABCNEWS.com : Howard Dean Raises $1M Via Internet This AP story hits on a few important nuggets. First, Governor Dean is the first candidate to raise $1m on the Internet in this election cycle. Perhaps more interesting is this quote: Though many of the 2004 hopefuls have the potential to raise millions over the Internet…

t r u t h o u t – TO Interview with Howard Dean Interview with Howard Dean t r u t h o u t | Exclusive InterviewThursday 22 May 2003 As the election season begins to heat up, truthout has begun pursuing interviews with the seven Democratic candidates for President. Invitations have been…

Salon.com Books | The Matrix way of knowledge The Matrix way of knowledgeFrom the Gnostic gospels to the visions of Descartes to the shamanic quests of Eastern mystics, the Wachowski brothers’ pop opus weaves a dense web of philosophical and metaphysical allusions. – – – – – – – – – – – –By Erik…