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Dave Winer responds (sort of) to my post: I’ve been pinged and pecked by people working for specific candidates telling me how cool their guy is because he Gets weblogs. That’s not very interesting. More and more I wonder if people actually read what’s written on the Web. I think they just scan for key…

Dave Winer writes: 2. Blogging and the New Hampshire primary. Citizen bloggers covering the candidates for US president, follow it where it goes. First step — clearly — go to NH myself and find some candidates. Luckily I’m speaking at Dartmouth on May 9. I’ll go looking for presidential hopefuls. With my camera and some…

Ben and Mena are now family…. Six Apart (Ben and Mena’s company, the creator of Movable Type) just announced their hosted service, TypePad. They also announced that Anil has joined the team. Also somewhere in the announcement is a bit about my company, Neoteny investing in Six Apart. I’m very excited both as a Movable…

UseNet searches delivered to your inbox. NetNews Tracker searches Usenet newsgroups twice each day for any phrases that you choose, then delivers any new hits to you via e-mail. This is a terrific way to monitor UseNet postings, which are a valuable but often untapped research source. (Via LawSites) [Inter Alia] This sounds like a…

This is starting to sound a lot like the Trent Lott debacle. First the quote. Then the media mentions, with attempts by various spin doctors to marginalize the comments (in this case, the Santorum staff tried to say that his comments were “limited to the Supreme Court case”). Now Daily Kos unearths a 2002 fundraising letter.…

April 22, 2003. This week, both InformationWeek and Baseline have feature stories about new technology at Delta Air Lines, so it’s a good opportunity to benchmark Baseline, a new IT magazine from Ziff Davis, to its old school press-release republishing counterparts. The difference: while the InformationWeek article is just a poor rewrite of bland warmed-over…

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) yesterday made remarks referring to the current sodomy case before the Supreme Court. About the case, he said: If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the…

Sing It Sister. “Democrats need an anti-Gore, an un-Gephardt, and not someone, like Joe Lieberman, who could be nicknamed Bush Lite. They need Howard Dean.” [Link]… [Bush Lites Weblog]

Lieberman Looks For Money. Connecticut’s News 12 cable channel reports that Sen. Joe Lieberman was “back home in Connecticut Monday looking to raise some much needed cash for his presidential campaign at a Norwalk fundraiser.” The biggest problem for the Lieberman camp is the headline: “Lieberman campaign in financial trouble.”… [Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire]

More bloggers are picking up on Gov. Dean’s Common Dreams article: “I am what is commonly referred to as a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.”In other words, he’s not only about the war, it’s the economy stupid. [metafilter.com] Dean is my choice for the next president. After reading this, I’m even more impressed. [Mike…