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  • Azizah al-Hibri wins First Freedom award

    From the press release, here are details about one of my law professors receiving a prestigious award last week: University of Richmond School of Law Professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri [was] awarded the 2007 First Freedom Award, by the Council for America’s First Freedom, to commemorate the anniversary of the nation’s first law guaranteeing religious liberty.…

  • Ugandan discussions

    Has to be my all-time favorite political inside joke: Ugandan discussions. (Originally referenced in this article at Slate about rumors of a relationship between Maria Bartiromo and Citigroup exec Todd Thomson (which may or may not have led to Thomson’s ouster). Who said bloggers had exclusive dominion over printing inuendo?

  • Interview with Tyme White

    Tyme White, community director at blog network 9 rules, recently asked her readers for questions about FeedBurner to send my way. The result is a two-part interview (part 1 and part 2) that covers a lot of ground. Tyme and I will be doing a podcast follow-up (probably next week). This was a great process…

  • Clinton@Marist lives on

    Earlier today I mentioned an e-mail list I participated in back in 1992, the Clinton@Marist list. Formed in August of ’92, it was the first use I know of by a presidential campaign of the Internet. Part discussion list, part campaign coordination tool, part rapid response vehicle – hard as it is to believe, it…

  • The one where Bowen owes me dinner

    Back in October, I was IM’ing with Tom Bowen, a good friend who I got to know during the 2004 Obama campaign. After the campaign, Tom set out for NJ where he ran a bunch of successful state campaigns, then helped out with a Senate campaign out west in the ’06 race before returning to…

  • Da Bears

    I absolutely love the interview Jake did with Aaron Brazell over at Suicide Fan about the Bears upcoming appearance in the Super Bowl. I think I worked with Jake for 9 months, and knew him for more than 2 years, before I knew he’d played college ball. He really knows his stuff (on football that…

  • My new measurement of time in L.A.

    From now on, whenever I’m driving in L.A., I’m going to measure the elapsed time in ‘episodes’. As in episodes of 24. Example: “Wow, the last time I had to go from Geffen’s offices in Santa Monica to Burbank, it took me two and a half episodes.”

  • Newt Gingrich: the Howard Dean of 2008

    Remember my comment last week? I think conditions are very ripe for the GOP to see a Dean-like candidate rise from nowhere. What I mean by that is that there’s considerable dissatisfaction within the rank and file. The leadership appears to be out of touch: the party of small government has radically grown the government.…

  • Interview with Business Week’s Heather Green

    For those who want to hear me pontificate on the state of podcasting, this week’s Cutting Edge podcast is a chat between Business Week’s Heather Green and me about podcasting, what FeedBurner sees happening in the podcasting space, and how my mother-in-law uses iTunes. (Not really, but sort of.) Enjoy.

  • Your interesting pictures on Flickr

    This is really cool: Flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm has always intrigued me (interested me?), and someone has cobbled together a way to check to see which of your pictures are considered “interesting” by the Flickr gods. Go check it out and have a blast. (If you’re, um, interested, mine are here.)