http://www.opencongress.org/
Oh, it's glorious. Go check it out.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Net Trends '08: How candidates are using the net
http://thinkprogress.org/nettrends08
I couldn't help but notice this as soon as I first clicked on this link:
So, are the conservatives trying to alienate the youth vote? How long does it take for Rudy's or McCain's staff to set up a goddamned MySpace profile?
Oh, hey, found Mitt Romney's Facebook page -- the lone GOP candidate using some technology other than static HTML.
On a related note, peace out to Tom Vilsack's presidential aspirations. You had a funny name, pal, but that's about all we knew about you. Good luck in all your future funny-name-havin' endeavors.
Link via [Crooks & Liars]
I couldn't help but notice this as soon as I first clicked on this link:
So, are the conservatives trying to alienate the youth vote? How long does it take for Rudy's or McCain's staff to set up a goddamned MySpace profile?
Oh, hey, found Mitt Romney's Facebook page -- the lone GOP candidate using some technology other than static HTML.
On a related note, peace out to Tom Vilsack's presidential aspirations. You had a funny name, pal, but that's about all we knew about you. Good luck in all your future funny-name-havin' endeavors.
Link via [Crooks & Liars]
Monday, February 19, 2007
A Poor Idea: XM & Sirius Merge
I wrote about this one about a month ago, and apparently the deal itself has been in the works since November.
From Yahoo:
The companies are bragging "Greater Programming and Content Choices", "Accelerated Technological Innovation", and "Enhanced Financial Performance". They're only serious about one of those, and you can guess which one that is. Besides the only obvious programming benefit of having all the major sports licenses with one company now (and the Howard Stern / Opie & Anthony shock jocks, if that's how you roll), there will be no better, more diverse programming. Duplicate format stations will get the axe across the board, and without the competition, you can bet there won't be any innovating sounds ready to replace them. This new XM/Sirius monster won't be having the sort of internal competition that makes stations really great, like you would have in a relatively free market like the FM airwaves. The same tenets apply to the technology -- without the other company around to up the ante, satellite radio now has zero initiative to improve it's current product.
Like I said before, this is only a hiccup on the way to the next generation of radio technologies, in much the same way DirecTV was for television. We'll be looking back on this merger as the "beginning of the end" of satellite radio, years from now, when Internet radio and hovering skateboards rule the landscape.
Link via [Yahoo!]
From Yahoo:
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM Satellite Radio and SIRIUS Satellite Radio today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion.
The companies are bragging "Greater Programming and Content Choices", "Accelerated Technological Innovation", and "Enhanced Financial Performance". They're only serious about one of those, and you can guess which one that is. Besides the only obvious programming benefit of having all the major sports licenses with one company now (and the Howard Stern / Opie & Anthony shock jocks, if that's how you roll), there will be no better, more diverse programming. Duplicate format stations will get the axe across the board, and without the competition, you can bet there won't be any innovating sounds ready to replace them. This new XM/Sirius monster won't be having the sort of internal competition that makes stations really great, like you would have in a relatively free market like the FM airwaves. The same tenets apply to the technology -- without the other company around to up the ante, satellite radio now has zero initiative to improve it's current product.
Like I said before, this is only a hiccup on the way to the next generation of radio technologies, in much the same way DirecTV was for television. We'll be looking back on this merger as the "beginning of the end" of satellite radio, years from now, when Internet radio and hovering skateboards rule the landscape.
Link via [Yahoo!]
Friday, February 16, 2007
Excellent news
Thursday, February 15, 2007
So long, Peter Forsberg
Traded to Nashville this evening. Hopefully, with him goes the most unexciting stretch of Flyers hockey in the past 10 years.
Ice Ice Baby
I just got back from picking up Matt at the Philadelphia International Airport, and I have to say that I am pretty disgraced with the way the roads in West Chester are. On most streets, including Gay and High street, it's like they haven't plowed at all, and there's a layer of ice and sludge at least 3 inches thick in those places.
It's not like this in other parts of the area. In fact, once you leave the borough, the streets are clear and dry all the way onto I-95. Seriously, even Erie probably has better roads than this. So fuck you, West Chester. No other place I've been in my life makes me wish I didn't have to drive anywhere, ever.
It's not like this in other parts of the area. In fact, once you leave the borough, the streets are clear and dry all the way onto I-95. Seriously, even Erie probably has better roads than this. So fuck you, West Chester. No other place I've been in my life makes me wish I didn't have to drive anywhere, ever.
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