Archive - October 2008

Information Overload

Hell of a season, eh? We’ve just about had everything — from lipstick on a pig all the way to a full-on financial panic, with two ongoing wars and the lingering effects of an oil-price shock playing in the background. Too much too much...

Quick Hits — October 9, 2008

Update: MoveOn Grows Up. Bloggers Fact-Check Prez Candidates. C.f. High-Tech Analysis Obscures Presidential Debate and Public Submitted Thousands of Debate Questions Online, Not Millions (more on the debates here shortly, Lord willin’ and the...

Let’s Go To Austin: SXSW 2009

Hey y’all, I just broke down and bought a Platinum Badge for next year’s South by Southwest — I’ll be there for the full 10 days of celebrating creative culture via music, film and the internet (plus there are all the...

Quick Hits — October 6, 2008

New Obama site ties McCain to Keating with video and text. What was that you were saying about Ayers? Note that an overnight email previewed the video for supporters and encouraged them to spread it around. C.f. Obama Campaign Uses Micro-site To...

Friday Fun: Catch a Falling Spaceship

The Europeans sure know how to throw a party — for this one, they arranged a fireworks display at a cost of several hundred million dollars (wait about 30 seconds). The Jules Verne was the first of a series of robot resupply ships built by the...

Quick Hits — October 1, 2008

The weirdest/most intense political year just won’t slow down. Finance Industry Giving Visualized. “Wonder just how Wall Street has become so influential on Capitol Hill that it can command the attention of the federal government from...