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Archive for May, 2007
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

My e-mail inbox has been deluged in the last 24 hours with one simple question:
Who is John Durham?
Apparently this AdAge article has been making the rounds.
John Durham, who led internet strategy for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, was impressed with Mr. Thompson’s grasp of the YouTube medium. “He is smart enough to understand he needs to cede a [...]

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    Craziness, News Media, Politics, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Friday, May 25th, 2007

In response to the WaPo article earlier this week, Patrick Ruffini posted some thoughts on where the article goes wrong but stopped short of tackling the central theme.  In the comments to his post, Luke VL from Urban Elephants challenges my assertion from the article.
Well, Turk, can you tell me someone who has WON an [...]

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    Candidates, Democrats, Elections, Politics, Republicans, Technology, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

For the three loyal readers (a quick shout-out to my mom, dad, and Mrs. Quip) eagerly awaiting the next installment of my ramblings, I’m sorry to disappoint.   Saturday afternoon we had a lovely birthday party for Little Quip, Sunday afternoon the grandparents left town, and Sunday evening Little Quip started throwing up things we don’t [...]

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    Disease, Miscellany | 1 Comment »

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I didn’t really jump into discussion of Lost last week because it was really sort of a non-episode.  I’m not sure why there is a rule in television that the next to last show of the season always has to suck, but that seems to be the case.  The next to last episode rarely does [...]

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    Craziness, Lost, Programming, Television | 1 Comment »

Monday, May 21st, 2007

The Washington Post today carries an article covering the state of online politics and the relative advantages/disadvantages of the two parties. I’m quoted in the article on a couple of topics. I think there are a couple of things Vargas gets wrong, but he gets the general theme right - the GOP is playing catch [...]

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    Barack Obama, Candidates, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani, Technology, The Internet | No Comments »

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