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A Vast YouTube Conspiracy
Silicon Valley conservatives are trying to build the right-wing MoveOn from the top down. -
In Digg Nation
Kevin Rose: sweet smell of success. -
Interview with Andrew Rasiej: Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and Techpresident.com
Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and <i>Techpresident.com</i>, former Dean consultant -
Talk to Me Like My Father: Military Doctors Are in Short Supply
In Afghanistan as well as Iraq, the military is running out of doctors to patch up wounded troops—and civilians caught in the crossfire. One doctor's frontline diary from Kandahar. -
Open Source Politics, the Wiki
When Mother Jones launched its "Fight Different" package about politics and the Internet, it introduced the stories and interviews with... -
Morning Political Trivia for July 12
To swing it in Swampland (Washington, that is), you have to know your stuff. With that in mind, Mother Jones'... -
The Webpage at the End of the Internet
I recently discovered the life-changing invention that is Google Reader and its "Next" bookmark. (Google Reader is a feed reader that allows you to aggregate blogs and news feeds using Really Simple Syndication (RSS). (Including this blog, by the way). But the real revolution is the "Next" bookmark, which you slide onto your bookmarks toolbar and use to jump around the internet from blog... -
Morning Political Trivia for July 13
We promised we'd keep going with the trivia, so here's today's question (with thanks to CQ Politics): Which two current... -
Morning Political Trivia for July 16
Today's question comes courtesy of The Economist's "Democracy in America" blog. They got it from the Politico's Roger Simon. It's... -
Morning Political Trivia, July 20th Edition
This morning's question comes courtesy of my friend Dave Olsen: Which president has a statue erected to him in the... -
Political Trivia for July 26
Today's question comes (again) courtesy of cqpolitics.com, and it's a tough one: How many years after the historic Nixon-Kennedy debates... -
Google Reveals Everything Important About America
For the first time since February, Google has updated its Google Trends database, allowing me to give you an up-to-date... -
Development Statistics Geeks of the World, Unite!
Behold, another super-cool gadget from Google. It's called Gapminder World, and it was developed by the Gapminder Foundation, which describes... -
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks To Record Low (Again)
The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice broke an ominous record yesterday, with the least Arctic sea ice ever measured by satellite. The previous record low was set in September 2005 (see MoJo's Has The Age Of Chaos Begun?). Yesterday's record, August 16th, 2007, falls a full month shy of the typical summer low — which means there's a... -
Blending and Bending with UFOs over Bamako
Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure's self-titled 2006 debut spawned a 2007 remix album that I can't stop listening to. I play it at work, on BART to and from work, and at night doing Google searches for God-knows-what. The remix album, UFOs Over Bamako, takes the effectiveness of the original's West African rhythms, conga-heavy beats, sweet but somber vocal hooks and spacious, acoustic... -
Neato Viddys on the Intertubes: Music/Movie Mashups
So yes, mashups can be many things: two or more songs put together, and then you can make a video to accompany that; or they can be like a Google map with something else laid on top of it, or who knows what. Here we mean "a song set to the wrong (yet somehow so right) video, in this instance scenes from movies." We... -
Money, It’s a Gas: Grab That Cash With Both Hands and Make a Stash
Interesting notes from the presidential fundraising numbers for the third quarter that were released today: - When identifying the corporation... -
Politics 2.0 Strikes Back
The July/August issue of Mother Jones roiled the blogosphere with an irreverent take on so-called Open-Source Politics. Web pundits inveighed... -
Sam Brownback Dropping Out of Presidential Race
The announcement of Kansas Senator Sam Brownback's withdrawal from the presidential race is slated for tomorrow, when Brownback is...