Showing posts with label Mike Gravel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Gravel. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

The Daily Digest


Hott4Hill Featuring Taryn Southern

Emergency eye surgery has forced Jim Gilmore to suspend his presidential campaign.

Social networking for politicos? Check out ePolitico.com, coming soon.

Todd Ziegler identifies and lauds the novelty of Ron Paul's Web site: "Interestingly for the social candidate, his blog doesn’t even allow comments. Instead, it encourages visitors to discuss/interact with the blog content on social sites like Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Facebook. He seems to deliberately avoid building a community on his own site. Due to this, supporters have no choice but to organize elsewhere. . . . [T]he use of these free tools is done out of necessity. But the strategy here is also very sound: by not giving supporters much to do on his own site he maximizes the amount of noise they make in other venues. It is the perfect approach for an insurgent candidate like Paul."

Speaking of Paul, Wonkette pens a memo to his campaign manager: "There’s no need to have him prance around like John Edwards, obviously, but one good suit (with two pairs of pants, two shirts and three ties) and two $150 pairs of decent dress shoes would go a long way towards making your candidate look less like a vacuum-cleaner repairman." Similarly, Mike Gravel, the Ron Paul of Democrats, who donned khakis and a blazer at his party's last debate, could use a visit from Lisa Butcher and Mica Paris.

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Monday, June 4, 2007

Mike Gravel: Another Libertarian Democrat

At least on the drug war:

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

The Daily Digest


Yesterday, the popular tech blog, Engadget, alleged that Apple's much-awaited iPhone, to be released next month, would be delayed until October. The tip turned out to be false, but in the meantime Apple's stock tumbled three percent and lost $4 billion in value by the end of the trading day. "Blog bashers will point to Engadget's flub for years to come," writes Engadget co-founder Ryan Block. "But it's important to remember 'traditional' media has fallen for similar chicanery before to[o]."

The well-traveled Christopher Dickey takes us on a history and hotel ride through Oman, the "most truly luxurious experience in Arabia."

Mike Gravel may be a fringe candidate among fringe candidates (his first-quarter fundraising pulled in an asterisk amount of $11K), but he was a two-term U.S. senator and his candor can be both refreshing and entertaining.

"Forget television executives and the FEC. The new regulators of political speech are Sergey Brin, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg—the chieftains of YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, respectively." Ben Smith reveals the methods the big three use to censor "objectionable" content.

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