Van Susteren jumps to Palin's defense: Wants to convert her to Scientology There is as much substantiation for the Scientology claim in the Fox piece as there is for Van Susteren's claim that Sally Quinn mocks Palin's son: Just about zilch.  ¶ 7/10/2009 01:09:00 PM 0 comments

  Up next on Fox News: The liberal science bias The reason why "Intelligent Design" isn't getting a fair shake from science?  ¶ 7/10/2009 05:56:00 AM 0 comments

  Google's Chrome OS to launch 2010 The blog says it will be targeted at the netbook class of devices and we think it should fit into the Google vision of cloud computing.

We don't imagine Google will be worried about screen size in the implementation of the OS, as Microsoft and Intel have been with their products.

Intel has also been aiding the development of Linux based Moblin for use in netbooks and other devices.

We've installed the Chrome browser on a few machines and with somewhat limited use have found it capable. We are not happy with IE 8.  ¶ 7/08/2009 01:04:00 AM 0 comments

  "Bhopal Coale" and Palin He was on our radar earlier as Greta Van Susteren's husband advising Sarah Palin: A very tangled web.  ¶ 7/07/2009 09:09:00 AM 0 comments

  Intel and Microsoft in agreement on netbook size Anything with a screen size greater than 10.2 inches could mean the end of preferred chip pricing from Intel and Microsoft looks as if it will do the same for Windows 7.

While it could run the risk of killing the netbook niche, this type of enforcement of a convention is rather pointless. Better to let the market find the efficiencies to keep the price down. On the other hand, MSFT is afraid one of those cost-cutting measures would mean using Linux.  ¶ 7/07/2009 08:08:00 AM 0 comments

  Thank you, David Letterman His "off-color jokes" help persuade Palin to quit.  ¶ 7/07/2009 02:34:00 AM 0 comments

  Palin resigns, something is brewing This broke a few minutes ago, so we'll be updating on this. Obviously this is not anywhere near the end of the story, with her two most likely motivations either a scandal ready to break or she has decided to begin preparation for a run at president.

We apologize for the last three posts all concerning Palin: But it's like a wreck on the highway from which you can't turn your gaze.

Update: There appear to be hints of the next steps in Palin's arc. We think they largely fall within the run for president explanation, although she may have opted for one of the less demanding options of media personality or NGO/think tank for the money. The amount of money required to outweigh her other drives being a long shot, it would be just a stop along the way.  ¶ 7/03/2009 04:14:00 PM 0 comments

  We're all for Palin We really want to see her as the next Republican candidate for president. We don't think Palin would be the best thing for the Republican party, it would just make things easy.  ¶ 7/02/2009 04:31:00 PM 0 comments

  Cat fight over Palin We emailed a link to this story early this morning and as the day went by noticed increasing amounts of traffic surrounding it, the links to it and Kristol's blog post on the Vanity Fair article.

Palin has been, from the start of her rise in national Republican politics, Kristol's ingenue. We find her to be artless but far from innocent. We are not prepared at this time to concur on the Purdum article's placement of her in the DSM. But we are quite sure she does not enjoy full mental health. Her actions surrounding the birth of her son, Trig, are most convincing in this matter and can only be characterised as not of sound judgement.  ¶ 7/01/2009 07:55:00 PM 0 comments

  #iranelection is still alive As the government crackdown stymied further protests and Jacko (in case we haven't made it clear, hope the POS turns to compost quickly) ate up the bandwidth, it looked as if the tyrants had won.

Mousavi has a new statement that would indicate things are far from over. Our reading of statements by other opposition voices indicates they are preparing for action of a more long term nature.  ¶ 7/01/2009 11:06:00 AM 0 comments

  Destined for the Internet curio shop   ¶ 7/01/2009 10:26:00 AM 0 comments

  Lawyers back fired inspector The firing sounded somewhat dicey at first but ample grounds were provided by Walpin when he politicised the position with his repeated public announcements.  ¶ 7/01/2009 08:05:00 AM 0 comments

  via Poynter: 702.tv, Vegas cool   ¶ 6/30/2009 11:46:00 PM 0 comments

  For fun and profit, Jeff Jarvis loves to see himself as a prophet We haven't kicked around Jarvis for a while so this little bit of lunacy presents itself as an excellent opportunity.

We think Judge Posner drank deep of the kooky koolaid but Jarvis saying that newspapers are free-riding on the links created because of the value of the content they have originated is just absolute reactive horseshit: It flies in the face of creating value through content.

We blog but we have an enduring love of the business we grew up with. We think that the professional news gathering businesses (across print and broadcast) have largely failed to utilize the Internet. But...

(Soliloquy: Let's do without all the malarkey and cut right to the current darling of the Web, Twitter)

Imagine everyone (a big bunch, anyway) retweeting (kinda like Elmer Fudd advancing in the other direction) some innocuous thing such as "For fun and profit, Jeff Jarvis loves to see himself as a prophet". While the statement appears to be true it is an opinion that has no inherent value. The retweeting (essentially a linking) might bring it to the top of Twitter Trends but without the value of substantiation and a lucid coherent presentation it has no real value.

Update: Actually, they'd have to use a hashtag on Twitter to get to the top of trends. As soon as "retweet" was associated with Fudd all thinking stopped. Oh well. Again, essentially a linking.  ¶ 6/30/2009 10:01:00 PM 0 comments

  The Pitney/Milbank pettifoggery Pitney could have very easily established his journalistic independence by asking a question other than the one expected.

The White House has an Internet connection and simply wished to be relieved of the responsibility of selecting the question to be answered. Probably not a good idea to depend on the HuffPo for a distillation of the Internet.  ¶ 6/29/2009 04:22:00 PM 0 comments

  Jacko will be taking the dirt nap without kids Add this to the list of reasons why we are cynical (if you're keeping tally); Big money, no remorse.

Sometimes genius comes out twisted. Real twisted.  ¶ 6/29/2009 03:31:00 AM 0 comments

  Circumstances bring an end to domestic spy satellites On the bright side, some creepy Bush era program is ended.

On the not-so-bright side, doesn't seem like it was done out of any great concern for civil liberties.  ¶ 6/23/2009 01:34:00 AM 0 comments

  Google goes Bing Well, sorta. These backgrounds can be seen as a reaction. The high quality photographic backgrounds of Bing have gotten a very positive response: We like the embedded links.  ¶ 6/19/2009 09:34:00 AM 0 comments

  Corn and Pinkerton, back in the saddle again   ¶ 6/19/2009 12:16:00 AM 0 comments

  Process obsessed on Twitter This really needed to be said:

"The protests in Iran are about the strength of the Iranians not the strength of Twitter"  ¶ 6/18/2009 09:10:00 AM 0 comments

  Broadband marches on Broadband adoption has continued to grow in this recession despite price increases, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project report.  ¶ 6/18/2009 08:10:00 AM 0 comments

  Why is the NSA still illegally reading email?   ¶ 6/17/2009 04:00:00 PM 0 comments

  Wingnuts in bloom, another downside: LVJR to roll on comments Tough choices often present themselves at the worst of times. The editor Mitchell's choice to err on the side of caution, while perhaps somewhat understandable, fails to live up to newspapers' historic role and undermines the very often wild conversation with readers that newspapers need in order to move forward.

As for the legal boilerplate defense: We'll go with a comments proxy.  ¶ 6/17/2009 02:08:00 PM 0 comments

  Cyberwar in Iran boingboing links to helpful stuff.  ¶ 6/17/2009 09:23:00 AM 0 comments

  Windows 7 a winner again Finally beat the problem with the Intel 845 graphics driver for the HP D510USDT. With a right click to open the driver install package in XP compatibility mode, we were able to use HP's WinXP driver to give greater functionality (i.e., sleep function, some degree of hardware acceleration) in Win7.

Two points, though: No Aero, it's not a WDDM driver and this isn't a use of Win7's virtual "XP Mode"- the processor doesn't support that function (a surprising number and variety don't).

We're very happy with the outcome. This model is about seven years old and it speaks well for Win7 that it will perform as well as it does with the dated technology.  ¶ 6/16/2009 06:21:00 PM 0 comments

  Murdoch's Myspace develops newspaperitis Staff reduction by a third.  ¶ 6/16/2009 06:15:00 PM 0 comments

  Don't let the sun go down on...   ¶ 6/15/2009 04:32:00 PM 0 comments

  The CIA's Iran budget will skyrocket now   ¶ 6/13/2009 03:50:00 PM 0 comments