DISQUS

For better or for worse, after all of the 'confusion' about our reasons for occupying Iraq, it doesn't surprise me that more people do become suspicious about government activity in general today, both at home and abroad.

...now the Apollo moon landing; that's a different kettle of smelly fish ;-)

I agree, as much as I would like to climb aboard some exciting conspiracy ship and take a joy ride. Unless efforts to resolve the outages are made unusually difficult by some strange, internationally curious events/entities, then we should resist the urge to swim with the conspiracist fishes and admit that sometimes shit just happens.

@stone

According to your criteria for experience, you would vote for Bush if he was running again (after 8 years 'experience' of being el presidente). Experience, in and of itself is as meaningless as rhetorical promises. It's contextual. Now, if you prefer McCain's stance on important issues, that's another thing - but don't vote for him because he's been in the game longer.

Did you support Richardson while he was in contention because of his experience?

Perhaps a more relevant analogy for this political contest would be "The Game". Bill met Hillary at Yale Law School. Barack met Michelle at Harvard Law School. Perhaps one of the most touted games during the college football season (along with the Army/Navy contest,) 'The Game' pits two rival Ivy League schools, each with a grudge and fighting for bragging rights. Historically, Yale leads the series 65-51-8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28Harvar...

In 2007, Harvard won 37-6.

Will Harvard's momentum carry through to the Democratic nomination? We'll have to wait and see.

P.S.

A Harvard man and a Yale man are at the urinal. They finish and zip up. The Harvard man proceeds to the sink to wash his hands, while the Yale man immediately makes for the exit. The Harvard man says, "At Harvard they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate." The Yale man replies, "At Yale they teach us not to piss on our hands."

By the way, the Ali vs. Frazier era was something to behold. The Thrilla in Manilla took place on the day after my 10th birthday.

I find it interesting that so many Democrats in California, New York, New Jersey and Boston are rallying for an ex Wal*Mart board chairperson and federal lobbyist bunk buddy. Apparently the Lib Dems aren't out in force at the voting booths. I echo previous comments about experience. Hillary doesn't have much more than Obama and I think that having too much political experience today is often thought of as a negative rather than positive (being an old cog in a broken wheel). Personally, I'd rather support an intelligent, innovative and enthusiastic start-up than a leader with years of experience in a tired and failing company.

I suppose that the most hyper-local subset is the individual. If individuals tag all of their participation online with a zip code, it would be easy to aggregate it all. Of course, then we'd have a lot of noise that would require filters for each reader (not a big deal). If there was a mechanism for anyone publishing information online to add a zip code to every photo, blog post, blog comment, article, review - then they could be aggregated quite easily by zip. To be most effective, individuals should be able to tag content published by other sources in the same way. For example, if I come across a restaurant review on tripadvisor for Bellingham, Washington (where I live), I should be able to tag it with a zip for Bellingham while I'm reading it (perhaps a right-click, Add Zip function). That way, active hyper-local participants could add content to the mix that others contribute - others who aren't aware about the need to tag content for aggregation.

In this sense, every post, photo, comment, review, notice would be published like an AP wire: (98225: Comment or 98225: Photo)

Interesting Fred - and I think I understand where you're hoping that all of this will head. Traditionally, local newspapers covered regions that span beyond individual neighborhoods or streets or apartment buildings. To cover these broad regions, they hired several beat reporters that would spend time calling people, visiting places and writing stuff about stories in that region.

What we need is more coverage in smaller regions by organic dwellers in those sub-regions. To do that, we'll need to shift the paradigm. Not easy. Rather than thinking of how many salaries we need to pay to get sufficient coverage for the East Village, we need to think about how we can encourage people from the East village to participate in publishing information about that space and smart ways of aggregating it all in meaningful ways - perhaps with unique results for each person searching (multiple criteria - i.e. food, east village, reviews)

It's all subjective. Puritans think that anyone who drinks is doing something wrong. Who's moral compass should we run with? It's not that big a deal. A ban was the consequence. Fair enough. Sorted now. Get over it.

Remember the prank when you'd stop to give your buddy a ride and then pull off when he opened the door of the car? Then you'd stop again a bit further up to let him in, only to pull off again. The next time, you'd say, "ok, ok, c'mon, get in" only to pull off again. The more you did it the funnier it was.

Well, I remember one guy who thought that this prank (when done to him) was horrific and would hold a grudge against the prankster for weeks. Once, he fell out completely with one of his friends as a result.

The moral: Humor is subjective.

Some people take events like CES seriously. Others like to make fun of them. But jaysus, it's not like computer equipment was damaged or the event had to be canceled. There were some temporary 'glitches' caused by geek pranksters. Geeks are funny like that. Sometimes when you mix young geeks with stuffy shirts on the corporate playground, it will end in tears. C'est la vie.

Electronic mail will be sent, albeit across a growing number of platforms (to include mobile and smartphone devices) for many years to come.

Let us not forget that all of these young kids each have two older parents who will continue to use email as their primary means of communication.

Email is evolving along with other technologies.

Earlier reports showed that young people still use email for business or professional communication, though they are using IM and other microcontent formats for personal communication.

"Online, teens and Generation Ys behave differently than the old timers. They are more mobile, more social and more networked than the boomers ever will be. But they still email. According to Christopher Salazar, email for the younger generations is used primarily for business-related messages and professional relationships outside of their social circle. He and his posse offer their attention to different channels for everything else, to include SMS, social networks and instant messaging."

For more information, read:

Generation Y Email?
http://www.messagingtimes.com/blog/?p=1053