Bono Accused – Bloomberg.com has an article about how U2 lead singer Bono shifts his tax burden to his non-profits, while calling on nations to pay for relief with taxes. Hmmm.
World’s Oldest Person Dies at 114 – An old Christian woman has passed on, replaced by the next oldest person, a woman from Japan. It also seems that Japan has a huge number of centenarians. Maybe I need to eat more sushi.
How to Argue Stupidly – the FSM – Atheists love their Flying Spaghetti Monster parody, but EO takes them to task on why this argument misses the mark. I’m sure they won’t be convinced.
For my 2 cents, here is an interesting little piece I found which is dear to my heart and maybe others here on 2or3. My Six Months On Right Wing Blogs. I spent 6 months lurking on right wing blogs (RWB). From May 2006 to November 2006, I read every post I could on ten blogs I visited. I registered with each under one alternet identity, and in the six months, only posted 73 comments. My goal was simply to observe. I monitored opinions on major topics and reactions to them. These were the sites. Little Green Footballs Pajamas media Michelle Malkin Instapundit RedState Hugh Hewitt Captains Quarters The Corner Wizbang Roger L. Simon These were some of things I learned… I must say that that what makes 2or3.net different (to Aaron and Seeker's credit) from the account above is that dissenting viewpoints are encouraged. One of the interesting quotes was…
Left wing sites often link to these RWB. RWB almost never reciprocate. This opinion I found on personaldemocracy sums it up perfectly By and large, none of the Republican presidential candidates appear to be making a serious effort to garner support online through MySpace or Facebook; nor do they appear to have much outreach to blogs going; nor do any of them have a clue about Flickr. In fact, while several of the Democratic sites have front page links to many of those sites (and others), I don't think I saw one on any Republican site. Is entrepreneurial behavior dead in the Republican party?
I'd like to see the companion article written by a right-winger: My Six Months on Left Wing Blogs. Seeker, Aaron, I'd love to see that!
Well, I can tell you that you'd pretty much reach the same conclusions – heck, I as banned on one popular liberal site after ONE comment – and I routinely didn't get comments past the moderator on some fundy sites, even when I was asking honest questions. Ideological sites are pretty much the same, I would bet, be they liberal or democratic. As for conservatives not taking advantage of myspace or flickr, that could be an oversight, and perhaps conservative candidates need to exercise more net savvy. But conservatives in general are all over the internet, even if their candidates are slow to incorporate stuff into their sites. Perhaps it doesn't really make a difference, so they don't "waste time" being trendy until it makes a real diff.
For my 2 cents, here is an interesting little piece I found which is dear to my heart and maybe others here on 2or3.
My Six Months On Right Wing Blogs.
I spent 6 months lurking on right wing blogs (RWB). From May 2006 to November 2006, I read every post I could on ten blogs I visited. I registered with each under one alternet identity, and in the six months, only posted 73 comments. My goal was simply to observe. I monitored opinions on major topics and reactions to them.
These were the sites.
Little Green Footballs
Pajamas media
Michelle Malkin
Instapundit
RedState
Hugh Hewitt
Captains Quarters
The Corner
Wizbang
Roger L. Simon
These were some of things I learned…
I must say that that what makes 2or3.net different (to Aaron and Seeker's credit) from the account above is that dissenting viewpoints are encouraged. One of the interesting quotes was…
I'd like to see the companion article written by a right-winger: My Six Months on Left Wing Blogs. Seeker, Aaron, I'd love to see that!
Well, I can tell you that you'd pretty much reach the same conclusions – heck, I as banned on one popular liberal site after ONE comment – and I routinely didn't get comments past the moderator on some fundy sites, even when I was asking honest questions.
Ideological sites are pretty much the same, I would bet, be they liberal or democratic. As for conservatives not taking advantage of myspace or flickr, that could be an oversight, and perhaps conservative candidates need to exercise more net savvy. But conservatives in general are all over the internet, even if their candidates are slow to incorporate stuff into their sites.
Perhaps it doesn't really make a difference, so they don't "waste time" being trendy until it makes a real diff.