Friday, April 22, 2005

How to fake a townhall meeting. Here's an awesome clip from the Daily Show about the Bush administration's penchant for staging television-friendly (that is, fake) townhall meetings. The interview with Republican wordsmith Frank Luntz is priceless. This guy is such a brilliant media strategist and yet he seems absolutely unaware that the Daily Show coorespondant (Samanda Bee) us gunning for him. (Via PR Watch) [Stay Free! Daily] 6:56:38 PM    comment []

Passing the Buck. Much of the health care spending of the United States is devoted to trying to get someone else to pay the bills. By PAUL KRUGMAN. [NYT > Opinion] 7:25:55 AM    comment []

Cave Pharming Yields Big Crops. Caves are the new Midwestern farmlands. A former limestone quarry and underground warehouse grows crops better than greenhouses or the outdoors, and could host pharmaceutical crops. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] 7:24:45 AM    comment []

whoshouldyouvotefor.com. I should vote for the Liberal Democrats, an internet quiz says. If I lived in Britain and was eligible to vote in the upcoming elections, that is. The problem with a site like whoshouldyouvotefor.com is of course that it pretends and maybe even tries to be objective although the format never can be. Which questions [...] [jill/txt] 7:24:17 AM    comment []

Ghana nationalizes folklore, threatens jail for folk artists [bOing bOing] 7:24:01 AM    comment []

Dave: Podscope is the first search engine that indexes the content of podcasts. It actually understands what's being said. This is leading edge stuff in 2005, and a great addition to the set of tools. 7:21:32 AM    comment []

Press 'Hits" and How (Paul Graham Believes) They Happen. He says it's a PR phenomenon. I don't think he gives enough credit to enterprising reporters. But there's no doubt that journalists do run in packs, and that they (we) are prone to forgetting history. [Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.] 7:14:36 AM    comment []