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Build-A-Meme Project: PROJECT FROG-WALK -- Critical Mass Reached? Note the percentages don’t change on an AOL-based survey from mid-afternoon to Did senior White House officials deliberately leak a CIA agent's identity? (mid-afternoon) Yes 61% No 24% Not Sure 15% Total Votes: 40,000 Did senior White House officials deliberately leak a CIA agent's identity? ( Yes 61% No 24% Not Sure 15% Total Votes: 82,671 More than half of the people surveyed feel the leak was deliberate. Sure hope these people vote their conscience come November 2004, along the same percentages! And it looks like even the right-wing media might be starting to cave a bit, based on this post at NewsMax: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/9/29/220207.shtml I take particular note of these two items from the same article: 11) Leaking and blackmail have always been a part of governing inside the Beltway. But it has been one of this Administration's unexplained curiosities why President Bush has kept Clinton's CIA Director - especially after so many massive intelligence failures: 9/11; our failure to get Osama; our failure to prove the existence of WMD before the war; our failure to get Saddam; and our failure to find WMD in the six months since the end of the war. 12) Many have wondered if Tenet has 'something' on the Bushes. Now many more are wondering who made those six phone calls - and who authorized them? Yeah…why is it that Tenet “fell on his sword” – kind of – and was allowed to stay on board? Does he have something on certain people in the Administration? How does this play out with the Plame outing? Is there an underground movement by current and former spooks to remedy this situation, and what will come of it if there is? Curiouser and curiouser…  comment []
Build-A-Meme Project: PROJECT FROG-WALK -- Project Update Dear Team Members: Can't believe something this serious took a couple of months to catch fire. But look out, it's burning now! We're cooking with gasoline and matches! Kriselda (http://www.differentstrings.info) and Rob (http://www.emphasisadded.com), you must be spending night and day reading up on this topic to keep up! Great job! All making great contributions to Project Frog-Walk: Paul Hinrichs (http://blogs.salon.com/0001444) Catnmus (http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2003/09/29.html#a245) Rose of Charon (http://blogs.salon.com/0001939/2003/09/30.html#a119) Andrew Bayer (http://blogs.salon.com/0001033/2003/09/29.html#a1525) Jennifer at Synaesthesia (http://blogs.salon.com/0002721/) Plus a few more peeved off Salon bloggers also annoyed about this scandal -- not under the Project umbrella just yet, but good righteous anger stuff anyhow: Dr. Omed (http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/poetry/2003/09/30.html) Fiona (http://blogs.salon.com/0001705) Mark Hoback at FGAQ (http://blogs.salon.com/0001424/2003/09/29.html#a881) Great job, you guys, covering this! Proud of you! Stay on it, we need to see an independent counsel or special prosecutor on this situation. This Administration can't use the fear of WMD to corral us when it undermines the intelligence community researching WMD; they can't call people unpatriotic when they backstab intel professionals protecting this nation. Thank you all so much! ~Rayne p.s. Check out DayPop at http://www.daypop.com using "frog-walk" -- it's coming along nicely! I'm sure more of us will show up as the site continues to index. Cool, huh? p.p.s. Let me know if you see any other Salon bloggers assisting with Project Frog-Walk so I don’t miss them, okay? Wanna’ give credit where due; there’s so much to read on this story right now that I’m sure to miss something or somebody. comment []
Business Blogging
There’s still a lot of folks debating over the existence of a business model based on social networks – in particular, business models based on blogging. Can a company make a buck using blogs? Some folks think the corporate weblog market is the place to be, but with inherent risks. Hunh? I would have been all over a corporate blog if I could have had one as a intranet community developer and as a project manager. Yeah – think intranet, with secure sharing of company information within an intranet. I could have done some really awesome things with internal blogs. Working with a diversity group inside a Fortune 100 corporation, I’d set up a forum for discussion of issues common to the group’s membership. It worked well, but there were times when the forums were a bit of overkill; too many clicks to get to dialogue between members on something that was pretty lightweight and topical. We also posted announcements on the homepage of the group’s intranet site; I had to pay a developer to do the posting. Damn, that cost me a couple hundred dollars a month for internal recharges. I could have done it myself in my sleep if I’d had a blog instead of a webpage! One of the biggest hassles I had as a project manager was getting everybody on the project team on the same page. Scheduling bi-weekly meetings for a 30+ person project team spread around the world was a nightmare; even if I set them up for a regular recurrence, the chances that all the team members could make it was pretty iffy. Sure, I could type up and post project notes – but what if a team member had a question NOW about a meeting last Thursday and wanted an answer from other team members before the next meeting on Tuesday? And what if one of the team members was out of pocket between meetings and between notes? What if there was a major development that required documentation? Would email be enough documentation? Would distribution via email or filing to a shared folder inside the firewall be adequate? Would updating the Project Schedule really work for fuzzy stuff that was not a deliverable but a process modification? Yeah, give me a project blog. That would have solved a Using blogs outside the firewall could pose a challenge if the intent is to share corporate information that’s proprietary in nature. Duh! But even external use of blogs by corporations could be a boon. What about using them as a methodology for gathering FAQ’s on new products? What about having a running dialogue on products or product development with clients using a password-protected blog? Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Definitely an under-tapped market. Can’t wait to have a boss with whom to broach the idea. comment []
Hey. Really sorry about not posting sooner, but I’m not feeling too perky right now. I’ll let you in the tent a little further about yesterday’s debacle with the interview across Beet Central. I had a kid sick at home yesterday morning, had to juggle getting day care for her before the interview but after getting the first kid off to school. Hubby was unavailable as he had meetings up the wazoo, including one with the CEO. Also had my folks dropping by unexpectedly; they should have gone back up north already, but Mom broke a crown and needed emergency dental care. Her dentist is here (and not up north where they spend the summer) so they stuck around for the morning to have this addressed. My dad ends up here to sit with my daughter after a bunch of juggling for day care didn’t pan out. Serendipitous, really, that he was able to be here; that never, ever happens with my folks usually being no less than seven hours drive from here. So while I’m dodging beets and beet trucks yesterday, I was stewing about my sick kid. What do I do if, like today, my spouse is out of state on business, my folks are not around and one of my kids is sick? What’s the back up if I’m more than half-way across the state, in Beetville (God help people who don’t have family nearby, who have no resources, who are forced to take any job that comes along, like this cheesy office job in Beetville We talked about it last night; it simply doesn’t make sense for me to take a job like this and put my family in a greater bind. Getting a job is supposed to improve our lives, not make them suck worse than they already do. It’s not like we don’t have enough bumps in the road; I don’t need to make more. Now I think I’ve got what my daughter had yesterday. I feel lousy. Just another little bump in the road. comment []
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