"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Outlandish Josh

Published on Wed, 2005-11-09 12:46

1984 Watch

White House Alters Transcript of Press Briefing.

So the White House wants history to show that Scott McClellen disagreed rather than agreed with a reporter's statement that Karl Rove was certainly involved in the CIA leak. They''ve altered their transcript, and have been lobbying other news orgs to do the same.

The fact that they're going so balls-out on this -- changing McClellen's statement 180-degrees in the face of video evidence clearly showing that he said "that's accurate" and certainly not "I don't think that's accurate" -- reflects a certain kind of desparation, I think.

Or maybe with things in such chaos over there, they've got second stringers running the show. I could imagine some junior-grade yes-men failing to realize that the rules are reverting back to "normal" and that Bush administration's Orwellian powers are on the wane.

I can't believe they'd honestly think this would work though. Weird. The sort of minor nature of the change they're pushing for seems to point to it being part of a strategy of legal defense. We'll see.

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Published on Wed, 2005-11-09 10:25

Kill Bill's Browser

The beautiful freaks at Downhill Battle have a new campaign: Kill Bill's Browser - Switch to Firefox. This is raising the stakes. Backed by a $1/referral offer from Google, they're making a push to drive the next wave of adoption.

What's interesting is that the new browser wars are more likely to be fought over associated services. Right now the main thing in play is who gets to handle things from the "search" bar, but the future will see more refined and specialized services. This is what the Flockers want to do, though in the short term their revenue stream appears to be replacing Google search with Yahoo and suckling from that teat. I think we've got a ways to go before these services really break.

The interesting thing is that the break-out of these services will coincide with the maturation of today's teenagers. There are political implications here too; the 2008 election will see the largest potential youth vote in US history. The right candidate with the right online campaign could make serious waves.

Anyway, if you browse with IE, get ready to be annoyed coming here.

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Published on Wed, 2005-11-09 10:25

Kill Bill's Browser

The beautiful freaks at Downhill Battle have a new campaign: Kill Bill's Browser - Switch to Firefox. This is raising the stakes. Backed by a $1/referral offer from Google, they're making a push to drive the next wave of adoption.

What's interesting is that the new browser wars are more likely to be fought over associated services. Right now the main thing in play is who gets to handle things from the "search" bar, but the future will see more refined and specialized services. This is what the Flockers want to do, though in the short term their revenue stream appears to be replacing Google search with Yahoo and suckling from that teat. I think we've got a ways to go before these services really break.

The interesting thing is that the break-out of these services will coincide with the maturation of today's teenagers. There are political implications here too; the 2008 election will see the largest potential youth vote in US history. The right candidate with the right online campaign could make serious waves.

Anyway, if you browse with IE, get ready to be annoyed coming here.

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Published on Wed, 2005-11-09 08:52

Election Wrap

For those of you who aren't wild web-surfers on the political front, here's a quick wrap on things I've been watching:

As anticipated, Mayor Mike gets four more years, and downticket Democratic incumbants rule the day across the board. Lesson learned: heavily Democratic New York City is saddled with an aging and increasingly ineffective political machine which is highly vulnerable to high-profile attacks from maverick Republicans. The machine has to open up at some point, it's just a matter of whether or not this happens as a result of total system failure, or as part of a plan to revitalize city politics. Don't bet on the latter.

In California we approached flawless victory on the ballot initiatives. Big ups. My company worked this campaign and I think we even helped.

Lots of other points of light: Intelligent-design took a big hit in some school board elections; anti-gay ballot measure failed in Maine; Gubinatorial victory in NJ (nice work Stolls) and VA.

Electoral reform initiatives fail in Ohio. Hopefully they'll try again amidst the '06 electapalooza.

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