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The Furies of August

Random Blogging and Linking

In Sunday's Scripting News Dave Winer asks:

Should I do a 1.5 hour session on October 5 on Outlining and the Web?

I sent Dave an e-mail saying, among other things:

OF COURSE YOU SHOULD! We might even consider it something of a, er, "think tank" or even "more" than that!

The e-mail went on to say:

You often write about the outline as an initial step to composing entries.

Blackout 2003 ñ The Recap

Blackout 2003

NY Times: Maureen Dowd on the Political Blogs

Regular readers of the NY Times Op-Ed page will be familiar with columnist Maureen Dowd. She had a savage wit, a mighty pen (keyboard?) and takes on all comers.

Quick Update

Why no update since Thursday? Well, there's this Norton Firewall program, which I was giving a test run. Don't really like it. Decided to turn it off.

A Most August Day

Websterís defines August thusly:

august
adj 1: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: grand, lordly] 2: profoundly honored; "revered holy men" [syn: revered, venerable] n : the month following July and preceding September [syn: August, Aug]

Today, August 7, 2003, is, indeed a most august August day.

OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD

Please read the following, which came via e-mail today from MediaReform.net:

Subject: [FP E-Act] Help finish the FCC fight

Because millions of Americans took the time to petition their
legislators and the FCC, Congress is now on the brink of overturning the media ownership rule changes.

The FCC decision was a blatant power grab by media industry lobbyists and their pro-business Washington allies.

DUBYANOMICS

John J. Andrew needs a job. Hereís his resume.

John, by virtue of his job situation and some good old-fashioned fire-in-the-belly, has become somewhat of a populist activist. More on that in a moment.

Like 3 million of his counterparts in the US since Dubya took office, John lost his job. Times are tough, jobs are not easy to come by.