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From the Kosniki: Give the Gift of a Friedman
If some charity actually offered this as their holiday gift card fundraiser -- I could get a faux-visa card or actual gift certificate of a Friedman like this -- I'd pony up for a few in an instant.
I'm dead serious. First off, Atrios would pick it up, so it'd be all over the big blogs. In fact, this would be your chance to diary it yourself on kos and get yourself frontpaged. It's a born blogads hook, or you could just rely on word of mouth; either way, the buzz would give it a shot at quirky-sidebar coverage by CNN, MSNBC, or other big media scrounging for holiday frippery. And you might get sued by Visa or, even better, the Moustache himself. You cannot buy that kind of publicity.
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05:47 PM Nov 27, 2006 -
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"There's a Force in the Universe that Makes Things Happen ..."
"And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be-Call your switchboard and see what happens when you ask for help or information -Call your 800 number, if you have one, and ask some average questions and make a donation -Send an email to your nonprofit’s donor services department (if you have one) and see if you get a cordial responseRead more...
11:23 AM Nov 27, 2006 - 4 comments permalink
What Will Tomorrow's User Interface Look Like?
It's coming.
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11:28 PM Nov 25, 2006 - 1 comments permalink
The Allegory of the People In the Cave By the Greek Guy
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." -H.G. Wells It's been a week for the snarling technophobes, eh? While Bush pere was reflecting on the evils of adversarial bloggers and the lucky way he wasn't leaving an IP trail with the email way back when at the Army-Navy game, across the pond, Tony Blair's outgoing spinmeister was heard huffing through the revolving door a remonstrance fast becoming the "uphill both ways" cliche of the pre-Internet pol:Read more...
11:09 AM Nov 22, 2006 - 8 comments permalink
Fee For Constituent Service
As the coalition of vendors (including DIA) providing email-your-rep services to advocacy organizations continues to churn away at the Congressional email deliverability logjam, the changing times may be in the process of evolving the question -- at least on the national level -- towards obsolescence. The Center for Citizen Media got a post-election pitch to buy an updated legislative directory, and sensibly wonders ... why does this cost money? "[M]aybe someone could create a wiki to keep track of comings and goings"? Congresspedia has it covered. And a tool like Google's Google Earth/electoral district mashup basically covers the part of the equation that determines a legislator from an address.Read more...
02:39 PM Nov 20, 2006 - 6 comments permalink
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