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Welcome Wagon: Dean Baker Blogs
Special welcome to the blogosphere to Dean Baker of DIA community member Center for Economic & Policy Research. After a decade enduring the Job-like tribulations of correcting journalists' economic homework in the Economic Reporting Review mailing list (which has been one of my Monday treats for years), Dean's rechristened it today as a blog:
http://beatthepress.blogspot.com
Economics is a field sorely in need of more contested terrain to challenge neoliberal orthodoxy and its megaphone of journalistic lassitude. BeatThePress (optimistic title!) joins such luminaries as Max Sawicky (blog) and Left Business Observer's Doug Henwood (podcast) on that elite team operating deep in the wilds of the dismal science.
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12:00 PM Apr 10, 2006 -
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Real Simple Syndication, Simplified
Courtesy of the D.C. 501 tech club discussion list -- these are nonprofit listservs for informal conversation about nonprofit technology -- comes Phil Shapiro's very nice explanation of RSS feeds. The concept is still a little opaque to many (pending an incoming generation of software in which the tool figures to be more seamlessly integrated into browsers and mail clients), although standardized data feeds are what makes most of the cool new web stuff go.
This is a good place to start if you've been reluctant to shake hands with another web 2.0 acronym even though you know you should; between Phil's article and its bibliography, there are plenty of links to good feed-related tools and resources worth a skim-through for any level of expertise.
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10:30 AM Apr 10, 2006 -
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The Medium Is The Message
George Lakoff, Man of Frames, observed that the GOP "can evoke [its principles] all in a ten-word philosophy: Strong Defense, Free Markets, Lower Taxes, Smaller Government, Family Values."
Lakoff's star might have passed its apex a year ago, but it bequeathed his party the Diogenean quest for its own elevator pitch philosophy.
If that quest has taken a back seat in the Beltway to the easier sport of watching Republican government self-destruct and attempting to reap easy dividends come November, it is still widely indulged on the Internets where the constituent stuff of time and opinionation sprout thick on the ground.
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11:30 AM Apr 06, 2006 -
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Chevy Tahoe Ad Hijacking Hits Nightline
From PR memorandum to ABC News in a fortnight. Just like they drew 'er up.
If what's good for General Motors is good for America ... why do they hate America?
(Background.) (Tahoe tag at YouTube, which houses many survivors of the purge.)
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02:30 PM Apr 05, 2006 -
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DemocracyInAction To Move May 1
The ink still damp on the lease, we hasten to you with this breaking news:
DemocracyInAction will observe International Workers' Day by hiring some of their burly and bonded number to move our burgeoning enterprise a block up the street.
If we're lucky enough to have a roost in your address book, the joint as of May 1:
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11:30 AM Apr 05, 2006 -
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