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November 19th, 2004
Blue Highways, Blue America
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 18:59Surfing with BlogExplosion, I found this blog entry.
'You Know You're From Maine When...'
It is the perfect illustration of the East Coast Liberal Elitism that I think we need more of in the Democratic Party.
Follow your passion
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 14:27There is an old say, follow your passion and the money will follow. Well, I’ve been following my passion, and I’m still waiting. This evening, my passion has me sitting on a train into New York City. I will be having dinner with Dean Landsman to talk about blogs, radio, podcasting, and who knows what else.
Today, I downloaded iPodder and have loaded a couple Podcasts onto my laptop. I am listening to Coverville. It is a 25 meg file that I downloaded via iPodder and copied to my laptop. My initial reaction to iPodder was, “Where is the good content?” Coverville is some of that good content. At this moment, I’m listening to Sid Vicious singing, “My way”. This is the sort of stuff you can’t get on the canned anesthetized mainstream media.
November 18th
Linkfest
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 11/18/2004 - 16:24This morning I had breakfast with David Isenberg. I’ve know David from a mailing list related to the Greater Democracy blog. He lives the next town over and we’ve communicated via email a lot. We were long over due for breakfast.
PodCasting
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 11/18/2004 - 12:10Today, I downloaded iPodder, which is now up and running on my old NT box. I've downloaded a few MP3s, but haven't done the final step of loading them onto my iPod. Instead, I'm listening to the MP3s directly from my PC. So far, I've listened to a 'Welcome to iPodder' type message, a little bit of some comedy routine, that wasn't particularly funny, and the beginning of a two day old broadcast of Al Franken from Air America.
The question I have is: are their any podcasts out there that people really like and recommend? Or, is podcasting not ready for primetime yet?
November 17th
What to do about the DNC
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 11/17/2004 - 11:43(Originally published in a DailyKos Diary)
Kos writes, “People want to know what to do. Be patient -- there are people out there getting the list of 440 voters updated, with contact info, etc. Those guys are about to get flooded”.
I am one of those people out there getting the list of 440 voters updated. (Check out http://platform.smartcampaigns.com/DNCMemberState to find the information about different members and let me know any additional information you have).
I have received emails from people claiming that Gov. Dean doesn’t want people to start contacting DNC members yet, that we should wait until he decides if he wants the job, or if there is someone in particular he would like us to support. Other emails have said that he doesn’t want DNC members flooded for fear of a backlash.
My view is a little bit different than Kos or Dean’s. I believe that the Democratic Party needs massive change. Gov. Dean has said that if all you do is vote, you get a ‘D’. If all you do is sign an online petition saying you would like Gov. Dean to be DNC Chair, well, I don’t think that is even a passing grade.
