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Blogging the Republican National Convention
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 08/11/2004 - 17:24(Initially published at http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/000161.html)
After my experience blogging the Democratic National Convention, I have been spending time thinking about what I want to do during the Republican National Convention. I have been offered credentials by the Republican Party, and I sort of doubt that I will. I have asked around to see if I can find some other way to get credentials through working with a more traditional medium, but nothing has materialized.
However, as I discovered last time, much of the story takes place outside the convention hall, and I suspect this will be even more of the case with the Republican convention. Today I received an email from the New Democratic Majority about a Progressive Tourism Bureau that will be set up at a performance space called The Tank.
The Progressive Tourism Bureau is “an exciting collaborative project during the Republican Convention in New York of [many organizations] … to give protestors a direct route into the massive grassroots effort underway to win this election and to build an enduring progressive coalition at the local and national levels.”
Convention Coverage, another view
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 07/08/2004 - 06:22(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
In Convention Coverage is a Failed Regime and Bloggers Have Their Credentials, Jay Rosen writes: As far as I know, no one has a convincing notion of what a political convention is , anymore, or why 15,000 people are there to cover it.
He goes on to talk about the convention as either a news event or a media event. This feeds into the discussion going on about how journalistic the bloggers will or should be.
Websites
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 04/23/2004 - 17:00(Originally published in Local Pols)
Introduction
Recently, in an online chat, I was asked the difference between PHP and PHP-Nuke. I explained that one was a programming language, and the other was a content management system. The person who had asked me the questioned nodded politely, and then asked again what the difference was. From there, I went into a discussion about different programming languages and different ways of setting up websites. Another person joined the chat and asked if I was speaking Klingon.
Based on this, and other discussions I’ve had recently, I have decided to write my comments about different types of websites.
The Howard Howl, Dean Scream, or barbaric yawp
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 01/23/2004 - 05:00(Note: Originally published on my MovableType Blog. Moved here for consolidation)
Yesterday, I had breakfast with Britt Blaser ( http://blaserco.com/blogs/) and Doc Searls (http://doc.weblogs.com/).
On the train in, I noticed the USA Today article, “Dean scream gaining cult-like status on Web” (http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-01-22-dean-usat_x.htm)
I thought a little about this on the train, and started thinking about my comments about this. Years ago, Primal Scream therapy was a popular fad. We were encouraged to express our excitement, disappointment, joy, anger. Of course those of us from New England never really bought into it. We’re a little to restrained to go in for stuff like that.
But I think there is something important going on here. I started composing my thoughts in my mind:
Are you tired of politicians creating the largest tax hike on our children through the government running up massive deficits and calling it a ‘tax cut’?
Try a Howard Howl.
Are you grieved that over 500 loyal Americas have died in Iraq because of ‘misinformation’?
Try a Dean Scream
Do you want to issue a wakeup call to an American populous that has stopped caring enough to vote?
Try a ‘barbaric yawp’
Joan Jett and the Young Republicans
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 01/18/2004 - 05:14(Originally published on my MovableType blog, and moved here for consolidation)
The story going around the blogs right now, http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003214.html, http://travis-bushman.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/17/23537/3980, and http://www.needlenose.com/pMachineFree2.2.1/comments.php?id=P777_0_1_0 is about a Dean rally at Drake university yesterday, which got crashed by a group of about thirty young Bush supporters. One of them rips a Dean sign and poses for the cameras, another is said to have pushed Joan Jett who responded: You can push me, but don't touch my guitar. (this guitar kills fascists...)
