One of the most common methods for increasing blog traffic was inherited from print: pick somebody bigger than yourself and launch a withering attack. With any luck, they’ll defend themselves, driving traffic to your site and making you look more consequential than you are. Jeff Jarvis, the current Voice of the Blogosphere, is the object [...]
Malcolm Gladwell is as surprised as anybody that he’s become a darling of the business schools:
Q: Were you surprised at the reaction to the book by the marketing community? People can recite in amazing detail things they’ve taken away as prescriptions as to what they should be doing to reach consumers. Did that come at [...]
A recent episode of The West Wing featured a character named Larry Lessig as a law professor who’d written a book called The Future of Ideas. This Lessig was advising Belarus on constitutional principles and the White House Spin Doctor was upset about the role of presidential power in the US constitution. The character [...]
This deal is pretty interesting:
Just as a computer’s spam filter “learns” to recognize new variations from the same spammer, it is hoped a computer can learn to decipher some fundamental repeat patterns about HIV’s genetic variability and narrow the search for vaccine targets.
“HIV mutates by making errors in its (genetic) copying,” Jojic said. But it [...]
In his short tenure as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has gleaned a powerful insight about transportation that somehow eluded his predecessor and Democratic legislators:
Californians can’t get from place to place on little fairy wings. This is a car-centered state. And we need roads.
Carpool lanes that obstruct the flow of traffic, light rail [...]
Early next week there may be a fairly major home networking industry announcement. Some will cry, some will rejoice, and some will go “Huh?”
More to follow.
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Heather McDonald is amazed by Susan Estrich’s venomous attack on Michael Kinsley:
It is curious how feminists, when crossed, turn into shrill, hysterical harpies—or, in the case of MIT’s Nancy Hopkins, delicate flowers who collapse at the slightest provocation—precisely the images of women that they claim patriarchal sexists have fabricated to keep them down. Actually, Estrich’s [...]
Thank god this remark was made by one of the Bad People, because it makes my head hurt:
In response to the public disgrace and ruin of New York Times editor Howell Raines, CBS anchor Dan Rather and CNN news director Eason Jordan, liberals are directing their fury at the blogs. Once derided as people sitting [...]
Debra Saunders nails it:
Where did Summers err? To start with, he concentrated on the wrong gender. If, for example, Summers had said that men are less likely to play the role of primary caregiver in the home, say, because men tend to be less nurturing than women, academia would have applauded his insight. There would [...]
Cooper is a leftist of some standing, a former employee of Salvador Allende and a big deal at The Nation. His statement on Gannon should be of great interest to our more intelligent colleagues on the left, so we present it here in its entirety:
YAWN.
I hope that clears things up.
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