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First they laughed Fleischer out of the room, then this petty payback against Helen Thomas, and now the stilted, scripted case-for-war, sorta, press conference is under scrutiny, according to this Kuro5hin thread, Ari Fleischer admits Bush called from a prepared list of reporters thread.

Insert "bush league" crack here.

categories: x-syndicate

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Yet another gee whiz piece about blogging, this one predictably following up on the Google purchase of Pyra. Of course people are trying to commercialize blogging, which has mostly boostrapped itself from the grassroots thus far (mostly). There's nothing wrong with that. But this article is breathless, it smacks of the mania that surrounded the last wave of internetworked innovation, and there's the ex-editor (?) of the just-closed Red Herring talking about taking blogging "to the next level."

So here's my idea for a nanopublished niche publication a la the Denton microempire. I call it Homeboy or maybe homeBOY, and the high concept is "Good Housekeeping for guys." We'd run articles on expanding your cooking repertoire beyond barbecue, time and task management at home, home office, stay-at-home-dad stuff.

(Check out the competition, via syrup.)

categories: metablog

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I really enjoyed this Pushing the Biscuit piece by our local Preacher-with-a-heart-of-gold. Also, what great readers he's cultivated! What blogger wouldn't envy his community? Must be a lesson in there somewhere.

I notice as I paste the URL for the cited article (http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2003/03/06.html#a66) into various places that it was article 66 on the 6th of March....

categories: salonika metablog

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My dance card is full now at least through May, and I'd like to spend a week or so in Greece in May or June this year, and with this flood of steady, varied, remunerative work I suddenly find myself more productive in other areas as well.

I'm applying what I've learned and practiced over the years to my own ongoing projects and I find that things are coming together nicely, as ever in fits and bounds. I still have goals, I'm still striving, but I don't feel so impatient. I don't feel like I'm wasting my time.

I just made a kind of console page for myself, for my PEP (personal expresion platform) project. It's brain-dead simple, just a list of direct links into the entry pages of my various blogs and other website publications, with a place for opening my current offline writing projects as well. It's one-stop shopping. I'd better password-protect it.

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A Chronicle article from January 24 circulating among my environmentalist brethren and sistren (Taking on 'Rational Man') discusses the politics of academic economics, and the animosity between neoclassical economists and dissidents. While professors in the U.S. are being marginalized in subsidiary theoretical programs, French grad students have taken the lead in the rebellion:

The dissidents take heart from events in France. In 2000, an online graduate-student petition proclaimed that neoclassical economics, or at least its unbridled application in teaching and research, dwelt in unreality to the point of being "autistic."

The students dubbed their movement "Post-Autistic Economics" and quickly provoked a national debate of the French variety. Some leading publications and high-profile economists hailed the protesters, who, in petitions-cum-manifestoes, denounced economics as a morass of "imaginary worlds" that was mired in "pathological," pseudoscientific mathematics; that was aggressively excluding pluralism; and that was, even so, barely able to explain "l'économie de Robinson Crusoe."

categories: salonika x-syndicate

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Dismayed at D-squared's removal of his Shorten Den Beste post that finally provoked a response from the man's reader-fans, The Poor Man offered a series of amusing Shorters, nailing himself in the process. The Chomsky one ("Shorter Noam Chomsky: Whatever someone said recently is pretty rich, considering East Timor"), which I thought was one of the funnier, drier ones, yielded the inevitable thrash in the comments area.

If e-mail weren't private, I'd love to hear more of Northrup's "weird e-mail" exchange with Den Beste.

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