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Yearly Archives 2008

The internet doesn’t make sense

I’m not a big-shot business wizard, but this seems insane: Serious talks between the Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogging service started soon after Mr. Williams took over as chief executive on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago. “We explored it, as we should. We took [...]

Posted 03 December 2008 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (2) °

Liveblogging another debate

Early voting has been underway for a few weeks in some states, which means ACORN has already cracked the safe and is halfway out the window with the 2008 election. Still, let’s watch Barack Obama and John McCain talk about the economy, Vietnam and the Weather Underground. NLCS Game 5 is live on FOX. 8:20 [...]

Posted 15 October 2008 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

Liveblogging the Oct. 7 “debate”

In a debate, one person makes a point or asks a question, a second person responds, and then the first person responds to that. If the allotted time hasn’t expired after this back-and-forth, the participants might engage each other on a second point, and then a third. From what I understand of the rules, this [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (3) °

In the year 2001

Google is celebrating its 10th birthday by activating an index of the internet from almost eight years ago. This is the laziest kind of blogging, but I am the laziest kind of blogger: A 2001 search for “John McCain” yielded about 158,000 results, and a search for “Barack Obama” yielded about 670. A search for [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (3) °

Soapbox rights paid in full

My credit card number is still good, so DreamHost took its annual bite today, which means I have another year to use this space to broadcast my thoughts. … …

Posted 06 July 2008 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (3) °