. . . Wednesday June 30, 2004

Kmart is reportedly selling up to 54 of their stores to Sears. That sort of sounds like Webvan selling their warehouses to Kozmo.

Searching for Love (and Hate)

The debate about Michael Moore continues unabated, rarely being slowed by either other major political stories or the buzz around Spiderman 2. Here at electablog* I have seen a spike in traffic from search engines because I titled my articles on the subject: Why I Love Michael Moore and Why I Hate Michael Moore.

You’d be surprised how many people search for Michael Moore with the words “I hate” or “I love” attached. I’m not sure if people are searching for movie reviews or Michael Moore’s Match.com profile. I haven’t seen traffic like this at my political site since I nominated Beyonce for Vice President

Along Came a Spiderman

You’ve got summer. You’ve got young stars. You’ve got a comic book hero. You’ve got a sequel. And you’ve got absolutely incredible reviews.

Spiderman 2 could be headed for a perfect box office storm.

Colin Powell visited Sudan and pressured government officials to put an end to the state-sanctioned militias responsible for genocide and the obliteration of thousands of villages.

Reading Rights

For perhaps the first time in decades, someone in Iraq was informed of his rights under the law. Among those on the receiving end of the rights reading were a who’s who of those most responsible for the withholding of such rights in the past including Tariq Aziz, Chemical Ali and Saddam.

Even the worst of the worst and the most guilty of the guilty have rights in a free society. It is something we were reminded of by the Supreme Court earlier this week and it is something that we were reminded of even more dramatically as Saddam and his thugs were informed that even they will get their days in court.

. . . Tuesday June 29, 2004

The RSS Adoption Frenzy

Is now the time for RSS? Hell yes. Don’t take my word for it. Apple is building RSS reading into the next version of their browser (which is exactly where it belongs) and Yahoo has already added RSS capabilities to their MyYahoo tool (which is exactly where they should be putting it).

Isn’t it fun that the early adopters really were right on this one? The age of blogs and RSS has been in full effect for bloggers for years. Now it’s all going mainstream. We were all right.

But now we need to figure out a new way to seem cool.


Concentration is important!