TCB … I’m recovering from some wonderful sedation dentistry under the care of the good Dr. White. In the meantime, check out Andrew Marcus’s great videos of the Show Me Institute panel about new and old media on which myself, Jim Hoft, Jake Wagman, and John Loudon sat.
Category Archives: New Media
Why You Don’t Mess with 24thState, or Friends of 24thState
American Spectator: Do You Believe in Miracles?
RS McCain for the American Spectator: “Do You Believe in Miracles?”
Good roundup. Also he mentions Dump Dede:
His delivery was not slick, but Hoffman’s message has clearly resonated with others who are “fed up,” including Tea Party activists like Dana Loesch, who created a special blog called “Dump Dede” to protest against the way GOP insiders handpicked Scozzafava as the Republican nominee. Loesch’s blog is part of a tide of online activism on Hoffman’s behalf that indicates how far the conservative grassroots have come toward closing the “New Media” gap with their liberal counterparts, whose Internet edge helped power Democrat wins in the past two election cycles.
The Internetz makes you smarter: confirmed
I dedicate this post to Jamie Allman, who constantly makes fun of my computer usage.
Fascinating. The headline would have you believe that the altering is bad, like Borg bad, but no:
Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds.
The results suggest Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults.
I also believe video games perform the same cognitive-enhancing function to brain activity. Read the rest of the article here.
Secretary Of State Robin Carnahan’s Office Leaks To FiredUp?
As 24th just revealed a couple hours ago on tonight’s show:
You simply can’t be involved in partisan political operations using state documents while you’re in the government. No matter how you look at it, someone in Robin’s office did something wrong. And after receiving my Sunshine Request, do you know what they did? They switched authors at FiredUp and twice more used the FiredUp blog to attack political opponents using documents procured from the Secretary of State’s office. So on three separate occasions, we used hand-delivered letters arriving at the Secretary of State’s office, and showing up on FiredUp attached to nasty attack posts from “anonymous” commenters.
It is unacceptable. It quite possibly breaks the law. And now we’re going to find out who is responsible.
His full post is here; it’s a must-read.
Didn’t Robin Carnahan’s brother, Russ Carnahan, file a complaint with the FEC when Jeff Smith tried a similar tactic during the last election?
In 2004, the campaign of Russ Carnahan, who would win that race for Congress, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the distribution of an anonymous flier that the Carnahan campaign said contained “false and malicious” information. [via]
Did Robin Carnahan took a page out of Jeff Smith’s book? What makes it worse is that this is Missouri’s Secretary of State, a woman running against Roy Blunt for senate in 2010. It’s also worse because there have been repeated blog posts using what should be privileged information that seems to have originated from the the Secretary of State’s office.
I wonder if the FEC is aware of this?
Edited to add: isn’t it amazing what citizen journalists can discover? Compare this to columnist Bryan Burwell, who can’t be bothered to check a fact beyond hearsay in a book.
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