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Daily Exclamations, March 11, 2009


1. U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) flips out her FLip and flips out a blogger aka citizen journalist to help him see how it feels to be her.

2. Is there anyone who doesn’t want to comment on the Lee Fisher campaign’s creation of a Women for Lee committee?  

3. Excellent article and audio from NPR that supports the solidity of Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s recommendation that people facing foreclosure demand that the companies wanting them to move out produce the documents (this is legal, whether you like it or not and it’s simply the small guy using the law just as the bigger guys try to use it).

4. FORTUNE Small Business profiles the Israeli-Palestinian computer tech company, G.ho.st in its most recent issue. Here’s the article online.  They provide cyberspace desktops for virtual computers. Kara Swisher of the WSJ’s Boomtoom blog wrote last fall about a trademark battle G.ho.st is having with Microsoft.

5. Speaking of tech, if you read through these Twitter search results, you can see that the overwhelming response to Chairman Michael Steele’s effort to get with the 21st Century is falling more than flat, as this post at The Next Right, titled, GOP Tech: Clueless Losers, echoes.  However, TechPresident reported yesterday that there’s a new five page document circulating that supplements the original RFP.  There appears to be extremely little chatter about it at the moment.

The question persists, in so many areas: Why don’t people consult the correct people and ask the right questions first (think Motrin Moms, think Obama’s people who have had to withdraw from appointments)? It is basic risk management, people.

6. Professor Kim Pearson has a very helpful post about Survival Tips for Journalists in the New News Economy.

7. Yeah!!! I am not yet an Older American! 

As defined by this study [Greying Gadgets: How Older Americans Shop for and Use Consumer Electronics], Older Americans are US consumers ages 50 and over. They were born in 1958 or earlier, and span three different generational cohorts. When Older Americans were children and young adults, common-place technologies such as the Internet, personal computers and cell phones did not exist.

    * Baby Boomers (1946-1964)

    * Silent Generation (1925-1945)

    * G.I. Generation (1901-1924)

I still don’t think I’m really a boomer, though.

8. I hate to be a pain in the neck, but when is Husted’s residency issue going to be decided? Talk about a political hot potato. 

9. You know what’s really interesting? As I go through my open tabs, the lack of neutrality in MSM news stories becomes so obvious: Ohio Governor Strickland’s reconfiguring of government is a seizure of control, didn’t cha know?  Readers wouldn’t get this if the paper didn’t use such language? If instead, it explained to us how it’s been in the past, how it’s been since Strickland came in and what he is doing now? We couldn’t come to our own conclusions, could we?  

I don’t have a problem with the MSM writing with invective, but then they have to drop the neutral source of information facade-especially in light of the fact that many papers’ business side folks spread their money around very well.  The transparency is just abysmal – and the PD’s getting stung by that lack of transparency is only more proof of the mess they’ve made by trying to cling to old concepts that they aren’t really living up to in the first place – all of which leads to a loss of trust – and readers.  

10. Film tax credit bills – what are we supposed to do with these? Can someone advise me?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:09 am March 11th, 2009 in Blogging, Business, Daily Exclamations, Economy, Government, Israel, lee fisher, Media, middle east, Ohio, Politics, Republicans, senate, social media, Tech, Women 

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2 Responses to “Daily Exclamations, March 11, 2009”

  1. 1 Cheri on March 11th, 2009 12:09 pm

    So much to exclaim over is right.

    On about 4.5 hours of sleep on what is already a long day – I’ll let you decide in what order of importance my comments are :)

    1. Yay, I’m not old yet either – nevermind the flecks of grey in them their curls. hee. I don’t consider myself a boomer either, perhaps the vanguard of Generation X or perhaps Generation Recession 1.0 (1980s version).

    2 – No, no comment on the Women for Lee. Interesting, but nah – there’s too much else going on.

    3 – Claire McCaskill has very little left to learn about using Web 2.0. I follow her on Twitter & she is not only an absolute hoot to read, I’m learning a lot of useful information about the way Washington works, at least from her perspective.

    4 – Marcy Kaptur is right on pretty much everything these days.(I have quibbles with her stance on “life” issues, though.)

    5 – the gallup well-being index tip. thanks. Enlightening & depressing. I have to read more about how it works before I make any informed comments. I do find it interesting that my very rural district in PA ranks about in the middle of the pack, and I know first-hand & through family members living there now that most doctors there don’t accept new Medicaid patients. My stepfather has to drive 80 – 100 miles to access the VA system. Again, I’d have to read more.

    Thanks for this.

  2. 2 redhorse on March 11th, 2009 7:10 pm

    Sweet mercy but do I love McCaskill.

    Yeah, I’ll comment on Women for Lee. Reactive, heavy handed, ineffectual.

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