BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis

December 20, 2003

Let the games return
: The former coach of the Iraqi national soccer team advises the U.S. to bring the game back.

Dianna preggers?
: A French police source tells The Independent that Princess Diana was pregnant when she died.

Boss behind bars
: The Telegraph says Saddam was managing the "insurgency."

Come here, Watson, I need you
: The two posts below are Eureka! moments. I'm moblogging from the Treo 600. It's not perfect. But it's a start.
: Vagablog lets me post directly to Movable Type with HTML codes. Doesn't seem to have a size limit, so I can blather from the road at will and at length. Poor you.
: mfop2 lets me post a Treo photo to the blog. It's a bit complicated (I have to send the photo to Snappermail; can't use the Sprint email application) and it doesn't allow HTML code. But it works.
I still can't edit a long post (because the browser has a limit on the size of text boxes) and anything requiring an MT popup is unattractive.
But it's a start.
Now I can publish text and photos to the world from anywhere. I'll finally set up Audblog and I can post audio. Next: video!
The revolution is mobile.

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testing moblogging.

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test
: testing from the treo.

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How peace creeps
: The Observer reveals the negotiations that led to Libya's agreement to disarm:

It was the culmination of two years of talking, horse trading and negotiations - a process that began a few weeks after the destruction of the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001. In October that year a group of Libyan diplomats slipped unnoticed into Britain, led by Libya's ambassador to Rome.

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Punishment that fits the crime
: My wife is busy fixing dinner (as I lazily do email and blogging) and so she only hears the kitchen TV. I had on Yan Can Cook and she was very irritated at the soundtrack. So I switched to another PBS station and there were two people yodeling.
"PBS!" my wife harrumphed. "They should play that in Saddam's cell."
That, she said, and NPR's Click & Clack.

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Treo goodies
: A great Treo-sized web site filled with Treo 600 stuff. [via a Treo blog]

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A tale of two cities
: Iraqi bloggers Omar and Ays go to Basra and report that things are much nicer there. Zeyad, in email to me, also said Basra is in good shape and he's looking forward to spending time there.

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'Twas the night before victory
: John Galt of the Iraq CPA puts up two Iraqi versions of 'Twas the Night Before...

"T'was two weeks before Christmas, And all through Iraq,
The people still worried that Saddam would be back.
The soldiers went out on their nightly patrol,
Capturing the bad guys was always their goal!

"With raids seeming endless in the triangle Sunni,
We hoped that not all of Iraq was so looney!
We gathered the tribe of Saddam, in Tikrit,
And suddenly now they all started to snit!

"They told of a farm where Hussein just might be
Odierno then called on our boys- from the great 4th ID!
More rapid than Baathists our soldiers they came,
And he whistled and shouted and called them by name

"Now Delta, Now Rangers, Now Cavalry too!
On Green Hats, on Pilots, I need all of you!
Go to that farm and secure it right now!
Capture his butt- you guys know how!....

"He was dressed all in rags from his toes to his head,
And his beard was as matted as 12 day-old bread!
How the mighty had fallen, could this be Hussein?
One look in his eyes was to know he's insane! ....

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Zeyad's bio
: Zeyad has added to his bio.

Our collective voice and efforts are reaching wider audiences day by day exposing them to the situation on the ground by people whose lives are involved and directly affected by it. We are intent on healing iraq from decades of abuse and to make it through these difficult times into a new phase of democracy, freedom, and prosperity.

He also says he has been getting much traffic from much-deserved media attention:

There is a deluge of new visitors to the blog after it was featured in the NY Post, Seattle Times, the Weekly Standard, Il Foglio, Knoxville News, the American Spectator, radio stations in Chicago and Seattle, and was mentioned briefly on CNN over the last week.

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Spam what am
: Brightmail releases its hit parade of the top spam subject lines of 2003:

1. Subject: Get Bigger, 100% Proven Results
2. Subject: Re: You can order PAIN MEDS, Anti-depressants, Weight Loss Meds Online
3. Subject: Needs your assistance
4. Subject: Mortgage rates/refinancing -- Mortgage rates at 40 year low
5. Subject: Print Ink - Act Now, save 85% on all ink cartridges
6. Subject: Iraqi Most Wanted Cards - These WILL sell out!

The aftermarket for those Iraqi most-wanted cards is the streets of New York. I still see some guys stuck with stock they're trying to hawk. [via Rex]

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On the move
: David Davies does video moblogging. [via John Robb... again]

: I just figured out how to use my Treo 600 to moblog with stills (and last night, I was driving my few readers crazy with huge pictures of me on the couch, darkly, popping into and out of this page). I'll try it later today when I'm out and then explain the details...

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