BuzzMachine
by Jeff Jarvis

February 11, 2004

Blog-bashing
: Alex Beam arises out of his coffin to blog-bash post-Dean:

What is that whooshing sound that you hear? It is all the hot air escaping from the self-styled "blogosphere."...
Game over, webheads. John Kerry is cruising to the Democratic nomination the old-fashioned way....
Nowadays, visiting the official Howard Dean website is like watching a movie called Dead Blogs Walking....
The Internet can be likened to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Ten years ago, the Web was going to put newspapers out of business. Now, hilariously, 99 percent of the Internet commentariat, my friends the "bloggers," spend all day spitballing, commenting upon, and stealing the content of papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Globe.
And as for the Deaniacs -- where can they go? The received wisdom is that the power of the Internet mobilized Dean supporters from men and women who had been alienated from politics as usual. But if they really want George Bush out of the White House, they will have to wake up before 8 p.m. on Nov. 2, skip the trip to Starbucks, and pull the old-fashioned lever down at the polling place.
The next election may be held online, but this one won't be.
You can close the lid again, Alex.

Eastern star meets western star
: Hoder reports that Shahrzad Sepanlou, a popular Iranian pop singer influential with youth, has just started a blog from L.A. A sample:

So yesterday evening after dinner at a restaurant, Amir and I headed for Tower Records. We stopped cause we noticed this blonde girl signing autographs for a couple of fans. It was Britney Spears. Unfortunatley, I couldn't get a very good look cause she was kind of far. Anyway, as she turned around with her friend to leave, these three girls rushed passed me and one of them yelled "Britney Spears sucks!". Now that wasn't nice.
: Pedram has more Iranian blogger updates.

Wirelessless
: Sorry for the radio silence today. Turns out this entire hotel shares one T-1. A disaster.

So close
: I'm so close, I can taste it. I have 999 incoming blogs on Technorati. But don't take that as a hint to link. That would be cheating. That would be wrong.

: Damn. Technorati burps up some of my links and I'm not so close. I hate that. Here at ETech, Tim Oren is taking away my shoelaces now and I'm ordering another beer.

Mouse or man?
: What does it tell us that Steven Jobs rejects Disney as Brian Roberts tries to buy Disney? One view marries content to distribution; one view divorces distribution. Which is right in a digital world? you guess.

You are who hates you
: Joi Ito's very robust and chatty IRC channel has a bot -- jibot -- that, among other things, introduces chatters when they arrive. Jason Calacanis created this intro for jibot:

JasonCalacanis is http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com and the guy Nick Denton hates
: Jason wants you to know that he didn't write that. A wag did. Good wag.

Blogache
: Connectivity at ETech is burping, hiccupping, and barfing. Blogging limited until it comes back.
Besides, a Microsoft sociologist is talking now and I just want to raise my hand and ask whether this is going to be on the exam.

: I finally went online with my Treo 600. Arrrgh.

Trippi 1.1
: When Joe Trippi came to ETech word seeped here and there that he'd registered a new domain for The Next Thing: ChangeForAmerica.com. I confirmed that he'd registered it but found nothing there.
Now Micah Sifry links us to the first post in the Trippi blog:

This is where I intend to keep, in my own small way, my part in the changing of America and our politics going....
I am still trying to figure out what I am actually going to do with the rest of my life, so far its always been about changing or messing with something bigger than me.
The one thing I know I want to do, is continue to do my part to build a community with a mission of changing our country for the better.
So here starts a new blog....
It's more about Trippi than the movement.
No one is going to change America for you. You have to work for the change you want -- and you have to get other Americans to join your cause.
Change for America is my attempt to continue to just that -- so join in, comment away, and lets continue the fight to rid our country of the Bush administration (the first step to real change).
So it's about anger and change, still.
I don't have much in tech support as of yet, but over time I hope this blog will be a lot better than it is today -- kind of reminds me of those days 13 months or so ago -- when there were only a few of us and we started the ugliest blog in America -- the Call to Action blog. It helped to launch something special, hopefully the Change for America Blog humble as it is will launch something special as well.
Thank you for reading and participating.
The Next American Revolution is only just beginning.
And so it starts with technology.
But change for what, to what, and why?
If I were Dean and the Deaniacs, I'd be upset that Trippi is already starting a competitor before the body is even cold. There's still a very open question of what is going to happen to DeanSpace.
The movement is breaking up....

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