Editor’s note: Joe Biden’s video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQS_Hg5p6U has been removed. I’m not sure why. Jeff Jarvis got around to blogging this before I had a chance to: PrezConference: A candidate answers! (Here’s my original videoblog post.) From Jeff today: We have our first reply to a PrezConference question from a candidate. Joe Biden […]
Politics
MoveOn’s Rock the House event
I’m on a national conference call right now with Michael Moore, who dialed in from his film offices in New York City. (He’s making a film about the 47 million Americans who don’t have health insurance.) It’s part of the Rock the House (and Senate) Caller Party I’m hosting, along with hundreds of other people […]
At the immigration rights rally
Spent a couple of hours this afternoon at the rally for immigrants’ rights in San Francisco, across the street from City Hall. Thousands of people turned out to bask in the sun, dance, hobnob and, oh yeah, listen to political speeches. Caught some nice images in this Flickr photo set, including actor Danny Glover before […]
Meeting Mayor Newsom and the high-speed crowd
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at the FirstMile conference in San Diego. (Photo by J.D. Lasica) Joaquin Alvarado, Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University, invited Ourmedia to attend FirstMile, an important young conference at UC San Diego, so I flew down for the day. This was a high-powered […]
Liberty index
“Hammer of Truth” Stephen Gordon has posted a scorecard of the entire House of Representatives, scoring how congressmen fall on a Libertarian index. Given that Libertarians have traditionally voted Republican, you’d expect Republicans to dominate the top slots, right? But Republicans take only 1 of the top 20 slots in the Liberty index. In fact, […]