links for 2009-04-02

JOe the Plumber in my hometown, "When Keystone Progress tried to get some answers from Joe at the rally in Harrisburg, Joe came up empty, admitting that he doesn't know shit about anything." video

with audio

links to conservative support for locavore sustainable food policies

Hopefully the cat's out of the bag. If they succeed and keep their content locked up that just gives the freebies less competition. It's definitely not about giving viewers what they want -- not online but on demand on tv, "Another trend that terrifies television networks and distributors is the prospect that Web video will move from the PC to the television itself. Products intended to bridge that gap, like the Apple TV set-top box and the Roku digital video player, are now used by only a small percentage of people but could become more popular."

From a friend. I continue to find it reprehensible that way say we don't want to impoverish the next generation through social security taxes but we're happy to let them go into huge, government subsidized bank debt when they are typically not yet financially savvy enough to understand the consequences.

The definitive collection. Wonderfully comprehensive;

I'm convinced. First there was the student endorsement (they showed me the custom url option). And I find this argument convincing. "Semantic indexing of the web through casual but opt-in and common user activity is a great strategy."

Metrics as business model. First Twitter. Now bit.ly: "A number of people have looked at today's news and thought it was ridiculous that a link shortening business could raise $2 million in funding. We don't think it's ridiculous at all. Show us a service that can report in real time how many people are visiting millions of pages around the web and what those pages are about, that exposes that data in an API, and we'll show you a platform we're very excited to see work."