My friend John at Crooks and Liars demonstrates the power bloggers can have, forcing an on-air apology from Robert Novak. Good stuff, indeed.

Crooks and Liars gets Robert Novak to issue an “on-the-air” apology.

I helped him start the blog, and still help a bit on technical blog issues, like rss and podcasting. He’s taken the blog from out of nowhere, and with his huge innovation of posting video from newscasts as well as excellent commentary, Crooks and Liars is now usually in the top five weblogs for daily traffic as tracked by Radio UserLand, the blog software we both use.

Radio UserLand reports weblog traffic for weblogs that use Radio. This is not all the hits a blog gets, but it’s an important subset of the total hits. It lists both Daily hits and All-time hits. My Daily hits generally show 500-700 during weekdays, however my WebTrends Log Analyzer, which runs off the log files on my website and is a much more accurate number, currently shows 2,000 unique visitors a day. 

Crooks and Liars is now #12 all time for Radio blogs, with this blog being #49.

Way to go, John! He happily and enthusiastically covers all the talk shows (something that would make me crazy doing, so I don’t!) and is now forcing them to get honest!

PS I’m amazed that PoliZeros is getting 2,000 people a day. I’d originally figured my politics would be too radical for that, but I guess not. Thanks for coming!

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In the United States, President Bush called Berlusconi from Air Force One “to express his regret about the incident,” White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Friday.

The State Department released a statement saying, “We express our deep condolences for this tragic event.”

Do they ever accept responsibility? US troops shot and injured Giuliana Sgrena, the freed journalist in Iraq, and killed her guard. Nowhere can I find a US statement saying “We’re sorry and accept responsibility.” In fact, a search for her name on the U.S. Sec. of State site shows nothing so they apparently can’t be bothered to post their statement on their official website.

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Just ask Lil’ Kim

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From an online class for a CPA Ethics test, forwarded by Miss Monica.

A January 1995 article in the California Management Review, “A View from the Trenches”, interviewed 30 recent Harvard MBA graduates. Among their comments:

Organizational pressures, not character flaws, lead people to act unethically.

Whistle-blowing is a professional hazard.

Staff-level employees often receive explicit instruction from middle managers to do unethical or illegal things, e.g., overlook kickback schemes or support cover-ups involving sexual harassment.

Questionable behavior does not hurt one’s career. In fact, it seems to accelerate advancement.

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Among other sites, I’m webmaster for the ViridianRepository, a site of contest entries for Viridian Design, a design movement about stopping global warming. Seems aboveground and straightforward enough, right? Not according to a member trying to access the site…

Received the following message when trying to surf the ViridianRepository from the local cafeteria:

This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter Service.

URL: http://www.viridianrepository.com/

Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category “Cult/Occult”

Hmmm, maybe the Content Filter company is owned by ExxonMobil?

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