Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 23:44 - Category: Election 2008 ;
The Clinton campaign still lives. She can’t win the nomination, but will apparently continue shambling on until… she can’t any more.
I still think 1) it’ll be over by June 1, which will gives Obama five months to campaign against McCain, and 2) she will go graciously and will support Obama strongly.
Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 18:26 - Category: Election 2008 ;
A 10+ point lead will be seen as a big Clinton win while anything less than five points will be a big Obama win. However, if Clinton’s victory is between five and 10 points, the campaign continues.
I’m guessing it’ll be between 5 to 10 points, which means the Clinton Zombie campaign will stagger on, unaware that it is already deceased.
Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 14:13 - Category: Unfiled Tags: twitter;
Twitter had some growing pain burps these past few days. They upgraded the software to provide faster service, and found many Tweets weren’t getting through in a timely manner. There was much gnashing of teeth as Twitter addicts went into forced semi-withdrawal.
The problems have been mostly resolved and TechCrunch sums up what we’ve learned.
But after a three day weekend outage I realized that in the last two months a subtle shift occurred: I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.
Their monopoly power via the network effect they’ve earned means they don’t have to worry much about downtime. We’ll all still be sitting here patiently, waiting for it to return.
Not only does Twitter have a hugely devoted (and fast growing) following, the core is early adopter geeks. And where they are now, the mainstream of the Net often follows.
For those who may not know, Twitter is a free service that exists somewhere between IM and blogging. You can send messages (called Tweets) up to 140 characters. Whoever is following you reads them, ditto for Tweets from whoever you follow. You can read them online, with third party software, with IM, or with SMS on a cell phone.
During our upcoming trip across the country moving to S.F. I plan to have my cell phone tweeting away and to be posting updates as we go. I’m polizeros on Twitter.
Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 10:39 - Category: Unfiled ;
King Features syndicate has 40 Earth Day -themed comic strips today, and The Daily Green has them online.!
Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 06:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Significant declines were concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, Texas, the southern Midwest and along the Mississippi River. Life expectancy increases were mainly in the Northeast and on the Pacific Coast.
“What’s driving the disparity is the worsening of the worst off”
Medical care in those areas is probably already substandard plus the people who live there may not be able to afford health insurance.
We need quality, reasonably priced health care for all. Most industrialized countries already have this. So why doesn’t the US?
Bob Morris @ Apr 22nd 2008 01:21 - Category: Unfiled Tags: Israel, Palestine;
Carter said on Monday that Hamas leaders told him they would accept a negotiated peace agreement, if voted for by the Palestinian people.
“The problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet with someone who must be involved.”
There can be no peace there until Palestinians have a place to call home. The real problem is that extremists on multiple sides of the issue don’t want peace else why would they keep shooting at each other?
All sides must be involved in peace talk if there is to be genuine peace.
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