Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Bachmann-Led Congressional Tea Partiers Request $1 Billion In Earmarks – They’re not Earmarks! They’re Patriotmarks!
- Republicans Block Child Nutrition Bill – Stay classy, compassionate conservatives!
- Being bad to your customers is bad for business – Interesting follow-up from Google to the previous link I had on this. I’m gratified to see that nofollow is being used here and that Google is interested in figuring out methods to deal with this problem (which they are carefully not discussing in detail).
- Twitter Turns Off Verified Accounts System | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD – That’s an unfortunate move on their part. Granted, it’s non-trivial to make such verification, but without it, I see all sorts of problems in the future.
- How Joe Lieberman is exactly like a Chinese dictator – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com – “But any attempt by political officials to start blocking Americans’ access to political content on the Internet ought to provoke serious uproar and unrest. If the Tea Party movement and the Right generally were even minimally genuine in their ostensible beliefs, few things would trigger more intense objections than a political official trying to dictate to private actors which political content they should allow on the Internet …”
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