I’ve been writing this blog in one form or another for maybe four and a half years.  Some of that work has been worth rescuing from the bit bucket.  The interviews certainly qualify, so I’m migrating them over from wherever I left them.  The first one I’ve imported is from the Typepad blog:  the interview with Jenna’s Uncle Rage, the Avuncular Chris Locke, originally posted July 24, 2024.

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1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual of the Rules of
3 the United States House of Representatives allows federal
4 impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of
5 a state legislature; and

6 WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering
7 the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978
8 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically
9 authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without
10 warrant; and

11 WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that President Bush authorized
12 violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions,
13 a treaty regarded a supreme law by the United States
14 Constitution; and

15 WHEREAS, The Bush Administration has held American
16 citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war
17 without charge or trial; and

18 WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that the Bush Administration
19 has manipulated intelligence for the purpose of initiating a
20 war against the sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the
21 deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the
22 United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and
23 billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses; and

24 WHEREAS, The Bush Administration leaked classified
25 national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an
26 unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential
27 harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to
28 investigate the matter; and

29 WHEREAS, The Republican-controlled Congress has declined

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1 to fully investigate these charges to date; therefore, be it

2 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
4 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly of the
5 State of Illinois has good cause to submit charges to the U. S.
6 House of Representatives under Section 603 that the President
7 of the United States has willfully violated his Oath of Office
8 to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
9 States; and be it further

10 RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty of the
11 charges contained herein, should be removed from office and
12 disqualified to hold any other office in the United States.

“Edit me” is a great phrase, evocative of the Fonzi-esque injuction: “Eat me…”, as well as the opportunity Alice in Wonderland was given when she found the bottle labeled “Drink me.”

Relevance?  It’s a wiki thing…

Jerry Michalski is interviewed by the Economist (Podcast here). Jerry thinks that we’re in the “Model T” era of new media tools. Over the next few years we’ll be figuring out how to sort through the flood of information that has resulted from our empowerment. Today, we still need training on the tools, we need to explain what a Wiki is, and how it works. Tomorrow?

Jerry talks a little about the “revert wars” at Wikipedia and observes that “Fixing a Wiki is easier than vandalizing a Wiki.”

The “quantum personal energy” release of the impassioned authentic voices in the blogosphere are contrasted with “Newtonian media.” (“Old media doesn’t want us to have a memory. When we store information we break their business model.”) Highly personalized and individual blogs are compared to the cooperative and anonymizing experience of working on a Wiki.

Ward Cunningham’s invention of the Wiki is acknowledged.

Are you a cynic when it comes to university research and the study of control?  I am, and B.J. Fogg’s value free approach to perceptual manipulation annoys the hell out of me.  On the other hand, he’s undoubtedly on to something.