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"Accidental Branding" book about brands built by entrepreneurs

Hey, there's a chapter on craigslist and me, even including an interview with the gf. First material which discusses my blood! I gave a little talk at the book launch in NYC with the author, Roxanne Quimby, and John Peterman ala Seinfeld.

Check it out here and here

USC Shoah Foundation Institute: important, not well known

Take a look!

Established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute has recorded nearly 52,000 video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. The Institute’s archive, which contains over 120,000 hours of testimony, can be accessed at universities and other institutions on three continents.

The Institute’s mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of its visual history testimonies. In the near future, the Institute will work
with the Rwandan organization IBUKA to collect the testimonies of survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.

Reverend Wright upside: I'm not Obama's craziest uncle

... quite a relief.

UPDATE: for where I'm coming from, check out Joe Klein: Time to Lock the Crazy Uncle in the Attic

"Pentagon Pundit Scandal Broke the Law"

Hey, you probably read about how the White House paid retired generals to deceive people.

Funny story... turns out that it sure looks illegal.

The Pentagon military analyst program unveiled in last week's exposé by David Barstow in the New York Times was not just unethical but illegal. It violates, for starters, specific restrictions that Congress has been placing in its annual appropriation bills every year since 1951. According to those restrictions, "No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by the Congress."

John McCain racist TV ad still running

Hat tip to Cliff Schecter at HuffPost.

Barack wins informal vote among Washington insiders

Ah, I'm not sure what it means, but he gets 43% to McCain 37%, reported by Mediabistro Fishbowl DC here.

Kinda fun to watch.

Jane thanks the academy? (was: wins award...)

For best writers' salon?

reporting conference

Hearing lots from very committed people about serious investigative reporting while resources are shrinking.

Looks like very impressive work will come fro Propublica, Center for Investigative Reporting, Center for Public Integrity.

Also learning what I should've already known about talking directly to press vs. using s spokesman.

Berkeley symposium on investigative reporting

This is a really big deal, editors from nytimes, washpost, tv
networks. Guy on right is Lowell Bergman, as in tv movie The Insider,
played by Pacino.

First panel includes Len Downie, Bill Keller.

Using twitter a lot now

as user "craignewmark".

However, I can see a bunch of people much more talented than me, doing lots of writing, like Ellen Miller, Dave Winer, Joe Trippi, many others.