“With liberty and health care for all.”

The House of Representatives is within minutes of having its members vote on the Health Care bill — H.R. 3962. As could be expected, most Republicans see the bill as a loss of freedom for citizens and too expensive ($1.2 tillion during the next decade, they claim.)
But Most Democrats see the bill as an [...]

A Long (But Easy) Report on Web Analytics 101

I attended a conference of the Online News Association in San Francisco last month and heard USC Annenberg lecturer Dr. Dana Chinn present a good session on “finding meaning in the metrics” of Web analytics. (For those of you who are experts in Google Analytics, like my friend Jeremy Powers, this post is not for [...]

LIVE: FROM THE STATE FAIR! IT’S SENATOR FRANKLIN

The other day at “The Great Minnesota Get Together,” Al Franken showed the right stuff. He was able to hold a reasonable discussion with a group of tea-baggers who wanted to know if he was going to vote “the way people want” (read that, Sean Hannity) on health care.
The body language here is quite interesting [...]

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Last week I was telling my strategic communications campaigns class how hard it is to change people’s attitudes — and especially their behaviors — on any given topic. Therefore, I intoned, the safest and surest bet in PR work is to promise a client you will pursue an awareness objective. (I believe I actually saw [...]

You Go, Helen Thomas!

Thank God for Helen Thomas.
While many in the White House press corps have become so enchanted with the Obama administration they’re willing to forget the skeptical (if not adversarial) relationship that’s supposed to exist between a free press the government, Helen has not.
Here she is taking on Robert Gibbs..chewing him up and making him look [...]

Like, How Do You Spell His Name?

Two items worthy of mention from The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room…
First, this post from July 10 stating that Minnesotan’s prefer Barack Obama over Tim Pawlenty by 11 percentage points for a 2012 presidential contest. That’s 51% to 40%.
And for you Sarah fans, Obama holds an even stronger 56 to 35 percent lead in that [...]

Senator Al Franken

In case you haven’t heard, former Minnesota U.S. Senator Norm Coleman has conceded his seat to Al Franken, following a unanimous state supreme court today in Franken’s favor. A thriller? Or a yawn?

Michael Jackson

Note: The YouTube video originally posted here is no longer available so I’ve deleted the link. But please continue to read and comment below.

The Daily Show Visits the New York Times

Why would the folks at the New York Times think they could come out ahead when The Daily Show calls? (Sorry: Can’t get the vid up.)
Enjoy.

LIVE: How to Twitter a Revolution

Andrew Sullivan at theatlantic.com reports on “The Revolution Will be Tweeted.” I highly recommend reading this quick and important blog post.
Sullivan’s right..and the revolution is going on now.
But why twitter? Because the government has taken control over every other form of mass communication. But students on twitter are organizing and protesting. And students with [...]