Daily Archives: January 6, 2004
Finally Starting to “Get It”
Kathy Kiely, writing in USA TODAY of all places, weighs in with what, in our humble opinion, is the best mainstream media article to date on the blogging phenomena. The woman “gets it” and knows how to explain it in … Continue reading
Dowbrigade.com Up and Running
We are pleased to announce that the Dowbrigade has obtained the rights to dowbrigade.com, so that Dowbrigade News is now also available at http://dowbrigade.com. Of course, the actual site will remain on the Harvard Law School blog server, so both … Continue reading
Demonstration of a First Post
MIT Intro to Blogging Class an Unqualified Success. This afternoon Andrew Grumet, Bob Stepno and the Dowbrigade gave the first in a series of Getting Started with Blogging workshops at MIT. It went great. Unlike the sessions we ran at … Continue reading
Year of the Internet in Politics
An excellent retrospective on the influence of the Internet on this year’s presidential race appeared today in a nationally syndicated column by Ronald Brownstein. He starts with a repetition of the fundraising success of the Dean Campaign, but then ventures … Continue reading
Simultaneous Cure for Overpopulation and Hunger
ARMIN Meiwes, the increasingly confident Cannibal of Rotenburg, has been helping police unravel an international network of man-eaters. From Austria to the US, willing victims going by names such as Hansel and Gretel queued up to be eaten by or … Continue reading
The Science of Skipping Stones
A cool, calm lake. Your dog frolicking along the beach. Your significant other admiring your attempt to skip a stone across the water — and, to your deep embarrassment, it plops straight down with nary a bounce. Has this ever … Continue reading
Dowbrigade and Son Kidnapped in Peru
I recently came across some notes I took shortly after being kidnapped by Tupac Amaru guerillas in Peru. It all came rushing back, and inspired a posting concerning Michael Jackson, the Crocodile Hunter, NYTimes columnist Nicolas Kristoff and myself, which … Continue reading