http://www.jedmiller.com/ internet, media and other preoccupations en-us 2008-06-24T10:27:31-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000232.html About 8 minutes into FCC commissioner's Jonathan Adelstein's speech here at PDF, 10-20 audience members shifted in their scattered seats, stood up, and left to turn to other matters - like perhaps Dasani water. His combination of dryness, truisms we... JM 2008-06-24T10:27:31-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000231.html After flight cancellations barred her realspace attendance, Elizabeth Edwards is appearing right now at PDF for her conversation with Andrew Rasiej on the role of the Internet in the campaigns, in media, and in culture. She is wonderfully pithy... JM 2008-06-23T18:09:55-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000230.html The Women Who Tech here at PDF 2008, creating a space where there wasn't one. tags: pdf2008... JM 2008-06-23T13:19:27-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000229.html tags: pdf2008... JM 2008-06-23T12:12:50-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000228.html Presenting a series of a series of vivid, usable tools for visualizing the blogosphere, Matthew Hurst of Microsoft Live Labs said you can "induce" a social network once you begin to see the links and spheres of influence. This work... JM 2008-06-23T12:02:22-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000227.html I've mostly avoided the our-hope-is-better-than-your-hope, your-mother-wears-army-boots,Chelsea slug-fest between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters, but one place where it naturally has flared up is when I talk to my mother. She was bitter in that you-never-call way that mothers can get... JM 2008-06-06T07:50:30-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000226.html Since Bill Clinton first seized on hope as what this country needed, leaders from every corner have tried to tell the people - in subtle and explicit ways - that faith in what's possible is not as important as fear... JM 2008-06-04T08:14:42-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000225.html From our panel on Politics, the Internet and Journalism here at the Amherst College reunion, my fellow alum State Senator Craig Johnson (D-NY) says that elected officials can use the Internet "as a sword and a shield." An amazing ability... JM 2008-05-31T15:01:24-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000224.html Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn on whether and why the Republican party has drifted from its most basic tenets of governance, compassion and how to combine the two:Compassionate conservatism's next step – its implicit claim that charity or compassion translates into... JM 2008-05-31T09:36:31-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000223.html If you're one of the few loyal souls who've visited this page more than 2-3 times, you know that I think language and criticism about events do almost as much to influence the future as events themselves. That's one of... JM 2008-05-25T11:32:04-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000222.html A 2000 clip dug out from the video archive by Crooks and Liars: Jim Lehrer: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you? John McCain: Certainly it’s been put... JM 2008-05-24T14:04:11-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000221.html Well, the good news is, Obama's toughening up: "I want to be perfectly clear with George Bush and John McCain….If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a... JM 2008-05-16T17:12:36-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000220.html Mark Leibovich in NYT makes my same point from the other day. Obama post-Hillary is stronger than Obama post-sensation-sans-struggle:Could competing against Mrs. Clinton have improved Mr. Obama as a candidate in the same way that competing against Larry Bird and... JM 2008-05-11T13:29:07-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000219.html Can this be the end of the beginning of the end for my party and their chances in November? Tonight, many of the pundits have suggested that this party is inalterably divided – that Senator Clinton’s supporters will not support... JM 2008-05-07T07:03:05-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000218.html New audio from Revenue Watch, with comments from my boss Karin Lissakers and Juanita Olaya of Transparency International on a new TI report that finds most oil and gas companies don't do very well when it comes to reporting what... JM 2008-05-03T15:15:35-05:00