The impact of blogs on politics

Matthew Langham discusses whether the Internet has changed the way we "do politics". I asked much the same in a comment on this off-topic post on our class blog last night.

In the end, I think it has more to do about the content of the message rather than the form in which it is conducted. The benefit of the Internet allows people to make judgements themselves by going directly to the sources rather than relying upon others to tell us what to think. Listening to the candidates talk last night, there was a sharp divide in their messages for this country. Some of them were focused on the process, while others concentrated on a vision.

I personally think those with vision are much better positioned than those who are solely about the process. But, that's me.

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How to Criticize...

I don't think most Apache-allied developers need to read this: How To Criticize Computer Scientists. We need to read it for my 280 class (hence the ucirvine category - a problem with single classification systems!), but I found it funny to read.

One of my fellow grad students calls the Apache developers "a pack of piranahas." Oh, you don't even know!

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