In the online version of Time, to complement the cover story on Al Gore, there's a survey about whether he should run for president in '08.

It appears that it's tabulated on a Diebold system:

• When this screen shot was taken, yes and no votes from Alaska were even
• What color does the tie-result default to?

I'm just sayin'....

The Sideshow's preferred choice for Time's Person of the Year, instead of y'all Read more…

The collective groan on the Intertubes this morning is a response to Time magazine's decision to name you (yeah, you!) Person of the Year, a choice that's simultaneously corny, meta, and fairly reasonable.

NBC anchor Brian Williams inadvertently shows the necessity of netroots, as he bemoans the move to participatory media: Read more…

This week's state-of-the-GOP story from typically Bush-cheerleading Time is almost unremittingly negative, from the scrotish cover image of an elephant's hind quarters, to the poll results at the article's end.

However, it is worth noting that whenever Time or an interview subject does throw the Repubs a bone, it's a blatant canard. Read more…

Sigh. Time for another blogger ethics panel. What is that now, like #3782?

Seriously, will you media people just do me a favor and learn how to use the intertubes? My 80something grandmothers have figured it out, I can't believe it's that hard to do.

The only thing I would add to Steve and Stirling's wonderful takedowns: it's rather pathetic, the way in which our Fine Librul Media refuses to understand that, Yes! technology means change. Jimmy Olsen isn't working his way up from the mailroom, nightly newscasts don't have audiences of 100 million, and by gum people say "Fuck!" on the public tubes.

I can't wait until I'm 80something, and my nephew's son asks me what a "newspaper" is.