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A new report on Iraq

January 9, 2004 by Michael Boyle

A new report on Iraq

has just been released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The report looked into the WMD issue pre-war to try and figure out what went wrong, and the conclusions are pretty scathing. Joseph Cirincione was quoted on CNN yesterday morning:

…we looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we have come to the conclusion that it is broken, that it has now become deeply politicized, that it is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials, to conform their threat assessments to preexisting policies.

I highly doubt this will have much of an affect on the Bush Administration, unfortunately. But the underlying teleological character of the current gang in Washington is obvious: they have already formulated their conclusions; their ongoing task is to fit events to lead to those conclusions.

Tags: International Affairs

Blog Juice:

January 9, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Blog Juice:

CNN is now posting what look to be full transcripts of their programming on their website. It’s not clear how long the archives will remain available on the site, but nevertheless it’s very cool development. Current blogging theory would suggest that CNN will become a more authoritative souce based on the increased accessibility of this material. It will be interesting to see if this differentiates them from other news networks in this way.

Tags: Media

Steve Gillmor

January 8, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Steve Gillmor

Battle of the Bands: Gates vs. Jobs. For my part, I much prefer a world in which people are understood as creative, active participants, not simply passive viewers/consumers.

Tags: Steve Jobs

Coming later this year:

January 8, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Coming later this year:

DESERT, presented by Champ Libre, for the 6e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, to be held in late September 2004. There’s a call for submissions as well – the deadline’s March 1.

Tags: Montreal

This deserves more investigation:

January 8, 2004 by Michael Boyle

This deserves more investigation:

Long versus short copy on websites for selling. It seems that long copy can sell better than shorter texts.

Tags: Business

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