HW 17: Giulani's Run is Over

The blog that interested me the most out of the blogs I’m watching would have to be the first post on the “The Democratic Party Blog” which is located at http://www.democrats.org/blog.html. The headline reads, Giulani Wants MORE Troops Overseas. Rudy Giulani, a leading candidate in the race for the republican presidential seat and former New York Mayor I believe has taken himself out of this contest with these comments. The majority of our nation are fed up with the disaster that is the Iraqi War and Giuliani is purposing we send “easily 60 or 70 thousand, maybe 100 thousand” troops into Iraq. At what cost though? This war is quickly turning into the second Vietnam. Hundred of thousands of innocent people have lost their lives already; we need to begin creating an exit stragedy. We have been in Iraq for over 4 years now and there has been no sign of weapons of mass destruction but there is a growing hatred of the United States in the Middle East. I use to respect Rudy Giuliani after the way he handled September 11th. Now he comes out at a town hall meeting in Windham, New Hampshire, and says we can “easily” send a hundred thousand more troops overseas. These are men and women my age or near my age, and they all have families. We need to get out of this war. Peace out Rudy.

HW 16B:Scoble's 5 Pillars of Conversational Software

Robert Scoble points out five things that have made blogging hot through out the world, calling them the five pillars of conversational software. The first was “ease of publishing.” This simply means that anyone that has access to the Internet can easily make their own blog and write about anything and everything. The second pillar was “discoverability.” Tags and pings make it easy to find blogs that you are interested in and help business’ find potential customers. The third was “cross-site conversations.” Which I believe allows you to see who is following your blog and see who is a regular reader. I think comments and feedback would also fall under this pillar. The fourth thing is “permalinking” allowing you to easily find and the blog you are interested in. Once you find a blog you life you can simply bookmark it and head right to the new posts on the front page. The last pillar is “syndication” which makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites and blogs in a preset manner that's easier than checking them yourself.