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Bob Woodward: Plan of Attack

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I Love Bob Wooward’s books, from today’s New York Times:

Two months before the invasion of Iraq, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell warned President Bush about the potential negative consequences of a war, citing what Mr. Powell privately called the “you break it, you own it” rule of military action, according to a new book.

“You’re sure?” Mr. Powell is quoted as asking Mr. Bush in the Oval Office on Jan. 13, 2003, as the president told him he had made the decision to go forward. “You understand the consequences,” he is said to have stated in a half-question. “You know you’re going to be owning this place?”

The book, “Plan of Attack,” by Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, reconstructs that and other private conversations between senior Bush administration officials during the 16-month period of planning and preparation that ended with the attack on Iraq last March.

This will be great reading for the coming week.

Personal TV Networks, Part 2

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Ole: “any comments on rss enclosures v. other ways to do this?”

Andrew: “Look at how tivo handles what it downloads – has a well-managed quota, and after while stuff goes away, it gets deleted. I don’t know what the enclosure support is yet…”

“tv is linear, it’s a program that you watch”

From irc: “loujosephs: drm while it’s easy to wrap on content, is very easily hacked. Yeah it will work but for how long?”

Bit Torrent example: http://live.curry.com/torrents/ntr09.mov.torrent

More Coming

Personal TV Networks, Part I

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Ole Eichhorn sitting in for a missing Adam Curry who was to lead today’s discussion about Personal TV Networks at BloggerCon

Ole asks: What do we want our televisions to do?

Best answer: I want to see what I want – on one channel – when I want it the way that I want it.

“What makes us think that ‘blogtv’ or something similar is going to be any better than what’s already out there?”

“The talent pool is way deeper out there – we know this from what’s in the blogosphere”

dave winer: “is my good different than your good? i like the flaws in things, because then I know a person wrote it.. your good isn’t mine”

ole: “if I took a page from the NY Times website and put it on the page, that’s not cool, but if I excerpt it, that’s acceptable…”

“video production at its root is about storytelling”

Presidential Bloggers, Part III

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Dave Winer, “None of you guys get it. We are not voters. We are taxpayers. We go to work. We die in those wars.”

Dave Winer, “We are not eyeballs. We are not at the bottom and you are not at the top.”

Dave, “EXample, Channel9 at Microsoft. By giving engineers inside Microsoft a chance to be seen by people outside, it changes their “world.” ”

Dave, “Blogs are changing the world.”

Christopher Lydon now talking about his site Blogging of the President: 2004.

Matt Gross, “the Dean campaign was seminal–it was a beginning. Why didn’t the blogs get us votes? They did get us votes.”

Dan, “I want to go back to getting the electorate better informed.”

Side Note: rather disappointing that no one from the Bush campaign could come to bloggercon

Oliver Willis, “Citizens want to be marketed to. that’s what campaign blogs look like. ‘Here are some pictures, the other guy sucks, vote for me.’ ”

Micah Sifry, “The problem with the web is that you have to know you’re interested to find stuff there.”

Micah, “We’re back to Bigfoot politics–debates that won’t be debates. I’m not interested in how blogs can market candidates. I want to knwo how we can have input, how we can hold candidates accountable. That moment seems to have passed.

Dan, “I wonder if anybody who keeps a blog today could ever go on to run for president” [lots of laughter]

This session about to wrap up – more to come….