Jason Clarke

The paperback edition of Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man- the book I co-wrote with David T. Hardy- is now available online and at your local bookseller!

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Hugh McLeod’s “why corporate blogging works” is a revealtory post. it’s practically a treatise.

Last week, I was messing around with this site and stumbled onto what might’ve been a scoop had I actually posted it in time. Here’s what I wrote then but never published:

Tired of that pretty limited “put Flickr photos on your site” widget that Flickr calls a badge?

Well by accident last week, I stumbled across a new version of the badge-maker not yet live on Flickr. Check it out (make sure you’re logged in to your account first):

http://flickr.com/badge_new.gne

The badge_new.gne page is already live on Flickr’s site. No scoop for me.

Via Glenn, we learn that Tennessee Governor Phil Bresden is now blogging at his state’s official website, Tennessee.gov/governor. (Too bad they didn’t call it tennesse.gov/ernor, right?).

A couple of thoughts on this:

* Did Bill Hobbs get Gov. Bresden blogging? Or was it his state’s larger (and surprisingly larger) blogging community that got him started?

* Dang, the Gov (and the state) has a really, really nice site design/layout going on! World’s better than most other official Governor’s web sites, Bresden’s appears to be easy to use as well as attractive, modern, and friendly. It doesn’t validate- got to add “alt” tags to your images, team! - but it’s got email updates, some nice accessability features (in-context font sizing, multiple links to the same pages, intelligent navigation, etc.), and I like it.

Now, they need to update the rest of the Tennessee.gov site to match.

During the final track of BlogNashville today- in a session titled “A Respectful Disagreement” - Dave Winer combined with cartoonist John Cox and a few others to create what became, at times, quite a contentious, un-respectful discussion.

Near the middle of the frequently awkward hour and forty-five minutes- after a couple of flare ups- Dave gave up and sat down, prompting Glenn Reynolds to leave. As Tom Biro rightly called Winer out for rudeness towards one of the session-goers, I captured Winer giving up as session leader in a bit of shaky video. I left shortly after I filmed this, but Les Jones posted a running commentary on the complete session.

UPDATE: I had to take the video down because it wasn’t loading properly. I’ll try to bring it back sometime.

Winer’s take: Dave Winer posted his thoughts here. I think he’s correct when he writes that “…it was a hostile exchange, lots of the usual mindless crap you get on political TV shows.” But in my view, Dave did as much to contribute to the Crossfire-esque atmosphere as any of the others involved.

More: Tom Biro live-blogged the session as well.

Still more: Dave Winer unleashes a sarcasm-drenched rant. Not all that respectful. When will it end, Dave? When will you get over it?

Still, still more: The Professor and I agree.

I’m headed down to BlogNashville- if you’re going, be sure to stop over and say hello.