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womzillaThe Kossac known only as KingOneEye is organizing a get-out-the-money blog swarm* on behalf of Edwards. It is scheduled for this Friday, January 18. As he says,
*One of the few truly prophetic works of science fiction was Larry Niven's set of "teleportation" short stories from the late 1960s--"The Alibi Machine", "All the Bridges Rusting", "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club", and especially "Flash Crowd". Although they are ostensibly about teleportation--a technology I consider basically impossible as described--they managed to predict many of the dynamics of life in the wired world, where distance and location are, in many ways, less important than affinity groups, notoriety, and the flow of information.
In the early, most popular years of Slashdot, it was a common occurrence for a site to get mentioned on Slashdot and then crash under the weight of all the people linking through. Although usually known as "the Slashdot effect", I've always called these events "Slash crowds." I supposed that these blogosphere-wide fundraising drives could, in turn, be called "cash crowds".
$7 million dollars is a lot of money to raise online, and 5 days is not a lot of time to organize. But if Ron Paul can do it, fer gawds sake, we ought to be able to.
*One of the few truly prophetic works of science fiction was Larry Niven's set of "teleportation" short stories from the late 1960s--"The Alibi Machine", "All the Bridges Rusting", "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club", and especially "Flash Crowd". Although they are ostensibly about teleportation--a technology I consider basically impossible as described--they managed to predict many of the dynamics of life in the wired world, where distance and location are, in many ways, less important than affinity groups, notoriety, and the flow of information.
In the early, most popular years of Slashdot, it was a common occurrence for a site to get mentioned on Slashdot and then crash under the weight of all the people linking through. Although usually known as "the Slashdot effect", I've always called these events "Slash crowds." I supposed that these blogosphere-wide fundraising drives could, in turn, be called "cash crowds".
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Date: 2008-01-15 07:43 pm (UTC)Or "cash cows".
Well, I'm off to vote for Willard Romney.
Because every Republican candidate should be deluded with a win in at least one state.
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Date: 2008-01-15 11:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 12:23 am (UTC)