Clearing the Cache: Libby's Notes, Obama's Votes, Weiner's Goats
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 10 2010
A university student takes a cell phone photo of Vice President Joe Biden during the Vice President's speech in Nairobi yesterday on Kenya's upcoming vote on a national constitution; photo by David Lienemann - Why history demands raw documents: because it's one thing to hear about Scooter Libby's visit with Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz to discuss Germany's treatment of Scientologists, but it's another to see it in the form of a hand-written note on his daily briefing.
- Matt Bai talks distributed, volunteer-driven, Internet-hosted politics, and says that that message from Obama's advisors "to Congressional Democrats running this year is that if they don’t adopt the tactics of the Obama campaign, they’re probably going to lose."
- This is an actual photo that new York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner has chosen to post on on his Facebook page. (Background here.) Oh, also, today Weiner got hurt by a goat. There's no real tech angle on that, but come on, some things transcend all boundaries.
- By posting about rumors of his own affair, the blogger at the heart of South Carolina's sex scandal is Matt Drudge and Monica Lewinsky combined. These days, you've got to multitask.
- Maybe teleworking could have saved Mark Souder.
- And have liveblogs comes and gone?