Clearing the Cache: Multimedia Blago
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, July 19 2010
Street stencils of a jogging former governor Rod Blagojevich have popped up around Chicago in recent months; Photo credit: craynol.- Foul-mouthed ringtones of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich are proving popular for the State Journal Register. Among the MP3s getting the most traffic is one where Blagojevich complains, “the whole world’s passing me by and I’m stuck in this (expletive) job as governor now.”
- Australia's intends to be an open government, declares its Finance Minister, but some are wondering where the PM is in all this.
- A fascinating look at how open government directives in Bulgaria exposed the '70s mystery of a London murder-by-poison-umbrella. (Bonus: How a poison umbrella works, exactly.)
- A U.S. foreign service officer cycling out from a one-year tour of duty in Congress (aka "The Federal Republic of the Hill") advises on how you go about blending into the local culture: "Be absolutely glued to your Blackberry."
- Completely unrelatedly, the New York Times' Bob Herbert has some advice for the rest of us: "Enough already with this hyperactive behavior, this techno-tyranny and nonstop freneticism. We need to slow down and take a deep breath."
- And is drop dead simple the path to better advocacy emails?
