Terrific, considered, moderate, fair, personal and funny assessment of Dean’s electability in Salon today by Joan Walsh. She asks the questions we all have when we first look at Da Gov. (A paid membership is required, or you can choose instead to look at an ad.)

There’s also a straightforward story by Joanna Weiss about Dean’s use of the Internet on the front page of the Boston Globe today (and gone tomorrow). It goes way past the “Candidate Uses Internet to Raise Money” story that initially got the attention of so many reporters.

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Eric Norlin warns Democrats that opposing the war is a losing political issue. Could be. But reminding Americans that we were systematically lied into it and that our President is a phony hero — I hope he goes campaigning with Ahnuld in California — and that the President’s backers are getting rich while our soldiers are dying may not be such a losing strategy.

Meanwhile, Michael O’Connor Clarke recommends a Flash on the Bush Administration’s actual policies towards the men and women it’s placed into battle…

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If you want to go to DigitalID World, which last year was an excellent conference and schmoozefest, Eric Norlin is offering his extra special discount code — EJN0995 — that drops the price to $995. (Act now and Eric may throw in some steak knives.)

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If you want to go to DigitalID World, which last year was an excellent conference and schmoozefest, Eric Norlin is offering his extra special discount code — EJN0995 — that drops the price to $995.

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Hanan Cohen points us to a translation of a Microsoft ad that appeared in Israeli newspapers that pretty much comes out and says that if you don’t have a licensed professional install your legal copy of XP, the operating could destroy your hardware.

Well, I guess it’s good of them at last to warn us…

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From TinyApps comes a link to the 100 oldest currently extant domain names. The oldest 15:

 03/15/1985   SYMBOLICS.COM 
 04/24/1985   BBN.COM 
 05/24/1985   THINK.COM 
 07/11/1985   MCC.COM 
 09/30/1985   DEC.COM 
 11/07/1985   NORTHROP.COM 
 01/09/1986   XEROX.COM 
 01/17/1986   SRI.COM 
 03/03/1986   HP.COM 
 03/05/1986   BELLCORE.COM 
 03/19/1986   IBM.COM 
 03/19/1986   SUN.COM 
 03/25/1986   INTEL.COM 
 03/25/1986   TI.COM 

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Mark Glaser at Online Journalism Review reviews the Howard Dean weblog. It’s a good piece on why campaign blogs matter.

He regrets that Dean’s own contributions are rare and usually not very revelatory. Hard to argue with that. But not everyone is born a blogger and not everyone should be writing a blog. That’s why the Dean For America blog isn’t Howard Dean’s blog. It’s his campaign’s. You’ve got staffers (including sometimes the campaign manager) writing about issues and events, and you’ve got Kate O’Connor’s highly personal blogging from the road with The Gov. I think the blog is brilliant. (I am biased, of course.)

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Gary Unblinking Stock points us to the W action figure from KB Toys. The subject line of Gary’s email about this: “WMDs sold separately.”

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JD Lasica writes about participatory journalism.

Then, practically as an example, Kevin Marks comments on an article by Xeni Jardin for Grammy Magazine. He uses QuickTopic‘s Document Review feature which means anyone can join in. Xeni does. Very cool. (You may find this to be a more convenient view of the comments.)

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Hossein Derakhshan writes:

As you might already know, Iranian government has finally filtered my weblog.

I’ve written something about how a “peer-to-peer RSS reader” can fight Net censorship in Iran and other closed societies.

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