Who's party will be bigger? This one on Friday, or THIS one on Saturday.
GET YER AUSTIN ON: NETROOTS NATION
A book party sponsored by AlterNet, Jim Hightower & Living Liberally
Sat., 7/19: 5-8pm
Black & Tan: 405 E. 7th St @ Trinity St
just 3 blocks from the Convention Center
Free local brew, blue margaritas and light snacks to be served. Meet Jim Hightower, Rory O'Connor and Steven Rosenfeld -- with special guest, Donna Edwards! Plus, it'll be a big schmooze-fest!
To give the party a little cache, we lent our name to it. Is there such a thing as negative cache? When we were asked, I said, yes we'll be a part, but only if there's a chocolate fountain. It's funny that Chicago's YearlyKos evening events were more low key. Now we're back to the over the topness of Vegas in Austin. This year's conference agenda is here. Thursday's keynote is by Howard Dean. The texas prosecutor who took down Tom Delay, Ronnie Earl will be on a panel on watch-dogging of ethics.
Jenn points us to a great article at Alternet regarding unethical deletions of Wikipedia articles as documented by Virgil Griffith's Wikiscanner tool
And now the public can see all if they visit Griffith's Wikiscanner site. Turns out that all the anonymous propaganda and lies on Wikipedia aren't coming from basement dwellers at all -- they're coming from Congress, the CIA, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Somebody at Halliburton deleted key information from an entry on war crimes; Diebold, an electronic-voting machine manufacturer, deleted sections of its entry about a lawsuit filed against it. Someone at Pepsi deleted information about health problems caused by the soft drink. Somebody at The New York Times deleted huge chunks of information from the entry on the Wall Street Journal. And of course, the CIA has been editing the entry on the Iraq war.
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