Greenwald on the web-based grassroots political campaign over the FISA immunity provisions.

Why? Pretty obviously, I would have thought, it’s because the viewer gets immersed in the entertainment (we are taping what we want to watch, after all) and forgets it’s not live. We do that all the time here. Give me a PVR technology that alerts me to the message, and I’ll remember all the time.

I have to cop to a certain amount of bewilderment that a post asking whether the former can practice the latter can rise to the top of Techmeme, but there it is. Sigh. Mathew to the rescue.

It’s not a great day on the grid, obviously, which makes it a perfect day to test Air Canada’s mobile flight alert system. I’m on the ground in LGA waiting for my flight, and knowing this morning that I might be, I subscribed to alerts on the incoming flight as well as mine. First problem: […]

Not a darned thing about StubHub, which is the point of the NYT piece. What I learned was that there are lots of folks paying $250 for a seat to a concert. Which means that there are far too many parents out there who have (much) more money than brains.