A milestone for the Blogosphere?
I get most of my wisdom about the future of blogging and the media from Jeff Javis at Buzz Machine. I’ve blogged a but about the federal spending database fight — mostly because Illinois Senator Barack Obama co-sponsored it. Jarvis sees it as an especially important event for bloggers:
I think we’ll look back on the outing of Senators Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd as the fools who put a secret hold on an antipork bill as an important milestone in American politics and media — a far bigger event than the ousting of Trent Lott. And that’s not just because there are two more scalps on bloggers’ belts. No, what matters is that this Porkbusters campaign shows the power of the internet to organize, empower, and amplify.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
Bill, your new Web site title is totally f*cking up the template in Firefox. The title is causing the text to overlap.
How wide is your monitor, 12 inches. Geeze. I’ll shrink the title.
That’s because Firefox is a sh***ty browser.
What do you use, Em? Opera? Konq? Firefox isn’t flawless, certainly, but it kicks some serious butt.
Well I use IE7. I have found it stable and secure, at least on my 3 systems. Firefox is the original mozilla but it seems webmasters don’t code to the old mozilla ways anymore which makes Firefox render some sites incorrectly. IE7 corrects these sites and makes almost all websites appear correctly. I use to run Firefox and recently Netscape while hunting down drivers, BIOS flash updates, and the like. I found that many times while in a mozilla based browser I couldn’t access downloads because the button or link did not appear, yet in IE, it did. Opera is probably the fastest browser out there but then again, it sometimes falls short on some web sites. I don’t blame the browsers per se as much as I blame web site publishers.