Politics & Communication with Joshua Gee

Going to see Hodgman speak tonight. While I am gone enjoy these various things that happened on the internet.

• So little time, so many great books on politics to read.
• Great blog post on a conference I am sorry I missed.
• Matt Yglesias loves to blame institutions. He is frequently right. This is one of those times. And he has a plan.
• This post on social media monitoring is the most useful post I have read all day. That is probably a bad thing.

Sorry for the absence. I was on vacation this weekend (including Monday) and got back to work to find a mountain of things waiting to be done. It struck me earlier that I started a blog called “Politics and Communication” and then left a picture of Gaius Baltar on the front page for it’s inaugural weekend. Here is what I didn’t have time to blog about today:

• Woody Allen is funny. Though all reading that did was make me look up and reread this, which is really funny.
• I haven’t read this article on debate tactics yet and I was about to toss it when I saw that the author is the founder of the Young Conservative Coalition; I will find time later.
• I did have time to listen to a few Planet Money podcasts, so I now understand the bank bailout plan. This article from Slate is a good perspective. Good in the “I hate Wall Street” vein.
• Best. counter-terrorism. plan. ever. I am trying to friend Osama Bin Laden on Google Latitude – once he accepts we will have this whole thing wrapped up pretty quick.
• Weird title, good blog post on social media.

• The Big Picture has some heartbreaking recession photos.
• Are PR Agencies a Dying Breed? My short answer: No. My slightly less short answer: shut up bloggers. My long answer: upcoming.
• I need to pay more attention to special and off-year elections. Especially ones in New York.
• One and Two quality foreign policy articles from The Washington Post