story headline if all one is doing is copying and pasting.

Original thoughts leading into an article are another kettle of fish.

And who are you to say what the "normative behavior" here is for personal diaries?

That's it, baby. After you walk into someone's living room as a guest and intentionally attempt to insult your host, try to wrap yourself in "freedom of speech". Textbook stuff.

my diary SHOULD reveal enough.

almost NEVER posts the actual story headline as the title of ANY of his diary posts, even when all he is doing is linking to a story elsewhere.

So you can take you so called "normative behaviour" that you just made up, and do what whales do with it.

By the way, do you know who here was messing with my personal diary entry and title?

- eom

does that mean the dwarves of Moria will be slaves to the elves? :)

...the World Weekly News writers went.

both to an article implying that humans are evolving into two separate species and to the Constipaetia, which largely denies the role of evolution, has either a remarkable tolerance for cognitive dissonance or an attitude towards intellectual integrity that I find most charmingly malleable.

But I suppose looking for logical consistency in this situation would be like mining for diamonds in one's nose.

I posted the link to story @ whales in an offhand comment to Zuma and six minutes later this witty person retitles the story "Liberals have human brain cells...". no, I don't get it.

Lives under a bridge.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

as "Constipaetia".

Seriously, they haven't taken that ridiculous thing down yet?

:)

Look again. We have a persistent little chap.

However, by "ridiculous thing", I was referring to the Constipaetia, a product targeting a challengingly narrow demographic niche - those dull-witted enough to take it seriously yet still bright enough to turn on a computer. But I suppose that's what the help desks at public libraries are for.

On the bright side, at least I'll still know where to go if I need advice on saddling a dinosaur.

btw the 'Constipaetia' link has been put up before, along with monkey malkins. I think its wrong to remove links unless they lead to obscene or virus filled sites.

Did you change that title again?

Nice. Now humpbacks have liberal brain cells?

This is getting pretty funny.

By the way, to clarify - I'm not suggesting any links be taken down. By "they haven't taken that ridiculous thing down yet?" I'm referring to the Constipaetia itself - why conservatives don't realize what an exercise in self-humiliation it is and delete it themselves. Personally, I think people should have the chance to view their beliefs directly so they can judge for themselves.

From the link "neocon reader" provided:

... Many of its articles have been reported to support the Young Earth creationism point of view.[4]...

... According to the site's FAQ, Conservapedia originated as a project for homeschooled children, who wrote most of the initial entries.[7]...

... Conservapedia's criticisms of science are not limited to the topic of biological evolution and relativity. Widely disseminated examples of Conservapedia articles that contradict the scientific consensus include the claims that all kangaroos descend from a single pair that were taken aboard Noah's Ark. Schlafly defended the article as presenting a valid alternative to evolution.[21] Another claim is that "Einstein's work had nothing to do with the development of the atomic bomb."[1][22][23][24][25][26] An entry on the "Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus" has received particular attention, a page which Schlafly has asserted was intended as a parody of environmentalism.[23] As of March 4, 2007, the entry has been deleted.[27] Science writer Carl Zimmer points out that much of what appears to be inaccurate or inadequate information about science and scientific theory can be traced back to an over-reliance on citations from the works of home-schooling textbook author Dr. Jay L. Wile.[28]...

I'm getting pissed

Sorry Tina, no offense intended :)

I'm at my daughter's place and can't access her picture file to upload a pic to flickr. But here is an imaginary flower bouquet for two exceptional people.

they use the open-source Wikipedia code.

Kind of like the conservative version of YouTube, where the videos are actually hosted... on YouTube.

Can't read, can't code, can't host....

http://www.qubetv.tv/

Christians tuning into thriving GodTube.com
Video-sharing site drew more than 4 million unique visitors in October

AP, By Matt Curry, November 1

PLANO, Texas - Chris Wyatt is on a mission.

Walking hastily through his cavernous fourth-floor headquarters in suburban Dallas, the founder of the Christian version of YouTube is searching for an available conference room.

He quickly passes reminders of his success: a group of customer service representatives on the phone, animated meetings in progress and extra office space that GodTube.com is preparing to move into. Finally settled, the nattily dressed former TV producer insists he is as surprised as anyone that the site was identified earlier this year by comScore as the fastest growing on the Web.

"I thought I was going to be a seminary student and then work maybe a couple hours a week," he said. "Now I'm taking online courses because I can't get over to the seminary, I'm so busy."

GodTube.com, a video-sharing site with Christian content, drew more than 4 million unique visitors during October.

By Wendy Cook | April 4, 2007
Not just another political site, Qube TV will offer many topics such as: sports, entertainment, video games, books, music and religion.

If you're not already familiar with Qube TV... you should be! This "conservative YouTube," if you will, is trailblazing the way for conservative New Media. The vision of the three-week-old venture is to be a communal place for conservatives to gather without the fear of censorship or the concern that their news, ideas or videos will be suppressed or flagged as hate speech and deleted into thin air.

"I look at Qube TV as, if you will, a Home Depot for the videos, still pictures, social networking and blogging of the conservative movement," said Qube TV creator Jeff Lord in an exclusive interview with Accuracy in Academia. "Anyone who wants their own blog, their own website, will have it."

Not just another political site, Qube TV will offer many topics such as: sports, entertainment, video games, books, music and religion. "If some young conservative guy wants to pour out his soul about finding a young conservative girl—we want him to come and set up his own space and pour out his rightward heart!" explained Lord. "There are as many topics of interest as there are conservatives—which is to say a lot!"

Will there be standards? "Sure. No pornography—we're a family site. And if some al-Qaeda type sends footage of an American kid being killed, unlike the New York Times, we will have the common sense and decency to get the thing removed ASAP…as conservatives we are big believers in the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment," pointed out Lord.

No stranger to politics, both creator Jeff Lord and associate Charlie Gerow worked under the Reagan administration, Lord serving as White House political director and Gerow as a campaign aide in all of Reagan's campaigns from 1976 on. He is presently founder of Quantum Communications, a PR firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. "As we zero in on the niche market of conservatives one of the things we are counting on here is our own personal background as conservatives… We believe we know what appeals to conservatives because we know what appeals to us," said Lord.

The idea first occurred to him as an "epiphany" as he fell asleep after attending his father's funeral earlier that day. He credits his Dad, a lifelong conservative, who held Calvin Coolidge's seat on the city council in Northampton, Massachusetts, for trying to think of something "new, different and upbeat to do in politics." The next morning he woke up and called Gerow first thing to share his new idea. He said Gerow paused and said, "Home run!"

Lord and Gerow both agree that this entrepreneurship is a risky one. Gerow has leveraged his PR firm to undertake this operation. "There are a lot easier ways to make money than to set up something like Qube TV," said Lord. But they both remain true believers: "This takes a lot of steely nerve and a considerable amount of sheer guts."

There is no comparison between YouTube and Qube TV, Lord feels. "I'm sure the people who invented it are good folks. What they are not, however, are conservative activists," he said alluding to the fact that YouTube was recently bought by Google where Al Gore resides as a board member. For example, in October of last year, YouTube banned a video by columnist Michelle Malkin claiming "inappropriate content." She questioned them on its "inappropriateness" but received no response back. Ironically, Jihad propaganda videos have allegedly been found on the site.

The online video-social networking market business is anything but stable. "The market is absolutely huge," remarked Lord. It is also profitable; YouTube's estimated worth is $1 billion dollars. Though recently it has experienced trouble; last week Viacom filed a $1 billion dollar lawsuit against the site over copyright issues. This does not bother Lord, "YouTube is having its own problems, a factor, I think, of being first. We can learn from their mistakes."

As to the effect of videos and blogging on the 2008 election, Lord personally believes that 2004 was the "blogger election" (Dan Rather/ National Guard story) and 2008 will be the "online video election."

"Somewhere along the line in this election cycle someone with a camera somewhere in America will wittingly or unwittingly capture something that, when it is surfaced—hopefully on Qube TV—will have a dramatic impact on the election. I'm not sure if that "victim" will be Republican or Democrat, but I think this is almost inevitable given the number of people walking around with cameras," said Lord.

Several Presidential campaigns have already expressed initial interest, including: Romney, Giuliani, McCain, Gilmore, Brownback and John Cox. In fact, Senator Brownback has given Qube TV an exclusive interview that will be posted on the site shortly.

Lord's ultimate goal is for Qube TV to become what he calls a "conservative army with cameras." He feels the trend in media is moving away from papers, radio and TV, to a more "man-in-the-street" style of reporting, "If we can plug the newest of technology directly into the power of the conservative movement itself, at long last conservatives will have an edge over the liberal media."

Qube TV may be the platform to catch the next "macaca moment" or John Kerry "joke" and make sure it does not go unnoticed as all too often happens when someone on the side of liberal media blunders.

Lord's view is that the rise of the conservative movement has become woven into the rise of the new media. In short, he means the power is shifting from the hands of the Old Media, i.e., the elitist, culturally and politically mainstream media to a group of folks who not only are effective in some broad fashion politically and culturally, but have the technical means to communicate quickly, research and investigate news and disseminate news they have discovered.

"No longer do we have to follow a model of a handful of liberal reporters and editors clustered in New York and Washington with a select few gathering the news across the country, the editors deciding what the rest of us will see or not see on our TV screens," said Lord. He is looking to conservatives to be the journalists of the New Media, they report and they decide.

Overall, Lord simply does not care what liberals try to control anymore, "Conservatives need to be on the playing field and now we are."

You can find Qube TV at: www.QubeTV.tv

Wendy Cook is a staff writer for Accuracy in Academia, and can be contacted at wendy.cook@academia.org

( Agonist link from April - "Claiming Liberal Bias At You-Tube, Conservatives Create Qube TV" ... )

The "must-have" accessory for a thread based around a fake-labelled news article on whales that's actually from 2006 (I note that you've now removed the date in this last incarnation).

Back then in April I said "I'm certain [Qube] will be every bit the roaring success that the conservative comedy shows and the conservative encyclopedia were".

Let's take a look and see how that prediction held up.

Ah, the same arc as the Constapaetia. Looks like someone tried the defibrillator paddles on it in mid-October and gave up, dejected.

"Are your ideas so utterly shrill and fringe and lunatic that nobody takes them seriously? Buy your own media and watch people still not take it seriously!"

make your point.

the spike is probably when conservapidia was "found" by some link sites and it became a viral thing for a little bit. a new fad on the net for everyone to gawk at and make fun of. thats how i heard it and im sure i was just like most who went an looked around a bit at all the stupid.

though it seems the agonist could use some more traffic.

not really accurate because it only measures those who use alexa toolbar, but I'm all for more traffic :)

come on now. you wanna play? let's play

good one.

posting grade-school taunts.

Why don't you go to bed? You probably have homework to do tomorrow.

w/ the fella

and damn, ain't there any news stories out there?
how about ghost stories? it's the middle of the night here.

went to a Halloween party last night. started to play w/ a Ouija board, after a few minutes of concentration w/ closed eyes, nothing moved, but something wet landed on my hand. and it glowed!

apparently a cup filled w/ glow sticks had gotten too close to a burning candle and one exploded on my hand. pretty freaky for the 10 seconds it took us to figure out what it was.

I know, I know, I was having fun myself.

Although he wasn't much sport - I can't help feel that the poor little fella was way out of his depth.

and now I'm waiting for the infamous picture to be posted... :)

but really, from here it looks rude as hell, what you've done w/ this diary. could you try to explain that it wasn't your intention?

http://www.academia.org/

We couldn't get a pulse.

( ... Link ... )

You know, it strikes me that you're missing something essential - instead of simply repeatedly funding laughably unpopular fake information conduits that fail to gain any discernable purchase outside the ranks of True Ideological Believers - like Pantload Media, for example -

Yesterday / 1 wk. Avg. / 3 mos. Avg. / 3 mos. Change
N/A* / 0.00005% / 0.000015% / down 63%, ouch!

- you need to go further up the chain.

Fund your own web ranking service where you can post ideologically pure conservative statistics on web use. These showcases of ideologically pure conservative comedy, creativity and academic integrity (and the virtually invisible boundaries between them) simultaneously provide the ideal opportunity to present ideologically pure conservative math.

I suggest Dyslexa as a working title.