JRE Buzz (7): JRE-TV Special Edition

I am back from a family trip to Texas. In the midst of too many planes not functioning properly and missed connections, I missed the one thing the most I wanted to see: JRE speaking at the National Press Club on C-SPAN 3. And most hotels don't even carry C-SPAN on their cable channels (I've always wondered why this is), so I missed it again on Friday. Never again will I be without a laptop of some sort when I know he is going to make a splash.

The good news though is that he sent his OAC readers an e-mail that linked to a JRE-TV presentation and he gave us a preview of his speech. Great idea, JRE. Sounds like he addressed one of my questions about HUD within the speech (that I sent to the NPC via e-mail), but I didn't get to see the Q & A from the session itself.

And if you want to listen to the NPC speech, OAC has a podcast ready for listeners. Want to read along while listening? Go here. OAC and DKos blogger Mbair has posted clips of the speech on YouTube, Part 1, and Part 2. Her digest diary on DK is excellent.

If you want to read all of the immediate buzz about the speech, check out the OAC Blog. Plenty of news links to Bloomberg News, WaPO, etc about the talk. I would imagine later that a new volume of JRE News Round-up will be out later this evening.

Meantime, I have a couple of new buzz items here. I've been paying more attention to the techies since it was announced over a week ago that JRE would be speaking at Gnomedex.

Here's some noise (again) regarding Gnomedex. Dang it, I'm going to have to build in some time with these conferences since I am into social networking tools.

On ZDNet, there is some column space about the BloggerCon IV Conference, Day 2, on the topic of "Politics and Blogging". Only 5% of campaigns have podcasts, and 23% have blogs.

Quote from a couple of blogcon goers:

"Jeremy Pepper talks about the Republicans doing a better job than Democrats in the blogging world. Cash rules he said, and money will flow through blogs and communities who will be trained to work in the blogosphere.

The approach from the John Edwards campaign is, unlike what you see in mainstream media, to have a conversation with people via blogs, podcasts and vlogs, said Ryan Montoya, who is on the Edwards team. Edwards isn't totally ghost written and his wife also posts on the blog."

Yea--JRE's own web master, TO, is mentioned here. To read more about Bloggercon, go here.

Then there are some more folks having strange reactions to JRE being at Gnomedex over the recent poverty speech, such as G in Ft Worth (where I was just this morning, btw) 's comment on Chris Pirillo's site. Guess some, such as blogger G think he's too idealist (or to him, "1/4 baked").






I say to this G blogger, JRE has a vision. What are you doin' except sitting at your puter?Needin' some cheese to go with your whine?





Both the St. Petersburg Times and the Chicago Tribune are complementary to the JRE's speech, but they question how many people in general are listening when the war in Iraq is going on, and if JRE can run for the presidency on the issue of poverty.

It was made public that Elizabeth is cancer free. If anyone had been following OAC blogger Im4JRE's event report from JRE's last visit to Iowa, they would have known it sooner. Anyway The DU had more to say about that piece of good news than about the NPC speech.

Southern Hope has a lot of news from other places I didn't post earlier. Hat-tip, Machka.

A bit of small buzz about Cate Edwards. She is one of the founders of the Urbanistas, a group of 20 somethings who have been seeking advice for all kinds of things in New York.

Lastly, I happen to know that the Senator is going to be in my region within the next few days for a private event. Because it is a private event and it is a fundraiser, I knew I could not be an official attendee. I did inquire about volunteer work but apparently they have what they need. JRE seldom comes to my area, but it's not about me. It's about our next President of the US, if he chooses to run again. Check out the Newsweek piece today.

Update, June 26:

Michael Arrington (he has pics up on flickr of JRE's visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year) was at bloggercon as well. I did not know until today that he writes for the Techcrunch blog. He spoke about meeting JRE. The only thing, Michael, is that I think JRE will make a great president, not just VP, as someone quoted you.


Marc Cooper has some complements for JRE on his blog today. There have been at least 32 folks who have commented and quite a few are looking forward to another run by the Senator. They have some interesting ideas such as adding transportation vouchers for those in urban areas, in addition to housing vouchers.

(photo courtesy of zenzenok on flickr)



Boston Globe finally picks up WaPO story about another possible run.

Time mentions JRE and a few other more visible folks in a piece entitled "Trying to Make a Decent Living". It's about janitors and other low wage workers trying to get into the middle class and can do so via unions.

Speaking of unions, I see that JRE and Danny Glover have been invited to speak at the Teamsters International Convention in Las Vegas this week.

And Common Dreams reposted an editorial which originally appeared in the Charleston Gazette today concerning the Net Neutrality bill, entitled, "Internet Toll Road." JRE is quoted in this article:

John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who ran for vice president in 2004, thinks the House bill spells trouble.

“When MoveOn and the Christian Coalition agree about something, it’s a good bet they’re right,” Edwards wrote. “Groups as wide ranging as Gun Owners of America on one side and U.S. PIRG [Public Interest Research Group, a liberal watchdog organization] and the One America Committee on the other are fighting to keep the Internet the way it is now — free and open to anyone with a computer.”

The American Library Association, AARP, National Religious Broadcasters and nearly every consumer group also question the House bill.

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See also JRE Buzz(6), JRE Buzz(5)