John Burik's Radio blog

Thu, 27 May 2004 16:38:40 GMT

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:44:29 GMT

We've made some significant progress in the area of verifited voting. California is likely to decertify one of Diebold's machines and Ohio's likely to demand voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) features on any machine used in the state.

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:01:14 GMT

It's always something, isn't it.

I buy a tube of toothpaste from Walgreen's. I get a receipt or it's free. But I won't be able to verify my vote in Ohio using Diebold's blackbox voting machine. Couple that with Diebold's O'Dell living in Columbus, Ohio (the state capitol) rubbing elbows at Republican fundraisers with the likes of Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell who's ready to spend $100 million for blackbox voting and I'm more than concerned.

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:22:56 GMT

Spring!

Not much to say for the past month. I've got a therapy practice to run, a PhD to complete, and a campaign loss to get over. Seeing and hearing Dean today on C-span speaking at the Gridiron luncheon helped. I went to the Cincinnati Dean Meetup on March 3rd and that helped as well.

Regardless of the Democratic nomination and the election next November a number of people I've met recently are not accepting politics as usual. We'll all be taking action in various ways whether that's involvement in a political campaign or dealing with the politics of getting children the help they need with special education. I gave a presentation Thursday on blogging to a half dozen or so professionals who work with kids. The idea of all this is continuing the conversation for change.

Yep, feeling more like Spring now.

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:37:49 GMT

Enough!

I've been thoroughly disgusted with the media attention to the primaries. Digging at all into the stories even the PBS News Hour has lost the concept of journalism. So... think I'll go and meet some Dean supporters for the inside story.

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 10:10:17 GMT

Back in the day...

in 1967, Howard Zinn called for our immediate withdrawal from Vietnam. Now he writes a hypothetical presidential address telling why withdrawal from Iraq is the wiser course of action. I don't know what the wisest course of action is for politics, our country or our way of conducting ourselves in business. But neither politics- nor business-as-usual is the way to go.

Happy NEW Year and new ways of getting things done!

Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:10:26 GMT

Weinberger on Dean and blogging

This may be "old" news for bloggers and Dean supporters, perhaps not so for my therapist and academic friends. ITconversations--and for the latter group that's I-T not "it"--interviewed one of Cluetrain authors, David Weinberger, in mid-December '03. Weinberger's the Dean campaign's internet consultant (good choice, eh?). I found the interview thoroughly enjoyable and useful.

Speaking of therapist and academic friends...

I tried several years ago (1999?) to web a conversation that originated in email. After cutting and pasting and editing the result wasn't half bad. But the dynamics ended there. I'm hoping more folks will be able to participate now.