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He doesn’t want to know the answer
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller I can’t resist a pleading e-mail. From: ####### Done.
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New Stuff
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller I’ve added some more links to the right side of the blog. Two blog searches are now available, by topic. One for Feedster and the other for BlogDigger Also, just about all the links from my media page have now been added to the blog. Links to media opinion, Chicago, suburban and downstate newspapers and TV stations have all been brought over to the blog. I’m looking for a better pull-down menu. What I’d like to do is have the page you select pop up, rather than take you away from the blog. Any suggestions out there? I also added a link to the Daily Herald’s political writer Eric Krol who does an analysis piece every Friday.
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BlogDigger
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller I found a very cool Internet tool via the always rockin’ BoingBoing. BlogDigger is a search engine for RSS and Atom feeds from blogs and other websites that update via the text feeds. My blog has one here, for instance. You can even search media feeds from PodCasts (and a good explanation about how to set that up can be found here). The idea is to narrow the search universe. Google is great, but it often produces way more results than you want. With BlogDigger, you can pare that search down. For instance, I typed “Blagojevich” into the RSS search and found several snarky posts about the governor on blogs I’d never heard of. From Catallarchy comes this: Illinois Governor Launching Program to Reimport Windows And from Nacho comes this:
The discussion is pretty funny. Blogdigger has some other features, so definitely go check it out.
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New blog
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller This e-mail came today: I have created a new blog called The Barr Exam. I’ll add it today.
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Gracias
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller Some thankyous are in order today. This week’s issue of Crain’s Chicago Business includes another installment of Reading Chair, a series of brief interviews with influential people about their daily reading habits (paid subscription required to view link). The subject this week is former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson’s reading list and includes this very nice paragraph: Political e-mail lists, especially Capitol Fax, a daily newsletter on Illinois politics by journalist Rich Miller; subscription is $300 annually. “We devour that here.” Thanks, guvnah. Meanwhile, The Chicagoist posted a Chicago-oriented holiday gift guide this week and Mike Fourchier (of the Haymarket Group) includes Capitol Fax on his list, and even works in a plug for my blog: For those addicted to Illinois politics (and there is a twelve-step program for this horrible disease), the gossip sheet most Springfieldians read is Capitol Fax by Rich Miller. Miller is constantly pervasive in the Capitol, alternately loved and hated by everyone in town. If he hears it, it goes in. His blog is always interesting reading, but the real tipsheet to get is his regular e-mail — also sent by fax. To subscribe, e-mail Rich your e-mail or fax number, name, and billing address. Submissions come daily when the legislature is in session, less often during breaks. Annual subscription, $300. Thanks, Mike, but if I put even half of what I hear every day into Capitol Fax I’d have to hire a body guard and every lawyer in town.
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Wealthiest Illinoisans
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller According to Forbes, this is a list of Illinois’ wealthiest residents (slightly modified here to make it more presentable, click on link for info on individuals): Rank Name Age Worth ($bil) Residence
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Missing money, but nobody knows why
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller I wonder how prevalent this problem is: A man who said his money disappeared in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff is celebrating a victory Monday. The CBS 2 investigators reported on suspicions that a thief was in the sheriff’s office — two cases within months. Now one man is getting his money back. They’ve got to check into whether to investigate? Money’s gone, nobody knows why and that doesn’t automatically launch an investigation?
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For your holiday shopping pleasure
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller Wired.com’s annual “tool” list, billed as “The coolest geek shopping list ever - 129 of the best screens, cams, phones, games and gadgets of the year.” Oh, I want sooo many things.
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A message from the commander in chief
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller
Make your own “George Says” photo and refrigerator magnets here.
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Fired up
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller Chicago TV news loves to cover fires. TV vans even descend en masse upon small residential blazes. It’s been that way as long as I can remember, and I grew up watching Chicago TV news. I always thought the coverage must’ve had something to do with local Jungian memories of the Great Chicago Fire, but the better explanation is probably ratings. The TV coverage of a major fire in the Loop yesterday went on and on for hours uninterrupted. The last Loop high-rise fire - which really didn’t look like much from the outside - killed several people, which likely led to the intensity of the coverage this time around. Yesterday’s inferno was no little brush fire. It was attended to by more than a third of the city’s available firefighters, and, therefore, big news. The decision to go “wall-to-wall” didn’t sit well with every TV watcher, however. Angry viewers flooded WLS-Channel 7 with dozens of complaint calls when the ABC-owned station preempted the first half of “Monday Night Football” with continuous coverage of the LaSalle Bank building fire. I’m not sure “dozens” of calls meant the station was “flooded” with complaints from boorish football fans, but there may be those who believe that covering a fire for four hours nonstop might border on the exploitative. That wouldn’t be me, however. I live in a Loop high-rise that isn’t equipped with what could be called the very latest in fire safety technology (it’s not a fire trap, but it could be better). Personally, I’m all for letting the TV guys push the coverage envelope if it means the Loop fire code issue is once again shoved at the mayor and the city council.
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Judgment day
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller The governor could find out today if his scheme to import flu vaccine from Europe will be approved. FDA officials on Tuesday are expected to announce whether they will allow four million to five million doses of flu vaccine manufactured in Europe and Canada to be imported for use in the United States, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said Friday in his resignation speech, USA Today reports (USA Today, 12/6). But the press pop might not be as big as the governor originally hoped. Health departments across Illinois and the Upper Midwest are flush with flu vaccine despite fears just weeks ago that shortages would leave many seniors, young children and the critically ill unable to get vaccinated. Rationing may have worked. Or not. It’s still unknown whether lots of at-risk people failed to get their shots for fear of rejection or standing in long lines.
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Guv shakes up security detail
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2004 - Posted by Rich Miller ABC-7 reported yesterday that the governor’s security detail had been shaken up. I had heard about this earlier in the day, but here’s the story from Channel 7: The commander of the unit and his top two deputies have been moved out -and almost half of the governor’s bodyguards have been replaced in the first cut of a total makeover . And the Bloomington Pantagraph had some backhanded praise for the governor’s reform efforts in an editorial this morning: We hope the governor has learned that people are tired of the typical positive spins from his office staff, but do appreciate genuine attempts to clear up problems when they are pointed out.
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