Oh no, you didn't! ;-)
Doug: no, this is not as difficult as it looks -- we are off on various tangents, geeking out, to borrow Matt's subject line. First, Chuck needs to upgrade. Second we need to understand his environment more. Third, he really shouldn't be configuring static addresses, routes, DNS configs, etc. You could do all of that in Windows or Mac OS X, but you don't need to. The same holds true for GNU/Linux.
Bob Morris:
> Then somehow the good stuff in the archives needs to get pumped out to
> blogs, then Twitter and Facebook to get wider circulation.
> Twitterfeed could
> help here.
I think yes, but you also need a real group presence... participation in these alternate media. If every fifth comment on dKos or TPM came from someone whose URL is "http://the-real-left-is.us/", we can attract attention and extend participation from those who come to these sites seeking something more than Dem apologia. So on for blogs, Twitter, etc. How many of you subscribe to BTN via iTunes? I bet some will say: bah humbug, I don't use iTunes, I download the mp3s directly, and perhaps it doesn't matter. But perhaps it does... maybe iTunes will display BTN more prominently in searches if it knows 300 people are subscribed to it. Similarly for other sites. Digg. Whatever. There is nothing automatically revolutionary or liberating about these services, but they are (some of them) the tools of tomorrow. Why not use them to our advantage?
Reminder to all: join the Diigo group and add your links: http://groups.diigo.com/groups/lbo-talk
--ravi