You'd do well to focus on the technical stuff you actually know rather than on your own personal political persuasions. I get your information because it has some relevance to what I do, and because it has some good information. When the two are mixed, then one wonders if the technical stuff is just biased opinion as well.
Thanks for the backhanded compliment, Mr. Purdin (". . . the technical stuff you actually know . . ."). Unfortunately, I find it increasingly hard to tell the difference between technology and politics, especially with Microsoft, Yahoo and the Justice Department playing politics with things like my search-engine queries. Take a look at this, which I found first via the estimable John Battelle's Searchblog. It's heavy-handed, but it makes its point.
What I was taught in school is that politics is the process by which we, the citizens, make decisions on the issues that face our country. Right now, many of those issues are technological -- I'll mention network neutrality and patent law as two of the less contentious. If those of us who know the technical stuff don't get involved with those issues, we deserve what we get.
