Monthly Archives: January 2004

Where’s that Corruption

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The Corporate Crime Reporter has ranked the 50 states by their rate of corruption.
Then there is the state wannabe The District of Columbia

We calculated the District�s corruption rate as 79.33. This is more than ten times what Mississippi�s corruption rate is……
But we didn�t include the District in the list for one obvious reason � the District is the seat of the federal government, and because of this, there are more criminal prosecutions for public corruption than anywhere else in the country.
It can be said that the District is the most corrupt political entity in the nation � but that�s only because it�s the seat of an apparently actively corrupt federal government � with 453 public corruption convictions over a ten-year period.

Even though there are some deficiencies in the data (noted in the full PDF report) this is an interesting indicator of the quality of government officials.
Via A List a Day.

Whew….

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As I mentioned last Sunday I have been working to wrap up a volunteer project.
Well, it took through yesterday to get the bulk of it done and this has consumed all available time outside my real job. I made a presentation last night and will hand it off to new ‘owners’ in 3-4 days.
Blogging will move back to its regular pace over the next couple days…it will take a bit to catch up on what you all have been talking about.
Luckily I have undoubtably missed most of the commentary on w’s state of the union reading.

What else to do at 9:00 PM EST

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Hesiod has some recommendations for those who might want different television programming during w’s performance.
There is also: turn the damn thing off and read a book, hug your spouse, talk to your kids, etc.
Being a bit of a masochist I’ll probably have it on the radio as background to whatever else I might be doing then.

Technorati Beta

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I like and use Technorati a lot. And I know that I’m going to use it even more when the new Beta version moves to production mode.
David Sifry has an update here. One of the items is this:

1) Much faster indexing – the median amount of time it takes from when someone posts something on their weblog to when it is captured and searchable via our live database is 7 minutes.

which I will test with this post.
Update: an hour later. It is slick and it is fast and it is beta. It took a little less then an hour for this post to get picked up. The one above was picked up at the same time. At David’s site this post showed as occurring an hour later then actual (showed the update time as when his spider read the post and not the time of the post though this may result from there not being a time stamp on my posts) and it picked up two entries for Hesiod’s site…one from some days ago.

Day Off

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Today has been a day away from blogging (both writing and reading) as I wrap up some volunteer work.
I should be done with that sometime tomorrow and after taking in a movie I’ll be back here.