Keep your friends close and bloggers closer - Clicked - MSNBC.com

MSNBC.com: Powerline tells the story of Joe Trippi organizing a conference call between a group of bloggers and Bob Geldof to talk about the upcoming Live8 concert. Interestingly, while I understand there was a political mix (or at least a polar balance) of bloggers on the call, it's only rightie bloggers (here and here) who came up on popular link lists today. Though my initial thought was skepticism about the usefulness of holding a private press conference with bloggers, what I see is that some of the people who would have been most likely to tear the Live8 effort to shreds now have at least a little respect for the project. The idea of personally, preemptively addressing the taste-makers of the English-speaking blogosphere turns out to have been a brilliant move. (Credit also his ability to answer their questions without making an ass of himself.)

Have you ever played the game of taking some English text and running it through a language translator and then taking that translation and running it back through the translator to English? When I read this Star Wars script I imagined a similar process. Take a movie script and turn it into a movie, then take the movie and write the script. In this case the result is both funny and honest. Note: This has spoilers, but if you haven't seen the movie by now, do you really care?