Men in blue: I’m amazed how one can be oblivious to a protest taking place a block away, but now, after reading this NYT piece on “post-Seattle” tactics for preparing for large-scale protests, I get it. And before I forget it, the NYPD has been impressive this week. I know they didn’t sign on for this gig when they joined the force (a weird blend of tourist wrangling and anti-terrorist warrioring), but from my personal experience, their calm, friendly yet firm presence has been at the same time overwhelming and reassuring. Many of those I talked with are funny, as well. The conventioneers talk about them in reverent tones. There are a lot of “thank yous” being said in non-New York accents. The NYT reports that 1,768 protesters have been arrested. I’m hoping they can round off the number to 1776.

Rexblogumentary III: In what is likely my final videoblog post from the RNC, I recap my visit to the RNC goo-gah fest at the Hilton Hotel. Words can’t capture the experience, so I did this piece I call “Bazar” (QT 1.9 MB) instead. My two previous videoblog posts are called Gonna Make You Sweat (QT 1.1 MB) and Express Yourself (QT 4 MB).

It’s the media economics, stupid: For more than a year I tried scoffing at the MediaPost.com’s practice of reporting magazine advertising results by focusing on the number of pages rather than the amount of revenue. In other words, the story would always be: “Pages still down, and oh by the way, revenues are up.” So, I was a little amused today to see MediaPost.com’s handling of the Fox News GOP rating story that takes the opposite approach: The viewership is way up, but revenue is the only thing that matters. It’s nice when you can take both sides of the same argument. As for me, however, always “show me the money.”

Bush twins: I’m falling down on the blog. It’s what, Wednesday or Thursday (they’ve run together by now) and I’m only now getting around to noting this week’s [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "ftpSite" hasn't been defined.]
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September 6, 2004

Just between us: All week, I’ve been telling my wife that all I’ve had time to eat was fruit from the deli down the street so please, no one tell her about the two-hour lunch I had today in a noted wine cellar of a noted restaurant which included, well, an impressive sampling of a wide array of fruit-related products stored in the noted cellar. Oh, and yesterday, I had lunch with the noted blogger boy, media man and serial luncher, Jeff Jarvis, in his day-job’s noted employee cafeteria, designed by one of the world’s noted architects and funded by a noted publishing magnate. But tonight (wait, make that last night), I just had some fruit from the deli down the street. (If you don’t count the other grazing.)