September 12, 2004

QandO: It's not just for blogging anymore
Posted by Dale Franks

I'm very. very excited about the changes that are in the offing here at QandO. Let's just suffice it to say that soon, QandO will be much more than just a blog.

Yes, the blog will still be here, although it will have a new look, but it'll still be the same bloggy goodness that you've gotten used to.

But I really think you'll like what we are preparing to become.

Aren't you just dying for a hint?

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So, you'll be a floor wax and a dessert topping?

Posted by: BumperStickerist at September 12, 2004 09:56 AM

It's obviously porn. It's probably cleaner then politics anyway.

Posted by: Frank Castle at September 12, 2004 09:58 AM

Can we play 10 questions?

1) does it have anything to do with admitting that you guys and all of us who comment (except certain people of course...unnamed posters as it were...) are all merely an arm of Carl Rove's incredibly complex and well organized machine to smear Kerry and attack CBS and other non-biased media outlets?

2) Does it have anything to do with becoming the full time forging arm of the Republican dirty tricks organization?

I know, that's only 2 questions, I'm waiting to rejoin the scrambled conference call from the White House for further direction, and Rove had to run off for a break to the "little nazi's" room.

Posted by: looker at September 12, 2004 10:20 AM

You are going to build manual typewriters that can kern, superscript, self correct, and change fonts with a wave of the finger. You will be a boon to forgers everywhere!

Posted by: EddieP at September 12, 2004 10:55 AM

I hope you will spend some time addressing these.

I understand that Jim Treacher has found FDR's powerpoint preso on how to capitialize on the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened. He also found Teddy Roosevelt's cell phone and discovered Harding had a serious web porn problem.

I understand that Atrios and Willis are already preparing a statement based on the writing of a serious journalist, one Ms Kelley. ;)

Posted by: capt joe at September 12, 2004 12:13 PM

I know exactly what you're going to do, and I just want to place my order early: please send over 1 petite Asian woman with large breasts, and 1 Rhesus helper monkey.

Posted by: shark at September 12, 2004 12:44 PM

I understand that Jim Treacher has found FDR's powerpoint preso on how to capitialize on the Pearl Harbor attack before it happened. He also found Teddy Roosevelt's cell phone and discovered Harding had a serious web porn problem.

We've just found some Space Shuttle photos of Dealy Plaza on November 22nd, 1963, that show the real shooter was Madonna.

Posted by: Steverino at September 12, 2004 01:54 PM

yes, and willis discovered Nixon's original laptop hard drive with the missing 18 minutes of audio.

Atrios discovered CAD drawing of Moses original commandments showing that there was an 11th one about giving the palestinians land back.

Jesse at Pandagon has the snake's (of the garden of eden) driver license photo and can prove that it looks like Cheney.

Posted by: capt joe at September 12, 2004 02:34 PM

My guess is that QandO is going to establish a registration of "experts" for rapid reaction to breaking stories; an attempt to formalize the process we saw with the CBS documents. In this case, the experts will make contributions to a fact-checker's clearing house hosted by QandO.

If successful, QandO will emerge as the culminating fusion of 24-hour attention to a topic by Cable News, and the democratic distribution of intelligence and news gathering typified today by blog pages.

This is an incredibly bold and exciting experiment, and I think, the shape of things to come.

Posted by: JohnHeslin at September 12, 2004 03:44 PM

Here's my guesses:

1. Porn, and lots of it. The really freaky kind too.

2. Form your own religion. The really freaky kind too, also.

3. Unionize the digital brown shirts. Left, right, left, right, left, right, left. Note that there's more lefts than rights in a union.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at September 12, 2004 04:08 PM

Hmmm, my guess is that the recent troubles with commenting in moveable type have lead you guys to move to a more robust comment-centric code like scoop or slash. With the code shift QandO will become a more discussion centric site on the lines of Kuro5hin. Only one that is not full of party-line liberal parrots.

Or the porn thing would be good too... ;)

Posted by: Jeff the Baptist at September 12, 2004 05:39 PM

yes, and willis discovered Nixon's original

And to everyone's surprise, it was Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant", originial recording time, 18 minutes, 23 seconds.

Posted by: Curt Mitchell at September 12, 2004 06:43 PM

Porn? I don't know. Er....Dale and McQ can go first.

Odd, I think, that you guys are so interesting in seeing us naked.

Posted by: Jon Henke at September 12, 2004 07:46 PM

Having used up my Constitutional right to post my first guess - I can only say
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

Posted by: lookre at September 12, 2004 08:20 PM

Will you become an all about pajama store;
pajama-r-us.com, pajamapalooza.com or somesuch?

Posted by: Fredrik Nyman at September 12, 2004 09:41 PM

I just know it's going to be interactive. You'll be the first to break down the barrier between multi-player simulated warfare and cutting-edge commentary and analysis.

Can't wait.

Posted by: Dave Sheridan at September 12, 2004 11:33 PM

I just hope it's not what happened to Tacitus. I used to like the discussion and insight there, but I find it nearly unreadable now.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 13, 2004 12:17 AM