ClimateCrisis.org hacked

Interesting article about Al Gore's ClimateCrisis.org, which got hacked using a new method of source code manipulation to raise another pharmaceutical site in Google rankings. Spammers and hackers are getting more and more creative...

Russian oil spill claims untold numbers of bird and fish

How very sad. And the naysayers say that the oil industry is not harmful. Shame on them. Read MSNBC's version of the Russian oil spill story.

Rolling Stone interview with Al Gore

This Rolling Stone interview is a great lesson on Al Gore, the man. You'll have to scroll to page 54/55 (may want to input "54" into the page number field).

Select your candidate

It doesn't list people who have not declared yet (that is, Gore, etc.), but Select a Candidate is a fun little diversion for the time being. It's pretty broad, so beware of the results.

Thanks to Bill for sending it along, via Paul.

Great Draft Al Gore video -- this one posted on CurrentTV

Maybe he'll get the point...?

Talk to us, Al!

Al Gore clearly understands the Web 2.0 phenomenon. He did, after all, help create CurrentTV.

So why doesn't he engage in the conversation with us, the Draft Gore movement? His silence is not only infuriating to people who have decided the ballot filing deadline of Nov. 2 (that'd be today) would be the end of their hope that Gore will run. The author of that blog post is, by the way, one of the leaders of the movement.

There are some diehards like me who won't lose hope until the Dems nominate another candidate in Denver. I'm not a political animal that will jump to hit the streets of another candidate. I like Edwards, but I probably wouldn't actively campaign for him.

The only person who has ever gotten me interested in politics, in getting the word out, in going to meetings, in actively campaigning for him/her has been Al Gore.

I think it's nearing time for him to engage in the conversation with his loyal followers. He had such a strong backing and such a load of followers who could have turned into staffers and campaigners a few weeks ago.

Is this part of his plan? To weed out the people who aren't diehards? A great many people think he's waiting for Hillary to falter. Personally, I think the polls don't really reflect accurately the popularity of Hillary, but maybe he's waiting for the polls to reflect a downward trend.

I just wish he'd start talking to us about this. If he really believes in the new communication methods, why would he want us to talk to him if he doesn't talk back? He has not said yet that he's definitely not running and thanks for the support, but time to give up, as he apparently did to the Draft Gore movement in 2003.

Talk to us, Al. You're begging us to talk to you. Don't be too good to take your own advice. Please. We need you to step up.

If Al is waiting for Hillary to crumble...

weeks like this one can only help. Check out this blog post by Jack Cafferty from CNN.

The debate this week was just horrible for Clinton. Again, from the Cafferty File.

And the question out now is "How much damage has Senator Hillary Clinton done to herself this week?" And how much is enough to poke Al in the ribs?