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« Thursday « March 31, 2005
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  1. {03312005}
  2. {08:08:03 AM}
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  1. Only you can save television
    
    (The Long Tail blog)
  2. "We're ending one era and entering another where the rules are sure to be different.The best example of that is television, which is in the sweet spot of all Long Tail forces. So today, let me make one of those exceptions by explaining why TV is the first place to look for Long Tail opportunities. Here's why..."
    
    There's a bazillion hours of television content out there, very little of which is original, by the way, but you can only consume it one second at a time, like spoonfuls from an ocean. If you watched TV every second for the rest of your life, if everyone did, we'd all only consume of fraction of what's available. And yet, ten years from now, you may have a craving for that long-forgotten episode of "Diff'rent Strokes"... but it's not available. In the end, if media companies continue to run the TV business as usual, they're going to lose. Dinosaurs, they are. I think I'm starting to understand. Like Long Tail's Chris Anderson says, "Bottom line: TV is begging to be reinvented."
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  3. "We're ending one era and entering another where the rules are sure to be different.The best example of that is television, which is in the sweet spot of all Long Tail forces. So today, let me make one of those exceptions by explaining why TV is the first..."
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  2. television
  3. business
  4. tags:
  5. cyberculture
  6. long+tail
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2. datetime
  1. {03312005}
  2. {12:22:59 AM}
  content
  1. Bush Family Sign
    
    (The Presurfer blog)
  2. Presurfer sez: "Recently I came across some pictures of the presidential Bush family. It struck me they all showed the same sign. What is that? Do they have a secret sign and what does it mean?"
    
    Either it's the "Hook Em Horns" sign from the University of Texas -- but Dubya didn't attend UT, did he? -- I know, I know, with his clumsy speaking manner, it's hard to imagine him having attended any kind of serious school, yet miraculously, he's got a Harvard MBA -- there's hope for mediocre students everywhere; you don't need Affirmative Action, just some father who can pull a few strings, make a few calls. If not the UT hand sign, or some weird kismet with Ozzy Osbourne, then it's some cryptic but brazen homage to whichever satanic deity the family sold its soul to, in return for inexplicable global power being granted to such an unaccomplished "leader." Given the direction that things are headed, I think it's the latter. We'll be landing in the first ring of Hell shortly, please return your seats to their full, upright position
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  3. Presurfer sez: "Recently I came across some pictures of the presidential Bush famil..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. humor
  3. politics
  4. tags:
  5. satanic
  6. bush+family
  7. ozzy
  type
« Wednesday « March 30, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03302005}
  2. {08:52:35 PM}
  content
  1. South Park: Chef Aid
    
    (TV Tome)
  2. Capitalist Records hires Johnny Cochran, who uses the Chewbacca defense, the same defense that he used in the Simpson trial. "It does not make sense." Chef's found guilty and is fined $2 million or he must spend 4 years in jail. Chef plans to raise the $2 million dollars to hire Johnnie Cochran for himself. The boys appeal to Chef's friends in the music business to try raising the money and Chef prostitutes himself. When they fall short of the goal, Chef is put into jail. The boys start "Chef Aid", and all of Chef's rock friends pitch in. Moved by the music, Johnnie Cochran agrees to take on Chef's case, free of charge.
    
    When you're lampooned on "South Park" you've reached icon status. Johnnie Cochran, warts and all.
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  2. 08:52:35 PM
  3. Capitalist Records hires Johnny Cochran, who uses the Chewbacca defense, the same defense that he used in the Simpson trial. "It does not make sense." Chef's found guilty and is fined $2 million or he must spend 4 years in jail. Chef plans to raise the $2..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. people
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. law
  6. johnnie+cochran
  7. oj+trial
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2. datetime
  1. {03302005}
  2. {11:04:58 PM}
  content
  1. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Trial Lawyer
    
    (New York Times)
  2. Before the Simpson case, Mr. Cochran was best known for bringing police brutality cases on behalf of black clients and for representing celebrities in trouble...n the trial's aftermath, Mr. Cochran's name became a sort of shorthand, but one that meant different things in different contexts. To some, it stood for legal acumen. To others, a masterly rapport with the jury. To still others, the vexing roles of money and race in the justice system.
    
    Johnnie Cochran, warts and all. (Registration required, or just bugmenot)
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  2. 11:04:58 PM
  3. Before the Simpson case, Mr. Cochran was best known for bringing police brutality cases on behalf of black clients and for representing celebrities in trouble...n the trial's aftermath, Mr. Cochran's name became a sort of shorthand, but one that meant dif..."
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  2. law
  3. black people
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« Tuesday « March 29, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03292005}
  2. {09:16:50 PM}
  content
  1. Big Mac Pimpin'?
    
    (mtv.com)
  2. Mickey D's Enlisting MCs To Rap About Burgers. McDonald's has partnered with the marketing firm Maven Strategies in a plan to recruit hip-hop artists to mention the fast food chain's signature burger for pay, according to Advertising Age magazine's Web site.
    
    Advertisers, and their minstrels, er, pitchmen, are stepping so far over the line that the term "sell-out" is beginning to lose all meaning. But then again, take an "artist" (loose, loose term there) like Busta Rhymes: has that phool ever stood for anything ... except making a buck? Rappers have been spitting product placements forever, so why not get paid for it? Just so I'm clear -- we're not talking about art, we're talking commerce. Music is an effective gateway into a buyer's subconscious thought processes. It's all only about da bennies, right? But, man, what an empty world we live in. Everything for a burger and a buck. No other meaningful purpose. Utterly. Devoid.
    
    b/w: hiphopmusic.com blog
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  3. Mickey D's Enlisting MCs To Rap About Burgers. McDonald's has partnered with the marketing firm Maven Strategies in a plan to recruit hip-hop artists to mention the fast food chain's signature burger for pay, according to Advertising Age magazine's Web s..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. marketing and advertising
  3. business
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  5. sellout
  6. hip-hop
  7. busta%20rhymes
  8. mcdonalds
  9. bigmac
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« Monday « March 28, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03282005}
  2. {05:14:03 PM}
  content
  1. Will Truth Rise Again?
    
    (MediaChannel.org)
  2. Today, we live in two worlds of news and information. One is "fact based," the other "faith-based." In the former, we cling to a world of objective reporting and verifiable evidence even as we know how facts are skewed by media outlets with undisclosed agendas; in the latter, we only acknowledge facts that support our opinions and often don't let facts get in the way of a "good argument"... you can't trust what you first hear or how it is spun... This is going on every day. Incomplete stores, tilted accounts, distorted news. It's not just that some journalists today are on the government payroll. The rot in our corporate media goes deeper. Much deeper.
    
    Propaganda, thy name is: "mainstream media." But I have this gut feeling that most people really don't want to hear the truth about things. Filtered "truth" is much easier to digest, even as a world of lies crumbles all around you.
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  3. Today, we live in two worlds of news and information. One is "fact based," the other "faith-based." In the former, we cling to a world of objective reporting and verifiable evidence even as we know how facts are skewed by media outlets with undisclosed ag..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. news and media
  3. propaganda
  4. tags:
  5. spin
  6. newsspeak
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2. datetime
  1. {03282005}
  2. {06:10:37 AM}
  content
  1. It doesn't get any better than this
    
    (CBS SportsLine.com)
  2. Admit it. You spent Sunday asking your neighbor, "Did you see those games yesterday?" Just when you were coming down after the Illinois high and Louisville almost getting Pittsnogled, here came Kentucky's Patrick Sparks with the shot of his life. A top-of-the-key 3 that seemed to take an eternity to drop through the net tied it 75-75 at the end of regulation, eventually leading to the first double-OT regional final in 39 years.
    
    I'll admit it. This was the best weekend of college hoops I can remember, and I don't even like any of the teams. As a Pac-10 guy, I was hoping 'Zona would represent, but it looks like Illinois has a little magic. Oh yeah, and in the women's bracket, my Stanford Cardinal blew out the defending champs!
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  3. Admit it. You spent Sunday asking your neighbor, "Did you see those games yesterday?" Just when you were coming down after the Illinois high and Louisville almost getting Pittsnogled, here came Kentucky's Patrick Sparks with the shot of his life. A top-o..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. colleges and universities
  3. sports
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  5. ncaa
  6. marchmadness
  7. hoops
  8. tournament
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3. datetime
  1. {03282005}
  2. {05:28:52 AM}
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  1. Behind the curtain
    
    (BrandShift blog)
  2. Branding pundit Jennifer Rice: "My definition of a brand is an idea in the minds of your customers... and that idea is formed by what you say and what you do... the blogosphere is shining a bright light on the gap between how a company presents itself and who a company 'really is.' Social technologies like blogs and community forums are forcing us to completely rethink the traditional tenets of brand management."
    
    You can spin, but you can't hide.
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  3. Branding pundit Jennifer Rice: "My definition of a brand is an idea in the minds of your customers... and that idea is formed by what you say and what you do... the blogosphere is shining a bright light on the gap between how a company presents itself and..."
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  2. cyberculture
  3. business
  4. tags:
  5. branding
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4. datetime
  1. {03282005}
  2. {05:09:25 AM}
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  1. Black, Asian women with degree outearn white women
    
    (The Seattle Times)
  2. Black and Asian women with bachelor's degrees earn slightly more than similarly educated white women, and white men with four-year degrees make more than anyone else...R egardless of race or gender, a college graduate on average earned more than $51,000, compared with $28,000 for someone with only a high-school diploma or an equivalent degree.
    
    Your overpriced degree may have some value after all.
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  3. Black and Asian women with bachelor's degrees earn slightly more than similarly educated white women, and white men with four-year degrees make more than anyone else...R egardless of race or gender, a college graduate on average earned more than $51,000,..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. economics
  3. education
  4. tags:
  5. jobs
  6. employement
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« Friday « March 25, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03252005}
  2. {07:00:51 PM}
  content
  1. Sex, not money, buys happiness, study says
    
    (AZCentral.com)
  2. Increasing sex frequency from once a month to at least once a week provides as much happiness as a $50,000-a-year raise
    
    Apparently, it's better to get laid than get paid! Is it too much to ask for more of both?
    
    b/w: sla (nsfw)
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  3. Increasing sex frequency from once a month to at least once a week provides as much happiness as a $50,000-a-year raise..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. sexuality
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. sex
  6. money
  7. happiness
  8. pyschology
  type
2. datetime
  1. {03252005}
  2. {11:06:20 AM}
  content
  1. {GRAPHICJUNKIES}
  2. "Graphic Junkies is a site maintained by an active law enforcement officer in the state of Georgia. I work in the South West Atlanta area. All of the photographs on this site were taken by me while on duty."
    
    Why not? One interesting thing I found in looking through these pix is the number of shots of gang graffiti; these must have significant meaning to a cop on the beat, like doppler radar to a weatherman.
    
    b/w: Design Observer
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  3. "Graphic Junkies is a site maintained by an active law enforcement officer in the state of Georgia. I work in the South West Atlanta area. All of the photographs on this site were taken by me while on duty."..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. photojournalism
  3. internet
  type
« Thursday « March 24, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03242005}
  2. {04:20:56 PM}
  content
  1. Book 4 (of 50): don't think of an elephant!
  2. [ c|b ].rating: 4.3/5 stars (86%)
  3. don't think of an elephant! The sub-title to this brief collection says it all: know your values and frame the debate. Far from being "compassionate," the conservatives who now control the United States -- and who are really just a small elite in number -- have gained this power by getting poor and middle-class people to vote against their own economic and social interests.
    How do they do it? They use language that appeals, in fundamentally dishonest but extremely effective ways, to people's deeply held, perhaps even subconscious, moral values. Until progressives, whose values truly reflect what America's ideal is all about, learn how to "reframe" political discourse, not use the enemy's terms, and appeal, honestly, to people's values, we're in for ugly, mean-spirited times.
    The conservative agenda uses the language of family and compassion, but it's false, because at its core, theirs is an essentially sociopathic, and somewhat fascist agenda that's really about giving free reign to corporations to plunder the planet in search of massive profits for a small cabal of people, and the control and suppression of the many by a hand-selected few. The fact that their language is basically well-crafted double talk exposes their weakness; they can be defeated with ideas and strategy.
    This book is a great intro for learning to think about how to develop and express ideas that can help us turn things around. We need to get back to a country that offers fairness, freedom and opportunity for everyone. Those are essential American values. Not fear-mongering, turning your back on those in need, and handing out favors to the rich, while denying support to everyone else. It will be a long, hard fight. Dress appropriately.
    NOTE: This is the fourth book in my quest to read at least 50 this year; I'm falling off the pace due to other commitments, but I will get there by the end of 2005!
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  3. don't think of an elephant! The sub-title to this brief collection says it all: know your values and frame the debate. Far from being "compassionate," the conserv..."
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  2. books
  3. politics
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« Wednesday « March 23, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03232005}
  2. {07:35:59 AM}
  content
  1. Will Smith's Larry Elder/Wendy Williams Dis Record
    
    (hiphopmusic.com blog)
  2. Will Smith, entertainment royalty ... dissing people in a battle rap? The world is turning upside down, upside down!
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  2. 07:35:59 AM
  3. Will Smith, entertainment royalty ... dissing people in a battle rap? The world is turning upside down, upside down!..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. music
  3. entertainment
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« Tuesday « March 22, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03222005}
  2. {10:57:32 AM}
  content
  1. comics creator
  2. Create a comic to send by e-mail ... stayed tuned.
    
    b/w: generator blog
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  2. 10:57:32 AM
  3. Create a comic to send by e-mail ... stayed tuned...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. comics and animation
  3. internet
  type
« Monday « March 21, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03212005}
  2. {03:12:01 PM}
  content
  1. Toward a Unified Theory of Black America
    
    (The New York Times)
  2. Roland G. Fryer Jr. is 27 years old and he is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard and he is black. Yes, 27 is young to be any kind of professor anywhere. But after what might charitably be called a slow start in the scholarly life, Fryer has been in a big hurry to catch up. He was in fact only 25 when he went on the job market, gaining offers from -- well, just about everywhere.
    
    Bruthas routinely gain notice when they can slam dunk, or spit rhymes, but we rarely see one get heralded for pure mental skill; it's not that those kind of men don't exist, that's just the way this society works. All part of the plan. Fryer is certainly being positioned as one to watch, so let's see what he comes up with, and hope some of it is concrete and actionable. We need ideas, lots of good ideas. (Registration required, or just bugmenot.)
    
    b/w: cobb
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  2. 03:12:01 PM
  3. Roland G. Fryer Jr. is 27 years old and he is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard and he is black. Yes, 27 is young to be any kind of professor anywhere. But after what might charitably be called a slow start in the scholarly life, Fryer has be..."
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  2. economics
  3. black people
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2. datetime
  1. {03212005}
  2. {07:19:32 AM}
  content
  1. Police think bus may have been driven to cocaine transactions
    
    (SFGate.com)
  2. A driver for San Francisco's Municipal Railway has been snared in an investigation into whether he was using his city bus as a delivery vehicle for drugs.
    
    The driver may walk for lack of evidence, but the next time my Muni express bus doesn't show up -- which happens often -- maybe it's because the driver had a "special delivery."
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  2. 07:19:32 AM
  3. A driver for San Francisco's Municipal Railway has been snared in an investigation into whether he was using his city bus as a delivery vehicle for drugs...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. crime
  3. news
  type
3. datetime
  1. {03212005}
  2. {06:58:05 AM}
  content
  1. X-celling Over Men
    
    (The New York Times - Op-Ed)
  2. The researchers learned that a whopping 15 percent - 200 to 300 - of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert, lolling about on an evolutionary Victorian fainting couch, are active, giving women a significant increase in gene expression over men. This means men's generalizations about women are correct, too. Women are inscrutable, changeable, crafty, idiosyncratic, a different species.
    
    Ah hah! (Registration required, or just bugmenot).
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  3. The researchers learned that a whopping 15 percent - 200 to 300 - of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert, lolling about on an evolutionary Victorian fainting couch, are active, giving women a significant incre..."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. biology
  3. gender issues
  type
« Friday « March 18, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03182005}
  2. {06:02:58 PM}
  content
  1. How to Make Money Off Your Blog
    
    (Sensual Liberation Army)
  2. While high-profile bloggers get writeups in Wired for quitting their day jobs to make their living offa beggin' their audience for alms, sex bloggers have quietly been making money - real money - for years.
    
    A How-to guide for the audacious and shameless, for real.
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  2. 06:02:58 PM
  3. While high-profile bloggers get writeups in Wired for quitting their day jobs to make their living offa beggin' their audience for alms, sex bloggers have quietly been making money - real money - for years...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. sexuality
  3. internet
  type
2. datetime
  1. {03182005}
  2. {06:57:09 AM}
  content
  1. You are Hurting Us
    
    (Burningbird, plus others (remix))
  2. You also want to be the center of one discussion that, oddly enough, doesn't center around you: being a weblogger who is not a male, or is not white, or both. You're boring the f*ck out of the rest of the universe. But "I don't read any women bloggers"...unless she's pretty and she talks about sex. And that's because apparently Nostradamus predicted white male blogging.
    
    Hello. Hello? Echo. Echo.
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  3. You also want to be the center of one discussion that, oddly enough, doesn't center around you: being a weblogger who is not a male, or is not white, or both. You're boring the f*c..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. internet
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« Thursday « March 17, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03172005}
  2. {06:58:31 AM}
  content
  1. SXSW: Blogging While Black Panel
    
    (Full Circle Community blog)
  2. Panel transcript.
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  3. Panel transcript...."
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  2. weblogs
  3. black people
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2. datetime
  1. {03172005}
  2. {11:35:31 PM}
  content
  1. The Mathematics of Racism in China
    
    (the black China hand)
  2. "China is no place for most black people..."
    
    Which begs the rhetorical question, little brother: what, then is the upshot of deliberately spending a third of your life in a place that's no place for you? If you're American Black, well, warts and all, that's where you were born, so it's your country, whether you like it or not. Time is precious, and if it's not spent on nourishing activities, then it's wasted on toxic ones. What is the motivation to choose to willingly go to a place where being shunned and avoided is the rule and not the exception, and where there is no community to which you call your own? Inquiring brothers want to know.
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  3. "China is no place for most black people..."..."
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  2. racism
  3. black people
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3. datetime
  1. {03172005}
  2. {11:22:10 AM}
  content
  1. Yahoo! 360°
  2. Looks like the social-networking-digital-lifestyle-aggregation waters are starting to heat up.
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  2. 11:22:10 AM
  3. Looks like the social-networking-digital-lifestyle-aggregation waters are starting to heat up...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. internet
  3. society
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« Wednesday « March 16, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03162005}
  2. {09:55:27 PM}
  content
  1. ::guimp:: world's smallest website
  2. It's really tiny ... about 18 x 18 pixels
    
    b/w: Flash Insider
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  3. It's really tiny ... about 18 x 18 pixels..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. world wide web
  3. internet
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2. datetime
  1. {03162005}
  2. {09:24:49 PM}
  content
  1. Baseball Prospectus
  2. It's spring training for fantasy baseball headz too, steroids or not! — join my ESPN league
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  2. 09:24:49 PM
  3. It's spring training for fantasy baseball headz too, steroids or not! — join my ESPN league..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. sports
  3. reference
  type
3. datetime
  1. {03162005}
  2. {07:25:12 AM}
  content
  1. Dead-end jobs in Delhi
    
    (News.com)
  2. It turns out, though, that the Indians actually working the phones and computers see their jobs as less promising.
    
    Rule Number 1: You get what you pay for.
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  3. It turns out, though, that the Indians actually working the phones and computers see their jobs as less promising...."
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  2. economics
  3. business
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4. datetime
  1. {03162005}
  2. {03:10:18 AM}
  content
  1. How to Sell Your Book, CD, or DVD on Amazon
    
    (Kevin Kelly Cool Tools)
  2. It's no secret, but here is what I have learned in the last few years about how to get your book, CD or DVD listed on Amazon... but still: This is not a way to make money; this is a way to distribute your message.
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  2. 03:10:18 AM
  3. It's no secret, but here is what I have learned in the last few years about how to get your book, CD or DVD listed on Amazon... but still: This is not a way to make money; this is a way to distribute your message...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. books
  3. internet
  type
« Tuesday « March 15, 2005
1. datetime
  1. {03152005}
  2. {06:09:31 PM}
  content
  1. Attention Deficit (remix)
  2. Keith Jenkins, Black male, WaPo Editor: "Today, I work in a newsroom with Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, and Indian-American journalists, as well as many journalist born and raised in other countries...you get the picture. It has taken 'Mainstream Media' a very long time to get to this point of inclusion - which, in reality, is just about reflecting the true nature of American and world culture both in what we report and how we report it. There is still a long way to go, but much progress has already be made. My fear is that the overwelmingly white and male American blogosphere, hell bent (in some quarters) on replacing the current ranks of professional journalists with themselves, will return us to a day where the dialogue about issues was a predominantly white-only one."
    
    Steve Levy, white male Newsweek columnist, asks, "Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?" Good question, and while we're at it, although it might not be related, but since any experienced executive, and there are hundreds of thousands who are non-White and non-male, can run a company, how come the Fortune 500 is dominated by white male CEOs?
    Rebecca McKinnon, white female former TV reporter, asks, "So how do we get more diverse voices into the blogosphere? I'd like to hear more suggestions from non-white as well as non-American bloggers." Would she ask this question if more of those white male bloggers paid attention to her? But then, linking is like a digital form of knockin' boots and some guys don't link, but if they did, would they like her in the morning?
    
    Jeff Jarvis, white male media pundit and bloggeur provacateur, says, "I'm white. I'm male. I blog. You got a problem with that? Tough." There's a nice, open, constructive attitude, but he follows up that lead-in with a painfully long post, which reads like a rationalization, something or other about reading Iraqi and Bahraini Muslim blogs makes him more diverse. OK.
    
    Halley Suitt, white female writer: "It's all too often -- white, male, American bloggers -- who get our attention." Well, you are the boss of you; maybe you should direct your attention elsewhere.
    
    Dave Winer, white male software developer and alleged blowhard, says, "Apparently Nostradamus predicted white male blogging." Yeah, that helps. Thanks. Please fix RSS 2.0 and shut up already!
    
    But if only people would look harder, they'd find bloggers (which I like to call "writers") like, Michael Bowen, aka Cobb, Black male technology professional: "I hereby submit Cobb for the consideration of all A-List Bloggers as the Head Negro in Blogs." Of course, this is tongue-in-check humor at its most sublime. Cobb just wants to be the H.N.I.C of Blogging, but he often has interesting or provocative things to say, if only more people would pay attention.
    
    The first thing that comes to my mind is: people are really overestimating the importance and impact of weblogs. And mainstream media is not going to be replaced by weblogs. Or, maybe I'm not getting it. People seem to think that because the Web has a potentially global reach that all the world wants to (or can) read what they have to write. Do these people realize that a so-called New York Times "best-seller" only has to sell around 40,000 copies? Even a top-selling book has a tiny impact in terms of actual reach, Oprah's Book Club notwithstanding. In fact, in the book world, there's a creeping fear that there's too many books and not enough readers. Not only are people overestimating the blogosphere's reach, they're overestimating literacy and Internet adoption rates. According to UNESCO, 20% of all adults in the world are illiterate. And less than 20% of the world's population has ever touched the Internet. The best-connected, most literate people are in countries -- guess what -- where you'll find lots of white males. So, there are billions of people out there who can barely read, and many more who've ever even heard of the Net, let alone weblogs. What do they care?
    
    I think I know what's really going on here: it's high school, all over again, but in reverse. Today's so-called 'A-List' bloggers were the "freaks and geeks" in high school. Now that they've somehow become "popular," there's no way they're going to give that up, because they know, as soon as one of the real cool kids gets in, the whole place (aka "the blogosphere") will get overrun, and once again, they'll be marginalized. So to answer the Newsweek reporter's question: the reason why blogging is dominated by some white males is because they where the ones who were dominated -- or ignored -- during those all-important teenage years, and payback's a bitch, well, actually, not a bitch, since women aren't really welcome, just, well, tough! Unfortunately for them, though, the cool kids still don't care.
    
    Related:
    Blogging while black (Technorati)
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  3. Keith Jenkins, Black male, WaPo Editor: "Today, I work in a newsroom with Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, and Indian-American journalists, as well as many journalist born and raised in other countries...you get the pi..."
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  1. Thug Radio
    
    (AlterNet)
  2. Emmis and Clear Channel are the corporate muscle beneath hip-hop's skin; their hip-hop stations are notably dubbed "urban radio," which Chuck D says is "a perfect term because it actually escapes the notion of black ownership." The term first originated when black stations wanted to bring in white advertising, says hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang. Now, he says, it's been donned by white stations "using black music and culture to get street cred and in turn to drive the rest of the music industry."
    
    Exploitation has become so much more sophisticated these days. Promoters used to just make money on the music. Now they can profit on personal disputes of the artists as well. Hey, we all have folks we don't like. Can you imagine someone making cash over the fact that you don't like someone? The phunny thing I found in this story is that there is an organized coalition of protesters who held a rally in frigid Union Square Park last Friday [and] are part of a burgeoning opposition to corporate control of hip-hop radio. People will stand outside in the cold and protest over hip-hop radio; but their schools are falling apart, and their jobs opportunities are being shipped overseas: no protest. Now that is getting your priorities in order.
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  1. Yes, Virginia, Democratic women are better in bed
    
    (Capitol Hill Blue)
  2. Google "Democrats make better lovers" and you get ~~296~~ 299 citations. Try the same with "Republicans make better lovers" and you get just ~~three~~ four.
    
    Since appealing to social and economic self-interest doesn't seem to be working for the Dems, why not try the sex angle? That always works.
    
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« Sunday « March 13, 2005

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Some People Are Toxic, Avoid Them

Milton Glaser - (acclaimed graphic designer, creator of the "I ♥ NY" logo): "Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn't matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible."

Now that's a test I've been unconsciously taking for years. I always feel energized after spending time with my carefully-selected circle of friends, and my brothers. But Glaser gives nine other pieces of advice here, it's a good read.

b/w: Halley's Comment

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Milton Glaser - (acclaimed graphic designer, creator of the "I ♥ NY" logo): "Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a bal..."

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« Saturday « March 12, 2005

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Hughes to work on world's view of U.S.

(MSNBC)

Former White House counselor Karen P. Hughes will take over the Bush administration's troubled public diplomacy effort intended to burnish the U.S. image abroad, particularly in the Muslim world, where anti-Americanism has fueled extremist groups and terrorism, a senior administration official said yesterday.

Why not just call the position what it really is: Minister of Propaganda?

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Former White House counselor Karen P. Hughes will take over the Bush administration's troubled public diplomacy effort intended to burnish the U.S. image abroad, particularly in the Muslim world, where anti-Americanism has fueled extremist groups and terr..."

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CR Patterson & Son

(AAOW Magazine)

Some of the finest buggies made in the late 1800s came out of a small, black-owned company in Ohio. Charles Rich Patterson's Company later made motor vehicles, and history, by founding the country's only African-American-owned automobile manufacturing company.

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Some of the finest buggies made in the late 1800s came out of a small, black-owned company in Ohio. Charles Rich Patterson's Company later made motor vehicles, and history, by founding the country's only African-American-owned automobile manufacturing com..."

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« Thursday « March 10, 2005

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Why Blogging Sucks

(The National Debate)

Well, if I am writing now for my "Web Journal" instead of my "Web Log" the debate over "Bloggers" versus "Journalist" looks kind of silly. Thanks to a bunch of high-functioning, socially-retarded Star Trek fans, The National Debate is a "web log" not a "web journal and so I am a "web logger" not a "web..."? See my point?

Amen to that. I'm not a blogger. I'm just a writer in search of an audience... and (apparently) not too successful at that.

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Well, if I am writing now for my "Web Journal" instead of my "Web Log" the debate over "Bloggers" versus "Journalist" looks kind of silly. Thanks to a bunch of high-functioning, socially-retarded Star Trek fans, The National Debate is a "web log" not a "w..."

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Guys Don't Link

(Burningbird blog)

Time for plain speaking. "Mags, are you telling me that guys equate links with their d*cks?"

That's not a blogroll in my pocket, I'm just excited to link to you. If you're a blogger, you've got to read this. Brilliant. Funny. And cold. And deep, too ... if you get that joke.

b/w: allaboutgeorge

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« Wednesday « March 9, 2005

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{08:15:44 PM}

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ingenuiTEA

(Lulu's Gonna Love Manhattan blog)

Lools sez: "Don't know if you guys agree with me that there's something magical when you sit down with a cup of tea that you just don't get with coffee. Tea seems versatile enough to get you going, soothe your nerves, help you destress and even get you ready to fall asleep."

My globe-trotting, sophisticated pal, Lools, lays down the gospel of tea, and even invents a word - "destress" - but I completely agree. Since I started drinking real tea in the mornings, instead of coffee, I feel a lot better, relieved almost. I may have had my last coffee, for a while, at least.

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Lools sez: "Don't know if you guys agree with me that there's something magical when you sit down with a cup of tea that you just don't get with coffee. Tea seems versatile enough to get you going, soothe your nerves, help you destress and even get you re..."

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« Tuesday « March 8, 2005

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Blogspot is hurting America

(A Whole Lotta Nothing blog)

Haughey: "A friend recently returned from a anti-spam conference and said someone gave a demo of a spamming tool. They showed how it grabbed a zillion email addresses from a database, started churning out the email while hopping from one free open proxy server to another, and one curious last step was to automatically create a new blogger account, create a new site on blogspot, and load the email text from the spam as an entry. The last step was to raise the search engine position for the spammer's site and message and was completely automated."

Why is it that pornmeisters and spammers are always ahead of the curve on using technology? What these folks are doing is a legitimate marketer's wet dream: cheap turnkey mass marketing ... and that's a big part of the problem. Advertising, in this medium at least, is becoming too efficient to distribute.

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Haughey: "A friend recently returned from a anti-spam conference and said someone gave a demo of a spamming tool. They showed how it grabbed a zillion email addresses from a database, started churning out the email while hopping from one free open proxy s..."

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« Monday « March 7, 2005

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HypeCycle

The following model [is] useful for describing the productivity of technology

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The following model [is] useful for describing the productivity of technology..."

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Why do Bloggers think they Invented the Internet?

The hype around blogging seems to come from the fact that blogs make publishing accessable and acheivable to non-techies. You can set up a blog in about 5 minutes and be blogging in about 1/2 an hour and you dont need to know a damn thing about a) websites b) publishing c) business - This is not a bad thing, in fact, i think it's fantastic! The funny thing is that a blog really isnt anything that special, think about it: What makes a blog any different from any other website ...the barrier to entry right? With a blog anyone can publish.

An old post, as far as blogs go, but I've said before that I'm not blogging to break news. I just thought this post really summarized what blogging is really all about: simplified publishing for non-technical people. But what really gets me about this post is how dead-on it is about how blogging today, and the hype surrounding it, is covering exactly the same business terrain as the plain old World Wide Web did, about 10 years ago. It's the same gold-rush mentality.

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The hype around blogging seems to come from the fact that blogs make publishing accessable and acheivable to non-techies. You can set up a blog in about 5 minutes and be blogging in about 1/2 an hour and you dont need to know a damn thing about a) website..."

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Why Can't a Black Actress Play the Girlfriend?

(MSNBC.com)

This is a trick question. I know there's a Hitch somewhere.

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This is a trick question. I know there's a Hitch somewhere...."

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{10:42:45 PM}

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Fantasy Baseball: New Joisey World Order

Interested in joining? It's a low-pressure league played by guys who occasionally pore over USA Today stats pages. Team cost about: $30. Winning: priceless. Sign up on ESPN.COM

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Interested in joining? It's a low-pressure league played by guys who occasionally pore over USA Today stats pages. Team cost about: $30. Winning: priceless. Sign up on ESPN.COM..."

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{06:59:10 PM}

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Podcasting: Do it Yourself Pirate Radio for the Masses

Available for pre-order.

Get ready for the flood of books on podcasting. Great. But until the actual process of recording and publishing a podcast becomes as easy as, say, blogging, then it's just more dead trees and fury, amounting to nothing. Plus, the word "podcasting," like the word "blogging," is confusing. These words don't have mass appeal. Are you kidding me?

b/w: Scripting News

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Available for pre-order...."

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{07:00:27 AM}

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Daddy Types

The weblog for new dads. Daddy Types was conceived [sic] as a personal, partial solution to the ridiculous absence of truly dad-friendly perspectives in the baby-making and -raising world. I don't think I'm alone in noticing this gap, and I don't want to be alone in filling it.

Now I've seen it all: the father of all blogs.

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The weblog for new dads. Daddy Types was conceived [sic] as a personal, partial solution to the ridiculous absence of truly dad-friendly perspectives in the baby-making and -raising world. I don't think I'm alone in noticing this gap, and I don't want to..."

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{06:50:12 AM}

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Boeing CEO Ousted

(CBS News)

Boeing President and CEO Harry Stonecipher has been forced to resign because of an improper relationship with a female executive at the aircraft manufacturer.

This just proves, again, that most men are morons. The rule is simple: don't fool around at work! No matter who you are. It will only end badly.

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Boeing President and CEO Harry Stonecipher has been forced to resign because of an improper relationship with a female executive at the aircraft manufacturer...."

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« Thursday « March 3, 2005

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{11:02:39 PM}

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Experiments in blogging/journaling black

(A Day In A Life blog)

Hip-Hop journalist/writer/technophile Lynne d Johnson, who's got to be one of the blogosphere's flat-out coolest peeps, on any level, rounds up of some nice links of folks who blog while Black, or who happen to be Black bloggers. There is a difference, but if you have to ask, you'll never know. I like to think my blogstyle is a blend the two camps, which is why I'm "caught In between." This blog intersects her listing at negrophile. Informative. I feel like setting up a whole new directory of the feeds I've been missing. Who said the bruthas and sistas don't blog?

b/w: Prometheus6

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Hip-Hop journalist/writer/technophile Lynne d Johnson, who's got to be one of the blogosphere's flat-out coolest peeps, on any level, rounds up of some nice links of folks who blog while Black, or who happen to be Black bloggers. There is a diff..."

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{10:27:50 PM}

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In the Press Room of the White House that is Post Press

(PressThink blog)

Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff: "They don't represent the public any more than other people do. In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election," said Card. "I don't believe you have a check-and-balance function."

See? No check and balance role. Not representative. That's post-press thinking, coming from the Chief of Staff. It is a political innovation for which Bush does not get enough credit.

Yes, if this administration likes anything, it is the art of propaganda. From buying and planting fake advocates in communities generally opposed to them (i.e. Armstrong Williams) to seating fake journalists in the White House who'll only ask softball questions (i.e. "Jeff Gannon") how can any sane person trust anything these people say? And it's not even that they're good at it. They simply have the luxury of operating unopposed, free and clear, with a partisan majority in both houses of Congress. No one holds their feet to the fire, yet they are sitting on a bed of lies the size of Texas, and growing. Iraq has WMDs. Social Security reform is good for America. The US won't invade Iran. These seem more like empty advertising slogans: soundbites that are deliberately misleading, spun to hide the truth, not bring it to light.

But, of course, it's the job of the press to bring the truth out. But the leaders of the press industry seem to be complicit in all this subterfuge: today, I've seen so many headlines covering a non-news event -- Martha Stewart's impending prison release, she's not even out yet -- that it makes me wonder how people who call themselves journalists these days can stand taking home a paycheck, because they're not doing their jobs, they're just stealing. And they pout when they're not taken seriously. Instead of doing their jobs, and enlightening the public, the increasing share of media time seems to be getting devoted to tripe like Stewart's release and subsequent house arrest, dumb-ass Paris Hilton's dumb-ass Sidekick getting hacked, and Michael Jackson's trial. But then, if this is what people really care about, then we really are going to hell, in a handbasket.

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Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff: "They don't represent the public any more than other people do. In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election," said Card. "I don't believe you have a check-and-balance function."

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(mtv.com)

« Monday « March 28, 2005

(MediaChannel.org)

(CBS SportsLine.com)

(BrandShift blog)

(The Seattle Times)

« Friday « March 25, 2005

(AZCentral.com)

« Thursday « March 24, 2005

« Wednesday « March 23, 2005

(hiphopmusic.com blog)

« Tuesday « March 22, 2005

« Monday « March 21, 2005

(The New York Times)

(SFGate.com)

(The New York Times - Op-Ed)

« Friday « March 18, 2005

(Sensual Liberation Army)

(Burningbird, plus others (remix))

« Thursday « March 17, 2005

(Full Circle Community blog)

(the black China hand)

« Wednesday « March 16, 2005

(News.com)

(Kevin Kelly Cool Tools)

« Tuesday « March 15, 2005

« Monday « March 14, 2005

(AlterNet)

(Capitol Hill Blue)

« Sunday « March 13, 2005

« Saturday « March 12, 2005

(MSNBC)

(AAOW Magazine)

« Thursday « March 10, 2005

(The National Debate)

(Burningbird blog)

« Wednesday « March 9, 2005

(Lulu's Gonna Love Manhattan blog)

« Tuesday « March 8, 2005

(A Whole Lotta Nothing blog)

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