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« Monday « April 28, 2003
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Google Watch
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A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are undermining the Web.Interesting, very interesting. How come the things that seem most convenient to us also harbor the potential to be the most damaging?
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New Reality TV Cable Channel Announced
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What does a reality TV fan do on those rare occasions when nothing reality-related is on? Soon you won't have to worry [there are] plans to create an all-reality TV cable channel, Reality Central.Well this was bound to happen. But how will this be any different than Fox? The even have a website up already.
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U.S. Seeks to Keep Gulf Military Presence
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Reichsmarshall Rumsfeld: "There's no question but that the people of this region are safer today than they were when the Saddam Hussein regime was in power."Well, at least the people in the region are safe from Saddam. That's about the only clear thing.
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Big Macs replace loaves and fishes at Pope's pray-in
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The tie-in between the globetrotting Pope and the global leader in burgers, fries and gherkins comes as the Spanish church seeks a way to fund yet another official visit from John Paul.Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Holy cow!"
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Democracy works only when people work
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The fact is there are far too many underserved, crime infested, predominately minority neighborhoods throughout America that can best be described as being "bombed out." And the rundown buildings, junk-filled streets and absence of thriving businesses suggests that a war had taken place, or was still going on, in them. So it's understandable why so many citizens -- living in abject poverty in the world's richest nation -- have a very hard time understanding our government's foreign policy.
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African Americans still have to dream on
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Unemployment rate: white 5%; black 11%; do the math.
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How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
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Deconstruction, in particular, is a fairly formulaic process that hardly merits the commotion that it has generated. However, like hack writers or television producers, academics will use a formula if it does the job and they are not held to any higher standard. Just to clear up the mystery, here is the formula, step-by-step...I made my way through this long-ass piece, which was a good read btw, and found it came to many of the same conclusions I've subscribed to for a while: it's not what you have to say that counts, but how you say it. Here's a tangential example: Bill Clinton vs. George W. Bush. Other than delivery, what's the real difference?
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« Sunday « April 27, 2003
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Classic TV Theme Songs
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a TV theme song that conjures up countless memories is priceless!Holy shiite, osama! The motherlode of classic TV theme songs. Weezy! Weezy! My all time favorite is The Jeffersons. We finally got our piece of the pie. A lot people don't know that the actress who played George and Louise's neighbor, Helen Willis, is the real-life mother of rocker Lenny Kravitz.
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« Saturday « April 26, 2003
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Just For Fun Map Game
(Rethinking Schools)
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Think you know you Middle Eastern geography? Take this little Flash-based test. It took me about 10-minutes to get it right. I know nothing. (Flash plug-in/player required.)
b/w: Born Famous
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« Thursday « April 24, 2003
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Corporate blogs make personal connection
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How do you keep official company blogs "on-message" while giving them a true and honest voice? Should a company embrace, or rein in, employees who blog on their own time?All this, and by the way, Moveable Type got funded. (Good for them.) I guess blogs, which were supposed to be about personal expression, will ultimately just become another pipeline to the money machine, it's the capitalist thing to do: Here's what I think ... now pay a muhf*cka for it! But blogging's not about money, is it? When they say it's not about the money, it's about the money.
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Surveillance Nation--Part Two
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[O]rdinary Americans are buying surveillance devices, many of dubious legality, at a clip of $6 million a day. We have met the enemy of our privacy, and it is us. Although this technology is growing much faster than is generally recognized, its advance is neither inexorable nor uncontrollable.We'll soon be drowning in a sea of personal data that was ostensibly collected to "protect" us. This long article covers lots of the pluses and minuses of digital technology and its applications to surveillance. We can only hope that we adopt more of the pluses, because the minuses portend a cruel and gloomy future for sure.
b/w: PolitechBot
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« Wednesday « April 23, 2003
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New virus exploits SARS epidemic concerns
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A new computer worm attempts to spread by taking advantage of concerns over the killer flu-like virus, SARS.Cruel hackers hijack real fears of mystery illness. Don't these *ssholes realize that they too are only human and can catch SARS as well?
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« Tuesday « April 22, 2003
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TV Turnoff Network
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Less TV, more athletics, creative activities and reading lead to healthier, brighter kids? WTF?
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TV Turnoff Week
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Even bigwigs from the big screen like Tom Cruise, Madonna and Steven Spielberg, have curbed the crud coming at their kids from the myth machine.So even Spielberg doesn't let his kids watch TV? That's got to make you think. The irony of TVT-O Week this year, for your humble blogger, is that yesterday I watched that wack show, "Mr. Personality." But that was only to see if Monica had been staying true to Atkins. OK, I'm back off the boob-toob now. Time to get a good book.
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Mr. Personality
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A young, beautiful, single woman will court several eligible men who must rely strictly on their personalities to captivate her, hosted by Monica Lewinsky.Surely, Monica used her personality, and not her looks, to land this gig, just like she did back in the good ol' days with Bubba. From the network that brought you Joe Millionaire, this one's a new twist on The Bachelorette. The problem is, unlike Trista, this woman doesn't seem that cool, or likeable. Maybe they should swap her for the host. At least the guys would know what they'd be getting with Mo.
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How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web
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the average consumer paid far more attention to the superficial aspects of a site, such as visual cues, than to its content. For example, nearly half of all consumers (or 46.1%) in the study assessed the credibility of sites based in part on the appeal of the overall visual design of a site, including layout, typography, font size and color schemesLooks matter, in the real world, and online.
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« Monday « April 21, 2003
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Luther Vandross Suffers Stroke
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Smooth R&B singer Luther Vandross is recovering in New York after suffering a stroke.A true "American Idol," I hope he has a speedy and full recovery.
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« Sunday « April 20, 2003
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Publishers ... We Know the Numbers Lie
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Nobody talks about publishing numbers because they are so unbelievably low. How many authors really make a living wage from their advances? How many books actually earn out, or pay their authors anything beyond the initial advance? And how many copies sold turn any particular book into a best-seller? The fact that very few people in this country read books is publishing's dirty little secret, and it's one executives are, understandably, desperate to keep.These days it seems as if Johnny can't read, and even if he could, he'd rather go to the movies or the ballpark. An illiterate society is ripe to be manipulated by propaganda, er, mass media. (Note: this article may disappear soon due to the Observer's weak approach to providing permanent links.)
b/w: Librarian.net
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African Lives
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This series of occasional articles chronicles the joys and struggles in the everyday lives of African peoples.
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« Saturday « April 19, 2003
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Reloaded
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Free Your Mind!
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The FeedRoom
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RSS Channels from a premiere broadband news network
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« Thursday « April 17, 2003
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We're (still) in the money
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Corporate fat cats stay fat ... even as layoffs increase
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The System That Doesn't Safeguard Travel
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Gvernment efforts to build an electronic tracking system of suspicious travelers simply aren't working. All told, some 13 million people (equivalent to 4.5% of the U.S. population) are now on the terror watch list. Security experts and common sense say 99% of those pinpointed aren't terrorists.The real bad guys must be laughing at this kind of incompetence.
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« Wednesday « April 16, 2003
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Blogging: Tune Out and Switch On
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"If you read me regularly you know how I feel about the trickery used in telvision. What is rewarded as 'art' is the equivalent of chewing gum for your brain."Good, long 2002 post from former MTV VJ Adam Curry on the bed of lies that is television as we know it, and on how an activity like blogging may counter some of its effects.
b/w: Scripting News
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Weapons ...
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... of Mass Destruction?
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- (Guardian UK)">"I mean no disrespect, but what is the value proposition of these briefings?"
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Ask a question about this (media) war, get labeled as a 'traitor' or worse
b/w: Robot Wisdom
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« Wednesday « April 9, 2003
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Cops use ID info in criminal cases
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When a patron's ID is scanned to ensure authenticity at a liquor store, the person's purchase and identification information is added to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's (PLCB) electronic database in Harrisburg, PLCB spokeswoman Molly McGowan said.Police can retrieve the information for use in criminal cases, she said.Remember in The Matrix when Morpheus tells Neo that anyone can be an agent of the system? Agent of the system, as in enemy of you, the individual. That science fiction stuff keeps creeping closer to reality every day. Now your liquor store owner is your enemy. Buy some beer, get logged into a police database. Hmmm, post something online, get logged into a database ... like Google?
b/w: politechbot
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« Monday « April 7, 2003
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From China's secret to a worldwide alarm
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Officials knew about virus for months before sounding alarm
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North Korea and the US 'on a slide towards conflict'
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"I think war is unnecessary, it's unthinkable and unfortunately it's entirely possible."Plan ahead.
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Prime Time Payola
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Clear Channel owns more than 1200 radio stations (approximately 50% of the total), five times more than their closest competitors, CBS and ABC. Considering the fact that, before the 1996 Telco Act, a single broadcaster could not own more than 40 stations in the entire country, it is hard to see the behemoth as anything but a virtual creation of the Act itself. All told, the company has spent over $30 billion since the FCC lowered the barrier of entry to the proverbial corral. But, while Clear Channel's unhindered expansionism has been a direct result of the deregulation that media barons crave, it has not been viewed favorably by the rest of the industry.You never hear about this stuff on the radio.
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Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying
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Like any number of webloggers trying to make their mark with commentary on the war in Iraq, Sean-Paul Kelley knew geography and career experience didn't favor him.Well, if bloggers are supposedly some kind of journalist -- a definition I personally reject; we're just people expressing opinions online -- then these bloggers should also have standards.
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Murdoch's war on truth in war reporting
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Mr Murdoch, who said before the war that it would be good for the economy urged America to get it over with quickly.If Rupert has his way, it will be: "All Fox TV. All The Time. Forever."
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« Friday « April 4, 2003
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Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA)
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As a SPAM filter, TMDA combines a "whitelist" (for known/trusted senders), a "blacklist" (for undesired senders), and a cryptographically enhanced confirmation system (for unknown, but legitimate senders). TMDA strives to be more effective, yet less time-consuming than traditional filters.This is probably worth a look, because I'm being overrun by spam these days, so much that I'm starting to use the telephone again. To actually contact people! If I can put on my Malcolm X hat for a minute, I love how the good list is called a whitelist, while the bad list, the one for undesirables, is called a blacklist. A microcosm of our society: the language.
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George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
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Never us a long word where a short one will do
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« Wednesday « April 2, 2003
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Al-Jazeera HQ in Basra bombed
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A hotel in Basra being used as a base by al-Jazeera's team of correspondents in the city was shelled this morning, the Arabic TV news channel has claimed.OK it was only claimed. And there are at least two sides to every story. But have you been paying attention to the other war? Not the war of public opinion. Who cares what the general public thinks? I'm talking about the war of propaganda.
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Low-Income Homes Play More Video Games
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If you have money for games, why not invest in a few books too? And not strategy guides, 'kay?
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« Tuesday « April 1, 2003
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'U.S. view of war is like U.S. coffee: filtered'
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Two different wars unfold on Western and Arab networks. Eh?
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An Apple is Born
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Apple 1, 1976
Apple Computer is founded by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ron Wayne.
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Is Your Television Watching You?
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Could the federal government find out what you're watching on TV? Even if you're not the subject of a criminal investigation?If you're a satellite TV or TiVo owner, the answer is yes, according to legal experts and industry officials.Under the USA Patriot Act, passed a month after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the feds can force a noncable TV operator to disclose every show you have watched. The government just has to say that the request is related to a terrorism investigation, said Jay Stanley, a technology expert for the American Civil Liberties Union.All of The Simpsons and South Park episodes you've watched will catch up to you eventually, Neo. But is this real or just an April Fool's joke?
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