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« Thursday « April 29, 2004
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Blog justice and its discontents.
(allaboutgeorge.com blog)
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Old post, in blog time, but here was my comment, which was not to belittle the fact that the key victim in this real life drama suffered the crime of identity theft, all too easy these days as I know, because I too have been a victim, no, my point was basically to ask: if the prime suspects had not been black, would their photos have been posted to the blog? Here are the most important links (1)(2)(3) to this ultimately meaningless cyber-tale, IMHO, and here's what I came late to the party and said, with amendment(*):
"Wow, it's true: whatever you say on the Net never dies ... even comments lost years ago in a computer crash.
"Race and blogging, blogging and race. You know what George, as far as black people and blogging goes, it's a situation very similar to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man": only noticed when something goes wrong (i.e. a purse gets snatched, some Scarett O'Hara type gets wilded.) A less creatively-minded individual might say, well, if that's the way it is, then it's the same way in cyberspace as it is in the real world. I am that less creatively-minded individual. Perhaps blogs, and the way they are used, viewed, and treated, form a microcosm of the real world in a sense: by and large, most ethnic groups don't voluntarily co-mingle, so why should we expect that online?
It's a jaded ideal, but I still think that actions speak louder than words. When someone blogs something -- like about their alleged purse snatchers, because, correct me if I'm wrong but in America you're innocent until proven guilty(*) -- to me it's what someone chooses to blog in the first place that reveals a whole lot more than their actual words, or pictures..."
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(NBA) Trophy comes to Indy
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So far, though, it's just in town for a commercial shoot starring O'Neal, Bird.
I caught this commercial while watching the Kings-Mavs game tonight, and with the setup of Jermaine O'Neal asking Larry Bird for "permission" to date the NBA Trophy (yeah, that's a little weird) I think it gives new meaning to the term: "Hoosier Daddy." Try saying that fast four times.
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Missouri tracks scofflaws via pizza-delivery databases
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It's dinnertime, and you're hungry and tired, so you pick up the phone and order your favorite pizza. But you might have just landed yourself a lot more than pepperoni and cheese. If you owe fines or fees to the courts, that phone call may have provided the link the state needed to track you down and make you pay.In the eyes of the law, you really are what you eat.
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« Wednesday « April 28, 2004
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Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S. Intelligence Officials
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[S]ome analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what's reported in some blogs is questionable.
b/w: the doc searls weblog
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18 months of phone cam photos
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"With the help of a special query to the hiptop Nation database, I was able to back up over 18 months of moblog posts and phone cam photos to my local hard drive by simply loading everything into a single Netscape window and saving the page."Cool idea. My collection of phone cam shots is starting to grow, and they're going to need a home soon.
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« Thursday « April 22, 2004
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Must-See TV Ads - Data Mining
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This is how it would work: The TiVo would record its patron's viewing patterns, and software in the recorder would use statistical models?together with any additional information collected from the viewer?to develop a demographic profile.When you purchased that TiVO, you didn't think that one day it would turn around and spy on you, did you?
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Thank you, Donald
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Cuban: "I like Donald Trump. When The Benefactor was announced, he was one of the first people to call. Told me he thought it was a great idea, and I was the right guy to pull it off. Thanks, Donald. Very nice thing to do. What wasn?t nice, was to call The Benefactor a copycat of The Apprentice."In less than 1,000 words, Mark Cuban lays out the fundamental differences between the Donald and himself. It's a good read. Billionaire boys only...
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« Tuesday « April 20, 2004
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New Jersey Nets (2) vs. New York Knicks (7)
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I've got to say this about my dear, dear, beloved Knicks: I don't think I've seen a playoff team play worse than I've seen the Knicks play against the Nets in the last two games. I'm from Joisey, but it's just unacceptable for the Knicks to lose the Nets. But so far, they're not just losing, they're getting punked. Come on now, boys. Pick it up! At a minimum, someone smack that fool Kenyon Martin in the chops and shut his thug ass up. After this is all over, I hope that Isaiah guts the entire team: keeping Marbury, Houston, Kurt Thomas, and maybe Terry Thomas, but tossing the rest and starting over from scratch.
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YASNS Meta List, Comments Please?
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YASNS (Yet Another Social Networking Service) Meta List...Just imagine bits and bytes of all your personal data -- your friendships, your business relationships, your family ties -- hell, your entire life floating around on all of these servers and databases. Then imagine the day when you want to delete it all, because you're tired of getting stalked or being invited to fundraisers of friends of friends of friends 12 times removed. What a hassle. Plus, what's the deal with trying to force natural interactions between people in a petri dish made of software? Only people who love computers more than people would come up with this kind of solution. Yeah, some of them mean well, but they have it backwards: first build a real community, the old-fashioned way, face-to-face, then add the software later.
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« Monday « April 19, 2004
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Ectogenesis Web Space
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Ectogenesis can be thought of as genesis outside the womb.I heard about this for the first time on the radio this morning. But I was in that groggy-just-before-a-shower mode, so all that stuck was the word, not was being discussed in relation to it. Since I primarily use my blog as a "living bookmarks" system to support other things I'm working on, I wanted to blog this now and come back to it later. On the surface, being the biotech simpleton that I am, it seems to me that if you take cloning and ectogenesis, and turn left you will have arrived in Huxley's "Brave New World," or maybe Dick's "Blade Runner" at least. Only, we ain't talking about a book.
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Black abstraction in Lancaster
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It reminds us that black artists who do not overtly address identifiable cultural themes generally have been passed over by the art world, and even by the larger black community. The show further poses the question of whether a distinctive "black abstraction" exists... [t]he answer, clearly, is no, and the proof is disarmingly simple.Who said that black artists must address oppression, white supremacy, poverty and all the other things that supposedly swirl around us as omnipresently as the air we breathe? Perhaps they need the freedom, as any artist does, to simply express themselves, whether in concrete terms or abstract.
b/w: negrophile.
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Men redundant? Now we don't need women either
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Scientists have developed an artificial womb that allows embryos to grow outside the body(Old article: for file.)
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« Friday « April 16, 2004
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The Apprentice: Bill Wins/Kwame Loses
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I called it earlier. It really wasn't a surprise. At the end of the day, guys like Trump don't put guys like Kwame in charge of their businesses. Art imitates life, even on reality television: I remember that scene from Trading Places, where the white Duke Brothers settle their $1 bet and decide to put the Dan Akroyd character, Winthorpe, back in charge as managing director of their commodities trading operation. Unbeknownst to them, the Eddie Murphy character, Valentine, is hiding in the bathroom, listening in on their discussion. One Duke says to the other something like, "Do you really believe I would have a n*gger running our family business, Randolph?" And the other replies, "Of course not. Neither would I." Now in the case of this show, all you have to do is ask yourself: were any of Trump's other top execs black? Come on. Open your eyes. Speculating that Kwame might win the job made for fun water-cooler conversation if nothing else, which cost me $5, by the way, but it was a dog with fleas.
Kwame was given the harder task, he had members of his team purposely try to sabotage him, and still, he pulled through; what else does a guy have to do? Nothing, since he was never intended to land the job in the first place. But by dragging Kwame along to the end, they were making a play for bigger ratings, because black vs white in America always draws attention.
In other news, a much cooler potential employer has stepped up and offered Kwame an unspecified gig: Dallas Mavericks owner and HDTV visionary Mark Cuban. I think Cuban is a much more interesting person, involved in innovative, new economy businesses, and the NBA too. At any rate, Kwame will be alright, and at least he doesn't have to work for an egotistical dipstick with bad hair. Can't wait until Apprentice 2 in the fall.
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« Thursday « April 15, 2004
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Sony, Toppan develop optical disc made from paper
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Japanese electronics conglomerate Sony Corp and Toppan Printing Co Ltd have developed a new optical disc, made mostly from paper, that they say will be compatible with next-generation DVD technology.And biodegradeable too?
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Shells found in Africa dispel the theory that culture began in Europe
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The discovery suggests that our modern minds, with complex, symbolic thinking, emerged 70,000 years ago in Africa. Previous theories put the cultural "big bang" about 30,000 years later, at about 40,000 years ago in Europe.Deep down inside of everyone's DNA, there's an African yearning to be free. (treoblog)
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« Wednesday « April 14, 2004
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What business is the NBA in?
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Mark Cuban: "Reality is that basketball is not the business of the NBA. Entertainment is the business of the NBA... purists of course hate the fact..."It's OK for an owner to say that. I just wish the players would focus more on hoops ... because playing ball with real skills is entertainment. And none of this Bob-Sura-pad-my-stats BS! Bring on the playoffs, where, hopefully they will play the game like it's meant.
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Remember the Alamo...
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...so you can whitewash it. As always, thoughtful, surgical bloggage from Silver Rights chipping away at the carapace of half-truths that encase American history. It seems to me movies like the The Alamo (2004) are modern revisions that, in a country on a war footing with "alien" peoples from "other" lands, cock indelible propaganda triggers which are deeply rooted in bias and stereotype: Remember the Alamo, brave, noble men of the west! We were outnumbered, but we never gave up! We fought to the bitter end! How can a movie like this not be propaganda? Do war movies really get made so that the target audiences can enjoy themselves, by basking in two hours or more of blood-splattering? (OK, blood-splattering in a flick like "Dawn of the Dead" may be acceptable as a cinematic entertainment, but hell, it was only 90 minutes long.) As it seems more of the world is beginning to question the country's prevailing military excursions, certain people need to be reminded: fight or risk being surrounded on every side by marauding aliens bent on taking your land and squeezing it dry (can you say Halliburton and Iraq 10 times fast?) ... remember the Alamo ... but just the part about what the western guys did, because they're the only ones who are -- and ever could be -- heroic. Thumbs ... down.
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zoe
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Zoe is definitely worth a look, especially if you're someone into checking out stats for your blog ... this can do it for your E-mail, while overlaying search features over everything. With the rising uproar about Google's proposed GMail service -- uproar which is a little dubious, because people are basically complaining that Google scanning their E-mail for analysis is a privacy intrusion, while that's exactly what third-party spam filters do -- maybe a better way to approach it is to filter the mail, and the weblinks in our messages -- by yourself. I downloaded (free) Zoe, unpacked it,clicked a neat, little Java JAR file to launch, and set up an account. 3 minutes. And it really works. Not completely intuitive, but very powerful and slick. The best way I can describe it is: it's like a Technorati for your E-mail ... although the software's own tagline -- "googling your email" -- may be at odds with Google's brand in general, and Gmail in particular.
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« Tuesday « April 13, 2004
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Petophilia
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For everyone -- dog owners and non-dog owners alike -- loving human beings is difficult, unpredictable, and often disappointing. Dog love is safer, perhaps more satisfying: Dogs can't betray us, undermine us, tell us they're angry or bored. Dogs can't leave. Our voiceless companions, dogs are a blank canvas on which we can paint anything we wish... Behavioral research suggests that men and women love dogs equally, but often in different ways. Men usually love dogs because they don't talk, which makes them the perfect pals. A guy can have an intense relationship, like Samuel does with Namath, and never have to discuss it. Women are more likely to see dogs as emotionally complex creatures; it's disturbingly common to hear them say their dogs understand their moods better than their boyfriends; that their dogs know when they're upset, but their husbands don't.This has to be a uniquely western pathology; for instance, in Asia, they eat dogs, but then, maybe they have relationships with their chickens and pigs there. Now, I've heard from some of my dog-loving associates that dogs give 'unconditional' love, but if you're willing to put more effort into finding 'love' with your pets -- an odd phrase in this context to me -- then perhaps you may want to go see your shrink. Some people seem to want everything to be easy, including their relationships, and rather than work at it, or -- gasp -- go it alone, they turn to an animal, who can't know any better. More love going around for animals, and less for humans: what a wonderful world it will be.
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« Monday « April 12, 2004
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The Apprentice: Only Two Remain
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In an interview, Bill said that he was proud of the way he had played the game. He said that he was true to himself the whole way through. In his own interview, Kwame said that his grandfather could only sign his name with an X and his mother was the first in his family to finish college. And now, Kwame had an MBA from Harvard and might have the opportunity to work for Donald Trump. Kwame thought that he was truly living the American Dream. On the rooftop, Kwame told Bill, May the best man win. Bill replied, I think we already have."Well, I hope Kwame gets the job in the finale this week, though it looks like Omarosa has created a big problem for him by "losing" Jessica Simpson. I like Kwame's portrayal. But I like Bill's portrayal too. Either of them should do just fine in the Trump organization. All business, and especially business at Donald Trump's level, comes down to personal relationships. One thing I've noticed over the course of 12 weeks of the show is that of all the cronies brought in by the Donald, to either participate or observe, none look like Kwame. With the female CEO running his golf/country club operations, hiring Kwame would fill that empty "token" seat in the boadroom, but my gut says that Trump's going to stick with what's made him comfortable and successful over the years ... so, congratulations in advance, Bill. I will eat my words if I'm wrong, but this is business, never personal. The only color smart businessmen care about is green... blah, blah, blah. Well, we'll see.
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« Sunday « April 11, 2004
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August 6, 2001
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Declassified 9/11/2001 document?
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« Friday « April 9, 2004
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Competition Brief: "...what really matters to us all is the air we breathe, the food we eat and the places we live. We therefore challenge photographers around the world, to communicate this to our political leaders creatively and convincingly. We want a collection of thoughtful, provocative, dramatic and enlightening images that will inspire decision-makers by helping them to visualise a greener, fairer society for all..."
b/w: WorldChanging
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Introduction to Photoblogs and MoBlogs
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« Thursday « April 8, 2004
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Fundrace.org
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Interesting little web applications. One lets you see who in your neighborhood -- or whatever zip code you provide -- is donating to presidential candidates. The other one maps out the street locations of the largest donors, by party. Looking at the map of San Francisco ... it's a pretty liberal place, eh?
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"Often witty but sometimes serious or offensive..."
b/w: Prometheus 6
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If There Were No TV in America...
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Work is the one acceptable vice in America; people are encouraged to be greedy. TV is the only acceptable escape. In other countries people drink, have affairs, raise children. Americans no longer raise children, because they take too much time away from work. Babies cry while you are trying to iron a shirt for a meeting. They make you come home at eight-thirty, while the guy in the office next to you, who has no children, is ready to stay until nine to impress the boss. Worse, babies smell, they throw up, they ruin the Swedish furniture you worked so hard to buy. A baby -- let
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Children And TV
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Watching TV is a passive event. Children -- and adults -- remain completely immobile while viewing the box. Most viewing experiences, at least among Americans, are both quiet and non-interactive. All attention is given to the images.
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Map: US Black Population by County
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Pushed to the fringes, it would seem. This chart is based on 1990 census data.
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« Thursday « April 1, 2004
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Some General Basketball Thoughts
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Mark Cuban: "Give up your body for the team. Get the turnover and the ball back even if you are going to be in pain the next day. Go team! In reality however, its HORRIBLE for the NBA. Not only do you put both players involved at risk for injury, but it takes away some of the most exciting and watchable plays in basketball."I don't know about this blogging "phenomenon." Maybe not everyone -- present company excluded, natch -- should have a blog, but people who are in the media a lot should really consider a blog. Even if ghostwritten, it's probably the best way they have to control "spin" on their own stories; newspapers and magazines have a product to push, so they probably don't care as much about the story as the subject who's getting covered.
Take Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, for instance. Lots of old-school owners want to say that Mark Cuban is just some young, upstart whack-job who got lucky in the dotcom boom and bailed on it before the bust, with carloads of cash, but as I've been perusing Cuban's blog recently, he comes across as a young, upstart whack-job who's also a pretty solid, innovation-minded businessman, always focused on improving the essential parts of his operation. In the case of the NBA, obviously, that essence is the "player." And in that light, what he has to say about taking hard fouls -- and their effect on his investments, the players -- is really interesting. He's a fan ... who also happens to be an owner, and he's got a weblog. Boo-yah!
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NPG Music Club
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Official Home of Prince and The NPG.It remains to be seen if all the "big" musical acts have the same kind of vision -- and prolific creative vault -- that Prince does, because they should all be selling direct to fans. Cut out the middlemen. The RIAA has been pretty successful in tarring all music fans with the same "criminal" brush. But in the case of established artists, like a Prince, if the talent steps up and invites us into their corner, why do you need a record company at all? They can do nothing but jack the price up. The "brand" already exists in the case of an established artist; we just want to hear the chords. Only problem with Prince's site: all Windows Media. Feh! On second thought, it would stink if all of the "big" acts did start selling to fans, but ended up locking out a large segment of their audience through short-sighted and exclusive technology choices.
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Will 'moblogs' mean mo' money?
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"Taking two images per month per user is not going to pay back your investment."(I love when a unit like News.com -- with hope of someday being taken seriously as a media authority -- tries to "be cool" by ripping off street slang: 'mo money?' WTF? But I digress.) As with any "emerging" technology, if the market leaders blow it, and don't make it easy for the early-adopters, they can take the teeming masses that are yearning to blog but have yet to be told that fact (i.e. receive targeted marketing), and kiss them goodbye. It should be as easy to post a picture to your blog as it is to post text. WTF are those knuckleheads doing with their APIs? Why aren't photoblogging capabilities already getting baked into MT, Radio, and similar blogging tools? Opportunity.
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