Sunday, October 31, 2004
Antickes and Frets
NYTimes.com > A Work of Halloween Fiction: Antickes and Frets"In the spring of 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots, fearing the wrath of her subjects, crossed the border into England. Once arrived, she wrote a letter to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, explaining her predicament and begging for her protection. Elizabeth wrote back, expressing her shock that subjects should behave so wickedly toward their lawful and divinely appointed Prince. But privately she considered how Mary had often laid claim to the English throne. She also thought how Mary had had a most baleful influence on her Scottish subjects, how she had been an instigator of civil wars and the cause of several murders."
NYTimes.com > Google Keeps On Innovating.
"the rapid flow of other recent innovations from Google"
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Mad Max Passion Play
Japanese school girl goth: the marriage of Lord Humongous with Hiroshima, Music with Merchandising.MasaManiA=????: Dir en grey is fantastic but fans are more ! ??!????????????
Creative comfort
"A new group of licences about to be introduced to the UK could offer a more flexible approach to copyright law. Becky Hogge reports."Link
Everything Bad Is Good For You
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Full Disclosures:"popular culture on average has been steadily growing more complex and cognitively challenging over the past thirty years. The dumbing-down, instant gratification society assumption has it completely wrong. Popular entertainment is making us smarter and more engaged, not catering to our base instincts. "
Friday, October 29, 2004
P2P Politics
Never Forget: Internets Vets for Truth
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
We Came, We Saw, We Reported
"Wikinews is a proposed project with the goal to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view. This proposal describes the project goals, and outlines five basic requirements for the project. If it is implemented, there will be Wikinews communities in many languages. The precise implementation of the Wikinews requirements is left up to these individual communities"They're even taking suggestions for logos.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Portrait of the Sportswriter as a Sox Fan
Salon.com's King Kaufman in another moment of sports writing bliss:"Bellhorn's fourth-inning homer was originally ruled in play. The ball had hit a fan in the front row and dropped back onto the warning track, but this was missed by left-field umpire Jim Joyce. And then Red Sox manager Terry Francona asked Jim with his eyes to ask again yes and then he asked the other umpires would they yes to say yes and first the umpires put their arms around each other yes and fans' hearts were going like mad and yes they said yes it was a home run yes. "
Salon.com News | King Kaufman's Sports Daily
ALCS 7-Game Series Tops News for the Day
Google Search: boston red sox and more News at Midnight PST
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Slashdot | Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent
Slashdot | Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent: "Mark Pesce, lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) writes here and here about using p2p networks, specifically bittorrent, to create a grassroots television network. He cites as an example the BBC's 'Flexible TV' internet broadcasting model using that as the core of a 'new sort of television network, one which could harness the power of P2P distribution to create a global television network.' Producers of video entertainment and news would provide a single copy of a program into the network of P2P clients, and the p2p network peers distribute the content themselves. Thus, a virtual 'newswiki' where the content is distributed bittorrent using some sort of 'trusted peer' or moderator mechanisms as a filtering/evaluation mechanism. So what is stopping anyone from doing this now? Awareness of the concept, perhaps? Lack of broadband connections? Lack of business models for content producers?' "
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
File Under: Commons
ITN Archive
Monday, October 18, 2004
The Tyranny of Email
Email has gone from being a tool of productivity to a sequence of official distractions. Even ruling out personal email and spam, communicating via email is more noise than signal. Read more and understand why. Then go kill your outlook.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Grassroots Get Sticky
MoveOn Political Action Committee: Nothing Accomplished Banners and Stickers
Friday, October 01, 2004
Personal Data Interchange
vCard and vCalendar
