tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87251822011-07-29T00:04:42.995-04:00"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." —Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)Blind Tangerine Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09336223442433692024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725182.post-1150974259059087002006-06-22T07:04:00.000-04:002006-06-22T07:04:19.160-04:00

Digital Straight Talk: ?Fiery Missives? and Other Emotional Tactics Driving Net Neutrality Debate... Last week, Google?s top Washington lobbyist disclosed that the company had configured its search engine to return paid links that support Google?s position on net neutrality after the entry of certain key words" ... Digital Straight Talk is produced by Cox Communications, the third-largest cable

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Among the NYSE Rule Changes leading to full implementation of the Hybrid Market: a new rule, with a pilot program starting today, to insulate the information that flows into proprietary specialist trading from any information the specialist picks up in the course of trading on behalf of clients. As approved in the Hybrid Market Initiative, the Specialist Algorithm is permitted to send messages

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Crying Foul In Short-Selling Land (Forbes): An issue once relegated to conspiracy theorists and boiler-room insiders is about to get its 15 minutes in the sun when the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up naked short-selling in a hearing next Wednesday. The hearing, which was postponed a week because of scheduling (and what was said to be overwhelming media interest), will focus on a brewing

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Toe Jam Football Originally uploaded by theblindtangerine. The Mrs. is hurrying back from the kitchen with the popcorn lest she miss a precious minute of "Poltergeist." Busts a toe. Has to wear the pitiful sick-person shoe. Yikes! The emergency room experience naturally leaves us wondering why our healthcare system here in the U.S. is much worse than even a lot of places in the Third

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The Mayor's News Service: Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A New York jury said the owner of the World Trade Center was legally responsible in the 1993 terrorist bombing that killed six people and injured 1,000. The civil trial jury today found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 68 percent liable for the attack, in which terrorists detonated explosives in a rented van in the 400-car garage

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Editor & Publisher: SPJ Reaffirms Decision to Give Judith Miller Its First Amendment Award: NEW YORK The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has reaffirmed its plans to honor embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller with its First Amendment Award on Tuesday, amid new revelations concerning the reporter's involvement in the CIA leak investigation and her recent grand jury

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MTV is shocked! shocked! to learn that the White House stages propaganda events ... but takes a balanced approach to the issue in its lede .... It was billed as a candid chat between President Bush and American troops in Iraq about the upcoming constitutional referendum and the progress of the war. But critics are calling it a carefully scripted media play that was preceded by a dress rehearsal.

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Ode to Indian Summer Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. On a calmer note, a random snap from the Bicho lounging around the apartment in his underwear and slippers one fine afternoon a week or so ago. Neuza left a beer in the freezer to quick-chill, then forgot it. Glorious fall color, but the golden Corona flavor proved bruised post-thaw. I like living on the fourth floor, it's

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75centsworthofbullshit Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Riding the 2-3-4-5 and N-R lines today was not made any easier by these bullshit screamer headlines on the covers of the local tabloid bottom-feeders ... These bastards really, really piss me off. Both headlines suggest that the terror plot is an accomplished fact, though the Post's is ambigious: Does the phrase "Qaeda thugs"

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Hey, I have to start paying attention to Eventful. Neuza loooooves Beck (because he groks Tropicalia, in part) and the dude is playing at the minor league stadium at Coney Island tomorrow with other South American favorites. I owe her a day out. Since I quit my job I've had a hard time letting go of the killer work routine. I just reproduce it in my home office, like my granddad did after he

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U.S. News & World Report to Shift Focus to the Web (Folio magazine): U.S. News & World Report announced a major strategic shift away from print newsgathering to build its Web business.  The move comes as major newsweeklies?like newspapers?face the continuing struggle for relevancy as a growing number of readers are comfortable with getting their news online and elsewhere. ?There?s no point

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The vintage responsible: Chauteau le Grand Faurie 1998, AOC St. Emilion Grand Cru: the best the corner liquor store (Love Liquors), which specializes in pints of Hennessy, has to offer. The opinion: Turner Movie Classics is single-handely carrying the cable TV industry. It, and the PBS News Hour, are the only reaons to continue paying for cable. Sure, it comes bundled now with cable

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GringosBicycling Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. My wife got an assignment to write about the NYC Century Ride for a Brazilian mag, captured this three-generation Team Cookie-Monster stopping for hydration. I think this casts gringo civilization in an appealing light, don't you?

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The New York Times editorial on President Bush's speech to the nation last night was too genteel in praising him for giving an effective discourse that might bump him up in the polls a bit, temporarily. But I suppose that is is one aspect of the situation, a legitimate one. The crux of the matter appears a few paragraphs down: We have already seen what happened to the Federal Emergency Management

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After figuring out how to get out of yum interdepency hell, I'm doing my yum -y update to upgrade my system to Fedora Core 4. I've arrived at this point: Other Transactions: Obsoleting: compat-libstdc++.i386 0:8-3.3.4.2 with compat-libstdc++-296.i386 0 :2.96-132.fc4 Obsoleting: cryptsetup.i386 0:0.1-4 with cryptsetup-luks.i386 0:1.0.1-0.fc4 Obsoleting: db4.i386 0:4.2.52-6 with

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Apache Synapse Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. This is the kind of social network stuff I meant, using a fabulous, Java-based "mind mapper," Kdissert. But Agna (google it) is even better.

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Bisonte is the art studio fo my in-laws, Bia and Geraldo, proud parents of the Fellini-handsome Fabio. Bia has just learned the evil ways of Macromedia Flash, and Geraldo dreams up the visual concepts with the help of an occasional baseado. My favorite: the dog playing a piano made of bones. But it's hard for illustrators in Brazil, as for all symbolic manipulators these days, and the poor

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David Brooks, the resident half-assed sophist at the New York Times editorial pages, sees a "silver lining" in the spectacle of bloated corpses rotting in the streets of New Orleans: As a colleague of mine says, every crisis is an opportunity. And sure enough, Hurricane Katrina has given us an amazing chance to do something serious about urban poverty. That's because Katrina was a natural

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Peter Johnson in USA Today (via SPJ Press Notes): The media shelf life for natural disasters is notoriously short: Within two weeks of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which cut a $30 billion destructive path through south Florida and the Louisiana coast, the story virtually disappeared from network newscasts. But experts and journalists predict that mounting questions about U.S. government

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West Indian Carnival, Brooklyn, 2005 Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Still raving on outside even as we blog. We live at ground zero for the annual follies, near Washington & Eastern Parkway. Huge army of cops this year keeping people off the grounds of the Brooklyn Museum. Nice going, artsy-fartsy "we love the community" coalition of cultural institutions, with your invitation-only

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Today's New York Times: Under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, employers with 20 or more employees who offer health care coverage are required to offer departing employees an opportunity to extend their health benefits. This law, known as Cobra, extends an employee's health benefits for up to 18 months beyond the last date of employment. The law says that employees

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I quit my job as managing editor for a small weekly trade journal. I don't want to wash dirty linen in public, but suffice it to say that I was happy that my financial situation permitted me to make a swift, clean break with a situation in which some fundamental lines got crossed as far as I was concerned. Now what? My freelance translation and editorial clients have been asking after me quite a

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My father-in-law is the very image of the South American lawyer-intellectual-sambista. Neruda-like in his dignity, and a delightful gentleman. Click the title for more family album shots from Juquitiba where the tiny monkeys live.

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Our modest little publication has a standards editor--he covers things related to technical standards, like Basel II and SWIFT messaging and Web services--but his job is nothing like that of the standards editor at the New York Time, conversing in today's edition with the paper's public editor: MR. SIEGAL I'm supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how

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warpig Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Fidelity's defense and aerospace index fund: notice the point in time at which the slope of the upward trend steepens sharply. Sometime in early to mid-2003. Hmmmmm.

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warpig Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. I actually own a few hundred bucks' worth of this baby (I only invest in mutual funds and the like because I write about public companies). Even I, a stock market ignoramus, figured Bush's war would drive up the value of the military-industrial complex ...

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June Cole takes some heat for his comments on "martyred" American journalist Stephen Vincent, killed in Basra. Cole believes the art journo and blogger's death may have been an honor killing. I have one small comment to add to the Professor's explanation of this view. He writes, Note that I did not say, as Mrs. Vincent assumes, that he was sleeping with his interpreter, Nur al-Khal. That he

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I will be dating myself by confessing this, but my first exposure to technology was the crazy, mixed up Moog synthesizer music of Wendy (n�e Walter) Carlos's Switched-On Bach. On Blogdex today, the death of the inventor, Robert Moog, is registering more interest than the Moral Majoritarian Pat Robertson's gaffe about Comrade Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Not many people know this about me, but I

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A Little More Technology Editing, Please, from David Card of Jupiter Research : This graf ran toward the end of a Wall Street Journal article: SBC's Internet-TV boxes will be smaller than a typical cable box. Cable boxes need to be big enough to store all channel programming at once, but because Internet-based boxes stream only one channel at a time, they don't need the extra space. Um, isn't

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Waiting for the Brazilian wife to get back from the land of pizza, I find myself following the Folha de S. Paulo's ombudsman more regularly as the powers that be down there start trying to bring down the guys running the central bank and treasury in the Lula government. This week he is mad as hell that the last issue saw the letters to the editor section get cut yet again: Os leitores perderam

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Robert's Rules of Decorum wins headline of the week just because I like the fact that somebody else out there knows what "decorum" means, and thinks enough of me to assume I am sufficiently cultured to get the reference. Lately, I am feeling like I am lost in the land of the Yahoos. Last week, researchers found several memos from the summer and fall of 1984 in which future Supreme Court

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Media Bistro has this job listing: Gekko Blogs, LLC is the creative agency for the blogosphere. Our cool clients believe that a top-notch blog is a better way to relate to the public than old-school direct mail, spam, corporate websites, print advertisements, etc. We're looking someone with the skills to write and edit some of the world's finest blogs. That means scouring RSS feeds,

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Today's top performing industry: Cigarettes. I'm embarrassed today for my colleagues at the American Society of Business Publish Editors, on account of this "inspiring story" in the current newsletter about the "editor of the embattled nation�s [Iraq's] first trade magazine." Mr. Abid, who is "director-general of private-sector development for the Iraqi Ministry of Trade," "launched his

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Hot off the wires, the debut of StreetIQ.com--The Leader in Financial Podcasts. Probably the only financial podcast portal to date, too, but we will let that pass. Looks kind of fun.

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Officer Says Military Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists, writes the New York Times. The account from Colonel Shaffer, a reservist who is also working part-time for the Pentagon, corroborates much of the information that the Sept. 11 commission has acknowledged it received about Able Danger last July from a Navy captain who was also involved with the program but whose name has not been made

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bichonaladeira Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. That's me near our house in the Vila Beatriz (or Sumarezinho) district of Sampa during our recent vacation in Brazil. My hobby is photographing graffiti, but I didn't get to do as much as I hoped this trip.

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Brazil in a Nutshell Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. I am back from Brazil, though Neuza is staying on for a couple of weeks to put things in order down there. This photo, shot by Neuza from the Ladeira da Misercordia in Olinda, along the traditional Carnaval parade route, seems to sum it all up somehow. How so? Can't say, exactly. That's Recife off in the distance. I managed to

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Lawrence Lessig on Hayek and the prediction markets: Here's the but: The prediction markets apparently did very badly with the Supreme Court nomination. Roberts was way behind for a long time on tradesports.com, and during the Clement cascade, Clement started to dominate everyone else. (Also Rehnquist was strongly predicted to resign; investors got that one wrong too.) Can we develop a general

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This press release that comes through Finextra illustrates Plato's view that all things tend to reveal their true natures in the fullness of time: Japan's Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is introducing slot machine-style games to its ATMs which will give customers the chance to win back bank fees or around $10 in cash. The fruit machine-style games will run as customers wait for the cash machines to

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Reuters: HOUSTON (Reuters) - Bassam Khalaf was paid to help keep U.S. air travel safe as a baggage screener. His alter ego, the Arabic Assassin, rapped about flying a plane into a building. The Transportation Security Administration could not reconcile the two and fired him last week, saying his free speech rights as an aspiring rap singer did not extend to his right to check luggage at Houston

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In We're Not in Watergate Anymore, Frank Rich lowers the boom on the infotainment economy: At Time, Norman Pearlstine -- a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists, no less -- described his decision to turn over Matt Cooper's files to the feds as his own, made on the merits and without consulting any higher-ups at Time Warner. That's no doubt the truth, but a corporate

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My newest hero: Paul Conley and his last-angry-man "blog for those who toil in the most specialized, and perhaps the least glamorous, area in the press -- trade journalism." Paul Conley entered journalism at the age of six. Too young to be hired as a paper boy, he convinced a neighborhood teenager to subcontract his route. Since then, Paul has continued to rewrite the rules of the profession as

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Album Cover for the Focas Loucas Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Perfect album cover. Too bad the Foca can't sing worth a darn! She knows all the lyrics, though. And boy can she dance.

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Gigim 042 quarteto2 Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Our friend Gigi Manfrinato is a starving artist celebrated for her life-sized caricatures and installations. She's been invited to exhibit and work in Paris! She's hesitating, though. We HAVE to talk her into it.

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Fourthojuly Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Best photo I've taken in a long time. Never thought I would show a knack for anything remotely artistic. Three cheers for robotic, point-n-click digicams!

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heartofbrooklyn Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. The community improvement office opens up across the street from the site of the neighborhood's last drive-by fatality ....

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Profile of a Man with a Red Schnozzola Originally uploaded by Colin Brayton. Me as seen in my one of my less well-groomed incarnations. Hi, Mom!

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No one ever believes me when I tell them that there's a lot of vestigial Celtic culture in the Iberian Peninsula--heck, no one even remembers the Visigoths anymore, so how are they gonna recall mysterious naked warriors painted blue?--so I call to witness the Associa��o Gaita de Foles: The Bagpipe Association of Portugal. Best professional association since the International Trombone Association,

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New Survey Finds Millions Of Americans Living With Tooth Pain UNIONDALE, N.Y., July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent survey* conducted by Harris Interactive for new Orajel(R) Advanced Tooth Desensitizer, nearly half of all American adults (46 percent) have experiencedsensitive teeth in the past five years. Of these sufferers, almost half either did nothing about their sensitive teeth or

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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting can be a little shrill at times. Case in point, an item about a recent broadcast by the venerable talk show host Paul Harvey, in which he declared as follows: "We didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That was biological

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My patient, loving wife, who has suffered so much from the work schedule of her crazy Protestant-ethic workaholic hubbie, which requires nearly 24-7 attention, is a total babe sprung to life from the pages of R. Crumb and a certain genre of Brazilian popular film from the 1970s.I feel sorry for you for not being married to her, ya poor bastard. The retired bicha grilo and punkette has a new book

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Connotea is a del.icio.us-like "free online reference management service for scientists." It's neat. I once swore that I would sign up to use every social networking and collaborative workspace widget that came along. The phenomenon has now outstripped my capacity to keep up with it. But this is a great idea, lead me straight to this case study from a librarian at Lucent: "Making libraries more

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Went to the doctor this morning, then worked at home all day--a compromise with his order to relax completely, turn off the infernal machine. Had to wake the wife up at 2:00 last night to massage me to sleep, had that palpitation thing going, along with this arthritic shoulder that's crept on me like the white hairs turning up in my chin-beard. Unplug from the network? Not. But at least I can

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An idea whose time has come:OhmyNews International: My introduction to OhmyNews came in June 2003. I had learned about the victory of Roh Moo-Hyun winning the presidency of the Republic of Korea (ROK) with the support of Korean netizens, when he took office in February 2003. I was curious to learn more about how this happened. I posted on a relevant Usenet newsgroup and in response received a

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Bloggers Go Mainstream to Fight Regulation : Are bloggers going mainstream? Web log founders who built followings with anti-establishment postings are now lobbying the establishment to try to fend off government regulation. Some are even working with a political action committee, lawyers and public-relations consultants to do it. ADVERTISEMENT They say they have no choice. "There's a certain

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Hardly anyone discusses editorial workflow as a human process anymore, or so a hasty google of the term seems to indicate. Instead, it's something built into software. And that's just fine with me. Headline of the month, about new contracts being offered on the CBOE: Soy to the World! Also on my mind this week: Do you have employees complaining that work is not fun anymore? Do you have employees

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Jordan bans Saddam novel (Guardian Unlimited): Critics judge it boring, but some in the Middle East consider Get Out of Here, Curse You!, the latest novel by Saddam Hussein, dangerous. The former Iraqi dictator is behind bars and stripped of power but Jordan was anxious enough to ban his tale yesterday, claiming it could damage regional relations. Some 10,000 copies had been printed for

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New York Times' Frank Rich says the, er, flap over Big Bird and the fate of NPR and PBS is a, heh heh, red herring: Look instead at the seemingly paltry $14,170 that, as Stephen Labaton of The New York Times reported on June 16, found its way to a mysterious recipient in Indiana named Fred Mann. Mr. Labaton learned that in 2004 Kenneth Tomlinson, the Karl Rove pal who is chairman of the

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Patricia Nelson Limerick's Dining With Jeff (NY TImes): When I find myself puzzled and even vexed by the opinions and beliefs of other people, I invite them to have lunch. Multiple experiments have supported what we will call, in Jeff's honor, the Limerick Hypothesis: in the bitter contests of values and political rhetoric that characterize our times, 90 percent of the uproar is noise, and 10

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I'm going to indulge in a bit of personal editorializing about a work topic. I have to admit I am--personally--ambivalent about Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog. Writes the power-suit-wearing hippy, the executive-hackerdude: One of the big upsides of my job is hobnobbing. I clearly didn't check with our corporate communications team before saying that, but let's be honest - it's cool to sit with a head

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The Sins of Judith Miller (Russ Baker, Alternet): As a media critic, I spend what feels like far too much time trying to persuade people that most reporters are not sloppy, agenda-driven, biased, or lazy. But it seems that whenever I get up on my high horse, back into the news rides Judith Miller. Zing! The choice of "rides" as the verb in the last clause is nice, it resonates with "high horse."

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Odeo will change the world. Just got my invitation to check out the beta version of the new podcasting site from Blogger founder Evan Williams, late Google employee, and Noah Glass of Listen Lab. Beta my patootie. It's about as beta as Google News is still beta. It is simply just amazingly awesome. Too bad the Odeo Sync tool, which automaticaly downloads from subscribed channels, is Windows-Mac

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It frightens me to think that the guy who is trading for my retirement account might, like this fellow, who blogs on Tales from a Trading Desk, turn out to be a devotee of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). What a lot of nonsense! Imagine, being able to to influence your own mind and behavior and the mind and behavior of others using only language! The thing is, what else is language for except

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New Google Patent May Be Less News For Small News (Search Insider): Google's never ending search for providing a quality end user experience has culminated into a bullet with patent number WO 2005/029368 imprinted across the side. Unfortunately for smaller news services, the bullet may strike the heart of aspiring upstarts-a casualty of Google's friendly fire. How will Google's new News patent

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The Los Angeles Times has canceled a novel Internet feature that allowed readers to rewrite an editorial on the newspaper's website, after some users sabotaged the site with foul language and pornographic images. The newspaper launched the experimental "wikitorial" Friday and killed it early Sunday after an unknown user or users posted explicit photos. An announcement on the newspaper's website

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Chinese Blogger Slams Microsoft (Wired): Twenty-eight floors above the traffic-choked streets of China's most wired city, blogger and tech entrepreneur Isaac Mao sums up his opinion of Microsoft and its treatment of the Chinese bloggers with one word. "Evil," says Mao. "Internet users know what's evil and what's not evil, and MSN Spaces is an evil thing to Chinese bloggers." Mao, 33, knows

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MasterCard Says 40 Million Files Are Put at Risk (New York Times): MasterCard International reported yesterday that more than 40 million credit card accounts of all brands might have been exposed to fraud through a computer security breach at a payment processing company, perhaps the largest case of stolen consumer data to date. MasterCard said its analysts and law enforcement officials had

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Former Linux Architect Moves to Microsoft, from eWEEK, is an interesting story in itself, but what grabbed me was this at the bottom: Editor's Note: This story was corrected to reflect that Robbins is working with Bill Hilf and Microsoft's Linux group, not Bill Hill and the ClearType group. Now that makes more sense! Robbins is the former chief architect at Gentoo, not a top-notch Postscript

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Woke up this morning to find the wife chasing the cat around and yelling "Mao! Mao!" This reminded me of the cartoonist B. Kliban and his famous cat cartoons, so I googled him up. Neuza is enchanted: Cartoons are her major passion in life. She used to write the Portuguese scripts for the Li'l Lulu strip, and she's been reading everything she can get her hands on about R. Crumb lately. I keep

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A lot of people are arguing about the meaning of the word "fixed" in the The Downing Street memo: C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the

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Two headlines, same story: Snow hits out at EU antipathy to business: John Snow, the US Treasury secretary, urged European leaders to stop using anti-capitalist rhetoric or risk losing US investment during a visit to Brussels.: Here's what Snow said in an interview with the blokes from the Eff-Tee: There?s always anti-business sentiment. It seems to me to be better to think of this not so much

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Microsoft joins hands with Yahoo!, Google to censor China's web (AFP): BEIJING (AFP) -- Users of Microsoft's new China-based Internet portal have been blocked from using the words "democracy", "freedom" and "human rights" in an apparent move by the US software giant to appease Beijing. Other words that could not be used on Microsoft's free online blog service MSN Spaces include "Taiwan

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Why I am sitting here on Saturday morning reading Paul Atkins' femarks before the SIA Industry Leadership Luncheon, San Francisco, CA: June 8, 2005? Because I am a news junky, which is what I like about my job. That's why talking over our impending vacation with my wife is getting a little interesting: There's a little voice in my head that says that if I find myself on a white-sand beach in

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If I get up early today and ride in the Tour de Brooklyn, sponsored by Transportation Alternatives, Neuza has promised she will let me install and fire up the air conditioning this afternoon. Deal! Summer is officially here. Marty Markowitz says so.

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MUTELLA is ... "is a terminal-mode Gnutella client with an intuitive and easy to use interface. Initially written by Max for himself, Mutella has now been released to the general public for the benefit of all of us in need of a solid, high-performance client." Actually, it's hooked into quite a few interesting little pools of cultural information, not just Gnutella. Some of them you've never

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Little changes in the daily routine: Suddenly Yahoo! has changed the way it classifies businesses on its financial pages. A lot of that going around, I notice. Then, the robotic coffee machine in the office turns out to have been reprogrammed. Now, instead of just blinking "Your beverage is being prepared ..." over and over again--leaving you to listen for the overtones rising as the cup fills up

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New York Times to hand out free weekly tabloid in city (via SPJ Press Notes): The New York Times Co. will roll out a free weekly tabloid in New York City, offering an alternative to daily free newspapers that have been established in the last two years, including Metro New York and AM New York. Street hawkers will hand out the New York Times publication, called MarketPlace Weekly, at 250

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CRACKED Announces Kick-Ass Additions to Editorial Staff; New Hires Point to Plans for World Domination: NEW YORK, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- CRACKED Magazine, which promises to be the funniest magazine in world history when it re-launches in 2006, today announced new additions to its already mind-blowing and awesome staff. Speaking from Cracked Entertainment's worldwide headquarters atop Park

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Monique Buzzart�'s Directory of Women Trombonists: Alphabetizing is according to the preference of the individual; trombonists may be listed under maiden, married, or both last names. That's Annie Whitehead (above), described by Beat International as "The Sly and Robbie of British brass,the woman everyone turns to when they want a class trombone player." She has worked with many well known

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Rise of the Plagiosphere, a windy but compellling essay on technology, intellectual property, and plagiarism from MIT's Tech Review. The 1960s gave us, among other mind-altering ideas, a revolutionary new metaphor for our physical and chemical surroundings: the biosphere. But an even more momentous change is coming. Emerging technologies are causing a shift in our mental ecology, one that will

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Economist.com: SMOKING causes a third of cancer deaths, but quitting brings immediate benefit. In fact, someone who quits before the age of 50 is half as likely to die of cancer in the subsequent 15 years as he would be if he kept smoking. The trick, then, is helping people quit. With that goal in mind, Cytos Biotechnology, in Zurich, has, as it announced to the American Society of Clinical

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American Anxiety Is High--But Few People Are Adequately Insured Against the Things They Fear Most . Crass, ill-considered press release headline of the week. Implication: Why aren't you sales guys selling behind the fear? The apples are ripe upon the tree. Interesting question, that. Given the continuing impact of 9/11, the Iraq situation, and talk of looming crises in everything from

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Random, irrelevant (or only marginally relevant) item from the BUSINESS WIRE: IncaGold, a world-wide leader in mass-market, impulse-purchase priced entertainment software, will join the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London on 24th May 2005. The company will raise approximately $2 million of new money net of expenses and will have a market capitalisation of roughly $9.5 million after the

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"Lord, I'm a fool for a cigarette ..." An old Ry Cooder recording. The latest from the fabulous Gotham Gazette: Nonsmoking New York? In the past few years, New York has become a far less friendly place for smokers. Cigarettes cost about $3 more in New York City than the national average, thanks to heavy state and local taxes, and there are far fewer places to light up thanks to state and local

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This Seattle nerd saved me endless hours of agony. I screwed up my network at home trying to get my wireless router working right again. I had to download the firmware for Linux and install it. But the folks at Linksys did a half-assed job. The compiler kept crashing. I'd get something like this: realpath(/nfs/verin/array0/home/darkness/tmp/wrt54g/WRT54G/release/src/linux/linux/include/asm/gcc)

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Microsoft Word Grammar Checker Are No Good, Scholar Conclude (Chron. of Higher Edukashun): An article on Sandeep Krishnamurty's "A Demonstration of the Futility of Using Microsoft Word?s Spelling and Grammar Check." I knew Microsoft Word's Spelling and Grammar Check feature was bad. However, I never realized how bad this feature really was until a student turned in a poorly written report that

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I've mentioned my recent adventures in Linux, haven't I? To make a long story short, I got a copy of SuSE Pro 9.2 and started dinking around with it on an old desktop machinie. It was great! Except for one thing: My network settings got all out of whack, and the network configuration tool (a YaST module) just made things worse. I learned more than I ever wanted to about routing tables, device

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Some Sunnis Hint at Peace Terms in Iraq, U.S. Says (New York Times): The Bush administration, struggling to cope with a recent intensification of insurgent violence in Iraq, has received signals from some radical Sunni Arab leaders that they would abandon fighting if the new Shiite majority government gave Sunnis a significant voice in the country's political evolution, administration officials

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IBM backs Firefox in-house (Tech News on ZDNet): IBM is encouraging its employees to use Firefox, aiding the open-source Web browser's quest to chip away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox is already used by about 10 percent of IBM's staff, or about 30,000 people. Starting Friday, IBM workers can download the browser from internal servers and get support from the company's help desk

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TimesDispatch.com | Computerized shoes aid mind, sole: Each shoe contains a microprocessor capable of making 5 million calculations per second. A magnetic sensor in the shoe's heel measures its compression on impact, taking 1,000 readings per second. A secret algorithm (Adidas engineer Mark Oleson says they intentionally omitted it from the patent) decides on the optimal amount of cushioning

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The Post's Howard Kurtzman: Has journalism become an ethical cesspool, or just been forced to adopt greater standards of cleanliness? In the past month alone, four reporters for major newspapers have been ousted, and a columnist was suspended, for ethical missteps. The drip-drip-drip of disclosures about sloppiness, fabrication and plagiarism have further eroded the media's reputation,

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Makeshift grenades responsible for Consulate blasts (Ireland Online): Two small makeshift grenades were used in the explosions outside a building housing the British Consulate in New York today. Slight damage was caused to the building but no one was injured, officials said. The blasts occurred at 8.50am Irish time and originated inside a cement flower box outside the consulate in midtown

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From Powell's Books: From the acclaimed bestselling author of Fight Club and Lullaby comes twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales readers will ever encounter, told by people who have answered an ad for a writers' retreat ? "Abandon Your Life for Three Months" ? unaware they're headed to a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly

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Ouro Preto Originally uploaded by Luiz Felipe. This is where we are going on vacation this year. A sort of literary pilgrimage.

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Are we going to slog through the entire Five Boro Bike Tour. You betcha, after seeing the reunion of the New York Dolls at Irving Plaza--with "special guests."

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The NYSE pulled a fast one this week, which got all of us at work all hot and bothered. It was, if I can be corny for a minute, kind of exciting. We got to play STOP THE PRESSES. Our beat reporter responded like a champ. I expunged the dangling modifiers, brainstormed the hed, and the whole thing went out to the world in near real time. Fun.

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Blogspotting is a fine little online journal from Business Week, which according to the Media Guerilla did a cover story on the b-word recently. Fine pub, BW, even if the typesetting is abominable. I liked this post from Heather Green: 42% said they believe that blogging has forced mainstream media to do a better job of reporting. And 62% of those polled believe that bloggers should not be held

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Army Clears Top Abu Ghraib Case Officers: The Army has cleared four top officers ? including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq ? of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and will not be punished, officials said Friday. Parse the syntax of that sentence carefully and you discover an interesting, if unintended, implication: The Army

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Wife on new carpet from ABC in DUMBO. "Oh my God, I have peasant feet," says the Brazilian life partner.

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The decoding of the Oxyrhynchus papyrii: What a story! In a former life, I was a student in Prof. Joseph Duggan's paleography ('old writing') graduate seminar and got a chance to see the famous papryi stored at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. I do other things now, but the idea of ancient texts written out by bored students of" the classics" on scrap papyrus later used to mummify crocodiles

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