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More thoughts on this in the morning.
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Radio Free Blogistan, regularly interesting. Check out Blogs Giveth and Blogs Taketh Away?. Ray Ozzie writes about e-mail and blogging taking away when other technologies give back. I recognize the compulsive "system monitor" personality he talks about and so I hope I can look forward to someday hacking my flow as effectively as he describes it.
It's fascinating to read how he's watched his children adopt IM and not email as their basic mode of online communication. I noticed this generation gap a few years ago but I'm not in a position to make these systems evolve, at least not directly, not the way Ozzie is.
I also like the way he's using Radio's Stories feature for his essays, and I think he deserves some more coherent feedback in that format. A challenge!
In another context, ThatAdamGuy asked me how I find the time to write in numerous different blogs, and this roused a long answer out of me. [Radio Free Blogistan]
8:05:14 PM
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One year ago, on ''t'other blog'' . . . Meet the faculty:
- Monitoring Of Judicial Internet Use Supported: Judges' Panel Cites
Music Downloading (AP)
- Quoting even one sentence, if it conveys the gist of the entire story,
isn't something that [the AP wants] to permit now.
- If you maintain a server running Microsoft IIS, patch it now. Netscape
Sees Red As FBI Warns Of New Attack, by Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes.
- Haiku Error Messages, a Salon challenge.
- R.I.P., Jacobus Rex, aka Jim Celarier. I'll miss you.
1:05:43 PM
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This is some form of jest, yes? Isn't it?
NASA plans
to read terrorist's minds at airports, by Frank J. Murray, The
Washington Times.
Airport security screeners may soon try to read
the minds of travelers to
identify terrorists.
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have told
Northwest Airlines security specialists that the agency is developing
brain- monitoring devices in cooperation with a commercial firm, which it
did not identify.
Space technology would be adapted to receive and analyze brain-wave and
heartbeat patterns, then feed that data into computerized programs "to
detect passengers who potentially might pose a threat," according to
briefing documents obtained by The Washington Times.
NASA wants to use "noninvasive neuro-electric sensors," imbedded in gates,
to collect tiny electric signals that all brains and hearts transmit.
Computers would apply statistical algorithms to correlate physiologic
patterns with computerized data on travel routines, criminal background and
credit information from "hundreds to thousands of data sources," NASA
documents say.
[Politech
list.]
12:05:32 PM
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From April, Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification, by Jon Udell, explores the powerful implications of some of these recent moves in Radio (like instant messaging, the radio community server, OPML, and instant outlining).
[P]erhaps in this medium
we can finally bootstrap software that encourages and supports best practices.
8:44:53 AM
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Judge hits rewind on ReplayTV case. U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted permission to combine a copyright lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of the device owners and one filed by consumer electronics manufacturer Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV. [News.Com, via Tomalak's Realm]
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It's getting more and more interesting. Beta: Instant Messaging in Frontier/Radio.
As Dave noted earlier: Heads-up, some time in the next few hours (Murphy-willing) we're going to release tcp.im, which allows Radio and Frontier to be an instant messaging client or server (either can be either). It was a collaboration between Eric Soroos, Jeremy Bowers and myself; with Jake Savin doing the close. There may be some bugs and more docs to write over the next few days. Should be final on Monday. Allows us to reactivate instant outlining, and do weblog posts over IM. The first two transports supported are Jabber and AIM. There's a driver framework that makes it easy to support more. Obvious next choices are Microsoft and Groove. Looking forward to seeing what developers do with it. [Scripting News]
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