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Wednesday, January 29, 2003 |
Super Bowl myths dispelled. "Las Vegas police Lt. Brad Simpson wants to set the record straight about domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday: The despicable crime does not peak on the day of America's most watched sports spectacle." [Purportal.com Headlines]
10:46:52 PM 
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Dave: To Tom Matrullo who wonders what good RSS is if it just shovels the same old crap he reads in newspapers. Tom, t's better than that. Much. RSS creates a level playing field that's open to all. Amateurs and pros, young and old, rich and poor, the homeless, the uninsured and people with AIDS, you name it -- they all can slug it out for readers in the same venue. If you subscribe to Scripting News, today you've already heard about a new peer-to-peer network, you've learned a little math, and read an amusing Glenn Fleishman piece about skiing in Montana (if you clicked) and heard that Dubya is borrowing a few lies (oops lines) from Teddy Roosevelt. And it's not even 7AM. Sure the NY Times, BBC, News.Com, etc are all worth reading. But now you're getting more variety, and they're getting competition, which are good things, imho.
Another way to look at it. A old style journalist interviews a couple dozen people for a week, and then produces an article that you can read in five minutes. He includes a few quotes. That's one way to do it. Another way is DIY or Do It Yourself. A news event. I think to myself "Who would know what this means?" I go to their weblog. See what they think. Link to them from my weblog. Then I think of another person. I go to their weblog. Etc etc. This is good because it routes around the soundbite-creating and dumbing-it-down processes. Who cares if the expert said it in a clever way (actually I do care). But what I really want is to know what they really think, not what the editors of the pub want me to hear. [Scripting News]
This is the kind of thing that inspires my ''let 1000 weblogs bloom'' rants. I've mentioned this previously here, along with Tweney's ''Understanding weblogs,'' A vision for the Web at Webster, and other ideas scattered hither and yon back at 'tother blog. I'll be sure to let y'all know if anything develops...
10:46:01 PM
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Economist: A radical rethink. The alternative is to return to the original purpose of copyright, something no national legislature has yet been willing to do. Copyright was originally the grant of a temporary government-supported monopoly on copying a work, not a property right. [Tomalak's Realm]
10:35:43 PM
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Slammer may not feed on Microsoft alone. Other companies' products that use the flawed Microsoft database software--ranging from security scanners to backup servers--could have amplified the SQL worm's impact, say researchers. By Robert Lemos, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
10:27:00 PM
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From Benton:
EDITORS AND LOBBYISTS WAGE HIGH-TECH WAR OVER LETTERS The proliferation of communication technology has allowed activists to take grassroots campaigns to new levels, organizing and attracting members more quickly via the Web and distributing messages and materials via email. One such activity has drawn the ire of newspaper editors, however, as form letter communications from coalition members purported to be one-off grassroots letters to the editor have become commonplace. Editors from papers across the country are employing technology of their own to counteract the trend, using Internet searches and email lists to identify
association form letters that have been sent to multiple papers.
[SOURCE: The New York Times, AUTHOR: Jennifer Lee]
3:55:22 PM
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Internet Worm Unearths New Holes: Attack Reveals Flaws in How
Critical Systems Are Connected.
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Ariana Eunjung Cha,
Washington Post.
1:54:43 PM
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(Another
dance
story blinked here last year.)
1:54:35 PM
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Graham
Redivivus: Stories That Make the Heart Quake, by Deborah Jowitt, in The Village Voice.
No one makes dances like Martha Graham anymore. That's as it should be; autres temps, autres moeurs. But thanks to a court decision we can see, at the Joyce through February 2, works too long absent from New York stages, sensitively rehearsed by artistic directors Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin and a slew of guest coaches, and superbly performed.
. . . . The size of the theater and/or wise artistic decisions have yielded a performing style less melodramatic than that dictated by large houses and the failing eyesight of Graham in her last years. By and large, the dancers don't make faces; they let their faces reflect what their bodies are undergoing.
What they are undergoing is often fearsome. In her prime, Graham made big works that journeyed through myth and Jungian psychology to the recesses of her own soul—dissecting narrative and rearranging it in time and space with the skill of a film editor. They are not pretty. Watch Elizabeth Auclair or Fang Yi-Sheu—both wonderfully nuanced in the 1947 duet Errand Into the Maze; the heroine has temporarily routed the horned "Creature of Fear," and is dancing her relief, when panic again takes over her body. The symbolic creature isn't even on stage at that point, but she senses his nearness and gives herself to a shuddering so convulsive that you think she'll break in two.
Great movement description all the way through.
Following this story, back in 2000 (on 'tother blog), I said,
Trying to understand intellectual property in all its dimensions? Read this.
Here are links to
12:54:30 PM
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250,000 Brits Face Child Porn Probe, by Jeff
Edwards, Daily Mirror.
Credit card giant Visa have launched a probe to see how many of their customers have signed up to web sites featuring child abuse.
Now Mastercard and American Express have told police they want to join a special investigation to see how many of their card-holders have been buying child porn.
But detectives fear the huge numbers involved could overwhelm the criminal justice system.
11:54:19 AM
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