Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Putting the 'Hip and Cool' Back in Family Films. Walden Media is zeroing in on what its founders call the underserved market for high-quality family and youth entertainment. By Ralph Blumenthal. [New York Times: Business] 9:22:44 PM    comment []

"A bully can be stopped. So can a mob". Tim Robbins lashes back at the lynch mob calling for his head and those of other peace activists. [Salon.com] 8:26:09 PM    comment []

More Dave: Princeton has an excellent RSS 2.0 feed for its daily paper. They didn't go half-way. They support guid, category, and author. It's as good as any feed I've produced. Of course we subscribed to Princeton from the aggregator at Harvard. These are amazing times in university news. [Scripting News] 8:24:10 PM    comment []

Report on CFP 2003 from the start of the month. War on Electronic Privacy: Attendees of Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference fight for high tech civil liberties. By Annalee Newitz, SF Gate. 2:28:57 PM    comment []

Using Cell Phones to Fight TB A pilot project in the coastal city of Cape Town is using the text message service on cell phones to remind patients to take their medication, saving the over-stretched public health services time and money. The country is said to be facing one of the worst TB epidemics in the world, with disease rates up to 60 times higher than those currently experienced in the United States. 10:27:59 AM    comment []

Two years ago, on t'other blog: Tax Day Oh, my. R.I.P., Joey Ramone Next Thursday is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Serial arson as environmental action: Burn, Baby, Burn: 'Stop urban sprawl!' 'Burn the rich!' 'An acre an hour is obscene!' Is it any wonder some are rooting for the arsonists An Exclusive Interview With The Preserves Arsonist He is smart. He is professional. He is everything you don't expect. Under Fire Property owner threatened by arsonist says he won't back down New Economy: Curdled Musical Romance Gets Couples Counseling Now, having sued Napster for alienation of affection, the recording industry sees the error of its old ways and wants to reconcile with consumers — while giving them some of the new thrills they have learned with Napster. But the industry also now has serious questions on whether it could ever again trust consumers to not indiscriminately copy the music they buy and give it away free to friends and strangers. At this point, the recording companies and their customers do not need more lawyers. They need couples counseling. VeriSign Taking CyberCash Operations (but not CyberCash's ownership interests in other companies). Blackboard Gets $48 Million in Funding 9:27:50 AM    comment []

On The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown Da Vinci: Father of Cryptography?. A new novel from a cryptography expert mixes fact with fiction to tell a story about Leonardo Da Vinci, the occult, secret societies, modern forensics and the history of religion -- among other things. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 6:15:23 AM    comment []