Monday, March 08, 2004

Just heard on NPR that police found the body of Spalding Grey in New York's East River. [Scripting News] Oh, man. R.I.P., Spalding, if it's true. And my heart goes out to Rockwell, here, and the rest of the family everywhere. 5:07:50 PM    comment []

Nielsen Recognizes New Ad Reality. Next year, Neilsen will begin tracking the viewing habits of TV watchers who record their programs on TiVo-like devices for later viewing. It's another sign the old television-viewing model is disappearing. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 7:23:10 AM    comment []

BlogBinders. An interesting service, which allows you to create (and order) a book based on your blog. The service works only with two blog-hosting service providers. You have various personalisation options for the book. A pity it does not work with my blog-service. [Blueblog] 7:22:24 AM    comment []

McDonald's Gives Millions to Patrons, but Very Quietly. This past weekend McDonald's fattened the wallets of 15 customers with million-dollar prizes from an instant-win giveaway sparked by scandal. By Nat Ives. [New York Times: Business] 7:17:23 AM    comment []

College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right. Patrick Henry College, a college primarily for evangelical Christian home-schoolers, is a pipeline into conservative politics. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Education] 7:11:10 AM    comment []

Toward a world of co-modification. Microsoft ex-pat and Unix guru Dave Stutz has written another provocative essay, this time on Some Implications of Software Commodification. It follows The Failure of Shrinkwrap Software. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 7:00:18 AM    comment []

King Kaufman's Sports Daily. Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, playoff regulars: Why baseball's "competitive balance" problem is mostly myth. [Salon.com] 6:53:46 AM    comment []