Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Friendster fires developer for blog. Managers tell an employee she stepped over the line, the latest warning shot for workers who blog. [CNET News.com] 9:48:02 PM    comment []

ABC News' oddball election analysis. ABC News makes some sweeping assumptions today about the presidential race based on the most recent ABC News/Washington Post polling data. ABC's bold conclusion -- ricocheting around the media echo chamber -- that President Bush made clear gains last month is somewhat baffling considering the poll shows Bush actually lost some ground over the past 30 days. According to the data, the race today stands at a dead heat, 48-48. Yet during the survey ending July 25, Bush held a four-point lead, 50-46. [Salon.com] 9:47:58 PM    comment []

InfoWorld: Spammers using sender authentication too, study says. But Wong, who co-authored both the SPF and Sender ID standards, said that stopping spam was never the intention of SPF or Sender ID. The technology is merely a way to stop one loophole spammers use: source address spoofing. Evidence that spammers are publishing SPF records is a good sign, Meng said. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:47:34 PM    comment []

Slavery is not dead, just less recognizable.. Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 9:47:28 PM    comment []

Apple unveils new iMac. All of the new iMac G5 fits inside what the company calls an "enchanting" flat-screen display. [CNET News.com] Um, wow. This is awesome. And a great intermediate step on the way to .... 6:34:47 AM    comment []

Intuitions. This is a very badly worked out laundry list of ideas for my paper on intuitions. Most of it falls under the category of responses to the Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich experiments, but some of it is probably just repitition. [Thoughts Arguments and Rants] 6:34:05 AM    comment []

But Sweetie, You Love Lima Beans. Psychologists were studying false memories when they stumbled on a surprisingly easy target for manipulation: foods. By By BENEDICT CAREY. [The New York Times > Science] 6:27:07 AM    comment []

Blogging 101. This page is an Intro to Blogging for college students in a writing course, and it references the guidelines I developed for my own blogging. I wonder if this is the handiwork of Dr. Daisy? If so, Hello, Daisy! Oh, and here are a few more things you might find useful/thought-provoking: Robert Scoble’s blog-rules; and Rebecca Blood’s “Weblogs: A History and Perspective” (see now that I am writing to a PhD I’m starting to think about citation rules, should that have been in quotes? O, editor-voice, go away, we’ll ring when we need you!) and Christopher Lydon interviews Dave Winer on weblogs (page contains links to audio of the interview). Best of luck! [Learning The Lessons of Nixon] 6:27:05 AM    comment []

A No-Win Situation. Even serious security analysts have begun to admit that a democratic, pro-American Iraq is out of reach. By By PAUL KRUGMAN. [The New York Times > Opinion] 6:24:30 AM    comment []

what's a blog?. First day in my survey of Interactive Media class, with professor Bleeker. He suggests from the podium that students should maintain blogs. Someone asks, what's a blog? I laugh - you're in the right place to find out! I reply. Professor Bleeker suggests I tell her what's a blog.  . . . I figured I might know some of the material in my classes already, having lived through some of the material. I get a certain prideful thrill from counting the number of people on my syllabuses I know, have driven in my car, have visited their homes, have travelled to foreign countries with My pride is restrained when I realized I haven't really read much of any of this. Or my interactions with those people were more grounded in scoring seared pork or drugs or a late night three way tryst during an overlong media conference. I figure I'm getting a meta-education - how is this material taught? How do you compress and digest and convey the fomenting media culture I've been breathing? . . . . [Justin's Links] 6:24:29 AM    comment []

In the polls [Salon.com] 6:21:53 AM    comment []

UK girls use camera-phones to check their hair - poll. DMEurope via the research weblog of William Carter, reports that Vodafone UK polled 3,500 female customers to find out how they use their camera phones and the results are, well, interesting: -- 20 percent of mobile users send snaps of... [Smart Mobs] 6:21:52 AM    comment []

Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest. The creator of Bikes Against Bush planned to use his Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-SMS-bike combo to spray anti-Bush messages on city streets. But police intervene before he could start. Cyrus Farivar reports from New York. [Wired News] 6:21:49 AM    comment []