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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
Chicago crime data meets Google maps
If you want to know where to buy street drugs or hire the services of a prostitute in Chicago, this web site, which pinpoints the location of crimes using Google maps, would certainly be helpful.
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10:47:16 PM 
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Farce, take two. My colleague Tim Grieve is in Washington covering the Senate follies for Salon. His dispatch tonight is a must-read. If you need background, his FAQ-style introduction to the whole filibuster foofaraw is essential. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]
From the Grieve piece, The nuclear option: Game on!:
. . . . When he finally finished, Schumer rose to ask his question again.
"Isn't it correct," Schumer asked Frist, "that on March 8, 2000, my friend from Tennessee voted to uphold the filibuster of a judge, Richard Paez?"
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To justify changing the rules of the Senate -- and breaking those rules to change them -- Frist desperately needs to be able to argue that he's engaged not in an affirmative power grab but in a defensive reaction to the sins of the Senate Democrats. Ideally, he'd be able to claim that the Democrats' filibusters are unprecedented. But he can't do that, and everyone knows it: In 1968, the Republicans led a filibuster of Abe Fortas, Lyndon Johnson's pick to serve as chief justice of the United States.
So Frist has fallen back on a more careful formulation; he says that there's no precedent for denying a floor vote to a judicial nominee who enjoys the support of a majority of the Senate. Frist injected that "majority support" qualifier into his speech Wednesday so often and so abruptly that it sometimes seemed that someone was sending him electric shocks to remind him.
10:40:30 PM
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I wasn't going to bother blinking any notice of the NYT proposal to charge for archived Op-Ed content and yadda yadda, figuring that if you were reading here you probably knew about it, and, so, wtf. Then I saw that Jill namechecked The 'Evolving Personalized Information Construct' in a post titled: go offline.
Remember that eight-minute movie published in 2014, the one describing what actually happened between 2004 and 2014? And how the New York Times is going to go offline, becoming a newsletter for the intellectual elite and the elderly? They just took the first step. Megnut reports.
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10:22:54 PM
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Important new book on sharing economies.
David Bollier blogs about what looks like an important new book:
Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy, edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (MIT Press, 2005), features seminal critiques of online commons by some of the most exciting thinkers in this emerging field: Yochai Benkler, James Boyle, James Love, Tim Hubbard, Paul David, Richard Stallman and Philippe Aigrain – as well as several noted cultural anthropologists like Fred Myers, Anthony Seeger and Marilyn Strathern. (Full disclosure: I am a co-author, with John Clippinger, of an essay in this book, and thrilled to be among the above company.)
Like any interdisciplinary anthology, this collection of essays is eclectic and uneven. Some chapters are more beset by academic jargon than others; some resemble a first-course dish rather than a satisfying meal. That said, Code is a rich and provocative introduction to some very new ways of thinking about economics, digital technologies and the public good. . . . . [Smart Mobs]
7:04:38 PM
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