"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
It’s good to know that some folks are being proactive…
“Jackie told us that Travis Air Force Base phoned soon after 9/11, asking for records related to the possible use of a Berkeley Public computer to attempt to hack into their system. The call was refered to her, the director. When she told them a subpoena [...]
WNUR’s annual phoneathon is well underway, but it’s not too late to pledge your support. I was a DJ, producer, music director, and internet consultant at WNUR for a little more than 8 years. It feels weird to listen to the pledge requests without having pulled a shift of my own.
By the way, [...]
Metafilter pointed me to this interesting Francis Davis article looking at the question of whether Jazz, a notoriously “free” area of culture, may still have some peculiar constraints when it comes to the area of sexual orientation.
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In case I forget why I love the internet…
Since I installed MovableType as my weblog engine, I’ve wanted to have the image support running. Not so much because I have a lot of image stuff I want to do, but more just because part of what I like about running my blog is the [...]
I stumbled across The Music Business and the Big Flip by Clay Shirky. In it, he notes how the music industry has been transformed by digital technology “at the ends” — in the studios and in the way listeners use it — while noting that the “middle” hasn’t yet seen so much effect.
He notes [...]
Mother Jones has an online interview with EFF agitator and Grateful Dead Songwriter John Perry Barlow,about “the Total Information Awareness project, online activism, file sharing, and the prospect of a digital counterculture.”
I think Barlow just about always has good things to say, but this quote is particularly great:
As the Navajo say, “It’s impossible to [...]
Where in the world is…? chronicles the recently begun round-the-world adventures of a French software developer who decided to take off…
You can check out his whole itinerary, and he’s got a souped up SVG version if you’re into that sort of thing. (I am.)
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