Posts from — July 2004

'Running to Stand Still'. Alice's Adventures under Ground. This is a full scan of the very first Alice book ever, handwritten and illustrated by Lewis Carroll. [The Cartoonist] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

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well since i'm here in oxford and there are alice dolls all over…. very disconcerting it is…. anyway, here is the first bit.

Is Microsoft Waging a Secret War of Linux Slander. 17 Jul 2004: ABC news is running an interesting article that looks at the never-ending barrage of anti-Linux propaganda. The article asks the question “Could Microsoft be behind a smear campaign aimed at Linux? If not Microsoft, then who?” It's a good look at what bad business will do to win! [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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well here we go then, who do you think is doing it. i personally think it is julia, cause she doesn't read my blog very often….

The Art of Bluffing. Vannevar Bush. “If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.” [Quotes of the Day] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

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'skienze' at its best.

WGIG consultation. According to the ITU Strategy and Policy Unit blog, the Secretariat of the UN's Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) is now operational. Executive Secretary Markus Kummer says: “…one of our priorities is to make sure that the process ahead… [InternetPolicy.net]

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operational…. lets see what they actually do before we say that, eh.

well, today we did a walking tour of oxford and some of us went punting. guess who?

yes, the president can read. and this is apparently a most important book.

Canadian Newspaper Association and the Public Journalism Network
(http://www.pjnet.org) has organized an afternoon-long workshop which I'll be moderating.
We'll be talking about blogging and how it can inform ideas about participatory and public
journalism.

Participants are to include Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon and Jay Rosen.
(Links to their blogs are at my blog: http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/7/13/105294.html)

Here's the blurb from the PJNet site:

46,000 take eArmyU courses online РCourtney Hickson, Army News Service. More than 46,000 Soldiers have been able to continue their education by taking online classes through eArmyU, including many of the Soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since its creation in July of 2000, eArmyU has been part of the Army䴜s e-lear [Online Learning Update]

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interesting, very interesting….. but these are professional development type courses….

Microsoft putting their store on “start” menu. Some may consider this an abuse of their dominant position in operating systems, but Joris Evers tells the IDG News Service that Microsoft “is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to… [July 15, 2004   No Comments

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:00:07 GMT

by Jeremy

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