Category — General

the man in black. Johnny Cash looks back on his life in his latest video. Chilling [via markromanek]

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

i've enoyed most of cash's recen work, this is no exception.

The First Amendment still has some wind in its sails – Freedom To Tinker reports that a Court Throws Out No-Reviews Clause in EULA. A court has thrown out a software contract clause prohibiting customers from publishing reviews of a product… [Ernie the Attorney]

yah, this is good news

DALnet DDoS attacks. After the whole Napster deal, I turned to DALnet for my music needs…but, for the past few weeks, DALnet has been under DDoS attacks preventing me, and countless other from accessing the servers. I find this interesting because while DDoS attacks on RIAA make the news and stop after a few days, but I have yet to see DALnet's problems publicized at all. Anyone else at all find this weird that the hated RIAA his limited DDoS attacks, while smaller and more venerated org like DALnet has attacks lasting more than a week? [MetaFilter]

we've noted some migration of late from dalnet to undernet, this should be avoided

NY Times: Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy. A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products. [Tomalak's Realm]

wooo hooo, this is great!

Greenland Spritual Healer May Topple Government. Plastic::Etcetera::Weird: He decided to enlist the aid of a native Inuit spiritualist to 'drive negative energy' from the government buildings [Plastic: Most Recent]

if it were this easy….

Paul Boutin: “A few alert Googlers have noticed that dozens of local newspapers from Boston to Honolulu have run the same letter under different names nationwide.” [Scripting News]

oh my oh my, who is messing with the people these days and why? does the media have a bias? apparently so….

They Rule. They Rule [MetaFilter]

and they probably will for some time to come

Free(beer) speech.

I was walking around a Staples store yesterday afternoon, talking with David Sifry on the cell phone about what a shitty market there is for freelance journalism. It's a topic Paul Boutin brought up in a recent conversation, and which has been echoed by other journalistic Ronin I know. David and I were wondering out loud about the role of blogs in this development when a line popped into my head: Blogs are commodifying journalism.

By blogging for free, I wondered, am I undercutting the market for my own work?

Not yet, anyway.

If this is an insight (and I'm not sure it is), it's not an actionable one. The market is clearly still there.

As Tom Matrullo points out, Francisco Toro isn't so lucky. He recently decided he'd rather blog Caracas Chronicles, fighting for his causes and reporting with honesty and passion, than write in the voice of a detached observer as a stringer for the New York Times.

Meanwhile, as if to illustrate how complicated this all is, Sheila Lennon, another blogging professional journalist, continues to offer corrective reporting about what some are calling “The Lennon Incident.”

The beat goes on. And sometimes off.

[Later...] Somewhere in that same vein, Gary Farber more than makes up for getting his quote on Glenn Reynolds snipped from this piece in the NY Times.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

I don't think blogs are usually journalism so much as they are commentary of sorts.

A little over seven years ago I wrote a glowing review of the then-new Pointcast system. The review ran in Wired, and in huge type at Pointcast's tradeshow booth. And for the next seven years, after Pointcast's quick demise, we've been rebuilding the system, with open formats, choice, two-way-ness, and with a better scaling proposition. People who love the network that RSS forms will recognize the story. [Scripting News]

i remember when i wanted to use push technology to do education, oh it would have been nice.

andre-michelle.com

“Along with some truly impressive flash-experiments, andre-michelle also sports a perfect remake of Donkey Kong in flash and a 3D-tetris. Though not exactly a game I must say I also got some good vibes out of the 'turntables mx'-feature. It made me forget how horrible I am a beatmixing in real life. There are MANY little features on this site, but at the moment the games are at the very top of the list.” [Games Bond]

The Donkey Kong is very cool.

[The Shifted Librarian]

donkeykong is cool….