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Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Weblogs - The Shadow Press: it's becoming clearer daily that Weblogs and small, Net-based news operations are rapidly becoming a viable, and important, source for news. Put aside for a moment the argument about whether Weblogs are journalism: stories like the 'rescue' of Jessica Lynch, Trent Lott's racist pronouncement, even the irony of President Bush, once AWOL from his aviator's post, landing showily on an aircraft carrier received zero coverage in legit media, at least initially. These are real stories: they should be covered... if you only read Big Media you're increasingly missing stories that should be part of the record...
Comments 9:34:40 PM    

Read it to Me creates a playlist of MP3 files in iTunes from your unread items in NetNewsWire using Apple's Text-to-Speech that you can sync to your iPod. Cool for commuters...
Comments 9:02:22 PM    

Apple limits iTunes streaming feature, after discovering that people were sharing streams (and files) with people "they do not actually know". Horrors... you'll be sure to upgrade to 4.0.1, right?
Comments 7:54:29 PM    

"The business of popular music, today, is now, in some peculiarly new way, entirely about promotion. William Gibson, in a speech to the Director's Guild of America...
Comments 7:47:23 PM    

Currency repro rules, forwarded by LAT editor Saul Daniels. Looks like we're in compliance...
Comments 11:19:52 AM    

Darn, my BrowserCam trial has expired. I guess they meant 8 hours from first log-in, not cumulative. Oh well... I made the changes to the templates that Dave Smith and other readers suggested, and it didn't break the page in any of the browsers I have laying around at gulker.com. Be grateful if anyone running IE6 can tell me if the text on individual posts is no longer centered...
Comments 10:54:04 AM    

Gavin: UN's useless, US is unilateral, EU is ambitious. A series of articles he kicks off today...
Comments 10:29:41 AM    

Balloon Broadband may be the only hope for Britons like John Tringham. John writes that his site, currently tethered to a dial-up line, is usually only up from 6:30 to 8:00 PM BST. Balloons are intriguing... reasonably cheap and stable... success probably depends on backup strategies for the inevitable problems...
Comments 8:36:05 AM    



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