great old post on weblogs as discovery

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BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend
Discovery for Webl0gs

BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend
Discovery for Webl0gs 12/30/2003 07:26 AM
BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs .. matt's blog trend discovery system .. looks at trends within weblogs .. BlogPulse

blogpulse.com
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"this great (but long) post at Obsidian
Wings"

"this great (but long) post at Obsidian
Wings" 03/24/2005 04:36 AM

Mamamusings made a great post about the
topic

Mamamusings made a great post about the
topic 12/30/2003 04:09 PM
liz on styling syndication feeds .. CSS and Atom .. Liz

mamamusings.net/archives/2003/12/29/css_and_rss.php
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"Citizen Smash sure can write a great
post about pro-War Protesting against
clueless anti-war protesters"

"Citizen Smash sure can write a great
post about pro-War Protesting against
clueless anti-war protesters" 06/25/2004 03:22 PM

Microsoft Releases Web Services Dynamic
Discovery Specification (WS-Discovery)

Microsoft Releases Web Services Dynamic
Discovery Specification (WS-Discovery) 02/18/2004 10:43 AM
XMLMania.com Feb 18 2004 1:49PM GMT

Web Services Dynamic Discovery
(WS-Discovery) Specification Released

Web Services Dynamic Discovery
(WS-Discovery) Specification Released 02/19/2004 03:34 PM
WS-Discovery enables advertisement and dynamic discovery of services on both ad-hoc and managed networks. Services may be organized in a hierarchical scope, and clients can query for services by type as well as scope without heavy administrative costs. This specification enables numerous design patterns for enterprise services; provides a discovery architecture for peer-to-peer services like buddy lists, websites, and file shares; and forms the basis for discovering network-attached devices such as printers, cameras, and PDAs.

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?

Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened? 04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The Underground History of American Education
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together!

Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That
Taste Great Together! 06/19/2004 03:13 PM
"Don't equate happiness with money"... "Exercise Regularly"... "Have Sex"...
Advice from a German investment bank on how to enjoy life. Taking CitiBank's cynical "Live Richly" ad campaign a step farther?
obilgatory joke "I remember when the bank only gave away free toasters..."
In other news, A bank in India is targeting "sex workers" as new customers,
Insert Sperm Bank Joke Here. heh heh heh... he said "Insert Sperm"...

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)

Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP) 04/15/2005 04:32 PM
AP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.

Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era

Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Chalmers Johnson is an provocative proponent of the American Empire theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his Blow Back: The Cost And Consequences of American Empire

I heard Johnson interviewed on Episode II, War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era of The Whole Wide World

The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy, freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these things?

It was an excellent program and well worth your listen, either by RA now or mp3 later. (From listening to the radio)

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
DMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT

By accessing, browsing and/or using this
post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.

By accessing, browsing and/or using this
post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect. 09/01/2004 11:08 PM
Fruity

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""

"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before."" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.

frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store. 09/10/2004 02:11 AM
frederick-the-great.com – http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

Great Power, Great Restraint...

Great Power, Great Restraint... 08/05/2004 02:26 PM
Anakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one in Star Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley, Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive. Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the Clone Wars? The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching. You can check out an online preview here< /a>.

Great Hacker != Great Hire

Great Hacker != Great Hire 08/05/2004 03:49 AM
Great Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric Sink

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Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)

Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters) 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Reuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's most famous monuments, state media said Monday.

"Great Hacker != Great Hire"

"Great Hacker != Great Hire" 08/06/2004 09:45 AM

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.

Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product. 07/26/2004 02:14 AM
David Hostetler, with a Master’s degree in Marketing, has been a successful marketer on and off the Internet since 1977. Having built several other successful businesses in the past, he is now well on the way to building a million-dollar business and has chosen Himalayan Goji Juice and Freelife International as the leading product. Do you want to come along? He is looking for entrepreneurs who want to team up with millionaire marketers under a specialized and unique Internet marketing system. If you are a marketer/MLM distributor and think you deserve more, now is the time and this is the place. Don't wait for your destiny... make it happen! [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

discovery

discovery 04/11/2005 03:50 AM
Interstella 5555 Daft Punk action figure sets .. 3. Daft Punk--Discovery .. offiziellen Seite .. DaftPunk

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CSA - Guide to Discovery

CSA - Guide to Discovery 04/05/2005 06:34 AM

CSA - Guide To Discovery

CSA - Guide to Discovery
http://www.csa.com/

CSA is a worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing, in print and electronically, 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

NetworkInfo-Discovery-0.12

NetworkInfo-Discovery-0.12 01/22/2004 02:10 AM

Roomba Discovery

Roomba Discovery 07/12/2004 07:39 AM

Oh hey, new Roomba! The Roomba Discovery is being pre-sold "exclusively [to] current Roomba owners" at the moment, but includes some much-needed improvements, like a self-charging Home Base which the Roomba will head to, automatically, when done cleaning (finally!), an "intense cleaning" feature (presumably detecting areas that need multiple passes, and a dust bin that's 3 times larger. Sounds like an all-around improvement, so good on them. The Discovery is currently being sold on the iRobot Store site for $250.
R ead - Product Page [NewRoomba]

Related
Australian Robot Vacuum Contender: Floorbotics [Gizmodo]
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery Revealed [ArtOfSpeed]
Electrolux Trilobite Robotic Floor Vac Review (Bunny Not Included) [Gizmodo]

Knowledge Discovery

Knowledge Discovery 07/02/2004 06:47 AM


Knowledge Discovery
http://www.KnowledgeDiscove ry.info/

KnowledgeDiscovery.info is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for knowledge discovery. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here.

Big Dino Discovery

Big Dino Discovery 03/24/2005 11:39 PM
CBS News Mar 25 2005 3:24AM GMT

Discovery chilling at pad

Discovery chilling at pad 06/17/2005 02:13 PM
Usatoday.com - Thu Jun 16, 08:42 pm GMT

Discovery on launch pad

Discovery on launch pad 04/09/2005 02:57 AM
Usatoday.com - Fri Apr 8, 08:02 am GMT

Forensic Discovery

Forensic Discovery 02/01/2005 09:12 PM

Topic Auto-Discovery

Topic Auto-Discovery 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
The introduction of topic servers like the Internet Topic Exchange and Reversible started me thinking about TrackBack, and how to...

NetworkInfo-Discovery-Nmap-0.02

NetworkInfo-Discovery-Nmap-0.02 04/03/2005 10:45 AM

NetworkInfo-Discovery-Rendezvous-0.05

NetworkInfo-Discovery-Rendezvous-0.05 04/03/2005 10:45 AM

Discovery reaches its launch pad

Discovery reaches its launch pad 04/07/2005 05:31 AM
Discovery reaches its launch pad after a brief delay when engineers found a crack in the fuel tank's foam insulation.

Replacing Network Discovery

Replacing Network Discovery 12/30/2003 08:33 AM

Silicon discovery could speed up PCs

Silicon discovery could speed up PCs 02/11/2004 04:26 PM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Feb 11 2004 8:12PM GMT

NetworkInfo-Discovery-Rendezvous-0.04

NetworkInfo-Discovery-Rendezvous-0.04 12/30/2004 02:17 AM

Atom, RSS, auto-discovery

Atom, RSS, auto-discovery 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
Which, Atom or RSS, should NetNewsWire prefer when doing feed auto-discovery?

Assume that there will be a preference to let you choose which you prefer. The question is: which should be the default?

Also assume that I don’t want to put up a sheet prompting the user to choose whenever NetNewsWire finds both. That’s a bit of complexity the newsreader should take care of.

So, the question is, which? I can see good reasons for each. What do you think?

Electronic Discovery Tools

Electronic Discovery Tools 05/11/2004 06:18 AM
Electronic Discovery Tools
http://www.discoveryresources .org

DiscoveryResources.org, where you will find the most up-to-date information, resources and news available about electronic discovery. Given the rapidly increasing importance of electronic evidence in litigation, DiscoveryResources.org offers much needed resources for legal professionals who seek to understand the many new technological and legal challenges associated with electronic discovery. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

Silicon Discovery Could Speed Up PCs
(AP)

Silicon Discovery Could Speed Up PCs
(AP) 02/11/2004 01:51 PM
AP - In an advance that could inexpensively speed up corporate data centers and eventually personal computers, researchers used everyday silicon to build a device that converts data into light beams.

More on AHA! The Discovery & Learning
Centre

More on AHA! The Discovery & Learning
Centre 04/15/2005 08:18 PM

The Idea: A day in the life (c. 2006) of AHA! The Discovery & Learning Centre, which I proposed on these pages last week. I'd like to thank everyone who commented on my AHA! proposal. I appreciate your candour that the concept is not sufficiently differentiated from other facilities and programs designed to encourage innovation, collaboration and learning. I especially thank reader Dave Davison for his great encouragement and the time he spent with me today hashing this out. I thought it would be useful to tell a few (hypothetical) stories about how AHA! would be used and what it would do, to articulate its unique attributes better. So imagine we have been up and running a while -- here are some of the successes I  envision we will have: J is the CEO of one of the world's largest banks, and he was attracted to AHA! by the diversity, the intellectual and creative power of AHA!'s 'members', which now include Nobel scientists, Pulitzer authors, corporate kingpins and former state presidents. That 'people power' was in turn attracted by AHA!'s reciprocality model: You help me on my project, and bring your unique experience and insight to it, and I'll stay around after the project to help you on yours. The price tag is a sliding scale based on the size and profitability of the entity or institution being helped: Basically, you pay what you can afford, and, astonishingly, it is the importance of the issues and the opportunity to rub shoulders with those with different yet considerable skills and resources that draws crowds voluntarily to AHA! events regardless of remuneration. It is the human passion to make a difference, to do something remarkable and memorable that draws such huge creative energy to AHA! 'events'. That, and the reputation of AHA! for accomplishing amazing objectives that many thought impossible, and the simple elegance of The Invitation to an AHA! event, now a coveted and even resume-able possession. J's bank is dealing with a dilemma: Competition for the giant corporate accounts is so fierce that it is barely profitable. Customers are so angry with credit card and mortgage rates and the plethora of 'service charges' that regulators are starting to take notice and legislators are proposing laws to ease the burden. The only area for growth and profitability are therefore the small-to-medium enterprises and individuals that big banks like J's have avoided for years on the basis that they're too risky and too small to make money from: More trouble than they're worth. AHA! is hosting a Rediscovering the Small Customer session that will have some brilliant innovators, unorthodox thinkers and actual customers seeking the formula that will allow J's bank to increase small-customer satisfaction and profitability simultaneously. J is on the Board of Directors of an international insurance company that has accomplished exactly this dual improvement thanks to an earlier AHA! session. The session is being held in AHA!'s playful and stimulating San Francisco Discovery & Learning Center, which has inspiring displays, recorded speeches and stories of great human achievements, such as the eradication of smallpox, the moon landing, the abolition of slavery, and the unraveling of the human genome, and where some of California's and the world's greatest thinkers and doers often hang out. It will use the 13-component AHA! Discovery Session Framework (illustrated above) supported by a suite of 20 (Open Source co-developed) enabling technologies and through both physical and virtual Open Space invitations and 'crowd'-canvassing tools will gather ideas, viewpoints and information from over 5,000 people, synchronized as gracefully as a dance. As quickly as groups of participants are surfacing ideas and opportunities, other participants and AHA! staffers are doing market and technical research, still others are developing rapid prototypes of the ideas that have passed market and technical research hurdles, and yet more are showing these prototypes to potential customers and gathering The Wisdom of Crowds. The following week, many of the participants, stunned at how quickly and successfully the Discovery sessions qualified and brought new ideas to market, would volunteer to repeat their roles and apply the same process to a small entrepreneurial consumer electronics company's struggle to develop human-powered communications technologies for areas with no reliable electricity supply. Their hourly 'rate' for this project was 80% less than the rate for the bank, but there were no dropouts -- and several of the participants immediately went to work for the fledgling entrepreneur, convinced it would be a winner. K is one of the first to complete AHA!'s Natural Enterprise program. She was surprised to learn that this program has no instructors -- the course materials are all on-line pre-readings, and instead of 'lectures', students participate in facilitated tours and Q&A sessions at the premises (in person or by videoconference) of entrepreneurs (all of them AHA! 'members') who are exemplary in one of the twelve aspects of entrepreneurship. Students therefore get twelve different, first-hand perspectives of entrepreneurial greatness. The entrepreneurs jointly assess the 'students' business plans, and their collective assessment is the 'mid-term' grade for the course. There is no final grade -- the program is designed to get each student's business successfully up in running by the time of its completion. For K, that is more valuable than any grade. And in the process, K discovered she needed some additional skills in story-telling, also available as part of AHA!'s curriculum*. Like the Natural Enterprise program, Story-Telling & Narrative has no classrooms, no lectures and no examination: Students study the basics of great narrative online at their own pace, listen to the world's best story-tellers relate and dissect their stories, and watch and practice telling stories to others, 'scoring' each other on a reciprocal basis. Her business was launched thanks in part to an outright grant from J's bank, in return for which J is participating in the bank's Rediscovering the Small Customer session. Another participant in the bank's session is M, a Harvard economics professor and former World Bank executive who has dropped out to try to grapple with the vicious cycle of poverty, disease, poor sanitation, large families, lack of education and environmental destruction in many African countries. In return, J is participating in the Discovery Sessions for the AHA! Cycle of Poverty project, donating many hours free of charge, and twisting the arms of others to donate time to the project as well. Cycle of Poverty, like Natural Enterprise, does not use any of AHA!'s impressive session facilities, using instead many 'virtual' locations around the world, and using virtual reality technology to 'project' all of the participants into Tekel, a small village in Cameroun, where they will be 'virtually' welcomed and hosted by a Camerounian family, given a virtual 'tour' of the village and invited to spend one entire virtual day in Tekel at their nearest IMAX theatre. IMAX is a delighted AHA! customer and filmed the 'day in the life' in the village in IMAX-3D and agreed to immerse Cycle of Poverty participants in it free of charge. The immersion works: The context that the participants get from their deep understanding of why life is the way it is in Tekel inspires a flurry of extraordinary ideas on programs and inexpensive leap-frog technologies that offer the promise of breaking the cycle. J proposes that communication around the project be centered around the entrepreneurial human-powered communication tools (notably cell phones and portable DVD players) that were just developed in the AHA! session described above. Tekel serves as the real-world laboratory for testing the ideas, and participants can watch live over the Internet as programs and technologies are launched. The video record serves as a model that can be used to replicate successes across the continent. Everything learned at AHA!, except for proprietary sessions like J's bank's for which premium prices were paid, is archived and made available online. In addition, AHA! research staffers continuously scan and synthesize knowledge about global needs, trends and opportunities, and make this knowledge available free online, where it can be tapped not only on other AHA! projects but by anyone, subject to Creative Commons licenses, so that it contributes to making the products of knowledge free to everyone. And the 'members' also take what they have learned and discovered and use it to power other new ventures and projects, to broaden and deepen relationships, and to accelerate the flow of knowledge, innovation and ingenuity around the globe. *The AHA! Learning Session Curriculum: Environmental Scanning The Accelerated Discovery and Accelerated Learning Processes Insight Portfolios and Idea Markets Cultural Anthropology Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry The Four Practices Creative Thinking, Imagining and Visioning Critical Thinking, Systems Thinking and the Thinking Hats Effective Collaboration Attention Skills: Listening, Observation Entrepreneurship / Natural Enterprise Skills Tapping the Wisdom of Crowds Building Communities & Networks Story-Telling & Narrative Self-Organizing in a Complex, Chaotic World Effective Research and Analysis Project Facilitation and Improvisation Getting Things Done: Personal Productivity Improvement Understanding Gaia: Natural Design and Learning from Nature Rapid Prototyping

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GrokA matches for great old post on weblogs as discovery

StarGeek: Layering it On To Find Your
Users

StarGeek: Layering it On To Find Your
Users 02/04/2003 08:40 AM

Stargeek.com: Making Search Engines Love
PHP

Stargeek.com: Making Search Engines Love
PHP 12/30/2003 09:40 AM
Most PHP coders know how to get the job done and create that "perfect script" that all the world needs to know about. So, you post it out there on a website and wait for the kudos to come rolling in. So, you wait...and wait...and wait...and, well, you get the idea. You need to find a better way to get the search engines to sit up and take notice of you. That's where this new article from Stargeek.com comes in.

"this item"

"this item" 06/18/2004 12:29 AM

SML-Item-0.10

SML-Item-0.10 05/28/2004 11:14 AM

Email this item to:

Email this item to: 05/28/2004 06:27 PM
Wonkette,United States-2 hours agoThe Hit Parade ranks stories other people tuned into. Chart placement is determined by Google News bots, Noted Now shoutouts and our whim. ...

Vulns: WebCT Campus Edition HTML Tags
HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Vulns: WebCT Campus Edition HTML Tags
HTML Injection Vulnerabilities 05/20/2004 05:40 PM
SecurityFocus May 20 2004 8:47PM GMT

Vulns: Horde IMP HTML+TIME HTML
Injection Vulnerability

Vulns: Horde IMP HTML+TIME HTML
Injection Vulnerability 08/06/2004 04:29 PM
SecurityFocus Aug 6 2004 8:16PM GMT

Vulns: Google Toolbar About.HTML HTML
Injection Vulnerability

Vulns: Google Toolbar About.HTML HTML
Injection Vulnerability 09/20/2004 03:18 PM
SecurityFocus Sep 20 2004 6:14PM GMT

Hot item: Camera phones

Hot item: Camera phones 03/19/2003 10:46 PM

Linux services--a hot item

Linux services--a hot item 07/09/2004 11:43 AM
ZDNet Jul 9 2004 3:40PM GMT

Most over-packed item in history

Most over-packed item in history 12/28/2004 04:42 PM
Here is the package of nubbins for my Thinkpad — the little red eraser-thingies — IBM sent me, shown about actual size: Here is the package it came in: The plastic bag, in a foamy bag, packed in a basket of shock-protective cardboard in a box about a foot square....

Rootsecure.net | News Item

Rootsecure.net | News Item 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
http://www.rootsecure.net/?p=link Tests carried out by Rootsecure.net have revealed Grandstream BudgeTone-100 series VOIP SIP Phones appear to be vulnerable to DOS. (details to follow) I have been saying that 2004 is the year of VoIP..... (shrug)....

This item should not contain forbidden
speech

This item should not contain forbidden
speech 06/22/2005 01:54 AM
Remember Microsoft's marketing blitz for Windows, when they asked, "Where do you want to go today?" Apparently, they didn't mean China. At least not without a thorough baggage search. And, perhaps a Communist Party membership card. It seems that along with the viruses and bugs that plaque the Windows operating system throughout the United States, Chinese users have a whole other set of barricades to work around when surfing the net or logging their thoughts online. Microsoft has taken to following in the steps of Yahoo! and Google — who each succumbed to the pressures of the Chinese government and censored their search engines from displaying "illegal" or "subversive" sites, and skewed results to reflect only those sympathetic to the government. For example, searching for "Free Tibet" produces no results, while a search for "independence Taiwan" shows only sites which are critical of the country’s government, not its oppressive neighbor, according to reports. Microsoft's efforts to censor the Chinese public are a bit more egregious, however. BBC reports that the computer giant has gone as far as censoring thoughts, along with information: "Weblog entries on some parts of Microsoft's MSN site in China using words such as 'freedom,' 'democracy' and 'demonstration' are being blocked. "Those using these banned words or writing entries that are pornographic or contain sensitive information get a pop-up warning that reads: 'This message contains a banned expression, please delete this expression,'" the report adds. I've never really been one to buy into the whole dark side argument. Just because a company has a near-monopoly on its particular niche doesn't necessarily make it evil. But censorship and aligning itself with an oppressive regime, giving into political pressure to make a few extra bucks and deliberately sacrificing ethics for market share dominance most certainly does. But perhaps it's not entirely Microsoft’s fault. After all, they have an obligation to bring its product to all countries of the world, and as the company says, it "abides by the laws and regulations of each country in which it operates." Money and shareholders have the ultimate say, and ethics can hardly compete with the almighty dollar, especially in such a heavily populated regime, despite its system of government. But on the other hand, China needs Microsoft, too, perhaps just as much. So, couldn't Bill Gates order his overseas counterparts to stand up to an oppressive regime, one which doesn't just censor, but also punishes supposed wrong-doers for publishing such forbidden verbiage? According to the Taipei Times, a Chinese journalist who wrote against corruption recently "was beaten and had some fingers hacked off. That writer will never type again. Another received a long prison sentence, just for sending an e-mail." It's a vicious regime, and Microsoft has played right into it, mindlessly falling in line when apparently threatened with a boycott. The Internet is one of the greatest communication tools available and should be treated as such. With a simple no, Microsoft could have solidified that universal doctrine and solidified the Web as a bastion of truth and free speech, Instead, for one corner of the world, it's been made far less worldwide. Michael Simon is a freelance writer and editor, and paginator for The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass. He is the author of Failed Attempt, written under the moniker of Morlium, which may be purchased for $9.99, either through the iTunes Music Store or as a full-color paperback. He can be reached for comment or inquiry by e-mail at morlium@mac.com.

"Permanent item link"

"Permanent item link" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

The Item - South Carolina

The Item - South Carolina 11/11/2003 07:06 AM
Career marine forced from job for 'liberal' views .. dissent within the military is not tolerated .. Another Thought-Criminal Brought To Justice .. Why does this (now) ex-Marine hate America? .. Liberal views force soldier out of military .. creeps closer

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Clothing Becomes the Most Sold Item on
the Internet

Clothing Becomes the Most Sold Item on
the Internet 04/26/2004 08:56 AM
Digital Chosunilbo Apr 26 2004 1:30PM GMT

In Iraq, the Most Coveted Item Now Is a
Passport

In Iraq, the Most Coveted Item Now Is a
Passport 07/15/2004 10:17 PM
There is one thing the sovereign state of Iraq can offer its citizens today: a passport out of the country.

Sample Expand/collapse item

Sample Expand/collapse item 04/14/2004 11:59 AM
This AppleScript Studio snippet shows how to make items in an Outline View (without children) and how to decide if they have a disclosure triangle or not (independantly of having children). It shows how to expand or collapse data items programatically by using the Objective C method "expandItem:" or "collapseItem:".

key web standards checklist item:
favicon

key web standards checklist item:
favicon 08/13/2004 06:04 PM
yes, there's some other good stuff here, but I just like that the favicon is listed

New York Sun item on Sandy Berger

New York Sun item on Sandy Berger 07/23/2004 02:32 PM
"The boldness of the president." .. all but vetoed .. piece

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Have Your Kid Read This Item As She
Watches TV And Uses The Computer

Have Your Kid Read This Item As She
Watches TV And Uses The Computer 03/28/2005 12:56 PM
Adweek Online Mar 28 2005 5:04PM GMT

The Ultimate Luxury Item Is Now Made in
China

The Ultimate Luxury Item Is Now Made in
China 07/13/2004 01:50 AM
With yachts, China is braving a market where it has has little recent experience or demand at home.

Call For Cereal And Food Item Info

Call For Cereal And Food Item Info 03/28/2005 01:35 PM
Because there are so many different cereal and food items coming out now in association with Episode III, we need every bit of info with photos we can get for our Jedi Archives, as well as Gus over at Toysrgus.com, continues to need help building his outstanding collection of cereal boxes growing. We especially need information on releases outside the U.S.

Cataloging his junk drawers, one item at
a time

Cataloging his junk drawers, one item at
a time 05/08/2004 04:13 PM
Mack sez: Heavy Little Objects, " is reallly an excuse to turn out my junk drawers and re-examine all the weird, small things that I've collected since I was, like 12, and turn them into a full-blown, daily ritual." Mack's objects comprise a true catalog of pop culture oddities, and his descriptions of the objects should be preserved for a museum 100 years from now. Link

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item 07/17/2004 01:23 PM
Boston Globe Jul 17 2004 5:01PM GMT

ZeboPhoto gets Quick Capture menu item

ZeboPhoto gets Quick Capture menu item 06/07/2004 10:27 AM
Bobby Cronkhite Software has updated ZeboPhoto, the US$10 image viewing and editing solution for Mac OS X, to version 1.5, which adds a Quick Capture menu item to the Edit menu...

HTML Tip: Problems With Nested HTML Tags

HTML Tip: Problems With Nested HTML Tags 11/30/2002 12:30 AM
Net Mechanic Nov 29 2002 11:13PM ET

Watch item case when using UIScripting
keyboard commands

Watch item case when using UIScripting
keyboard commands 12/08/2003 11:44 AM
Trying out the AppleScript UIscripting in Panther? Me too. Having trouble getting Windows Media Player to accept any form of automatic control, I resorted to using keystrokes. However, using this ... keystroke "Q" using co...

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item (Reuters)

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item (Reuters) 07/17/2004 07:59 AM
Reuters - One of the hottest items on U.S. toy store shelves this holiday season might not be a toy at all, but a portable entertainment player, experts say.

Promotional Item Gives Customers,
Prospects, & Employees A $70,000 Gift

Promotional Item Gives Customers,
Prospects, & Employees A $70,000 Gift 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
The corporate program by USA Coupon Club is a promotional tool that gives customers and employees more. The business name stays in front of the customer by logging into the site using the customer info. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

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