Internet boosts Glades holdout's folk-hero status

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DTI and SpamHaus contest Internet Hero
of the year award

DTI and SpamHaus contest Internet Hero
of the year award 12/23/2003 12:54 PM
Silicon.com Dec 23 2003 11:20AM ET

Status Inertia: The Speed Imperative in
the Attainment of Community Status

Status Inertia: The Speed Imperative in
the Attainment of Community Status 05/13/2004 05:19 AM
Status Inertia: The Speed Imperative in the Attainment of Community Status by Daniel Stewart
http://opensource .mit.edu/papers/stewart2.pdf

Abstract:
This paper examines the role of tenure in establishing social status within an online community of free software developers. As tenure increases, an actor's status becomes increasingly taken-for-granted, thus making it difficult for actors to generate mobility outside of their current social strata. The results of empirical analyses suggest that the broader community plays a major role in deciding one's social position-a judgment that can be made fairly quickly and decisively. Therefore, members of the community who desire high status should work quickly to establish a positive reputation or else run the risk of being cast into an inert low status social position.

U.S. ruling boosts Internet filters

U.S. ruling boosts Internet filters 06/30/2004 12:56 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 30 2004 5:38PM GMT

Internet boosts EasyPay volumes

Internet boosts EasyPay volumes 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Mar 9 2004 3:17AM GMT

Internet Shopping Boosts Royal Mail

Internet Shopping Boosts Royal Mail 12/15/2003 03:35 AM
Sky News Dec 15 2003 3:03AM ET

high-speed Internet boosts e-commerce in
Canada

high-speed Internet boosts e-commerce in
Canada 04/16/2004 05:09 PM
Xinhua News Agency Apr 16 2004 8:46PM GMT

China boosts Internet access revenues in
Asia

China boosts Internet access revenues in
Asia 06/17/2004 06:00 PM
Philippine Daily Inquirer Jun 17 2004 9:40PM GMT

Late Surge Boosts Holiday Internet Sales

Late Surge Boosts Holiday Internet Sales 12/29/2004 10:14 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Dec 30 2004 1:53AM GMT

Aliant boosts Q1 earnings by 9% to
$38.5M on wireless, Internet revenues

Aliant boosts Q1 earnings by 9% to
$38.5M on wireless, Internet revenues 04/29/2004 07:14 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Apr 29 2004 11:08PM GMT

China Boosts Internet-Access Revenues In
Asia To $8.8B

China Boosts Internet-Access Revenues In
Asia To $8.8B 06/14/2004 11:01 PM
Space Daily Jun 15 2004 2:54AM GMT

Late Surge Boosts Holiday Internet Sales
(Reuters)

Late Surge Boosts Holiday Internet Sales
(Reuters) 12/29/2004 08:52 PM
Reuters - Holiday Web sales are running ahead of forecast as online gift certificates helped give Internet retailers a chance to participate in U.S. consumers' last-minute shopping spree, Internet research firm comScore Networks said on Wednesday.

Telecom Italia subsidary boosts stake in
Webfin Internet group (AFP)

Telecom Italia subsidary boosts stake in
Webfin Internet group (AFP) 06/29/2004 07:30 AM
AFP - Telecom Italia Media, the Internet-television subsidiary of Telecom Italia, said it had boosted its stake in the Internet company Webfin with the purchase of a 40-percent interest for 325 million euros (395 million dollars).

China boosts Internet-access revenues in
Asia to 8.8 bln dlrs in 2003 (AFP)

China boosts Internet-access revenues in
Asia to 8.8 bln dlrs in 2003 (AFP) 06/14/2004 07:03 AM
AFP - Internet-access revenues in the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan grew 32 percent to 8.8 billion dollars in 2003, industry research house Gartner revealed.

Concrete Folk Art

Concrete Folk Art 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
Fred Smith's Concrete Park near Phillips, Wisconsin. "Born in 1886, a tavern owner and former lumberjack, Fred Smith began building sculptures in 1948, in his 60s. He created more than 200 concrete sculptures and covered them with broken beer bottle glass from his tavern. Said Fred, 'nobody knows why I made them, not even me.' " [more inside]

Early web folk art

Early web folk art 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
A student of Clay's is compiling a catalog of "early popular web culture" and she needs our help (via bb). Let's reminisce... Here's a few things

"Latino Folk Art"

"Latino Folk Art" 03/24/2005 11:32 PM

Jobs for PHP Folk

Jobs for PHP Folk 01/15/2003 12:51 PM
Jobs for PHP Folk Well I guess if any of us PHP folk want to get a job of the type that our Mom warned us about then we know the tools we need. [_Go_]

Experience Working with HCI Folk

Experience Working with HCI Folk 08/20/2002 05:48 PM

Rural Folk May Yet Get Broadband

Rural Folk May Yet Get Broadband 04/17/2004 04:51 AM
In the latest effort to bring high-speed Internet access to rural areas, the FCC proposes letting wireless service providers share airwaves currently used by satellites and radar. Satellite companies hasten to protect their slice of the spectrum. By Elisa Batista.

Enterprise folk like music?

Enterprise folk like music? 08/11/2004 02:01 PM

Erioc Norlin has this "A Super-cool Identity Application".

In it - it surmises that business folk - who walk into a conference room - will have thier identities senses by Bluetooth and.....

So dude - I love yah - right? You knwo taht - right? But (for me) teh Bluetooth sensing of my Identity in a work environment will load up my relevant docs, spreadsheets, meeting notes, agenda and presentation - automatically.

I mean I love it when enterprise folks reach over - and try to act human - but let's face it - there's PLENTY of things to do with identity in the workplace - and having customized favorite music play - in a conference room - ain't gonna happen real soon.

Here's Eric's post....

A Super-cool Identity Application

Imagine:

you walk into a conference room; dial into a con call on the polycomm; the polycomm senses your bluetooth phone and (using a discovery service) looks at your personal attribute known as "music preferences"; thus your current favorite music (by how often you listen to it) is downloaded from your "federated" mp3 player -- and the hold music while you wait for your fellow con-callers is *your* favorite music.

sound a bit advanced? actually, you could (technically) do this right now with the Liberty Alliance specifications...

[Eric Norlin's Weblog]

Folk Process defined and expanded upon

Folk Process defined and expanded upon 07/29/2004 05:05 AM
Hot on the heels of the attack on Woody Guthrie's memory (in the form of a lawsuit against political parodists who used his "This Land is Your Land" as part of a Flash movie) is this wonderful piece on what Pete Seeger called "the folk process" -- the way that traditional art has been made by ripping, mixing and burning the art that preceded it.

Guthrie may be right that Pete Seeger was the first to coin the term "folk process", but the process of oral song-transmission through through variation and selection was being analyzed even before Pete Seeger's birth in 1919. And the process itself has been operating as long as there have been songs. The folk process was described, though not so named, by Cecil Sharp in 1907: "[Development of a folk song] involves the three principles of continuity, variation, and selection."

Link

Pearls of wisdom from ordinary folk

Pearls of wisdom from ordinary folk 09/13/2004 05:03 PM
PageWise offers tips and little essays in simple language: Organize your work desk and files, Care for someone with Alzheimer's, Reduce holiday stress, Parenting advice that really works(!), Fix cooking mistakes, The basics of clothing stain removal. It's a cheap shot, but I particularly liked "Help you child in improving their writing skills". But why wouldn't they build in a search feature? I had to google to find again the article on restraining the elderly. (And what's the deal with the similar WebGuru?).

Korean Psych And Acid Folk

Korean Psych And Acid Folk 07/08/2004 08:53 PM
Korean Psych And Acid Folk • An introduction to the late-60s/early-70s experimental music of Korea. Bonus: be among the few Westerners to hear these ultra-rare tracks by the Pe arl Sisters with songwriting contributions from a man known as the "godfather of Korean rock and roll", Shin Joong-Hyun, who is credited with influencing Korea's heavier rock scene of the last two decades.

Fake album folk-art (and who is
Mingering Mike?)

Fake album folk-art (and who is
Mingering Mike?) 01/16/2004 11:35 AM
A participant in the soulstrut hip-hop/vinyl/dj culture discussion boards stumbled on an amazing find at a flea market -- a collection of hand-drawn "imaginary record covers". Homegrown funky folk art: Howard Finster meets Motown.

"About 35 or 40 hand-drawn and hand-painted album covers made between 1969 and 1976, some complete with fake cardboard records inside them. Apparently some guy who called himself 'Mingering Mike' put together all of these albums as if he were the musician.

"The covers are complete with hand-drawn barcodes, track listings, lyrics, drawings of the band(s), and in some cases, liner notes. He did soul and funk albums and blaxploitation soundtracks (for movies that never existed), and even a christmas album!"

Link (Thanks, Riana)

Ordinary Folk Honor Reagan at U.S.
Capitol

Ordinary Folk Honor Reagan at U.S.
Capitol 06/10/2004 05:54 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 10 2004 10:17PM GMT

Folk street-art in discarded urban space

Folk street-art in discarded urban space 02/10/2004 04:49 AM
BoingBoing reader Heidi says,

"Rob Walker writes about the North Claiborne area of New Orleans, where a community still uses an area as public space -- even though it's now under a freeway. Some of the highway support columns are painted with murals, but the most interesting column is plastered with newspaper obituaries of neighborhood residents. Photos are included in the essay."

Link

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine 03/26/2005 07:17 AM
University of California-Los Angeles: Online Archive of American Folk
Medicine
http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/
The Archive of American Folk Medicine is the result of more than 50 years of work by UCLA-associated folklorists who "documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, the Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA." The Archive draws from over 3,200 published works, and is intended to serve folklorists, sociologists, and historians. The website provides basic and advanced search options; and records include brief entries for Citation, Condition, Belief, Method of Treatment, and more. Users should be aware that the Archive website has not been updated in several years but it remains a valuable resource for researchers and others interested in folk medicine. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Veteran Tabor wins top folk prize

Veteran Tabor wins top folk prize 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Veteran folk artist June Tabor is named folk singer of the year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in London.

peterme.com: Mob indexing? Folk
categorization? Social tagging?

peterme.com: Mob indexing? Folk
categorization? Social tagging? 01/04/2005 09:18 AM
peterme.com: Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging? .. Peterme .. HT

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Seattle Folk Smell the Coffee -- in
Their Gardens (Reuters)

Seattle Folk Smell the Coffee -- in
Their Gardens (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - In Starbucks Corp.'s hometown of Seattle, even the flower beds smell like coffee, the result of a popular program to hand out spent grounds to gardeners as a nitrogen-rich mulch or compost.

Japanese Folk Singer Wins Parliament
Seat (AP)

Japanese Folk Singer Wins Parliament
Seat (AP) 07/11/2004 12:59 PM
AP - A peace-loving, flower-wielding Japanese folk rock star who campaigned against the war in Iraq claimed a parliamentary seat Sunday — one of the more unorthodox victories for Japan's largest opposition party in the national elections.

Concrete Park Folk Art Sulptures -
Photography by Dave Nance

Concrete Park Folk Art Sulptures -
Photography by Dave Nance 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Concrete Park: The Folk Art Sculptures of Fred Smith

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From zero to hero

From zero to hero 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

This is like a commercial for the atkins diet and golds gym. (quicktime mov)

Everybody Wants to be a Hero

Everybody Wants to be a Hero 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Both Microsoft and open-source backers are claiming to be leading the charge to break down the digital divide in Third-World countries.

"Hero"

"Hero" 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait.

My Hero

My Hero 04/26/2004 07:05 PM
Davi d Bowie invites fans to remix his songs.

David Bowie has today asked fans to bootleg songs of his latest album “Reality” to create a new song (mash-up).

The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or “mash up” two existing tracks.

The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car.

”I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” Bowie told The Times newspaper.

[The Digital Music Weblog]

My new hero

My new hero 12/31/2004 12:54 PM
DOJ coup d'etat. Ashcroft is gone. Now, six days before the confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the acting Attorney General, Daniel Levin, issues a new official memo (pdf)on torture, reversing and specifically repudiating the definitions of torture from the August 2002 memo addressed to Gonzales. The new memo states, among other things,

'we disagree with statements in the August 2002 Memorandum limiting "severe" pain under the statute to "excruciating and agonizing" pain [...] or to pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death'

Hero Builders.com

Hero Builders.com 12/17/2003 07:15 AM
Amusing and somewhat disturbing all at the same time .. Okay, I find this really hilarous .. Action heroes for modern times .. truly tasteless dot com .. bearded Saddam dolls .. these action figures .. als Puppen erwerben .. make an honest buck .. rest

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A True Hero

A True Hero 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Private Johnson Beharry awarded the Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery in combat. It's awared is incredibly rare. The last awards were made posthumously after the Falklands War in 1982. The last living recipients were two Australians in the Vietnam War in 1969. It is said that in order to qualify for a VC, conditions must be so dangerous that only 10% of recipients survive. The actions of Private Johnson Beharry are therefore worthy of a mention.
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