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Newt Gingrich Pushing 'Wired' Hospitals
(AP)

Newt Gingrich Pushing 'Wired' Hospitals
(AP) 06/22/2004 11:04 AM
AP - Medical care would be improved and millions of dollars would be saved if hospitals were fully wired, said Rep. Patrick Kennedy and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who jointly announced a program to bring American medicine into the Internet age.

Ted Kennedy being stopped and questioned
(not once, but five times) because "T.
Kennedy" appeared on the "No-Fly" list

Ted Kennedy being stopped and questioned
(not once, but five times) because "T.
Kennedy" appeared on the "No-Fly" list 08/21/2004 10:43 PM
reports

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"TED KENNEDY, "OXYGEN THIEF:" The Kerry
Campaign certainly won't like hearing
Kennedy in anti-Kerry commercials, as
seems likely..."

"TED KENNEDY, "OXYGEN THIEF:" The Kerry
Campaign certainly won't like hearing
Kennedy in anti-Kerry commercials, as
seems likely..." 05/12/2004 11:08 PM

Newt Gingrich in 2008?

Newt Gingrich in 2008? 04/12/2005 02:07 PM
The former speaker's telling travel plans: New Hampshire in April, Iowa in May.

defending Newt Gingrich

defending Newt Gingrich 09/05/2004 08:42 PM
Against Appomattox .. the South wins

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The Secret Life of Newt Gingrich

The Secret Life of Newt Gingrich 06/17/2004 03:44 AM
The former Speaker of the House still harbors a LITERARY AMBITION .. NEWT GINGRICH: TOP 500 AMAZON.COM REVIEWER .. The Secret Life of Newt Gingrich .. Weekly Standard .. Weird .. nerd

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Gingrich Says U.S. Policy in Iraq Has
Gone 'Off a Cliff'

Gingrich Says U.S. Policy in Iraq Has
Gone 'Off a Cliff' 12/09/2003 03:48 AM
Even Gingrich is complaining about our idiocyin Iraq.

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Gingrich Rallies Support for House
Medicare Vote

Gingrich Rallies Support for House
Medicare Vote 11/19/2003 08:06 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 19 2003 6:43PM ET

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy 01/11/2004 01:33 PM
...and for the most creative use of an image alt tag .. when alt tags go horribly wrong

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Kennedy becomes a father

Kennedy becomes a father 04/12/2005 01:38 AM
Charles Kennedy's wife Sarah gives birth to a baby boy after being admitted to hospital on Monday.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. 11/25/2003 08:39 PM

Robert Kennedy, Jr. - Interviewed at Salon.com...

I remember where I was when THEY killed his uncle.I was a freshman at the University, playing chss in the student union, and I distanced myself from the horror by declaring "That's politics."  I dropped out of school and went to San Francisco a few months later.  I read Ayn Rand, drank chianti, ate bread and cheese, hung out in North Beach, and later in the year I hung around the edges of the Republican convention, celebrity spotting.  I was appalled by Goldwater's nomination.Even then, before the CO and CO2 had risen to levels that threaten human survival, I was pretty well convinced that nuking the DMZ would be a bad thing for the enbvironment and every living thing on the planet.  I wasn't yet 21 so I wasn't faced with the choice of voting for Johnson (who many of us suspected had a hand in the dirty deed on 11/22/63) and voting for Goldwater (who many of us believed was crazy as a loon).

I don't remember where I was on April 4, 1968 when THEY killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.I was in school, I know.  Two months later when THEY killed Robert Kennedy the whole thing was at such a bizarre level that reality was suspect.  And I watched and I protested and I made loud ineffective noises.  There were optimists among us who went "clean for Gene" McCarthy. It was a lost cause. 

From the day after King's death through the end of 1969,  the Black Panther Party was decimated by the FBI.  There was no effective news coverage of the events.  It wasn't until the National Guard killed white students at Kent State in the spring of 1970 that our national consciousness began to shift.  And even then, people were reluctant to call Richard Nixon a liar. 

We were saturated in the truth and nobody would print it.  Today, conditions are a lot worse.  Robert Kennedy, Jr. is doing what he can on the environmental front.  Here's some of what he has to day in the Salon.com interview: 

Why isn't the media being more of a watchdog...

The consolidation of American media over the past decade or so has dramatically diminished the inquisitiveness of our national press. There are now only 11 companies that control virtually every radio outlet, every TV outlet and every newspaper in our country. And because of that media consolidation, the news bureaus are no longer run by newspeople. They are now corporate profit centers. Most of these companies have liquidated their foreign bureaus, because they're expensive to run. That's why you can't get foreign news in this country; you have to go to the BBC. And they've liquidated their investigative journalism units, because that kind of reporting is also expensive. So news has become the lowest common denominator, which is why you see sensational crime coverage, you see Laci Peterson and Kobe Bryant all the time, you see celebrity gossip, which is really just a form of pornography. And you see murders, which is really just another form of pornography. You just see notorious crimes, and you don't really see much substantive news anymore.

The Tyndall Report, which is the service that analyzes what's on TV, recently surveyed the environmental content on TV news and of the 15,000 minutes of network news that aired last year only 4 percent of them were devoted to the environment. And this is at a time when we have a president who is dismantling 30 years of environmental law, and when we are going through a global environmental crisis, including mass extinctions comparable to the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Global fisheries have dropped to 10 percent of their 1950s levels, the ice caps and glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, and one out of every four black children in New York has asthma.

Today, while hundreds of thousands of britons protested the presence of George W. Bush, American media focused all its bandwidth on Michael Jackson.

Sen. Ted Kennedy Remembers His Brothers

Sen. Ted Kennedy Remembers His Brothers 11/16/2003 11:49 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 16 2003 10:32PM ET

Senator Kennedy on "no-fly" list

Senator Kennedy on "no-fly" list 08/20/2004 12:33 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Senator Ted Kennedy says he was denied boarding on three shuttle flights in one month, because he's on the federal "no-fly" list of terrorist suspects.

His aides had to call Tom Ridge three times to get taken off the list. Imagine how hard it would be for one of us lesser human beings to get taken off the list.

A Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman's explanation makes me even more nervous about the way things are being run be the feds. She "insisted Kennedy 'is not on the list, not now or ever. His name was similar to someone else's alias.'" [italics mine] Is it supposed to make us feel better that innocent people can be denied boarding for having a similar name to a suspected terrorist's alias? L ink (Thanks, Paul!)

washingtonpost.com: The Kennedy Factor

washingtonpost.com: The Kennedy Factor 07/14/2004 06:45 AM
Ted Kennedy: At 72, the Senator Is Campaigning for a Kerry White House With Dogged Determination 7/14 .. Edward Kennedy in the Washington Post

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Kennedy Says Bush Should Be Replaced
(AP)

Kennedy Says Bush Should Be Replaced
(AP) 07/27/2004 08:06 PM
AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic titan and patriarch of the country's most enduring political dynasty, told the party faithful Tuesday night that America can only reclaim its greatness by denying President Bush a second term.

Kennedy looks forward to power

Kennedy looks forward to power 09/22/2004 02:30 PM
Charles Kennedy will tell Lib Dems they are on the road to government when he wraps up their annual rally, writes Nick Assinder.

calling for Ted Kennedy to resign from
the Senate,

calling for Ted Kennedy to resign from
the Senate, 05/18/2004 04:12 PM
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Sen. Kennedy Lands on 'No Fly' List

Sen. Kennedy Lands on 'No Fly' List 08/20/2004 06:45 AM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 20 2004 10:52AM GMT

Kennedy criticises quake response

Kennedy criticises quake response 01/03/2005 08:09 AM
Ministers have been "playing catch-up" with public opinion after the tsunami disaster, says Charles Kennedy.

Kennedy denies resignation plans

Kennedy denies resignation plans 04/25/2004 07:02 AM
Liberal Democrat Charles Kennedy says he has no intention of stepping down after the next general election.

Kennedy defends sacking decision

Kennedy defends sacking decision 01/25/2004 08:15 AM
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy says he was right to sack Jenny Tonge after her remarks about suicide bombers.

Sen. Kennedy Flagged by No-Fly List
(washingtonpost.com)

Sen. Kennedy Flagged by No-Fly List
(washingtonpost.com) 08/20/2004 12:48 PM
washingtonpost.com - U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy said yesterday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government's secret "no-fly" list.

Group files complaint against Ted
Kennedy

Group files complaint against Ted
Kennedy 04/28/2004 05:17 PM

A Brief Visit to the Kennedy Space
Center

A Brief Visit to the Kennedy Space
Center 04/19/2004 01:41 AM
With nothing else to do before heading to the airport for my flight back home, I decided to head to the Kennedy Space Center. Well, this was after sleeping in too late (hey, it was only 7:00am in the Pacific time zone), packing, and checking out of the hotel. My goal was to see one of the two IMAX movies that are showing there. (Exercise for the reader: try to find the show times in advance on their web site.)...

Donald Kennedy on Innovation Journalism

Donald Kennedy on Innovation Journalism 04/14/2004 02:28 PM
I am only able to attend bits and pieces of the Innovation Journalism conference. After all, I'm not a journalist, I'm a blogger and have a business to run. An impressionistic transcript of a talk by Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief Science...

Choose hope over fear - Kennedy

Choose hope over fear - Kennedy 01/01/2005 12:26 AM
Charles Kennedy accuses Labour and the Conservatives of scare tactics, and says the Lib Dems offer hope.

Kennedy back to unveil manifesto

Kennedy back to unveil manifesto 04/13/2005 10:59 PM
Charles Kennedy returns to campaigning after becoming a father to launch the Lib Dem manifesto.

Kennedy urges crime solution

Kennedy urges crime solution 03/28/2005 09:39 PM
Crime-fighting under Labour has seen a mass of new laws but few real solutions, says Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy.

a history of Kennedy Fried Chicken

a history of Kennedy Fried Chicken 08/15/2004 05:10 PM
i used to live down the street from one... i admire their chutzpah

Kennedy urges 'positive' campaign

Kennedy urges 'positive' campaign 04/10/2005 07:24 AM
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy attacks negative campaigning and outlines his party's "positive agenda".

Rapper DMX Arrested at Kennedy Airport
(AP)

Rapper DMX Arrested at Kennedy Airport
(AP) 06/24/2004 11:21 PM
AP - Rapper and actor DMX was arrested on charges that he and another man tried to steal a car in a parking lot at Kennedy Airport, authorities said.

Kennedy demands Iraq apology

Kennedy demands Iraq apology 09/19/2004 02:05 PM
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy launches an attack on Tony Blair, as his party's conference gets underway in Bournemouth.

Ted Kennedy Remembers His Slain Brothers

Ted Kennedy Remembers His Slain Brothers 11/16/2003 06:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 16 2003 4:39PM ET

Kennedy criticises 'unfair' taxes

Kennedy criticises 'unfair' taxes 03/17/2005 02:54 AM
Gordon Brown's Budget fails to tackle the unfairness in Britain's tax system, say the Liberal Democrats.

Kennedy 'wants EU poll alliance'

Kennedy 'wants EU poll alliance' 05/16/2004 08:39 PM
Charles Kennedy says he is ready to campaign alongside Tony Blair in a referendum on the EU constitution.

Kennedy promises extra teachers

Kennedy promises extra teachers 04/11/2005 06:23 AM
The Lib Dems pledge 21,000 new primary school teachers as they launch their election campaign.

Pushing RSS

Pushing RSS 04/28/2004 10:29 AM

While I was hanging out at the hospital waiting for the new addition, I got to wondering if RSS has to be "pull" by definition. Could you "push" updates from a site to a client?

Say you have a notification client — a little app that sits on your desktop. You log into it, and it notifies the site that it's waiting for notifications on port X. This inserts the IP and port number of the client in a table of connected clients on the Web server. When the site is updated, it runs through this table and pushes XML to the IPs and ports in the table.

This came up because the nurses would often sit back at the station and monitor patients from there. Now, I realized you wouldn't do patient monitoring via blog, but say there was some event that happened on a site that was important enough to warrant more than the standard "poll-every-15-minutes" notifications. If you pushed the XML like I explain above, end users would get it in semi real-time.

If you used this in conjunction with NewsGator's ability to format and display arbitrary data, you could really move any information around quite well.

In the end, it's a cross between the "push" of email and the "pull" of RSS, I guess. Quite possibly pointless.

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Keep pushing even further

Keep pushing even further 09/19/2004 01:30 PM

Doc has a good bit (on his IT Garage) on Digital Identity - preparing for the upcoming DIDW (Digital Identity World) conference in Denver (where I'm speaking - as well.)

One thing Doc doesn't mention - which I blame myself for - is that FOAF is an important standard that can help promulgate the kind of infrastructure Doc is calling for.

In fact at last year's conference - when Jamie Lewis called for an open standard - I pointed out to him that FOAF was perfect for that.

So here we are a year later and the FOAFnet is about to launch - and it's time for yet another DIDW.

Here's Doc's post on his IT Garage.....

Two things came up simultaneously today.

First, Kaliya Hamlin called, and reminded me that I'm giving the closing keynote at Digital ID World next month, where I'm on at least one panel (here's the schedule). Also that I need to revisit the principles that I've been espousing at the last two DIDWs, which, she reports, are actually getting some traction.

Second, Andre Durand, who got me going on this whole Identity Thing several years ago (shortly thereafter I began serving on the advisory board of his new company, Ping Identity Corp.), put up a fresh post on his blog: Federated Identity & PKI Collide.

So I began thinking that Digital Identity needs to be a DIY-IT project (DIYDID, let's call it) at least to some degree. It needs independent IT professionals and other interested parties pushing the whole thing upward from the grass roots; and not just vendors, and associations of vendors, pushing them from the top down. That was one of Andre's points in the first place, and I think it's still valid today.

Digital Identity needs to be a fundamental internet service. If we don't push for something that's universal, and empowers markets from the customer side — and not just from the vendor side — either it won't happen, or it will be the same kind of mess we sill have with, say, instant messaging (where there are no common NEA IM standards, just incompatible, mostly non-interoperable competing offerings from mostly-uncooperative major vendors).

As Craig Burton says, infrastructure only achieves that status at ubquity. You get that from grass roots movements that vendors as well as customers and users support.

This isn't to knock the Liberty Alliance and other efforts being made on the vendor side. It's to turn some attention to the customer side, where the demand side is starting to supply some "solutions" as well.

[Doc's IT Garage]

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