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Middle-earth a Middle-Tier Game

Middle-earth a Middle-Tier Game 12/22/2004 01:38 AM
Granted, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth presents gorgeous graphics and interesting matchups between Tolkien's characters. But there isn't much strategy involved in this strategy game. Game review by Lore Sjöberg.

Are We Still A Middle-Class Nation & A
Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class

Are We Still A Middle-Class Nation & A
Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
...According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the following are among the occupations with the largest projected job growth from 2000 to 2010: combined food-preparation and serving, including fast food; customer-service representative; registered nurse; retail salesperson; computer-support specialist; cashier, except gaming; office clerk; security guard; computer-software engineer, applications; waiter; general or operations manager; truck driver, heavy and tractor-trailer; nursing aide, orderly, or attendant; janitor or cleaner, except maid or housekeeping cleaner; postsecondary teacher; teacher assistant; home health aide; laborer or freight, stock, and material mover, hand; computer-software engineer, systems software; landscaping or groundskeeping.     Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation? comes from The State Of The Union section in The Atlantic. Compare and contrast A Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class

Big Day Middle

Big Day Middle 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
My meetings went really well. The guys I saw at VH-1 seemed very excited about me, and I ::heart:: the idea they have. I think we are "on the same page" as they say in Hollywood, and maybe something will come of it.

Middle Future

Middle Future 04/03/2005 10:32 AM
New alpha released!

Raed in the Middle

Raed in the Middle 04/13/2004 11:17 AM
Where is Raed? Salam Pax's pal Raed Jarrar now has his own Blogspot site, Raed in the Middle, after some guest posts on Salam's blog. Foreboding political commentary (scroll down to "Three Smart Political Steps") on how AlSadr is making shrewd moves to unite Sunnis and Shi'as against American forces. In addition, Raed translates diary entries from his mother Faiza, who also Teaches you Arabic.

"Raed in the Middle"

"Raed in the Middle" 04/13/2004 09:53 AM

Middle Haven

Middle Haven 06/05/2004 04:25 PM
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Who needs a middle class anyway?

Who needs a middle class anyway? 05/21/2004 03:51 PM
M iddle-Class 2003: How Congress Voted (executive summary) Who is doing better under the a Republican White House and Congress? If you're part of the vast majority...the middle class...it isn't you. So finds a very useful new report out today from the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a non-partisan think tank. F ull report here. (PDF) The study defines middle class as Americans with incomes between approximately 200 percent of the federal poverty threshold and those of the top 5 percent of earners -- roughly $25,000 to $100,000 a year. (Which excludes Congresscritters, who have consistently given themselves raises to well over 150k a year.)

Stuck in the middle?

Stuck in the middle? 04/15/2005 09:45 AM
CNET Asia Apr 15 2005 2:19PM GMT

Need Reading Glasses? Welcome to Middle
Age

Need Reading Glasses? Welcome to Middle
Age 06/07/2004 09:57 PM
Over-the-counter reading glasses can be just right — but not for everyone.

Fame's "middle class"

Fame's "middle class" 08/08/2004 05:37 AM
Danny O'Brien's posted a fantastic essay about the "middle-class of fame" -- people who have a kind thin, widely dispersed celebrity (one person in every town likes your dumb net-comic) and whether this new kind of celebrity points to a future of more evenly distributed fame.

Groovelily, the band I went to see, are in many ways, poster children for the middle of that fame curve. They're not a super-famous act, but they are deeply loved, with a "street team" of 300 volunteers who flyer and promote them in their towns, and a range of fans and casual supporters who'll let them play gigs of over two thousand in some venues, or twenty or so in my friend's house. Surrounded by an audience of their fans, they're happy and hardworking, and as far as I could see doing just fine financially.

A lot of their songs, though, speak of the hardness of that road: the envy of the success of peers. The self-doubt that eats at you when you don't get that break: that leap up the spike to the top of the curve. The emotional core of their songs described the state of that life as one of perserverance until you reach a glorious goal; the most self-referential of the musical archetypal song plots.

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IT salaries stuck in the middle

IT salaries stuck in the middle 06/29/2004 08:16 PM
Study finds compensation drops for IT middle managers, rises modestly for execs and staff.

Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle

Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle 08/13/2004 02:18 PM
The Washington Post .. CBO confirms it .. WaPo article

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Middle East Correspondant?

Middle East Correspondant? 01/07/2004 02:02 PM
Osama bin Laden writes today's comment in the Guardian. Is the Comment & Analysis section of a major national paper (and international website) the right place to publish a call for jihad?

XML databases move to the middle

XML databases move to the middle 04/30/2004 07:41 AM

It's true that you can use native XML databases to manage the growing number of business documents created by the new generation of XML-savvy end-user applications. It's handy, for example, to search an insurance database for incident reports that match some structured pattern of in-line metadata. But hybrid SQL/XML databases can do that too, and they can also join the structured XML content with relational columns -- a powerful combination. So XML databases are migrating into a niche that SQL/XML can't and won't occupy. They're becoming the high-performance pumps that push XML traffic around on the emerging services web. [InfoWorld.com ]

This short piece is a companion to Sean McCown's excellent cover story which surveys the XML features of leading relational databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase. ...

Facing Middle Age and AIDS

Facing Middle Age and AIDS 08/17/2004 03:47 AM
Although AIDS is thought of as a disease of the young, in the United States it is rapidly becoming one of the middle-aged and even the old.

NPR Middle East history

NPR Middle East history 08/18/2004 10:43 PM
Six-part NPR series The Middle East and the West, history of Western involvement in the Middle East.

Commentary: In the middle with RFID

Commentary: In the middle with RFID 06/01/2004 03:15 PM

A middle layer of web apps

A middle layer of web apps 08/19/2004 11:12 PM
Olivier has offered a challenging analysis whose name explains his thesis: "Organizr is Nice, But Not a Web App". The...

Middle East Payoff?

Middle East Payoff? 07/07/2004 12:50 PM
Middle East reforms could present an opportunity for a few risk-taking companies.

Eschaton - Middle 'C' on the Mighty
Casio

Eschaton - Middle 'C' on the Mighty
Casio 07/25/2004 05:57 PM
liberal blog Atrios .. calls our attention .. Atrios of Eschaton .. around that site .. "Gene Lyons," .. Eschaton [>] .. Atrios .. Eshaton .. WE

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The Streaming Music Middle Ground?

The Streaming Music Middle Ground? 04/26/2004 12:48 AM

My Slate Column on Why Streaming Rocks

"Last week Slate published my latest column -- which is an ode to streaming, that mostly-neglected way of getting digital music. I tried out the streaming service Rhapsody, and discovered that quite to my surprise, it rocked madly. With 500,000 songs instantly at my beck and call, for $10 a month, it suddenly became really easy to explore new artists -- something that is incredibly expensive if you do it by buying CDs, and incredibly slow if you do it by using Kazaa. Most interestingly, I discovered that I didn't really care that much about not "owning" the songs; I was willing to trade enormous access to a massive library in exchange for not actually having them, physically, on my hard drive. That's partly because, as I noted, ownership these days isn't actually ownership...." [collision detection]

From Clive's article, The Internet Jukebox:

"Using a streaming service such as Rhapsody also allows you to opt out of the AAC vs. WMA war, a face-off that is queasily reminiscent of the fight between Betamax and VHS. You probably remember the sad fate of the losers who bought Beta movies. The downloading services are forcing you to similarly gamble about which music format will win. Right now, because of iPod and iTunes, AAC looks pretty solid. But what happens if WMA triumphs, iPods die out, and the only music players available in 2014 won't play the thousands of songs you legally bought at iTunes? (Or vice versa.)....

Besides, put on your Jules Verne cap. Think about what it'll be like when wireless companies finally roll out broadband networks nationwide and streaming is possible out in the streets. Imagine subscribing to something like Rhapsody on a mobile device that lets you access any song, anywhere, instantly. What will you think of your iPod and its 1,000 songs then?" [Slate]

I wholeheartedly agree with Clive, and I've been meaning to write more about this for a while. I listen to Rhapsody almost exclusively at work, and I don't miss the ownership aspect at all, a fact about which I am quite torn. On the one hand, the instant gratification is so worth it, and I love having the ability to listen to such a wide variety of music. On the other hand, I worry that I'm helping bring about a subscription-based entertainment future in which no one really owns our culture anymore, except the people charging me to access it.

And of course, my biggest fear of all is that there is room for libraries in that future.

Microsoft to fight its middle-age spread

Microsoft to fight its middle-age spread 07/07/2004 11:06 AM
The Australian Jul 7 2004 3:52PM GMT

Middle-lower-end Subwoofer showdown

Middle-lower-end Subwoofer showdown 07/16/2004 03:41 AM

EU Defuses Tension with U.S. Over Middle
East

EU Defuses Tension with U.S. Over Middle
East 04/17/2004 12:46 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 17 2004 4:48PM GMT

Between the pit and PCs, traders find
middle ground

Between the pit and PCs, traders find
middle ground 04/10/2004 06:24 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 10 2004 10:23AM GMT

Middle School Homework Page

Middle School Homework Page 04/13/2004 12:39 PM
Version .01 RC2--Schnauzer is out!

Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle
(washingtonpost.com)

Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle
(washingtonpost.com) 08/14/2004 02:33 AM

IT workers' salaries slip in middle

IT workers' salaries slip in middle 06/29/2004 09:48 PM
CNET Jun 30 2004 2:00AM GMT

Solution to the problems in the Middle
East

Solution to the problems in the Middle
East 01/04/2005 09:20 AM
As you are aware, there's bit of a problem in the middle east. There's a little argument about some land...

ChannelWave 5 Takes Middle Ground

ChannelWave 5 Takes Middle Ground 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
ChannelWave 5 focuses on the action in the middle by providing Web-based CRM and partner relationship management (PRM) technology for organizations that sell through such intermediaries as alliance partners, value-added resellers, systems integrators, and agents and brokers.

Doomed to failure in the Middle East

Doomed to failure in the Middle East 04/27/2004 06:13 AM
D oomed to failure in the Middle East. 52 former senior British diplomats, probably the most experienced people on Middle East issues in Britain, sent a letter to Tony Blair, telling him he is very close to fucking up big time. Tony is trying to pass this as just «right of opinion». What next? Are we going to see foreign office people demonstrating outside Downing street?

Bush to remake Middle East

Bush to remake Middle East 03/21/2003 11:26 AM
WSJ says war in Iraq really first step in grand scheme to remake the Middle East. Rumsfeld and Fleischer can still be seen on TV news implying "we just want them to disarm". More on What Makes W. Tick from The Atlantic.

Crossing the Border Into the Middle
Class

Crossing the Border Into the Middle
Class 06/02/2004 11:12 PM
In Las Vegas, unlike most U.S. cities, busboys, dishwashers and janitors can easily gain a foothold in the middle class.

IBM expands middle market campaign

IBM expands middle market campaign 11/02/2003 05:25 PM
CNET Asia Nov 2 2003 4:29PM ET

Aruba Targets Middle Market

Aruba Targets Middle Market 11/19/2003 03:29 PM
Aruba came out with a WLAN switch designed for medium-sized businesses: The initial WLAN switch products were designed for the large enterprises but that was troublesome for smaller companies for which the products were overkill. I've seen some WLAN switch products recently designed for small, branch offices and now it looks like the product developers may start targeting the middle market. Targeting the medium sized businesses is a good idea because it's probably not that hard to scale the original products down which opens up a broader market for these companies....

Stuck in the Middle: The Role of
Infomediaries

Stuck in the Middle: The Role of
Infomediaries 04/03/2005 06:06 PM

The Idea: Information intermediaries are facing revolutionary changes and threats, but the energy behind these changes is not new technologies, but a broad dissatisfaction by readers and viewers with the end-product, and with the lack of value added by intermediaries. This article suggests some answers. We live in an age of 'disintermediation' -- the cutting out of the middleman. We do bank transactions without tellers, we browse libraries without librarians, we learn without teachers. Those who used to know their role in our society often find themselves reinventing those roles before they simply disappear. One such group struggling with their role are 'infomediaries' -- the people who stand (or used to stand) between you and the information you consume. The chain is shown in the illustration at right. To some extent blogging is an attempt to disintermediate this chain. Some in the mainstream media would like to see us as just another link in the chain, at the very end between the channels and readers, adding little or no value other than links to related stories, high-tech cataloguers. But online journalism can incorporate all six of these intermediary roles, and, in fact, bloggers can be newsmakers in their own right -- like when they break major stories that the legacy media miss, or undertake investigative reporting that the legacy media no longer have.much appetite for. At the same time, search tools and social networking software are providing additional channels and ways to aggregate information, working to some extent hand in glove with bloggers to create entirely new ways to connect Following are some comments from reader Wendy Siegelman, who works for a major infomediary,  from a recent e-mail exchange on this subject: I think that intermediaries are perhaps underappreciated because there isn't a recognized name for the role they have. Maybe these information intermediaries are missing an important element - branding.  Without the proper branding, intermediaries that take, find, gather and make information usable, accessible, meaningful - are not properly valued.  I think there is a relatively high value placed on the concept of 'good communication'. There's the content being communicated, the communicator, and the receiver of information.  But, there's also the element of how the info is communicated.  I think that the value is usually placed on the what and who, but not the how.  [Politicians and others with vested interests use information to] measure and try to influence opinion and policy. Unfortunately, they have made the science of gathering, sorting and adding value and meaning to information appear to be a negative, opportunistic process. Intermediaries that do the same thing for productive and positive ends aren't properly recognized or valued. The critical issue for the future of all intermediaries is, as Wendy implies: What value are you, or could you be, adding? Fail to add enough and you'll be gobbled up by others along the chain or circumvented entirely. Add a lot of value and you can actually 'reintermediate' information flow that had ostensibly been disintermediated -- like some of the best librarians have done, reinventing themselves as researchers, analysts and report-writers filtering, compiling, analyzing, organizing, adding insight and producing crisp and concise documents ready for end-customers. It is that very lack of value-added that has caused disintermediation in the first place. Reporters are too often underfunded and lazy -- so they wait for news to break and ambulance-chase, and add nothing to the propagandist commercial 'press releases' issued by governments and corporations. Most analysts are paid by stock brokers, governments, biotech companies, corporate-sponsored think-tanks, and other vested-interest groups, to help 'sell' their products and suppress information and opinions to the contrary, as James Surowiecki has eloquently demonstrated in his weekly New Yorker column, and as many recent scandals involving analysts who were fired for not towing the line show. Likewise, editors are paid to reflect the editorial stance of the publisher, and legacy publishers are beholden to shareholders who only want them to publish what sells simply and in large quantity. Aggregators then try to pull this 'dumbed down' and censored content together, but are having the rug pulled out from under them by increasingly sophisticated free aggregation tools that channel companies like Google and Bloglines provide. And the mainstream media channels are finding their audience increasingly splintered, demanding and dissatisfied with the poverty of truly informative or useful content they push out. So readers and viewers have been open to disintermediation, not because of cost (which continues to drop precipitously) but because of the poor quality of intermediated content and the lack of value added by intermediaries. What could information intermediaries do to be more valuable? Here are a few ideas from a presentation I made a few years ago to a conference of intermediaries: Make the content more useful, more actionable, or at least more interesting. The limits of attention span and bandwidth often cause intermediaries to strip out content that provides valuable context to the reader or viewer -- tells them not only who, what, when, where, why and how, but also what does it mean? Study how to write great stories, so that those further along the information channel will be disinclined to pare them down and reduce the value you have incorporated in the story. Focus on information that's important, rather than urgent. Too much of the content reaching the reader and viewer today is 'sold' as urgent, when all it is is new. Not enough is important. Follow up. We squander reader/viewer interest and trust when we get them worked up about today's story and then never tell them what happened later. Be conversational. Let the reader/viewer see the person behind the point of view. And don't pretend to be objective -- your audience knows better. Help people deal with information overload. If people hope to be able to give more attention to important stories and issues, they need the rest of the crap filtered out. Search engines, blogrolls, eProfiles and other filtering mechanisms are woefully imprecise. The tools need to be much better, and intermediaries need to find a new role filtering the firehose of daily 'news' in a way that will probably never be possible even with the best tool. There are huge opportunities here. Get out more. Intermediaries need to learn the value of doing their own primary research (interviewing and direct observation), and not merely working with the content flowing though the chain to them. If that's not in your job description -- add it. Read broadly. It gives you perspective. And it has a lot of other benefits as well. Learn a disciplined approach to research and analysis. I like the Pyramid Principle, but there are lots of others. This will make your thinking sharper, allow you to appreciate how your readers will 'see' what you're providing them with, and provide a 'trail' that will make your arguments more compelling and allow you (or others) to understand and check your logic. Take some chances. The disintermediation that is overwhelming the information industries came about because the technology industries were bold, and didn't constrain their products to doing just what other technologies had done before them. Talk to readers and viewers about what is possible, think them ahead to imagine how they could use an intermediary product or service that doesn't even exist today. Level of 'customer satisfaction' with the legacy media is extremely low, and that dissatisfaction has many causes, and suggests many needs that are not being met. Find a need and fill it.

Middle ground in SOA design debate?

Middle ground in SOA design debate? 03/28/2005 10:43 AM
Blog: In the somewhat rarified community of software architects, a debate over how to modernize today's computing systems is taking...

Kids and computers, in the middle of a
field

Kids and computers, in the middle of a
field 04/29/2004 08:24 PM
Calcutta Telegraph Apr 30 2004 0:46AM GMT
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