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SlateSlateSlate 07/15/2004 06:54 PM quiz slate.msn.com/id/2103764 This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)SlateGrok Headline matches for SlateSlate to thank for hyperlinks?Slate to thank for hyperlinks? 12/24/2004 12:37 PM I'm catching up on e-mail as my flight is delayed in O'Hare and came across the following tidbit about Slate Magazine in the latest Edupage mailing: Although the magazine only recently achieved break-even status on revenue of about $6 million per year, Slate won a National Magazine Award for its editorial content, and mainstream news organizations frequently cite it. The publication is also given credit for shaping Web publishing and introducing the use of hyperlinks and Web logs. (Emphasis mine.)... The Granick SlateThe Granick Slate 03/06/2004 01:51 AM Jennifer Granick's slate card for today's election is out. Granick's judgment about things political is a standard for all right (as in correct) thinking people out here. To the surprise of some, she has endorsed Senator Edwards: "Kerry's probably going to be the nominee, and hopefully our next president, and I'm feeling pretty good about that. But he's got to learn the lesson that Howard Dean taught the Democrats, which is that you can't win by playing it safe and hoping to get the "Anyone But Bush" vote. You have to take a stance. Edwards' "Two Americas" platform is great. He's talking about class and race and a vision of how government can help regular people. I think that the Democrats need to heed this message, and a vote for Edwards will help." MSN to Sell Slate?MSN to Sell Slate? 07/26/2004 12:51 PM Sounds like MSN may shed yet another piece of its business, if it follows through with plans to sell its "Slate" online magazine. Spinning off SlateSpinning off Slate 07/23/2004 11:35 PM USA Today Jul 24 2004 3:07AM GMT MSN Slate MagazineMSN Slate Magazine 06/24/2004 11:11 AM Art Mobs in SlateArt Mobs in Slate 07/21/2004 07:44 PM Slate is running a piece today entitled "Art Mobs" that takes a look at how collaboration between artists has changed as things move online. It covers graphical, film, and text pieces, but the best example is a song. We've profiled MacJams before, the site built around sharing tracks for Apple's Garageband users. They've got Creative Commons licenses built in and this slate article highlights the final track "Please Eat." It is the fourth version of an earlier cut, and in the end four different musicians contributed 36 separate tracks to the final song. I did some digging around and here is the original track, which is licensed under an Attribution license. If you'd like to further mash the track, the final track mentioned is under an Attribution-Noncommercial license. Clean SlateClean Slate 09/23/2004 03:09 PM Click Clickclick clickclickclunkclickclunk What the? clunkclunkclunkCLUNKclunkclunk oh shit CLUNKCLUNKCLUNKCLUNK My hard drive failed quite beautifully over the last weekend. It sits, now, on my desk, rattling every time I pick it up to give it a mournful shake. Happily, I... Slate on variety meatsSlate on variety meats 04/23/2004 01:46 PM Interesting article over at Slate about all the gross things you usually only eat disguised as hot dogs, Offal Good - Why upscale chefs are serving euphemistically named "variety meats." Apparently British chef Fergus Henderson has a new book out entitled The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating that has recipes for all the parts that Americans tend to throw away. The publication of Henderson's book heralds a new fashion in food, already discernable in various hot restaurants in New York: offal, the organs and extremities (nose, cheeks, tail, feet) of butchered animals, has become chic. Foie gras, truffles, and other traditional staples of gastronomic excess now find themselves cheek by jowl on upscale menus with, well, cheeks and jowls. I haven't noticed this trend yet, but maybe I'm not eating at the "right" spots. I certainly don't think I'll rush out and buy the book any time soon. While I'm in favor of using the whole of the animal or plant -- and don't like waste one bit -- I have a hard time trimming the tips off a chicken's wings before I put it in to roast. As a failed vegetarian, I now enjoy meat occasionally when I'm out, but it's pretty much impossible for me to do any kind of chopping, hacking, or anything else with animal parts in my own kitchen. I don't expect to be boiling a pig's head any time soon, even if I had a pot it would fit in. Also, who's the editor at Slate that allowed such horrible pun for the title? M$ sells Slate to WaPoM$ sells Slate to WaPo 12/22/2004 01:30 AM Xeni Jardin: Microsoft will sell the online publication Slate to the Washington Post. No editorial changes anticipated. Link (Thanks Steve Portigal) Slate recommends FirefoxSlate recommends Firefox 07/01/2004 03:38 PM Wow. Even Microsoft-owned Slate.com is recommending Firefox over IE (via kottke.org) . Red Hat Holders OK Board SlateRed Hat Holders OK Board Slate 09/21/2004 04:26 PM TheStreet.com Sep 21 2004 7:46PM GMT Microsoft's Clean SlateMicrosoft's Clean Slate 07/24/2004 06:14 PM Daniel Gross' largely lucid explanation of Microsoft's current business position, which appears on Slate Magazine (owned and operated by Microsoft, though maybe not for much longer) glaringly ignores something: the company's lawbreaking ways. He compares Microsoft to the old AT&T. That's actually a more apt comparison than you might think. AT&T was a regulated monopoly. Microsoft is not. But the software company does have the government's blessing, which makes its hegemony much worse for the rest of us. If Microsoft is the new AT&T, it should be regulated, not wet-kissed by the president and his people. When he says Microsoft "beat back" antitrust challenges, that's quite the spin. Microsoft basically got clobbered in the trial and in the appeals court. Only when the Bush administration intervened to give back what it had won in court -- a settlement that was a craven cave-in -- did Microsoft finally get away with its illegal acts. Then, with the coast essentially clear on serious stuff, Microsoft spent billions to get rid of private antitrust lawsuits it surely would have lost. Of course, for Microsoft, billions of dollars amount to petty cash, which is why it's giving some of the loot back to shareholders. We are paying dearly for Bush's deal with Gates, and we'll continue to pay for years go come, in lost innovation and high prices. If Microsoft succeeds in extending the Windows and Office monopolies into putting a toll booth on all digital content, we'll pay even more. Maybe the Kerry administration will start enforcing antitrust laws again for the biggest, most brutal monopolist of recent history. Note: Maybe I missed it, but I can't find any reference on the Slate site of Microsoft's declared wish to sell the magazine. Odd. Microsoft Trying To Sell SlateMicrosoft Trying To Sell Slate 07/23/2004 03:08 PM It looks like Microsoft is giving up on the Slate experiment. Launched with great fanfare by Microsoft as an online magazine, it went through its disastrous attempt to charge people to subscribe (a plan that almost everyone involved admitted was a huge failure), and eventually went back to offering it's daily free content. Whenever people talk about independent online magazines, they point to Salon and Slate, and mention that while Salon seems to hang on with last minute investment after last minute investment, Slate keeps going thanks to billions in Microsoft money. That may no longer be the case. Microsoft is apparently talking with a variety of media companies about selling the online magazine. Apparently, Microsoft is looking to use the sale to do a bigger advertising deal with some media company, but if that doesn't work out, selling the whole thing isn't a problem. Clean Slate Smalltalk 0.2.1Clean Slate Smalltalk 0.2.1 01/05/2004 08:31 AM A new dialect and environment in the Smalltalk family. Clean Slate Smalltalk 0.3Clean Slate Smalltalk 0.3 08/08/2004 05:04 PM A new dialect and environment in the Smalltalk family. Slate: How To Speed-Read the NetSlate: How To Speed-Read the Net 03/06/2004 01:48 AM Slate launched their RSS feed today, and with it, published an excellent introduction to RSS article by Paul Boutin. What I like about the article (apart from the fact that it recommends SharpReader) is that it's clearly geared towards people who are more likely to read the New York Times or the Washington Post than diveintomark or scripting news. Instead... (157 words) "Slate pointed out, just because you can
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