You're Entering a World of Lebowski

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Corporations Entering World of Blogs
(AP)

Corporations Entering World of Blogs
(AP) 06/05/2005 10:59 PM
AP - When General Motors Corp. wanted to stop speculation this spring that it might eliminate its Pontiac and Buick brands, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz took his case directly to dealers and customers who were up in arms about the possibility. He wrote about it on the company's blog.

Nintendo Entering Online World???

Nintendo Entering Online World??? 08/19/2004 06:05 AM
Indiantelevision.com - Thu Aug 19, 10:32 am GMT

Someone might be entering soon

Someone might be entering soon 06/10/2004 09:04 PM
Yeah yeah, I realize it's been a while since I've written something intelligent. Lots of stuff going on, lots of...

Entering CasualSpace...

Entering CasualSpace... 01/07/2004 02:12 PM
I just had another transforming telecommunications experience. Again, Joi Ito was involved. Joi and I were typing at each other over the Net using Apple's iChat AV. I've never liked Internet chat. I don't like having to type that fast. So, at a certain point, I asked him whether he'd used the audio capacities that are built into iChat AV. I hadn't. A moment later we were conversing by voice through our computers. Despite the fact that Joi is presently in his country house outside of Tokyo and I'm at my condo in Salt Lake, it sounded like he was in the room with me. There was no discernible latency or loss of fidelity. For awhile, we talked as though we were on the phone, and I marveled at being able to conduct a zero-cost trans-Pacific call. (Of course, there's nothing particularly new about voice over IP. But it's never been so stupidly easy to set up, in my personal experience, as it is with iChat AV. Also, it never sounded this good before.) The really interesting shift occurred as we drifted back to what we'd been doing before we started chatting, leaving the audio channel open as we'd did so. We could hear each other typing. One of my daughters entered the room and spoke to me. Joi heard her and said hello. They had a brief conversation, their first since she was a little girl. Joi and I returned our e-mail. I wanted to set up an account on Technorati and broke in to ask him how to do it. He walked me through the process. There were other occasional interjections. I could hear the sounds of construction going on in his house. For a long time, it was as though we were working in the same room, each of us alone with his endeavors and yet... together. Though half a world away. This feels significant to me. Even over shorter distances, people rarely think of phone calls as being so casually cheap that one would simply leave the connection open for ambient telepresence and occasional conversation. To create shared spaces that span the planet, and to do so whenever you feel like it, and to leave them unpurposefully in place for hours, is not something people have done very often before. The next step is to make those shared spaces larger, so that multiple people can inhabit the same auditory zone, entering and leaving it as though it were a coffee house. This will change the way people live. Big deal, you think. You can do this with conference calls now. But you don't. Conference calls are expensive and unstable. The sound quality usually sucks if you're using a speaker phone. I think this is different. It certainly felt different to me. I had the same shiver of the New that I got years ago the first time I ever used telnet and realized that I could get a hard disks to spin in any number of computers thousands of miles away just by entering a few keystrokes. Eventually, Joi had to leave to attend to other business his distant part of Meatspace. We collapsed our huge virtual room into nothing. I went out on my balcony. In the snowy garden below, I watched a deer chase a huge raccoon into the bushes....

M.I.A. is, well, MIA due to visa
troubles while entering US

M.I.A. is, well, MIA due to visa
troubles while entering US 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Xeni Jardin: Following up on last week's post about the Sri Lankan sensation who plays bongo with her lingo, Boing Boing reader Pablos says: "M.I.A. was scheduled to perform at Chop Suey in Seattle tonight. Apparently she is having some kind of Visa trouble and her show has been cancelled. "

Some speculate the incident may relate to her father's affiliation with a Sri Lankan rebel group designated as a terrorist organization by the US. No news on her site or newsfeeds yet, but she's also scheduled to play at SXSW this week.
See also this extensive Pitchfork interview with Ms. Maya Arulpragasam. It says, among other things, that "bloggers love her." Link (thanks john martin and High-C)

Previously: MIA for intergalactic overlord

Entering credit card numbers

Entering credit card numbers 02/10/2004 02:44 PM
Bruce Tognazzini writes in his Ask Tog column Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line: "...Why can’t I input my credit card number the way it appears on the card? Why do I have to suck the extra spaces out, making it all but impossible to re-scan it for errors? We’re talking three spaces here, three bytes." (via Usability Views) I will quite often try to see if a credit card number field gives me enough room to enter it with spaces. If it does, I will then delete the spaces because I know so many places can't handle them. Any of you web programmers out there, tell me you couldn't write code to strip three spaces out of a credit card number? We're talking regular expressions 101 here. In a similar vein, I once asked a programmer I was working with to allow social security numbers to accept both no spaces or hyphens, and they told me the code to take hyphens out was easier than the code insisting the user enter it without hyphens....

Study Says Bluetooth Entering the
Mainstream

Study Says Bluetooth Entering the
Mainstream 05/05/2004 05:12 PM
BrightHand May 5 2004 9:06PM GMT

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland 04/08/2005 06:39 PM
My my, what an interesting week this has been: First, Blogilista goes commercial, and now Pirkka-magazine has launched a number of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts with violent distrust and confusion.

I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form, not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom feeds for all blogs! Way!

However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on the subject than you. And they know it.

Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that comes with the format?

You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a personal media. You need to let people write with their own voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.

Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.

(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging .info/, and Scoble's Corporat e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes away credibility from the author.)

(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on blogilista.fi: get a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's *gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is - an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic ĂĽberbliss. If you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds, and make your own personal bloglist.

Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential; some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just for

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Microsoft may be illegally entering
search market, says US

Microsoft may be illegally entering
search market, says US 04/15/2004 03:56 AM
Silicon.com Apr 15 2004 7:53AM GMT

Romanian Team Entering X-Prize
competition

Romanian Team Entering X-Prize
competition 09/12/2004 03:47 AM

Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering
Production

Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering
Production 06/08/2004 02:10 PM

New Sales Strategies for UK Companies
Entering US Market

New Sales Strategies for UK Companies
Entering US Market 04/04/2005 04:15 AM
“How to Quickly and Cost-effectively Enter the U.S. Market” – Georgia, USA alliance to conduct U.K. Workshops on Selling in the United States in April. [PRWEB Apr 4, 2005]

Department of Homeland Security Prevents
Terrorist from Entering the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security Prevents
Terrorist from Entering the U.S. 09/25/2004 11:32 AM
As we all know, since September 11, 2001 the U.S. has been much more vigilant in defending itself against terrorist attacks.  In addition to bombing the shit out of the Middle East, we have also established the Department of Homeland Security whose responsibility it is to defend us from terrorists. They have so far done a stellar job, as the U.S. has yet to be hit by another terrorist attack.  But the ever-vigilant Department of Homeland Security is not resting on its laurels. Recently, they prevented the terrorist supporter Yusef Islam from entering the United States.

Hacker pleads guilty to entering N.Y.
Times computers

Hacker pleads guilty to entering N.Y.
Times computers 01/08/2004 08:35 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 8 2004 8:12PM ET

"The University of Georgia is entering a
new phase of its WAGZone experiment"

"The University of Georgia is entering a
new phase of its WAGZone experiment" 01/03/2004 07:07 PM

George Carlin Entering Drug Rehab Clinic
(AP)

George Carlin Entering Drug Rehab Clinic
(AP) 12/27/2004 03:50 PM
AP - Comedian George Carlin is entering a drug rehabilitation facility to shake his dependence on wine and a painkiller.

Computer system picks out new words,
phrases entering English language

Computer system picks out new words,
phrases entering English language 12/20/2003 03:55 AM
National Post Dec 20 2003 3:39AM ET

Leads.com Inc. Announces B2B Leads and
B2B Marketplace at Portal Site Entering
into the $105 Trillion B2B Market

Leads.com Inc. Announces B2B Leads and
B2B Marketplace at Portal Site Entering
into the $105 Trillion B2B Market 06/14/2004 02:07 AM
Our Telemarketing and Online Leads are no-call list approved and voice recorded. We have developed an online meta database to house leads and b2b exchange data in finance categories such as Mortgage - Real Estate - Insurance - Debt - Bankruptcy Credit Card - Time Share - Travel and development to have over 1000 b2b categories of leads. Affiliate sites include www.leads.com and www.buyerst.com [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
world beard and moustache championships .. German crowned world beard champion .. Beardy Weirdies!

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3233833.stm
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Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World

Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World 06/18/2004 10:08 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 19 2004 2:20AM GMT

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world"

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world" 09/21/2004 04:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: David Weinberger, author of the brilliant and seminal Small Pieces Loosely Joined, has posted a draft of a great speech on copyright that he's giving at the World Economic Forum in NYC tomorrow:

[F]or one moment, I'd like you to perform an exercise in selective attention. Forget every other consideration — even though they're fair and important considerations — and see if you can acknowledge that a world in which everyone has free access to every work of creativity in the world is a better world. Imagine your children could listen to any song ever created anywhere. What a blessing that would be!

...We publish stuff that gets its meaning and its reality by being read, viewed or heard. An unpublished novel is about as meaningful and real as an imaginary novel. It needs its readers to be. But readers aren't passive consumers. We reimagine the book, we complete the vision of the book. Readers appropriate works, make them their own. Listeners and viewers, too. In making a work public, artists enter into partnership with their audience. The work succeeds insofar as the audience makes it their own, takes it up, understands it within their own unpredictable circumstances. It leaves the artist's hands and enters our lives. And that's not a betrayal of the work. That's its success. It succeeds insofar as we hum it, quote it, appropriate it so thoroughly that we no longer remember where the phrase came from. That's artistic success, although it's a branding failure.

Link (via isen.blog)

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games 01/07/2005 04:22 AM
Ubi Soft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers has selected Eiko Media Inc. as their preferred agency to assist in bringing real world products into their suite of video game titles. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World 06/24/2005 03:20 PM
VOIP Video Phones (Voice Over Internet Protocol) by Packet 8 and 5 LINX are revolutionizing the communications industry as you read this and reuniting families that in many cases haven't seen one another in years. There hasn't been a cultural or business change as dramatic since trains were being replaced by airplanes as the common way to travel. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World?

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World? 12/04/2003 03:52 AM
Last month when everyone was making a big deal over the news that the online game Second Life had decided that players own any intellectual property they create in the game, I said it was a bad idea, since it basically took all of the problems of our intellectual property system and moved them into the virtual world - where it was likely to get more confusing. Over at LawMeme, James Grimmelmann, has been thinking a lot about that very idea and has written an insanely long - but absolutely worth reading - discussion about intellectual property issues as it relates to games. It's impossible to summarize his points, but he explores many of the issues in-depth and appears to have thought about these issues in much more detail than the designers of the various games. What it really seems to come down to is the question of whether or not in-game actions are simply covered by the End User License Agreement (which basically becomes the Constitution for that game) or if real laws in the real world should apply.

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes 06/03/2004 07:16 AM
Technology business magazine PC World has announced the winners of its 2004 World Class Awards, and Apple is on the list. The magazine's editors make their selections for the awards "based on exemplary usability, design, innovation, features, performance, and value from a reliable manufacturer."

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Indiagames secures global rights to bring the WCG Mobile Game Competition. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world.

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world. 05/18/2004 07:24 PM
Choose Your Own New York You're in town to visit your wealthy and eccentric Aunt Ginny, who is spending the day having her blood replaced with Botox on the Upper East Side. Now you have the entire day to yourself to explore the most exciting city in the world! -- A Choose Your Own Adventure story, updated.

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005 01/05/2005 03:28 AM
In the aftermath of the tsunamis that devastated Asia in late December 2004, observers pointed out that lack of official, credible information gave victims and governments in the area little prior warning of the impending disaster. Although still in the developmental stages, a partnership of the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) and the Organsation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is creating an information system that may significantly reduce the impact of future natural and manmade disasters. Native American Pueblo and Navajo Nations in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado are providing pilot sites for the GDIN system. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

Real World Linux 2004, Day 1: A real
world experience

Real World Linux 2004, Day 1: A real
world experience 04/13/2004 10:21 PM
Real World Linux 2004 Conference and Expo is taking place this year at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, North building, next to the Canadian National Tower in the middle of Canada's largest city.

Best Online Poker Websites: ESPN World
Series Of Poker Finds Best Online Poker
Websites Are The Training Ground For
2003 Poker World Champion Chris
Moneymaker And Other Top WPT And WSOP
Gaming Stars.

Best Online Poker Websites: ESPN World
Series Of Poker Finds Best Online Poker
Websites Are The Training Ground For
2003 Poker World Champion Chris
Moneymaker And Other Top WPT And WSOP
Gaming Stars. 07/21/2004 02:30 AM
The best online poker websites have become the best training grounds for the world's top poker players and future poker stars. 2003 World Series Of Poker Champion Chris Moneymaker shocked the Las Vegas establishment and world with his domination of the 2003 ESPN WSOP Championships at Binion's Horseshoe Casino. Yet his Cinderella story was anything but a rags to riches tale. Chris Moneymaker honed his skills and paid his dues like so many other modern day players that participate daily in the best online poker tournaments, satellite competitions and world wide poker websites. http://www.MonteCarloGrandResort.com [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

A Whole New World

A Whole New World 04/14/2004 03:56 PM
A .psd is worth a thousand words. As images are used more and more as propaganda , and Photoshop becomes ever more available to the masses, where are we headed? How can you continue to believe your eyes?

World War IV

World War IV 09/03/2004 09:54 PM
World War IV

• 1914-1918: World War I
• 1939-1945: World War II
• 1945-1990: World War III (Cold War)
• 2001 ongoing: World War IV

Every generation has their war to end all wars. Welcome to ours. World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win. [via GlobalSecurity.org ]

A world away

A world away 04/09/2004 04:06 PM

Junks Hole looking toward Savannah Bay, Anguilla, British West Indies

Where in the world should Joi go next?

Where in the world should Joi go next? 05/21/2004 09:53 AM
Joi has six free days in Europe and has posted a wiki where we can suggest ways he can constructively use his time. A cleverer person than I could probably figure out huge amounts about Joi, his social network and his standing just by reading this page. It's the sort of rich artifact the Web creates unintentionally and frequently......

It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World 12/28/2003 03:09 PM
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Alton Brown analyzes the current Mad Cow scare. If you watch FoodTV, you may have seen his show "Good Eats" or at least read a previous thread. His rant reminds us that there are consequences to our lust of more for less.

Welcome to my world!

Welcome to my world! 03/13/2003 11:44 AM
So last night was the big Google/Blogger celebration party in the city. It was rocking of course. But there are...

World War I

World War I 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
Before we leave the 19th century, a word from our sponsor: Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W. W. Norton 2004). Buy one in the next six hours and you can read the next entry in this blog ASOLUTELY FREE!! We tend to think of World War I as a generally popular war, like World War II. Nothing could be further from the truth. After the war broke out in Europe in 1914, the vast majority of Americans wanted nothing to do with it. The saw the carnage of the European battlefields and decided the conflicted implicated no vital interests of the United States. Indeed, Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916 on the platform that "He Kept Us Out of War!" In 1917, however, Wilson sought a declaration of war. The reason he sought to enter the war was to preserve the "freedom of the seas." Under international law, a neutral is entitled to trade with belligerants. The Germans, however, were using U-boats to sink American ships that were bringing munitions, arms, and other supplies to England and France. Ironically, the English and French were also blocking American shipping to Germany. But because Germany had little access to the sea, they could do this my minimg a few harbors and rivers. The only way the Germans could reciprocate was by warning Americans not to trade with English and France, on pain of submarine attacks. Nonetheless, Wilson got his declaration. Many Americans were angry. They were perfectly happy to forego trade with England and France, rather than get involved in the war. They saw this, not as a "War to Make the World Safe for Democracy," as the president now billed it, but as a "War to Make the World Safe for Armanents and Munitions Manufacturers." People like Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, and Jane Addams vigorously criticized the decision to enter the war. Wilson had two problems. First, he had to generate enthusiasm for the war. Second, he had to repress dissent that would undermine morale. To address the first problem, he established the Committee on Public Information, a propaganda arm of the United States goverment, the charge of which was to produce a floot of leaflets, pamplets, lectures, and movies designed to promote a hatred of all things German and a suspicion of anyone who might be "disloyal." To address the second problem, he led Congress to enact the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, which effectively made it a crime for any person to criticize the war, the draft, the president, the government, the flag, the military, or the Constitution of the United States. Some 2,000 dissenters were prosecuted under these provisions. They ranged from such obscure dissidents as Mollie Steimer, a 20-year-old Russian-Jewish emigre who threw leaflets in Yiddish from a rooftop on the lower East Side of New York, to such prominent figures as Eugene Debs, the national leaders of the Socialist Party, who had received one million votes for President in 1912 (6% of the total), who gave a speech in Ohio criticizing Wilson for the draft and for his suppression of free expression. Moreover, unlike the Sedition Act of 1798, where the maximum jail term was 6 months, judges enforcing the World War I legislation routinely sentenced people to prison terms of 10-20 years in jail, and many of these people (like Mollie Steimer and Emma Goldman) were deported for their dissent. And what, you ask, of the Supreme Court of the United States? In a series of decisions in 1919 and 1920, the Court upheld the convictions of these defendants. In effect, the Court ruled that, in time of war, government could punish such criticism of its policies and programs because such dissent could persuade people not to support the war, and that could in turn lead them to do things like refusing induction if they were drafted or being insubordinate if they were in the army. To prevent such harms, the government could constitutionally make essentially any criticism of the war or the draft unlawful. Things today don't look quite so bad, do they?

‘ I have the best job in the world ’ :

‘ I have the best job in the world ’ : 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
If you do a Google search on a topic, get 230,000 hits, extract 15 words from the first 1,000 of these sites, and bolt together a 15,000-word essay, is that ...

The New World of PR

The New World of PR 03/08/2004 11:19 PM
Last Friday, Scoble relayed a denial by Microsoft exec Martin Taylor that they were behind the big venture investment in SCO. I’m surprised that nobody’s pointed at the meta-message here; this is the first time I know of that a big company has gone to one of their bloggers to get a critical piece of PR out. But I bet it won’t be the last.
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