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Korean Integrated News Database System
(KINDS)
Korean Integrated News Database System
(KINDS)
01/05/2004 02:54 PMKorean Integrated News Database System (KINDS) http://www.kinds.or.kr/peng_html/what_kinds.html "KINDS (Korean Integrated News Database System - Korea Press
Foundation, Seoul, South Korea) provides full texts of ten major
national dailies; the Kyunghyang Shinmun, the Kukmin Daily, the Korea
Daily News, the Dong-A Ilbo, the Munhwa Ilbo, the Segye Ilbo, the
Chosun Ilbo, the Joongang Ilbo, the Hankyoreh, and the Hankook Ilbo.
Articles of January 1, 1990 and after are available. KINDS also
provides articles of economic daily newspapers, such as the Maeil
Business Newspaper, the Seoul Kyungje Shinmun, the Korea Economic
Daily, the Naewoe Economic Daily, the Jeil Economic Daily, the Money
Today, and the Financial News. It delivers essential financial and
business information for the most selective consumer. KINDS has more
than 5 million articles from national dailies, economic dailies, TV
news programs, English language dailies, local dailies, professional
newspapers, and news magazines."
Taxonomy, folksonomy, tagsonomy
Taxonomy, folksonomy, tagsonomy
01/03/2005 10:01 AMPeterme points to a terrific essay by Adam Mathes titled "Folksonomies
- Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared
Metadata" and sparks a discussion of whether "folksonomy" is a good or
right term for the sort of thing that del.icio.us does. I happen to
think it's a keeper, but I also like Kirk Scott's "tagsonomy."...
Five kinds of "busy"
Five kinds of "busy"
10/29/2003 01:15 AMWe're so "way too
fucking busy" that we are the Trotts.
Kinds of Funds
Kinds of Funds
06/23/2004 09:09 AMLearn the difference between income funds and balanced funds.
It takes all kinds....
It takes all kinds....
01/02/2005 01:07 AM
Educati
ng Wesley: a photo essay.
All kinds of Ick in my Sick
All kinds of Ick in my Sick
12/29/2003 04:20 PMNot to a whole lot of fun going on here I'm sick of being sick, the
rain looks more like...
Value Judgements on two kinds of
networks...
Value Judgements on two kinds of
networks...
03/13/2003 10:16 AMI don't have the expertise or the discipline to dive into this as
fully as I would like, so I'm just going to sketch out a few thoughts
which maybe someone else would like to pick up and run with.
There are two articles currently doing the rounds that both talk
about the value and utility of being part of the networked world, and
what it means to participate within it. The first is about the
internet - it's called World of
Ends and it's by the inspired Doc Searls and David Weinberger. The
second is about international politics and it's called The
Pentagon's New Map and it's by Thoma
s PM Barnett.
The first article - Doc Searls and David Weinberger's - was
immediately something I felt a desire to rally behind. It's states
what we have come to perceive as the obvious facts about the internet:
that it can't be controlled, that it should exist without governance,
without regulation, that it routes around 'damage', that the internet
consists of an agreement, that no one owns it, that everyone can use
it, that everyone can add to it, that trying to deform the network
lessens its power - lessens its democratising utility. I agree with
all of this stuff.
The second article filled me with immediate distrust and
discomfort. It's about countries which are disconnected from the
'network' of globalisation. Here's a quote:
"That is why the public debate about this war has been so
important: It forces Americans to come to terms with I believe is the
new security paradigm that shapes this age, namely,
Disconnectedness defines danger. Saddam Hussein’s outlaw
regime is dangerously disconnected from the globalizing world, from
its rule sets, its norms, and all the ties that bind countries
together in mutually assured dependence."
This is a paean to the power and value of globalisation as a force
for good. He continues:
Show me where globalization is thick with network
connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media flows, and
collective security, and I will show you regions featuring stable
governments, rising standards of living, and more deaths by suicide
than murder. These parts of the world I call the Functioning Core, or
Core. But show me where globalization is thinning or just plain
absent, and I will show you regions plagued by politically repressive
regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder,
and—most important—the chronic conflicts that incubate the
next generation of global terrorists.
There seem to be some significant parallels that could be drawn
between these two models of global scale-free networks that call into
question the appropriateness of our (my) judgements about both
globalisation as a democratic / capitalist process and the internet as
a communications / publishing process. There's a collision here that I
feel the need to investigate.
For me, the freedom and lack of regulation of the internet was an
obvious goal - inevitably positive - while the spread of globalisation
represented something tremendously powerful, but also threatening,
difficult and dangerous. While the internet seemed to dismantle
hegemony, globalisation also seemed to support it - promote it. But by
seeing them in parallel, depicted simply as analogous networks that
operate on protocols, some of my value judgements about each of them
seem to be spreading to infect the other.
My anxiety about globalisation as a hegemonising power is now
spreading into my feelings about the internet - could the power-law
aspect of the internet that I've not previously had issue with
actually not be analogous with multinational corporations doing
terrible soulless inhuman things across the world. Rather than being
analogous, could they in fact be the same thing? Could the
infiltration of globalisation's spread through the world be the same
'liberating', equalising, opportunity-producing phenomenon that I've
believed the internet to be?
There are other weird connections or analogies that can be drawn
between the two articles / systems - some of which seem to collide
with my argument or rephrase it or push it in a different direction.
But each one of them seems to be to point towards something out
of my reach at the moment. One analogy seems weirdly to be between
disconnected states that constitute a threat to the network and to the
very organisations that seem to be behind globalisation - large
corporations who push for proprietorial behaviours in an
interconnected space. Compare and contrast:
Think about it: Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are pure products
of the Gap—in effect, its most violent feedback to the Core.
They tell us how we are doing in exporting security to these lawless
areas (not very well) and which states they would like to take
“off line” from globalization and return to some
seventh-century definition of the good life (any Gap state with a
sizable Muslim population, especially Saudi Arabia). If you take this
message from Osama and combine it with our military-intervention
record of the last decade, a simple security rule set emerges: A
country’s potential to warrant a U.S. military response is
inversely related to its globalization connectivity.
"Remember, though, that if you come up with a new
agreement, for it to generate value as quickly as the Internet itself
did, it needs to be open, unowned, and for everyone. That’s
exactly why Instant Messaging has failed to achieve its potential: The
leading IM systems of today — AOL's AIM and ICQ and Microsoft's
MSN Messenger — are private territories that may run on the Net,
but they are not part of the Net. When AOL and Microsoft decide they
should run their IM systems using a stupid protocol that nobody owns
and everybody can use, they will have improved the Net enormously.
Until then, they're just being stupid, and not in the good
sense."
In this model, a fundamentalist state is kind of like a Microsoft
or an AOL trying to spread propriety in the interconnected,
protocol-based space. In trying to defy or censor or 'improve' the
architecture to fulfil their needs they simply threaten the existence
of the network in the first place. Except that the network is too huge
and too integral to everything to be threatened. Terrifyingly /
wonderfully / confusingly the network routes around it. Or does it? Am
I losing my mind?
I'm far too close to my own mental collision at the moment to know
if I'm hallucinating connections that don't exist or if I'm merely
stating the obvious. It seems to me that I'm not - it seems to me that
there has been clear lines drawn between them and us through books
like Naomi Klein's No Logo that I think are probably at least
more problematic now. If only to me. Anyone got any thoughts? Can
anyone shoot me down? Or push it further?
New kinds of marriages in Massachusetts
New kinds of marriages in Massachusetts
01/07/2004 04:19 PMOur home state of Massachusetts has been in the news recently for a
positive decision on gay marriages. It would seem
that the next natural step would be state recognition of
other types of alternative unions.Apparently we don't think
heterosexuality is worthy of special legal treatment anymore.
Why should duality be favored then over plurality? Why
can't a voluntarily polygamous family or polyandrous family apply for
a marriage license? The cultural and cross-cultural precedent
for polygamy is certainly much stronger than for gay
marriage.
My friend Richard and I were flying to Bradley Field in Connecticut
today (excellent airplane museum) and it occurred to us that this
could solve America's health insurance problem. Consider 50
uninsured people. They could all get married in one big
union. One of the 50 could take a job with really good health
benefits, e.g., for the government. The other 49 would then get
spousal health benefits.
Inside the Injured Brain, Many Kinds of
Awareness
Inside the Injured Brain, Many Kinds of
Awareness
04/05/2005 04:31 AMThe debate over Terri Schiavo's fate comes at a time when researchers
are deepening their understanding of the unconscious brain.
Contempt Unites All Kinds in Haiti (Los
Angeles Times)
Contempt Unites All Kinds in Haiti (Los
Angeles Times)
02/15/2004 07:33 AMLos Angeles Times - GONAIVES, Haiti — The chalkboard inside the
tin-roof schoolhouse bears the remnants of a science lesson from six
months ago. But the man at the head of the class is interested in a
different kind of chemistry.
Weather radios will carry more kinds of
alerts (USATODAY.com)
Weather radios will carry more kinds of
alerts (USATODAY.com)
06/18/2004 06:39 AMUSATODAY.com - People across the nation now can learn quickly about
emergencies ranging from tornadoes to terrorist attacks by owning a
radio that broadcasts weather information, federal officials said
Thursday.
Paypal, internet banking systems use
wrong kinds of sockets, plugs
Paypal, internet banking systems use
wrong kinds of sockets, plugs
08/01/2004 06:47 AMTheinquirer.net - Sun Aug 1, 09:00 am GMT
""Citizen Smash" deserves all kinds of
props for saying something important and
true, and probably not too popular with
his base"
""Citizen Smash" deserves all kinds of
props for saying something important and
true, and probably not too popular with
his base"
05/02/2004 03:40 PM[The iPods] will be loaded with all
kinds of useful information, including
orientation schedules, calendars, campus
tours, even the Duke fight song
[The iPods] will be loaded with all
kinds of useful information, including
orientation schedules, calendars, campus
tours, even the Duke fight song
07/21/2004 09:42 AMentregarles gratis un iPod a cada nuevo estudiante de la Universidad
.. Here's your
iPod
newsobserver.com/news/story/1446864p-7571661c.html
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Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands
Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands
02/10/2004 09:18 AMCNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's
proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE
PLANES!!!!
cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
04/06/2005 03:07 AMCorrespondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?
Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?
12/22/2003 07:54 AMWell, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was
captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) ..
more
correspondences.org/archives/000507.html
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"Meet Joe Blog ? Why are more and more
people getting th..."
"Meet Joe Blog ? Why are more and more
people getting th..."
06/16/2004 11:01 PMThere are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people
There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people
08/27/2004 01:47 PMCongrats to Roland and Boris and.....
They've just launched Bryght -
a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was
in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving
there.
Vancouver is hot.
Here's Roland's post....
Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal
service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with
Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this
one. Yes, we are all Bryght
guys :-) !
We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to
give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required,
no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at
Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know
of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght
site, please contact us.
Whither StreamLine you might ask?
StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we
still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging
platform.
[Roland Tanglao's blog]
"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."
"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."
12/22/2003 04:17 PMAn attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand
An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand
01/03/2004 07:05 AMmonochrom Brandmarker
monochrom.at/markenzeichnen/index-eng.htm
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Pitiful people gaming a Blog Ranking
system to raise their position
Pitiful people gaming a Blog Ranking
system to raise their position
12/02/2003 01:54 AM6 weblogs on notice that they will be suspended .. Ecosystem is being
manipulated .. word of cheating by bloggers .. try to take advantage
.. get caught cheatin' .. caught
red-handed
truthlaidbear.com/archives/2003/11/29/ecosystem_suspensio
ns_pending.php#001232
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""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""
""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""
04/29/2004 03:19 AM[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)
[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)
02/11/2004 09:36 PM Lily Cheng from Microsoft Research is talking about how people
represent themselves on line. The closer the friends, the fuzzier they
want the representations. We need to make social tools fluid enough to
account for the way people's lives change. We need easy access to
friends and people important to us. We want sponatenous interactions.
Lily's group went to a mall and asked people to draw their social
interactions, and gots lots of circles and lines. Microsoft studied
this and built a "personal map" that clusters people based on who they
send email to (TO and CC) and how...
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: A
New E-Mail from the Front in Iraq: "I
Ask That the American People Be Brave"
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: A
New E-Mail from the Front in Iraq: "I
Ask That the American People Be Brave"
05/12/2004 08:18 PMA New E-Mail from the Front in Iraq: "I Ask That the American People
Be Brave" .. email from Army Spc. Joe
Roche
nationalcenter.org/2004/05/new-e-mail-from-front-in-iraq-i-ask
.html
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"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"
"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"
06/19/2004 04:26 PMCognitive Labs Uses Blog Medium to
Attract, Inform and Entertain Hundreds
of Thousands of People Worldwide
Cognitive Labs Uses Blog Medium to
Attract, Inform and Entertain Hundreds
of Thousands of People Worldwide
09/02/2004 02:06 AMCognitive Labs, announced today the milestone of its 100th blog post
featuring news and information about Alzheimer's Disease, Memory Loss,
and Human Cognition. In that span of time the company's consumer web
site, cognitivecare.com has accelerated from just a few visitors to
hundreds of thousands. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]
People hurting other people for fun.
People hurting other people for fun.
08/06/2004 04:54 PM
Is phonebooking illegal?
No. Well...yes. Assault is assault. Just don't get caught.
Guns don't kill people, bongs kill
people
Guns don't kill people, bongs kill
people
12/18/2003 01:01 AM Tommy
Chong in prison. 3 months into his 9 month prison sentence for
selling bongs, the LA City Beat talks to Tommy Chong and the LA Weekly
talks
with his family about the details of his case. [Via
Drug WarRant.]
Friendster fires developer for bl0g
Friendster fires developer for bl0g
08/31/2004 03:07 PMManagers tell an employee she stepped over the line, the latest
warning shot for workers who blog.
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