Diamonds and boots are a cowboy's best friend (Reuters)

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There's diamonds in them there bins
(Reuters)

There's diamonds in them there bins
(Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:39 PM
Reuters - Thousands of Dutch residents are rummaging through their rubbish in a diamond rush after a jeweller's anniversary dispatch was largely ignored as junk mail, a newspaper.

Farmer Finds Diamonds in the Rough
(Reuters)

Farmer Finds Diamonds in the Rough
(Reuters) 01/19/2004 08:22 AM
Reuters - It's not quite the goose that laid the golden egg, but an Indian diamond merchant's prize cow is producing bejeweled dung.

Farmer finds diamonds in the rough
(Reuters)

Farmer finds diamonds in the rough
(Reuters) 01/19/2004 08:22 AM
Reuters - It's not quite the goose that laid the golden egg, but an Indian diamond merchant's prize cow is producing bejewelled dung.

Lesotho mine finds 4 huge diamonds
(Reuters)

Lesotho mine finds 4 huge diamonds
(Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:24 PM
Reuters - Four huge flawless diamonds worth $6 million (3.18 million pounds) have been found in six days in a recently reopened mine high in the poor, mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, says the mine's owners.

Want to score? Put basil in your boots
(Reuters)

Want to score? Put basil in your boots
(Reuters) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Reuters - If you want to score a goal, make sure you put some grass from the pitch inside your shirt. And if you want your team to win, never whistle on the bus.

Cowboy's Cowgirl Pinups 1

Cowboy's Cowgirl Pinups 1 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Cowgirl pinups from the 1930s to the 1960s .. vintage cowgirl pin-up collection .. vintage cowboy's pinups .. West3rn pr0n .. cowgirls .. hier .. play

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Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth
(Reuters)

Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth
(Reuters) 06/23/2004 04:31 AM
Reuters - Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby.

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

Man Drives Home with Headless Friend
(Reuters)

Man Drives Home with Headless Friend
(Reuters) 08/30/2004 11:38 AM
Reuters - A Georgia man who drove home with a friend's headless body after a truck accident then went to bed while the remains dangled out the window faces charges including vehicular homicide and drunk driving, police said on Monday.

Tamale Chef Kills Friend, Cooks Him
(Reuters)

Tamale Chef Kills Friend, Cooks Him
(Reuters) 04/22/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - A Mexican cook killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales.

Bush Stumps as Friend to Coal and Steel
Workers (Reuters)

Bush Stumps as Friend to Coal and Steel
Workers (Reuters) 08/29/2004 07:29 PM
Reuters - President Bush portrayed himself as a friend of steel and mining workers in West Virginia on Sunday, on the eve of a Republican National Convention likely to spotlight his domestic policies.

Bush Sees Iraq Friend Berlusconi, Iraq
Foe Chirac (Reuters)

Bush Sees Iraq Friend Berlusconi, Iraq
Foe Chirac (Reuters) 06/04/2004 06:57 PM
Reuters - President Bush will thank an Iraq war ally, Italy, and try to move beyond past differences with a war critic, French President Jacques Chirac, in a hectic day of diplomacy on Saturday.

AP: Diamonds routed through Switzerland

AP: Diamonds routed through Switzerland 07/09/2004 04:53 PM

Diamonds to get 'ethical' label

Diamonds to get 'ethical' label 06/23/2004 05:31 PM
Key players in the diamond business introduce a new "ethical" label for diamonds with a conflict-free origin.

PCs of Tomorrow To Contain Built-In
Diamonds

PCs of Tomorrow To Contain Built-In
Diamonds 12/27/2004 05:42 PM
Addict3d.org Dec 27 2004 9:42PM GMT

AP: Diamonds Routed Through Switzerland
(AP)

AP: Diamonds Routed Through Switzerland
(AP) 07/09/2004 03:21 PM
AP - Millions of dollars in smuggled central African diamonds are being routed through Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates to evade controls at the world's main diamond market, investigators say.

Are Coal Stocks Really Diamonds?

Are Coal Stocks Really Diamonds? 07/28/2004 11:28 AM
The high cost of natural gas could be a significant boost to the demand for coal.

the Kimberly Process, towards humane
diamonds

the Kimberly Process, towards humane
diamonds 08/06/2004 02:47 PM
trying to make a certification scheme in order to legitimize the diamond trade

" William Shatner Lucy In The Sky With
Diamonds"

" William Shatner Lucy In The Sky With
Diamonds" 06/08/2004 08:54 AM

QLD Computer Program Find Diamonds

QLD Computer Program Find Diamonds 09/01/2004 02:30 AM
MineBox Sep 1 2004 7:04AM GMT

Samsung Player Sports MP3, Diamonds

Samsung Player Sports MP3, Diamonds 03/17/2005 04:22 AM
If bling is your thing, then Samsung has the MP3 player for you. The electronics maker showed off its latest creation this past week at CeBIT, the European technology fair. Encrusted with 12 diamond studs, the audio player will hold up to 1 gigabyte of music and also features an FM tuner.

Samsung's YP-W3L Player With Gold
Plating, Diamonds

Samsung's YP-W3L Player With Gold
Plating, Diamonds 03/24/2005 04:51 AM

Samsung is the latest company to use gold and diamonds on a piece of electronics, this time coming on the "YP-W3L." It's somewhat difficult to tell where the gold and diamonds are on the thing, but frankly, I like it more that way. Samsung didn't really skimp on the features, either: it's probably one of the first mainstream players I've seen that does MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and ASF. Not that anyone actually uses ASF, but you know what I mean. There's an FM radio somewhere in there too. Available up to 1GB, according to infoSyncworld.

Preview: Samsung YP-W3L [infoSyncworld]

Creepy Mines 2 The return of the spooky
diamonds 2.5

Creepy Mines 2 The return of the spooky
diamonds 2.5 05/25/2004 07:18 PM
A classic brick game with various new elements have been added to make the gameplay amazing.

Movie: William Shatner's "Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds"

Movie: William Shatner's "Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds" 06/08/2004 05:23 PM
Picture yourself. In a boat! On a river? .. sleeplessknights (mov)

sleeplessknights.com/media/entertainment/shatner1.mov
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JewelryDays.com Relaunches Diamonds and
Jewelry Site

JewelryDays.com Relaunches Diamonds and
Jewelry Site 09/15/2004 11:41 AM
The site has added an innovative search technology, which evaluates the cost, size and quality of diamonds to help consumers make informed and customized purchase decisions. Consumers can graphically see the tradeoffs required when weighing each of these factors, and speak to or e-mail professional graduate gemologists with their questions.

Company hopes its cultured diamonds
dazzle

Company hopes its cultured diamonds
dazzle 11/03/2003 05:29 AM
Boston Globe Nov 3 2003 5:03AM ET

Creepy Mines 2 The return of the spooky
diamonds 2.1

Creepy Mines 2 The return of the spooky
diamonds 2.1 12/08/2003 04:49 PM
A classic brick game with various new elements have been added to make the gameplay amazing.

How Linux boots

How Linux boots 07/13/2004 07:14 AM
This articles teaches you how a Linux system starts, or boots -- that is, how the kernel gets into memory and how the regular system processes get started.

Red Hat Linux boots Windows off PCs

Red Hat Linux boots Windows off PCs 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Silicon.com Jun 9 2004 8:17AM GMT

HP boots ServerWorks with new Xeon kit

HP boots ServerWorks with new Xeon kit 07/26/2004 09:00 PM
64-bit ProLiant charge

Jesus Boots perfected!

Jesus Boots perfected! 08/03/2004 12:29 PM
Je sus Boots perfected! NYT: In the last 150 years, Americans have patented about 100 water-walking inventions. The first, in 1858, was by H. R. Rowlands, who lived in Boston, not far from where Mr. Rosen resides, in Newton, Mass. Most of the subsequent patents, Mr. Rosen said, are iterations of that same idea. "Unfortunately," Mr. Rosen observed, "none of them actually work."

These boots were made for slimming

These boots were made for slimming 02/12/2004 08:04 AM
Manchester Online Feb 12 2004 12:20PM GMT

Google Boots Ads From Unlicensed
Pharmacies

Google Boots Ads From Unlicensed
Pharmacies 12/02/2003 10:18 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google has stopped taking ads from unlicensed pharmacies, joining other popular Web sites that have responded to pressure to curb the illegal ...

Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves

Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves 12/03/2003 05:14 AM
an opposite moral universe .. David Brooks .. column

nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/02BROO.html
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"Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves"

"Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their
Sleeves" 12/03/2003 09:47 PM

Flying Inside My Cowboy Boots

Flying Inside My Cowboy Boots 05/15/2004 09:38 PM

Remember the opening scene of StarWars movie that made you feel like a little bug under the belly of a huge beast?

When I was a child, I would take ordinary things around the house and examine them closely, not as one would look at it with a microscope, but looking at it like an ant or a fly might see while crawling or flying across it's surface.  What I enjoyed was the different perspective and its effect on me.  Mere dented pots and pans suddenly transformed into spaceships or spacestations, and those ugly dents on the outer hull had a lot of stories to tell.  Aside from my parents worrying about me spending hours alone with a frying pan in hand, it was magical times for me.

I wish I could do the same with products sold at e-tail websites or auction sites.  Unfortunately, not even quality static pictures of products are readily available.  Innovative e-tailers like Zappos are impr oving shopper experience but it's still far from my vision of satisfying shopping experience.

Is this a moneymaker?  I think it is for expensive products like Gucci bags.  If you see those bags very closely with lights glinting off each bumps in the leather texture, they look far more substantial than they really are.  3D model and texture database of products is also valuable IP.

Can it be done?  Definitely.  You will need even more high resolution textures than yet to be released Doom 3, but next version of DirectX will break open most of the limitations that made it difficult.

It won't be long before shoppers will be flying around the things they are interested in buying.  Hmm.  If you are a guy, wouldn't you want to hover across the surface of Planet Halle Berry?  Captain!  I am experiencing stronger than usual turbulence between her cleavages.

Yeah, yeah.  I know I am weird and I like it that way.

Boots & Coots: Oil Price Beneficiary?

Boots & Coots: Oil Price Beneficiary? 05/19/2004 04:23 PM
With oil more than $40 a barrel, this company could be a good investment.

Boots 'aims to shed 1,000 jobs'

Boots 'aims to shed 1,000 jobs' 01/11/2004 11:17 AM
Health and beauty retailer Boots will announce 1,000 job cuts this week as part of a cost-cutting exercise, reports say.

Notes and Tips: AppleCare Bad Boots

Notes and Tips: AppleCare Bad Boots 05/10/2004 10:23 AM
Here are some tips about a widespread problem of AppleCare CDs not supporting current Mac models properly.
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Vintage Girly pinups

Vintage Girly pinups 08/31/2004 03:36 PM
Xeni Jardin: Why is it that the women in these oldschool cheesecake illos always appear shocked, surprised, and totally unprepared to perform even the most mundane of tasks? The expression is, like, "Heavens! Someone's just crammed a red-hot poker up my butt!" I mean, take the image shown here, from Art Frahm. Maybe she's a midcentury bimbo wearing loose drawers, right? OR, maybe she's an undercover leet hacker and card-carrying MENSA member. Having just finished a phone phreak session in this public booth, she disguises her sinister, geeky hijinks with a bag full of carbs and a sight gag to divert that sneaky federal agent in black. "Smile now, narq," reads her invisibly eeevil thought-balloon, "1 PWN3D J00!" Anyway, here's an extensive online gallery of digital babes from yesteryear. Link to "Painted Anvil" gallery (via Flesh bot)

"Cowgirl Up!"

"Cowgirl Up!" 03/19/2005 02:42 AM

Cowgirl Gets the Blues in Cocaine Bust
(Reuters)

Cowgirl Gets the Blues in Cocaine Bust
(Reuters) 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
Reuters - A bull-rider arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil threw herself at the mercy of police and said she was forced to turn to crime after being mauled in a rodeo by a killer bull.

Brazilian cowgirl gets the blues in
cocaine bust (Reuters)

Brazilian cowgirl gets the blues in
cocaine bust (Reuters) 02/19/2004 12:06 AM
Reuters - A female bull-rider arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil threw herself at the mercy of police and said she was forced to turn to crime after being mauled in a rodeo by a killer bull.

Sandra's Days - The cowgirl from Arizona
gets personal. By Dahlia Lithwick

Sandra's Days - The cowgirl from Arizona
gets personal. By Dahlia Lithwick 05/31/2004 02:30 AM
Sandra's Days: The cowgirl from Arizona gets personal .. this article by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick .. nice little article .. Sandra Day O'Connor

slate.msn.com/id/2101225
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Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust

Maverick man Cuban explains Hollywood
disgust 03/31/2005 11:39 AM
Hollywood vs P2P It's a morality thing

Cowboy Photographer

Cowboy Photographer 07/20/2004 08:02 AM
I have an ugly confession to make. I read Westerns. It started years ago with a little innocent Louis L'Amour, but after I finished reading all those I got my...

a cowboy and an artist

a cowboy and an artist 07/20/2004 12:48 PM
Cowboy Photographer Erwin E. Smith didn't just photograph cowboy life - he lived it. This website presents mo re than 750 images from the surviving collections of Smith's work. These online reproductions were made from Smith's original negatives, irreplaceable objects that capture the old-time cowboy as he really was—a working man on horseback. (via research buzz)

Rambling Alongside a Wi-Fi Cowboy

Rambling Alongside a Wi-Fi Cowboy 11/10/2003 10:55 PM
This big rambling article makes a lot of interesting observations scattered among slight misunderstandings: Technically, it's not 100 percent right on, but it's an interesting ramble among the minds, antenna sites, and interests of Tim Pozar and other wireless community builders....

Rawhide gets taste of the Wi-Fi cowboy

Rawhide gets taste of the Wi-Fi cowboy 06/08/2004 09:17 AM
Herding cattle, 802.11b style

Cowboy tradesmen caught in sting

Cowboy tradesmen caught in sting 01/22/2004 03:11 AM
A six-month investigation into plumbers and engineers in Surrey has uncovered widespread ripping-off of clients.

MyPhotoAlbum Promoted by Naked Cowboy

MyPhotoAlbum Promoted by Naked Cowboy 07/14/2004 04:48 PM
theWHIR Jul 14 2004 8:09PM GMT

Wrangle Over Cowboy Duds (Los Angeles
Times)

Wrangle Over Cowboy Duds (Los Angeles
Times) 07/30/2004 05:13 AM
Los Angeles Times - Paul Gallegos fancies himself Oxnard's biggest Dallas Cowboys fan. So naturally he worried when he heard police would be on the lookout for people wearing the team's trademark bold, blue star — a logo co-opted two decades ago by a local street gang.

USATODAY.com - Should cowboy Bush ride
into the sunset?

USATODAY.com - Should cowboy Bush ride
into the sunset? 05/16/2004 04:57 AM
Al Neuarth, Founder of USA Today, Tells Bush to Take a Ride Into the Sunset and Not Run Again 5/16 .. usatoady .. Wow

usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/neuharth/2004-05-13-neuharth _x.htm
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cowboy-judge and god's own son Roy Moore
has been removed from office

cowboy-judge and god's own son Roy Moore
has been removed from office 11/14/2003 05:46 AM
Good riddance, Roy Moore!

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2003Nov13.html
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What does a nude suit, the naked cowboy
and Santa Clause have in common?

What does a nude suit, the naked cowboy
and Santa Clause have in common? 04/18/2005 11:07 AM
What does a nude suit, the naked cowboy and Santa Clause have in common? Remember the guy who freed (maybe killed) the fish? That's not all he's done.... Click around some and you'll see wet T-shirt contests with chicken broth, naked ice-swimming in the artic, prostitutes, the list goes on and on. I was mad about the fish, then I wasted my Sunday laughing. Wonder what his mom thinks... PS—Did I do this right?

Cuban vs. Google: It's On!

Cuban vs. Google: It's On! 08/03/2004 02:44 PM
Mark Cuban, who obviously just has too much time on his hands, is teaming up with Icerocket in an attempt to thwart Google for search engine dominance.

Cuban on Sweat

Cuban on Sweat 06/08/2004 09:50 PM
Via Mark Cuban, some very wise remarks about how to build a business from scratch, and why you should avoid taking VC money if you possibly can. [PS: I’m not going to turn ongoing into a collection of pointers to other Web stuff, this is just a coincidence, partly due to the fact that I’m hovering over the aggregate PlanetSun feed to see how this experiment goes, and I keep seeing interesting things go by.]

The Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution 03/30/2005 06:49 AM
Maverick billionaire blogger Mark Cuban wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. By Xeni Jardin from Wired magazine.

Cuban: No wimping out

Cuban: No wimping out 03/28/2005 08:05 PM
Blog: He’s got a big mouth and an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. But Marc Cuban also has moxie – and that counts for a...

Cuban artists

Cuban artists 01/07/2004 04:27 PM

One of our friends has a young Cuban lover and she goes to visit him there periodically.  This situation spurred some reflection:  "Why are there so many artists and musicians in Cuba?"The next thought "Well, why not?"In the U.S. when Johnny decides to ignore his family's advice and take up oil painting or guitar playing instead of investment banking it is a big crisis.Johnny is very likely giving up the opportunity to own real estate, send his kids to private school, and otherwise enjoy the great festival of materialism that is the United States.  In an economy with hardly any opportunity, however, why wouldn't a person choose to do art or music?

Art doesn't require a lot of capital investment.  You really just need a crayon and some paper (or scissors and paper if you were Matisse).  If human ability is equally distributed across the globe you'd therefore expect the best art to come from the poorest countries where people have no competing bourgeois job offers.  Yet paradoxically the art for which people are willing to pay the most money seems to come from advanced economies such as Germany, England, Japan, and the U.S.

For the comment section:  Why?

[I'll start by throwing out a personal opinion:  art can only touch you if the artist shares a similar social and economic environment, which is why Westerners mostly like the art that is produced in Western countries; art produced in poor countries is actually much better but we can't appreciate it because, despite heavy doses of ecotourism, we can't understand the milieu in which it was produced.]

"Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald""

"Cuban assures us he's not "The Donald"" 04/17/2004 03:09 PM

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban

Three Minutes With Mark Cuban 09/02/2004 07:32 PM

Mark Cuban, DVD killer

Mark Cuban, DVD killer 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Dallas Mavs and HDNet owner Mark Cuban has an interesting blog entry today on the future of DVDs and PVRs:

I love looking for ways to screw up conventional wisdom. Right now in the entertainment world, the conventional wisdom is that both sides on the HD DVD vs Blue Ray DVD will battle it out and a standard for HD on DVD will emerge. No one is trying to rush to a compromise because the big media companies want to squeeze as much money as they possibly can out the current DVD business cycle.

Good. The longer it takes, the less chance any format of DVD has of having a place in the future of home entertainment. Don’t look now, but the price and size of hard drives have fallen like a rock, while capacities have soared, with no slowdown in site.

Which leads to the question — What is the best way to distribute content? DVDs which will be limited in capacity to 9.4gbs on a single DVD for another year, and then after that 50gbs on a single disk for years to come after that, or rewritable media that can hold 2gb already in a device half the size of a pen, or in a hard drive that can hold 200GBs plus in a drive the size of your cell phone?

Link

Mark Cuban, Longtailer

Mark Cuban, Longtailer 03/30/2005 06:11 PM
Xeni Jardin: On the Long Tail blog, Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson lists ten reasons why Mark Cuban is "today's Long Tail hero." Incidentally -- I wrote a profile on Mr. Cuban's digital cinema plans ("The Cuban Revolution") for this month's issue of the magazine. Excerpt from the ten-point list:

1. He's promoting HDTV the right way, by commissioning and distributing content. 
2. He's funding the Grokster defense. 
3. He's a real blogger, warts and all. 
4. He says that he won't use the broadcast flag. 
5. He got the idea of reinventing TV a decade ago, and his work lives on in Yahoo!'s excellent video search and music video services. 
6. He doesn't believe the RIAA. 
7. He sent a team to cover the Iraq elections, live, in high-def. 
8. He has a successful reality TV show. 
9. He really gets the Long Tail: "Popular items are just that, popular. My guess however is that in absolute numbers, the long tail of the download distribution curves, both in terms of number of songs and in number of songs downloaded, overwhelm the number of copyrighted songs illegally being downloaded."

Link to blog post. Mr. Anderson also has an op-ed about MGM v. Grokster in today's Los Angeles times, and it's well worth a read. Snip:

What's at stake is the realm of ideas, sliced and diced a million ways. The peer-to-peer music sites are the closest current approximation to the celestial jukebox we all want. Kazaa, for instance, has 25 million unique tracks, dwarfing iTunes' measly 1 million. BitTorrent has more videos than Blockbuster. Much of it is pirated, to be sure, but a significant portion of it — videogame highlights, say — was never intended to be moneymaking in the first place. The problem is that we don't know how to stop the piracy without chilling the creativity.

The main flaw in the case against Grokster is that the action attempts to criminalize a technology rather than a specific use. It also fails to distinguish between commercial content and noncommercial content. Restricting these powerful new distribution tools to fight piracy would hobble the new emerging creative class too. The potential collateral damage to legitimate users is much higher than in the Betamax case.

Link

Two more Cuban dissidents freed

Two more Cuban dissidents freed 06/24/2004 10:57 PM
Two ailing Cuban dissidents are released, including poet Manuel Vázquez Portal, after four left jail earlier.

Accusations fly over Cuban Internet

Accusations fly over Cuban Internet 08/11/2004 05:07 PM
Big News Network Aug 11 2004 8:32PM GMT

Cuban on Music Retailing

Cuban on Music Retailing 04/05/2005 07:07 PM
Mark Cuban is always worth reading, but when he’s right, as in this piece on the extinction of the CD, he’s really right.

Diamonds and boots are a cowboy's best friend (Reuters)

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