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"There is an Orthodoxy to Our Thinking."
Thomas B. Edsall of the Washington Post
on How Blogs Can Enliven Journalism

"There is an Orthodoxy to Our Thinking."
Thomas B. Edsall of the Washington Post
on How Blogs Can Enliven Journalism 07/29/2004 10:14 AM
"I spend the first thing in the morning and also before I go to bed sort of scanning the blogs, and in all honesty I read Wonkette because I find it amusing." Five minutes from the Washington Post's political writer Thomas B. Edsall, speaking from the convention on why political weblogs count for him as a journalist, and what they are good at-- busting up group think in the newsroom. "Pretend journalists?" Edsall doesn't think so.

Bad Writing = Good Writing?

Bad Writing = Good Writing? 10/30/2003 11:56 PM
Bad Writing = Good Writing? The academic journal Philosophy and Literature used to hold a "Bad Writing Contest" to ridicule dense, unreadable academic prose... but a new book argues headache inducing sentences are necessary to express subtle theoretical points.

Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era

Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Chalmers Johnson is an provocative proponent of the American Empire theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his Blow Back: The Cost And Consequences of American Empire

I heard Johnson interviewed on Episode II, War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era of The Whole Wide World

The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy, freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these things?

It was an excellent program and well worth your listen, either by RA now or mp3 later. (From listening to the radio)

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
DMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT

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Thinking of You

Thinking of You 09/11/2004 02:39 PM
Dear New York, I'm sorry I oouldn't be there today. I feel guilty that I couldn't be present to observe....

What was Sun thinking?

What was Sun thinking? 06/05/2005 11:35 PM
ZDNet Jun 3 2005 5:21PM GMT

Thinking Outside the Cup

Thinking Outside the Cup 07/05/2004 06:22 AM

What are they thinking?

What are they thinking? 03/06/2004 02:04 AM

What was he thinking?

What was he thinking? 04/29/2004 07:45 AM
"The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom" tries to answer the eternal question. A conversation with the collection's editor, Daniel Jones.

Just What Were They Thinking?

Just What Were They Thinking? 08/13/2004 12:30 PM

The Register: S EC to examine Playboy for boobs. The boobs in question are Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have punctuated the company's mandatory pre-IPO period with an extensive interview with the monthly. The interview itself was conducted on 22 April, at the end of a Spring publicity campaign. Google filed its initial public offering a week later.

Thinking Beyond Borders

Thinking Beyond Borders 06/15/2004 02:52 PM
Source: iMedia Connection - Understanding user behavior is just the beginning for search marketers who want to go global....

Thinking Urbanly

Thinking Urbanly 04/14/2005 03:50 PM
This year's Shaugnessy Cohen Prize goes to Ja ne Jacobs, a social critic and commenter on urban planning. She's probably best known for her book, Systems of Survival. [previously here]

Adventures in Thinking

Adventures in Thinking 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
Two new articles on big thinkers have turned up. First is an Investor's Business Daily article on Alan Turing's life and imagination. It covers some of the historical aspects of his life as well as touching on cryptography, artificial intelligence, robotics, and brain-mind metaphysics. The summary of Turing's life also conveniently leaves out the more controversial bits and the cause of his death. For a more complete look at Turing's life, see the Wikipedia article. A more recent thinker on similar problems, Ray Kurzweil, is intereviewed by DevSource. Kruzweil discusses reverse-engineering the brain, embedded intelligence, and even has a comment or two about synthesizers.

Wishful thinking

Wishful thinking 07/02/2004 01:05 PM
“Worms and viruses are everywhere, but hardly a one for Linux. Only a handful of Linux malware has ever been released in the wild. While the Lion (2001), Ramen (2001) and Slapper (2002) worms and the Bliss virus (1997) presented problems for Linux users, they weren’t nearly as crippling as the worst Windows malware. So, should Linux users brush off concerns about malware plagues? Short answer: No.”

Linear Thinking

Linear Thinking 12/24/2004 12:26 PM
Lessons from the Rockettes.

Mac mini thinking big

Mac mini thinking big 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
CNN Money Apr 6 2005 3:48PM GMT

Thinking small

Thinking small 04/13/2005 04:35 AM
We spend a fair amount of our time talking with access equipment vendors about their newest product lines and how they market them to the carriers. So we hear a lot about these vendors’ strategies and messaging – for better and for worse.

Thinking About A Google IPO

Thinking About A Google IPO 04/13/2004 01:51 AM
James Cramer has written up a great column summarizing many of the points (much more concisely) that I've been trying to make to people who ask me about the potential of a Google IPO. The company is (despite it's incredibly secretive nature) clearly doing quite well and is probably a worthwhile investment - if and only if you can get it at the initial offering price - which is unlikely to happen. As Cramer points out, the demand for Google stock is much larger than any other IPO. Everyone seems to want in on this deal, partly due to the Google phenomenon, and partly due to the lack of big time IPOs in years. This explains how people who should know better were conned into buying non-existent shares in the company. It also sets up the perfect environment for flippers. The big time institutional investors are going to get first crack at the shares (at the price the bankers set the IPO at), and will quickly try to flip the stock on the open market, where people who don't know any better will snap up the shares at two, three or even more times its initial public offering price. What Cramer leaves out, of course, is that plenty of people who simply don't understand investing will think it's a good thing that the stock jumps up so much on its first day of trading when all it really means is that (a) the company left money on the table and (b) there are a lot of silly investors out there who don't understand how to value a stock.

Thinking outside the TV box
(USATODAY.com)

Thinking outside the TV box
(USATODAY.com) 06/22/2004 06:12 AM
USATODAY.com - With TiVo's fast-forward, viewers' shrinking attention spans and new media choices, the 30-second TV ad has more rivals for consumers' attention. That is pushing marketers' thinking increasingly outside the TV box for ways to make the costly but still dominant commercial work harder.

Thinking With Type

Thinking With Type 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Thinking it with Type

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Thinking inside the box

Thinking inside the box 03/28/2005 07:50 AM
To compete better, software start-ups package their products as specialized software-hardware appliances.

Thinking About It Twice, This *Is*
Alright

Thinking About It Twice, This *Is*
Alright 06/17/2004 08:14 AM
Music That Paints a Picture
Whether you're a fan of Biggie or Dylan, this Flash project has you covered.

Thinking young

Thinking young 06/14/2004 06:15 PM
USA Today Jun 14 2004 9:55PM GMT

SOA Demands New Way of Thinking

SOA Demands New Way of Thinking 04/18/2005 11:23 AM
Companies must do more than wire Web services together to avoid dead ends.

Comcast Still Thinking Big

Comcast Still Thinking Big 04/28/2004 04:10 PM
TheStreet.com Apr 28 2004 8:04PM GMT

Thinking Smaller

Thinking Smaller 11/13/2003 05:21 AM
Prompted by yet another round of miniaturization, computer makers finally seem willing to rethink what PCs can look like. The result could be a revolution not just in style but in convenience. By John Morgan (Hartford Courant via MyAppleMenu)

Thinking local

Thinking local 08/15/2004 09:21 PM

I'm sitting here in Gramd Haven, MI - thinking abotu how cyberspace needs ot hit meatspace. MeetUp does it well and so does Dodgeball, but when I hear about new services like StepUp.com - I get real excited.

The UPS store is across the street - and I stopped by and asked them about AuctionDrop.com. They hadn't heard of it - yet. But they liked the idea.

As John Battelle says:

I thought it'd be really cool if we started a website where local merchants could list their wares, so folks could check to see if a local business had what they were looking for before going down to the store. We decided against the business, but I've remained fascinated by this concept. It just seems to make sense, that at some point you will be able to check into the inventory of your local stores to see if what you want is there, and even reserve it or have it delivered to you.

John's talking about a real-world solution who's day has come.....

But I gotta wonder if subjects like this will get discussed at the upcoming Web 2.0 conference. Judging by the list of speakers - I doubt it. It's just more of the same - sort of like the BlogOn conference.

It was ludicrous - Yahoo, AOL and CNet telling us about teh future. Give me a break!

Sure - Cory will get up and holler aboput [insert complaint du jour] and Danger Mouse will hopefully keep it real - but I just gotta wonder what John Doerr has to say - for the upteenth time. Or Mary Meeker. Sounds exicting.

Anyway I'm sure the folks putting on Web 2.0 have the best intentions, and they certainly got the buzzword du jour - by the horns.

But without cutting edge entrepreneurs taking risks, what's the point? And I don't mean T'rati, 6A or Craigslist. They've had their day in the sun.

How 'bout a panel with developers who are broke, have kickass services and products and need funding? What a concept.

But anyway - back to local services. The FEDEX and UPS stores solved integration and aggregation issues for humans - for packaging and shipping. The merger with Kinkos was brilliant for FEDEX. Kinkos has been solving the copying/printing activity for humans for years.

Software needs to solve real world problems and wrap it into 'activity based' solutions. By combining eVite functionality, with WinAmp, Guestbook and Blogging features - coolio integrated parties could be born - spontaneously. Sounds like a meatpsace solutionf or Dodgeball.

:-)

Beyond Fossilized Thinking

Beyond Fossilized Thinking 02/15/2004 05:50 AM
Los Angeles Times Feb 15 2004 9:39AM GMT

what the Hell he was thinking

what the Hell he was thinking 07/21/2004 09:42 AM
Sandy Berger .. Dan Drezner

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20 Years Of Thinking Out Of The Box

20 Years Of Thinking Out Of The Box 01/17/2004 10:39 PM
To CEO Steve Jobs, Apple is an art form -- that's why its products are always head-turners. By Eugene Wee (Straits Times via MyAppleMenu)

Thinking outside the computer box

Thinking outside the computer box 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
The Scotsman Jan 22 2004 5:34AM GMT

Thinking Should Become Before
Communication

Thinking Should Become Before
Communication 12/09/2002 05:10 AM

Quantitative thinking

Quantitative thinking 02/18/2004 12:13 PM
There are interesting facts and ideas at this intro to Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality. For example, did you know:Because Europe did not straddle the equator, and because old traditions dictated twelve hours for each day and each night, Europeans developed a system of unequal "accordion-pleated hours that puffed up and deflated" so as to ensure a dozen hours for each daytime and each nighttime, winter and summer....

Thinking of the turtles

Thinking of the turtles 01/25/2004 04:12 PM

It's continuing to be bitterly cold here in NYC (8° F this morning with -6° F windchill) and so my thoughts have turned to tropical climates and other seasons. And I started thinking about my trip to Hawaii in 2000 and when we went snokeling and swam with turtles. So I poked around and found my two favorite pictures from that experience, both taken by Jason. Here's me swimming behind the turtle, going too deep and here's another of me and a turtle closer to the surface. [sigh] Hawaii sure was swell and those turtles sure were cute.

What is she thinking about during sex?
(Reuters)

What is she thinking about during sex?
(Reuters) 05/21/2004 08:37 AM
Reuters - Women watching erotic films are stimulated in a part of the brain associated with planning and emotion, research from scientists in Germany say.

What are these guys thinking?

What are these guys thinking? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
Sure, you're upset that (Novell/Microsoft/whoever) has cut off official support for the old system you use. Yes, it might be tough to go to NetWare 6 or Windows Server 2003 - but Solaris? AppleServer? How dumb do the marketeers think we are?

Old wireless thinking

Old wireless thinking 02/19/2004 10:00 AM
This Washington Post story about new wireless services is a great example of old telecom thinking.  Everything depends on the carriers, and when they upgrade their networks.  WiFi hotspots and other forms of unlicensed connectivity remove that bottleneck -- along with the additional charges the carriers want to load on for the whizbang new services.  That's why incorporating WiFi (and ultimately software radios) into mobile handsets is such a significant development.

Re-thinking that stance

Re-thinking that stance 09/17/2004 12:31 AM
Usatoday.com - Thu Sep 16, 08:06 pm GMT
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Windows Update Tip: End User License
Agreement

Windows Update Tip: End User License
Agreement 09/13/2004 06:03 PM

MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS
REALbasic plug-ins in version 5.1

MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS
REALbasic plug-ins in version 5.1 03/17/2005 03:40 AM
The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend the REALbasic development environment with over 450 classes and 4 controls featuring over 9000 documented functions.

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Monkeybread Software updates their
REALbasic Plugin Collection

Monkeybread Software updates their
REALbasic Plugin Collection 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
"A lot of new stuff is in the plugin - a thousand new functions like compiling AppleScript code on the fly, compressing files using Stuffit, captureing images from digital cameras, adding global menus to the menu bar on Mac OS X or just encrypt data." [MacMegasite]

Arjuna Announces OEM Agreement With
webMethods; Agreement Delivers Reliable
Support for Web Services Transacti

Arjuna Announces OEM Agreement With
webMethods; Agreement Delivers Reliable
Support for Web Services Transacti 04/05/2005 06:16 AM
ZDNet India Apr 5 2005 10:25AM GMT

Infineon Technologies and Rambus
Conclude Broad Licensing Agreement;
Agreement Also Settles All Existing
Claim

Infineon Technologies and Rambus
Conclude Broad Licensing Agreement;
Agreement Also Settles All Existing
Claim 03/24/2005 01:48 PM
ZDNet India Mar 24 2005 5:16PM GMT

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname 05/15/2004 08:42 AM

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google toolbar that you can download from google.com. It appears as a little search window in every browser session.

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface 09/09/2002 06:29 AM

Conference Agreement

Conference Agreement 12/11/2002 01:15 PM
Weblogs really need some sort of cross-weblog threading system. Maybe we just need more TrackBack support in other tools like Radio. Dave, will be native TrackBack support in a future Radio? So, Scott has replied to my comments on his...

3G Joint Technology Agreement

3G Joint Technology Agreement 07/20/2004 06:32 AM
3G Jul 20 2004 9:40AM GMT

EU summit agreement 'close'

EU summit agreement 'close' 06/18/2004 12:42 PM
European Union leaders are "tantalisingly close" to a deal on a new constitution, a top Irish official says.

Agreement 'can be reached'

Agreement 'can be reached' 06/21/2004 07:51 AM
Agreement between political parties in Northern Ireland can be reached, Secretary of State Paul Murphy says.

HP signs agreement with Sendmail

HP signs agreement with Sendmail 06/12/2004 12:39 PM
Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to sell Sendmail’s e-mail software. They plan to sell it with their ProLiant servers and are planning to use it to fight spam. HP has been an ally with Microsoft, but seems to be going after open-source partners. In may they announced they would be supporing MySQL database and the JBoss application for running Java programs. Both are open-source server software.

3G Americas / CITEL Agreement

3G Americas / CITEL Agreement 09/20/2004 03:06 AM
3G Sep 20 2004 7:19AM GMT

An agreement that may change the world

An agreement that may change the world 08/01/2004 03:20 PM
For the developing world, farm subsidies are slow-motion weapons of mass destruction. Yesterday's WTO agreement is the first multilateral deal in a decade that pledges reductions. If it holds, much could change -- but it could also mean new pressures for adherence to international IP laws....

N. Ireland Talks End With No Agreement
(AP)

N. Ireland Talks End With No Agreement
(AP) 09/18/2004 12:50 PM
AP - High-pressure talks among rival Northern Ireland parties ended Saturday with no agreement to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that a deal "historic in its meaning" may yet be achieved.

3G Americas and CITEL Agreement

3G Americas and CITEL Agreement 09/15/2004 03:34 AM
3G Sep 15 2004 7:18AM GMT

reached an agreement with Libya

reached an agreement with Libya 12/20/2003 07:36 AM
dismantle these programmes .. made the announcement .. Libya .. AP

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3G Video Mail Agreement

3G Video Mail Agreement 04/23/2004 02:54 AM
3G Apr 23 2004 7:16AM GMT

KT, Microsoft renew R&D agreement

KT, Microsoft renew R&D agreement 01/05/2005 10:00 PM
Korea Herald Jan 6 2005 1:50AM GMT

Microsoft and EU reach agreement

Microsoft and EU reach agreement 03/28/2005 01:26 PM
Microsoft and the European Commission come to agreement on a name for the version of Windows without the software giant's own Media Player.

AT&T Wins Networking Agreement With CCH

AT&T Wins Networking Agreement With CCH 04/15/2004 12:58 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Apr 15 2004 5:21PM GMT

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