Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan James
Jonathan James
09/10/2004 01:32 AMTechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT
"Jonathan Schwartz"
"Jonathan Schwartz"
08/02/2004 03:12 PMJonathan Schwartz
Jonathan Schwartz
06/25/2004 11:57 AM
I just asked Jonathan
Schwartz a question about Eclipse and SWT and what Sun thought of
that.
He said that Java 1.5 was teh solution. He admitted that Sun
had dropped the ball on the client side - but that there were 350M
cell phone out there running Java.
I say "Right On!" get Java to
work!
Master Of Design: Jonathan Ive
Master Of Design: Jonathan Ive
06/04/2004 11:34 PM"It's all about removing the unncessary."
By Fast Company (via MyAppleMenu)
Jonathan Ive Is 'Best In The Business'
Jonathan Ive Is 'Best In The Business'
09/24/2004 09:25 AMApple's head of industrial design Jonathan Ive has once again been
voted 'the best in the business' in the annual Peer Poll devised by
Creative Review magazine. By Nick Spence, Macworld UK (via
MyAppleMenu)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
09/24/2004 04:12 PMJonathan Deneau Hyndman
Jonathan Deneau Hyndman
12/19/2004 02:52 PM I think the only appropriate way to follow up my last post would be
with this wonderful news... Jonathan Deneau Hyndman was born today at
5:58pm. And so far he's exceeded expectations. Nicky and Jonathan are
both doing well....
Jonathan Schwartz's Webl0g
Jonathan Schwartz's Webl0g
08/02/2004 01:58 PMJonathan Schwartz .. "too strong" ..
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Liberal Jonathan Chait
Liberal Jonathan Chait
02/07/2005 01:27 AMRead the whole thing .. suicidal vainglory .. spills the
beans
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Jonathan Hardwick's SMS and MOM Webl0g
Jonathan Hardwick's SMS and MOM Webl0g
07/13/2004 10:13 AMJonathan King set to leave prison
Jonathan King set to leave prison
03/28/2005 06:27 PMDisgraced pop mogul Jonathan King is due to be released from prison on
Tuesday.
Jonathan King told to 'shut up'
Jonathan King told to 'shut up'
03/29/2005 11:17 AMSex offender Jonathan King is told to "shut up" after he protests his
innocence as he is released from jail.
Jonathan King fails to win costs
Jonathan King fails to win costs
04/04/2005 06:25 AMSex offender Jonathan King fails in a bid to recover costs over a case
in which he was acquitted.
Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz"
Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz"
06/24/2005 09:23 PMSince yesterday morning I've been hanging around at Supernova and I've been
taking some fairly intensive notes, but I've not yet had the
opportunity to write any of it up. Over the next hour or so, I hope to
put up some of my reactions from the last day and a half of the
conference. I'm a little unclear as yet whether I'll be posting the
full notes that I've been making for each part of the conference. I
guess we'll see. They're not always of the most enormous value.
For people who don't know, the core idea behind Supernova and the
concept of the conference i decentralisation and the effects of
network. I guess the metaphor is of the aftermath of the exploded
centre, where top-down governance and control gives up its power (by
choice or by force) to the new many-to-many network where power and
agency operates at the edges. The conference takes that fundamental
concept and looks at its application across a whole range of different
subject areas - from social software and personal publishing, search,
telecoms, gaming, business, media as well as around meta-areas like
how individuals deal with this radically different vision of the
world. I think by necessity this creates a kind of weirdly diverse
conference that attracts radically different types of people whose
relationship to each other isn't always easy. So you've got the
business people, the alpha geeks, the legislators, the military, the
policy people and the academics talking about things from very
different angles. Which means that any individual part of the audience
is likely to be frustrated at some points, bored at other points and
insanely fascinated for the rest of the time.
I'm going to start with a brief bit of coverage of a discussion
between Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and Kevin Werbach of
Supernova. The two major areas of this discussion were really about
about whether or not Web 2.0 was a reality (the answers to
which were relatively anodyne) and a much more interesting discussion
about future business communication with weblogs.
I kind of take my life in my hands a bit every time I go off on a
discussion about weblogs after six years of writing this site, but
sometimes it really does seem that there genuinely still more that can
still be said around the edges. Here are a few really telling quotes
(probably mistranscribed) from Schwartz that I noted down during his
piece:
I've learned a lot of things. If you think about what a
leader does, you're fundamentally a communicator. You have to be able
to communicate to the marketplace to the people who report to you -
there is no efficient way of doing that than using the network - using
the internet. If you want to be a leader, I can't see you surviving
without a blog. It's like being a leader without having e-mail or a
mobile phone. You still find them very occasionally, but it's moving
away. It's very rare.
Authenticity is absolutely paramount. Getting poeple to
write your blogs is ridiculous. It's like hiring people to read your
e-mail. You might be able to get away with it, but it's kind of
like pushing a rock up a hill...
When I first heard Schwartz talking in these directions, I
genuinely didn't know what I thought about it. In my experience
weblogs inside organisations don't tend to be terribly interesting or
useful and only a limited number of people participate with them. I
was going ready to treat his comments with a similar scepticism
(particularly given some of his earlier comments about authentication
and the future of the web which were pretty banal), but he blew my
suspions out of the water with some of his later comments. When
challenged about whether he was only talking about communicating with
the company internally or doing it in full view of the public, he said
something really interesting.
For a start, he said that in the near future he wanted to start
doing all his communications via his weblog. Then he moved on to
addressing this internal / external dichotomy. He mentioned a
particular case where particularly good employees had their names and
photos put up on an intranet celebrating their achievements. Instead
of this he suggested that it should be done completely in public. He
said that some people had suggested that this might mean that the
staff concerned would just be poached by other companies but he
responded that good people would always be open for poaching. And
here's the interesting bit - he said he had no interest in an
internal weblog, that he wants it to be completely
transparent and that while he was aware that this approach and
celebrating his employees achievements in public might to his
competitors knowing what he was doing, it also meant that their
employees could see it too - and they can then use that to decide
if he's a more attractive leader with better policies and a vetter
vision of the future.
This is a view of the world that I really like - it doesn't limit
your ability to have particular specific projects operating under the
radar, but it's an acceptance that large-scale strategy and
communications about your company as a whole is never secret.
And rather than treating that as a weakness or as a problem, it turns
and faces it directly. It let's people see the way you run your
company and encourages people to question and interrogate it -
creating a virtuous circle of improvement and self-awareness inside
organisations that raises the whole level of the debate. For
everything else you might say about Sun, this is a noble idealistic
and inspiring aspiration. Very cool.
[You can read my very rough notes on this interview as it happened
her
e.]
16-year-old hacker Jonathan James was
16-year-old hacker Jonathan James was
09/10/2004 01:32 AMTechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT
Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years"
Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years"
04/30/2004 07:37 AMGEEKS OUT
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Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g
Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g
06/30/2004 05:48 PMJonathan Schwartz, the President and COO of Sun Microsystems, now has
a
weblog.
I've known Jonathan for several years, and he's one of the smartest,
most with-it executives in high-tech. All you need to know about
him is that he was thrilled when I introduced him at
Supernova last
week as a "maverick." At the same time, he's totally focused on
returning Sun to its former glory, and reinvigorating the IT sector
along the way. We had a great conversation at the conference -- check
out Heath Row's
transcript.
I fully expect that the blog will reflect the man himself, not some PR
scribe.
Jonathan Hardwick's Tablet PC Webl0g
Jonathan Hardwick's Tablet PC Webl0g
07/15/2004 12:02 PMSun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn
11/19/2003 02:15 PMJonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of
software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to
sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a
conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn Wave and the market
challenges and opportunities it may present for Sun.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke
03/30/2005 09:05 PMJanuary was a rough month for me and I needed a break from all the
"heavy" nonfiction I usually read, so I picked up Susanna Clarke's
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a well-received fantasy novel. I'm
normally not much of a fantasy reader, but I was in the mood for
something fanciful and besides, JS&MN isn't really fantasy. It
contains fantastic things like magicians, Raven Kings, and faeries but
belongs more to the 19th century British novel genre...more Jane
Austen than JRR Tolkien. (Clarke lists Austen as
her favorite author on the book's site.)
And it's just plain good, whatever the genre. The simple bold cover
drew me in (it looks like the font used is a close cousin to Caslon Antique), but the
plot kept me in "I can't put it down" mode until I had finished. A
surprise was how clever and funny Clarke's writing was...I found
myself laughing out loud several times at the book's cutting deadpan
wit. The book weighs in at ~780 pages, but my only disappointment upon
finishing was that the story was over...I felt like I'd just gotten to
know the characters and wanted to follow them on all sorts of
adventures. Luckily, Clarke is working on a sequel of sorts, according to the
book's web site:
The next book will be set in the same world and will
probably start a few years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
finishes. I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and
am not inclined to leave it. I doubt that the new book will be a
sequel in the strictest sense. There are new characters to be
introduced, though probably some old friends will appear too. I'd like
to move down the social scale a bit. Strange and Norrell were both
rich, with pots of money and big estates. Some of the characters in
the second book have to struggle a bit harder to keep body and soul
together. I expect there'll be more about John Uskglass, the Raven
King, and about how magic develops in England.
The first chapter is online if you'd like to read it and
Metacritic has several reviews.
P.S. For fun, here are Amazon's Statistically Improbable
Phrases for this book: new manservant, madhouse attendants, fairy
roads, practical magician.
(
View @ Amazon) (with comments)
Jonathan Ive to speak at London's Design
Museum
Jonathan Ive to speak at London's Design
Museum
09/23/2004 04:36 AMJonathan Ive, Apple's vice president of design and winner of the most
influential person in British culture award this year, will be giving
a speech at London's Design museum on October 28th, reports Macworld
UK...
Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
UltraSPARC Chip
Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
UltraSPARC Chip
09/14/2004 07:22 AMCollector's Collections Gallery:
Jonathan Norris
Collector's Collections Gallery:
Jonathan Norris
08/03/2004 03:41 AMToday's
Collector's
Collections update features and update to the the collection of
Jonathan Norris from
Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan
‘The Wolf’ Rentzsch
Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan
‘The Wolf’ Rentzsch
03/27/2005 04:16 PMDru
nkenBlog interviews Jonathan Rentzsch on mach_inject, garbage
collection, WebObjects, the OS X Finder, and plenty more.
“Finder X is the compromise between the Mac OS folks and the
NeXT folks. Neither won, everybody lost.
Oh my god, the entire
bastardized notion of switching from metal to aqua and hiding the
sidebar when clicking on the toolbar chiclet in the upper right-hand
corner.”
" "Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin"
" "Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin"
08/23/2004 02:38 PMDrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with
Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch
DrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with
Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch
03/29/2005 06:54 AMDrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch ..
yet another great developer interview ..
Quote:
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"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin
"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin
08/22/2004 08:57 PM"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin .. How John
Kerry busted the terrorists' favorite bank .. fought in the War on
Terror .. tells us all about it .. busting
BCCI,
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Fascinating interview with Jonathan
Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones
Fascinating interview with Jonathan
Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones
03/27/2005 02:51 AMForensic types
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An editorial on the Virginia law by
Jonathan Rauch in today's Washington
Post
An editorial on the Virginia law by
Jonathan Rauch in today's Washington
Post
06/13/2004 06:20 PMVirginia's New Jim Crow ..
describing
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Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Slams
Open-Source Licensing Model (NewsFactor)
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Slams
Open-Source Licensing Model (NewsFactor)
04/06/2005 03:47 PMNewsFactor - Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) president Jonathan
Schwartz emphasized the company's support for the open-source software
movement, but criticized the General Public License (GPL), a popular
licensing model in the open-source community.
dynamicsoft Chief Technology Officer
Jonathan Rosenberg Appointed to Internet
Architecture Board
dynamicsoft Chief Technology Officer
Jonathan Rosenberg Appointed to Internet
Architecture Board
02/19/2004 10:02 AMXMLMania.com Feb 19 2004 2:13PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Jonathan Franzen
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It's Oprah Winfrey, Not Win Free
It's Oprah Winfrey, Not Win Free
09/24/2004 10:04 AMOprah's taxing dilemma should be more taxing than a dilemma.
FC Now: The Oprah Winfrey (and GM) Show
FC Now: The Oprah Winfrey (and GM) Show
09/15/2004 05:39 AMIt was the ''product placement to end all product placements,'' the
Washington Post declared. It epitomized "a marketing era that
morphs advertising, public relations, event...
Oprah Winfrey Gives Cars to Audience
(AP)
Oprah Winfrey Gives Cars to Audience
(AP)
09/13/2004 12:55 PMAP - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th
season Monday by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a
new car.
Oprah Winfrey Adds 3 More Years to Show
(AP)
Oprah Winfrey Adds 3 More Years to Show
(AP)
08/05/2004 08:59 PMAP - Oprah Winfrey can start making big anniversary plans. Winfrey
signed with King World Productions to continue her top-rated "The
Oprah Winfrey Show" through the 2010-11 television season, which would
be its 25th year in syndication.
Presley Dishes About Marriage to Jackson
(AP)
Presley Dishes About Marriage to Jackson
(AP)
03/29/2005 05:47 PMAP - Lisa Marie Presley aired her "Dirty Laundry" on "Oprah." In the
first of a two-part interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to promote
her new album, Presley spoke Monday about her brief marriage to
Michael Jackson, who is on trial in Santa Maria, Calif., on child
molestation charges.
Zap Video: Lisa Sloniowski and Mita
Sen-Roy
Zap Video: Lisa Sloniowski and Mita
Sen-Roy
12/30/2003 12:04 AM"Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy quickly became known as ‘the
lovely librarians’. From Leddy Library at the University of
Windsor, Lisa and Mita spoke about their role in the aggregation of
diverse web news sources about the conflict in Iraq: Iraq 2003:
Sources of News.
Lisa..." (76 words - posted by steven) no replies
Clinton, Oprah and the BBC
Clinton, Oprah and the BBC
06/22/2004 08:20 PMOprah, Investment Guru
Oprah, Investment Guru
07/09/2004 11:46 AMIt's no secret Oprah's got the Midas touch. So then it's no surprise
Tim Beyers asks her to be his broker.
Lisää Karpelan sensuurista
Lisää Karpelan sensuurista
04/03/2005 08:14 PMEnter-lehden
3/2005 pääkirjoituksessa päätoimittaja Tuomas Kilpi suomii
ankarasti ministeri Karpelan
sensuurihanketta (linkittäisin suoraan pääkirjoitukseen,
mutta sitä ei löydy verkosta. Mikä on jotakuinkin tyhmää - tokko
kukaan lehteä ostaa lukeakseen pääkirjoituksen, mutta verkossa
pääkirjoituksille löytyisi luultavasti enemmän vastakaikua.)
Karpela perustelee pyrkimystään sillä, että netissä esiintyy
laitonta sisältöä. Väite on sinänsä tosi, mutta oikeusvaltiossa
asia kuuluu poliisille, syyttäjälle ja tuomioistuimille. Nyt
ministeri tahtoo luovuttaa sananvapauden avaimet kiihkokristittyjen ja
äärikonservatiivisten amerikkalaisten tarpeita palvelevien
yksityisyritysten haltuun.
Juuri näin. Kun yritin ottaa selvää, millä perusteella blogiani sensuroidaan, vastauksena oli "se on ehkä
tekninen vika". Todellinen vastaus on, ettei kukaan todella
tiennyt, eikä ketään oikeasti kiinnostanut. Ja se on pelottavaa.
Lähetin tämän kirjeen Suomen Kuvalehden
lukijapalstalle. Ehkä sillä on jotain vaikutusta. Luultavasti ei,
mutta köyhän pitää yrittää.
Kulttuuriministeri Karpela on ilmoittanut haluavansa esto-ohjelmistot
koulujen ja kirjastojen käyttöön. Tämä ei ole oikein.
Yritin äskettäin ottaa selvää, miksi eräästä
helsinkiläisestä nettikahvilasta estettiin pääsy verkkosivuilleni.
Suodatinohjelma ilmoitti sivuilla olevan "kyseenalaista
materiaalia", mutta kukaan ei suostunut kertomaan kuka, missä ja
miksi oli tehnyt päätöksen verkkosivujeni sensuroinnista.
Oli suodattimen toiminnan takana hieno algoritmi tai nörtti, joka
lisää hikisin käsin pornosivustoja estolistaan, jonkun on
päätettävä, mikä on moraalisesti oikein ja mikä väärin.
Kaupalliset yritykset tottelevat kaupallisia realiteetteja. Mikäli
jollain kolmannella osapuolella - vaikkapa aggressiivisella
uskonlahkolla - on tarpeeksi ns. pätäkkää tai lakimiesarmeija,
ohjelmistovalmistaja voi taipua lisäämään yllättäviäkin
sivustoja salaisille estolistoilleen.
Kuka sanoo, mikä on sopivaa?
Kuka valvoo niitä, jotka sanovat, mikä on sopivaa?
Eduskunta on säätänyt rikoslain, jossa rikosten lista ja
rangaistukset ovat kaikkien kansalaisten nähtävillä. Karpelan
tulevaisuudessa minä en voi tietää, mitä olen tehnyt väärin.
Janne Jalkanen
www.ecyrd.com
Helsinki
(Ensin sensuroidaan raaka porno, sitten pehmeä porno, sitten
laittomasti levitetyt elokuvat, sitten MP3:t, sitten väärät
uskonnot, sitten eriävät mielipiteet, sitten Linu
x... Kaikelle löytyy aina hyvä perustelu.)
Lisa makes the scene
Lisa makes the scene
06/17/2005 04:39 PMHave I told you how cool it is to bring your family to a
conference? Assuming you get a god babysitter - your sife gets to
join you and we can have quality time together AND get worlk done.
So here's Lisa rapping to Richard Erickson of Bryght at
VIDfest.
Meanwhile Mimi and Lucy are up in the hotel room with a sitter.
So for all of you road warriors who spend half their time
schmoozing at conferences around the world - I highly recommend you
take your families with you (Doc?)

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tom cruise kills oprah [MOV file]
tom cruise kills oprah [MOV file]
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Winners of Oprah car give-away must pay
up to $7,000 tax - Sep. 22, 2004
Winners of Oprah car give-away must pay
up to $7,000 tax - Sep. 22, 2004
09/24/2004 03:06 AMWinners of Oprah car give-away must pay up to $7,000 tax - Sep. 22,
2004 .. pay the $7000 tax on those vehicles .. THE QUEEN OF MAUDLIN
SLEAZE
SMIRKS
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AOL: Viagra, Oprah Among Top Spam Topics
AOL: Viagra, Oprah Among Top Spam Topics
12/31/2003 07:20 PMAP via Newsday Dec 31 2003 6:11PM ET
Oprah to sit on murder trial jury
Oprah to sit on murder trial jury
08/17/2004 05:38 AMUS television host Oprah Winfrey is picked to sit on the jury for a
murder trial in her home city of Chicago.
Spam likes Viagra and Oprah best
Spam likes Viagra and Oprah best
01/02/2004 12:03 PMglobetechnology.com Jan 2 2004 11:34AM ET
Oprah jury reaches verdict
Oprah jury reaches verdict
08/19/2004 07:53 AMA jury which included US talk show host Oprah Winfrey convicts a man
of murder in Chicago.
'As seen on Oprah,' 'Viagra' among top
spam scams
'As seen on Oprah,' 'Viagra' among top
spam scams
01/01/2004 09:50 PMCNET Jan 1 2004 8:32PM ET
LiSA, the speaking email assistant 2.4.3
LiSA, the speaking email assistant 2.4.3
10/29/2003 04:56 PMNo more beeps : Let your Mac tell you in a real human voice when you
have email.
New Lisa Rein song online
New Lisa Rein song online
12/17/2003 11:54 AMLisa Rein has begun to post the recordings from her musical showcase.
Her first track, "In the Spirit," is up now. It's her first anti-war
song.
Link"Reversing Vandalism" By Lisa Davis
"Reversing Vandalism" By Lisa Davis
04/18/2004 04:23 AM"Reversing Vandalism" [Slate] .. San Francisco Public
Library's .. slideshow essay
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CC Remix Music -- Lisa Rein
CC Remix Music -- Lisa Rein
04/09/2004 03:54 PMLisa Rein is one of the earliest
adopters of Creative Commons.
Wander is one of my
favorite CC licensed songs and is licensed under an
Attribution
license -- free to copy, remix, or even synch to a movie, as long as
you give Lisa attribution.
Milky Way, Fritos, and the Mona Lisa?!
Milky Way, Fritos, and the Mona Lisa?!
08/17/2004 01:37 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Milky
Way, Fritos, and the Mona Lisa?!'
“Created in 1997, Art*o*mat machines are retired cigarette
vending machines that have been converted to vend art. Currently,
there are 71 ACTIVE MACHINES in museums and various locations
throughout the country. The experience of pulling the knob alone is
quite a thrill, but you also walk away with an original work of art.
Ker-plunk! What an easy way to become an art collector. The
inspiration for Art*o*mat came to artist, Clark Whittington, while
observing a…
Mona Lisa gets new Louvre home
Mona Lisa gets new Louvre home
04/05/2005 11:13 AMThe Mona Lisa is due to move to her new home within Paris' Louvre art
gallery on Wednesday.
Oprah Signs to Continue Show 3 More
Years (AP)
Oprah Signs to Continue Show 3 More
Years (AP)
08/05/2004 05:29 PMAP - Oprah Winfrey can start making big anniversary plans. Winfrey
signed with King World Productions to continue her top-rated "The
Oprah Winfrey Show" through the 2010-11 television season, which would
be its 25th year in syndication.
Long Before Oprah, a Celebrity Bared Her
Soul
Long Before Oprah, a Celebrity Bared Her
Soul
03/08/2004 11:24 PMFifty years ago, when the actress Lillian Roth wrote "I'll Cry
Tomorrow," it helped change the way Americans view drinking problems.
FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency
Complaints - May 4, 2004
FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency
Complaints - May 4, 2004
05/04/2004 09:17 PMComplaints filed to FCC about Oprah .. 1,600 complaints against
Oprah
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"FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency
Complaints - May 4, 2004"
"FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency
Complaints - May 4, 2004"
05/05/2004 02:39 AMLisa Rein interview on Music for America
Lisa Rein interview on Music for America
12/11/2003 02:25 PMHere's a great Music for America interview with activist/musician/geek
Lisa Rein, whose
open-invitation
concert/party is this Saturday in San Francisco.
I believe that music is a good way to approach the emotional side of
these controversial political issues. I believe that the cultural
aspects of, for instance, copyright -- and the common man's loss of
our history and heritage in exchange for big business to make more
money on it's intellectual property -- are explained better through
song.
I also believe that music is a good way to raise awareness about
important issues. If you can write a song that's good in its own
right, in that it's a catchy tune and people like it no matter what
it's about -- that they might eventually read the lyrics and learn
more about the issue you're singing about.
I try to follow John Lennon's model in raising awareness. He was able
to eventually stop the vietnam war with this song and the feeling of
love and community that he was able to bring to people at large. I
hope to do the same thing and encourage others to climb on board.
LinkHypocrite watch: FCC Swamped With Oprah
Indecency Complaints
Hypocrite watch: FCC Swamped With Oprah
Indecency Complaints
05/04/2004 01:49 PMErnest Miller sez:
"Howard Stern has been the FCC's indecency whipping boy for some time.
After the latest series record-setting fines, however, he asked his
listeners to complain to the FCC about an episode of Oprah's talk show
that included rather graphic descriptions of sex acts. The Smoking Gun
has received copies of more than 1600 complaints about that episode
thanks to a FOIA request. It is impossible to know which complaints
are real, but many of them are downright hilarious: 'The Oprah show
... was so offensive that my child's head literally exploded. Please
ban free speech so this never happens again.'"
LinkLisa Nyman Discusses Open Source in
Government
Lisa Nyman Discusses Open Source in
Government
07/15/2002 08:39 PM
Lisa Nyman is co-creator of QuickFacts, a service that lets
visitors track down city, county, state, and national census data
using only a single pulldown menu. QuickFacts uses Perl scripts,
Apache Web servers, and a MySQL database to deliver increased
interactivity at minimal cost. Sam Williams interviews Ms. Nyman about
QuickFacts and open source in government.
Jonathan Franzen