Media Concentration and Disclosure

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Concentration 02/01/2005 10:10 PM

« Otava parked in the park. »

You never really appreciate how much concentration is required when sitting on the toilet until you have a furry beast who is tall enough to rest his head on your knees, has big brown eyes and whines in intervals perfectly timed to prevent you from succeeding in your moment of repose. It's also a challenge to stifle a giggle while issuing a throaty and stern, "NO!", when he bores quickly and seeks entertainment by chewing on my underwear or going for the TP, pre- or post-wipe. And I thought that I was the one who was easily entertained. I have no time to relax, no time to myself, not even in the toilet. :)

Otava is a bit of a silly puppy since he is very reluctant to go out the door to go outside but, once he is outside he wants to go to the park and when he's in the park he doesn't want to go back home. I'm not entirely sure how to correct this sort of behaviour since dragging a dog who is going to weigh more than you will in a few months is not an option and he won't be fooled by offers of treats, either. Honestly, I think he's pretty irate at being separated from 2 of his sisters who kept him company until he left home. Right now he's lying at my feet under the desk, quiet and contented, giving no indication of the rather implacable monster he was last night after the dog park was deserted and he didn't get a romp. He's a good puppy overall, but it's clear that he's going to be a lot of work in the next few months to make sure he doesn't become a problem child.

The dog park protocol is just like the kiddie playground protocol where parents chat and keep a watchful eye on their little darlings to be sure that they aren't precocious homicidal maniacs. Otava is at a difficult age since he's too big for the tiny dogs, too small for the bigger puppies and dogs, but he loves to play and tries to fit in just the same. Size doesn't always matter as there have been a few wee dogs who have managed to play rather well with him. We're starting to get to know who has which dogs and their names. I wish there were some sort of playdate sign-up board for dogs of similar size so that we could meet dogs he could play well with at a regular time every day since the look on his face when the park is empty just breaks my heart. He looks at his reflection in windows and the oven door and he whines and licks at it which is precious, too. I wish we had enough space for two.

Winter has finally come to Finland with -15C, snow and wind. I'm still wearing the waxed jacket from the warmer seasons and I will note that waxed canvas becomes stiff as cardboard around -10C which isn't really a desirable feature in a winter jacket. :)

And, since WLM didn't translate the article from last Sunday's Sanomat for the International Edition this week, Roman Schatz has a new book coming out in mid-February published by WSOY's boutique imprint Johnny Kniga called Suomesta, Rakkaudella in Finnish and From Finland, With Love in English. The article mentioned that he is a German man who has lived here for close to twenty years and wrote a column for a lacklustre English publication in Helsinki until the readers complained about his opinions which, from what I surmised from the story, contained certain truths about expatriate life that are difficult for some to come to grips with. One particular quote I found to be rather astute was that he said that he didn't consider himself a German anymore, but also that he wouldn't ever be quite Finnish either. This sort of 'stateless' identity is common for those who have left the land of their birth for another which may come to feel like home but will always have qualities of otherness to it unlike the place where you spent your formative years. There are very, very few books written by expats who are in it for a lifetime and not just a short assignment abroad, especially in Finland, so I'm hoping that the book is as good as the Sanomat makes me believe it will be.

Integration Concentration

Integration Concentration 07/13/2004 10:20 PM
Source: iMedia Connection - Clients are beginning to wake up and smell the malarkey, and it is only a matter of time before search shops are forced to live within the confines of normal margins....

ShiftyGames Concentration 1.0

ShiftyGames Concentration 1.0 02/13/2004 01:27 PM
A memory game.

DoubleClick's Concentration

DoubleClick's Concentration 07/27/2004 11:12 AM
The online advertiser's share count may have fallen, but was it worth the cost?

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Serious flaws
in bluetooth security lead to disclosure
of personal data

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Serious flaws
in bluetooth security lead to disclosure
of personal data 11/14/2003 02:51 PM
Schmehl, Paul L (Nov 14 2003)

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Serious flaws
in bluetooth security lead to disclosure
of personal data

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Serious flaws
in bluetooth security lead to disclosure
of personal data 11/14/2003 05:12 PM
Pentest Security Advisories (Nov 14 2003)

Prior art claimed for concentration camp
invention

Prior art claimed for concentration camp
invention 12/19/2004 03:20 PM
Letters It could only happen in Letters

New England Republican: Media Hypocrisy
- How the Media Handled the Bush AWOL
Controversy

New England Republican: Media Hypocrisy
- How the Media Handled the Bush AWOL
Controversy 08/16/2004 06:25 AM
"Media hypocrisy -- How the media handled the Bush AWOL controversy." .. New England Republican

nerepublican.blogspot.com/2004/08/media-hypocrisy-how-med ia-handled-bush.html
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"Forgery feeding frenzy: Media falling
afoul of ... [Media Matters for
America]"

"Forgery feeding frenzy: Media falling
afoul of ... [Media Matters for
America]" 09/13/2004 03:42 AM

Ambient Media Inc. Expands Digital Media
Network into New York's Penn Station

Ambient Media Inc. Expands Digital Media
Network into New York's Penn Station 07/12/2004 02:08 AM
Ambient Media Inc., owner and operator of the Ambient Media Network, a digital media network for communicating, branding, marketing and advertising in public and private spaces, today announced it has completed the initial phase of its expansion into select venues in New York's Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station). [PRWEB Jul 12, 2004]

First Interfaith Streaming Media Website
Launched by Faith & Values Media

First Interfaith Streaming Media Website
Launched by Faith & Values Media 06/17/2005 03:26 PM
Webby-Award Nominee FaithStreams.com Creates Unique “Electronic Library” of Faith-Based Video; Offers Streamed Programs and Video-On-Demand [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Real Digital Media Releases Neocast
Media Player XF

Real Digital Media Releases Neocast
Media Player XF 03/22/2005 03:16 PM
Product Represents Company’s Next Generation Digital Signage and Narrowcast Network Media Player Appliance [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Flashback: In 1999, media virtually
ignored ant ... [Media Matters for
America]

Flashback: In 1999, media virtually
ignored ant ... [Media Matters for
America] 08/21/2004 08:17 PM
Fortunate Son vs. Swift Boat Liars .. MediaMatters

mediamatters.org/items/200408200006
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Creative's Zen Portable Media Center
with Windows Media Player 10

Creative's Zen Portable Media Center
with Windows Media Player 10 09/01/2004 08:55 PM
Review: Microsoft readies its next Windows Media Player as hardware makers start to ship portable video players. We look at the Creative Zen Portable Media Center as a prime early example. In wooing content producers, has Microsoft imposed too many shackles on users?

""Media hypocrisy -- How the media
handled the Bush AWOL controversy.""

""Media hypocrisy -- How the media
handled the Bush AWOL controversy."" 08/15/2004 09:32 PM

Kerry’s Partisan Partners in Smearing
Bush -- 02/17/2004 - Media Research
Center - Media Reality Check

Kerry’s Partisan Partners in Smearing
Bush -- 02/17/2004 - Media Research
Center - Media Reality Check 02/18/2004 05:11 AM
Kerry’s Partisan Partners In Smearing Bush -- ABC, CBS and NBC Give Bush “AWOL” Charge Double The 1992 Coverage Of Clinton’s Draft Dodging .. reports

mrc.org/realitycheck/2004/fax20040217.asp
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Boris Graffiti To Be Included with
Software-only Version of Media 100
Advanced Vector Titling Solution
Integrates with New Media 100 NLE

Boris Graffiti To Be Included with
Software-only Version of Media 100
Advanced Vector Titling Solution
Integrates with New Media 100 NLE 04/18/2005 04:11 AM
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that Graffiti 4.0 will be bundled with Media 100 sw, a software-only version of the company’s Media 100 HD editing system. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

High-Tech Media Vets Form Microcast
Communications to Offer Custom Content
and Events; New Media Company is th

High-Tech Media Vets Form Microcast
Communications to Offer Custom Content
and Events; New Media Company is th 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 12:21PM GMT

Media Alert: COMDEX Las Vegas 2003
Creates A Lively Media Preview Panel Set
For The Aladdin Hotel OnSunday, No

Media Alert: COMDEX Las Vegas 2003
Creates A Lively Media Preview Panel Set
For The Aladdin Hotel OnSunday, No 11/14/2003 01:18 AM
COMDEX Nov 14 2003 1:14AM ET

Media Professionals: "The Business of
Creativity Media Conference" on 4/26

Media Professionals: "The Business of
Creativity Media Conference" on 4/26 04/15/2005 04:41 AM
The Graduate Media Association of Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) announces its plan to hold its first media conference, “The Business of Creativity”, which is set to take place on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at MCNY’s Manhattan campus on the 12th floor. The conference will assemble a program of today’s top professionals to give hands-on workshops, lectures, and panel discussions, covering topics that are in the forefront of today’s media world. [PRWEB Apr 15, 2005]

Advanced Media Introduces "QuattroDrive"
Four-in-One Media Drive

Advanced Media Introduces "QuattroDrive"
Four-in-One Media Drive 01/05/2005 03:24 AM
New Ridata-Brand Stand-Alone Unit Is Perfect Combination of Company's Two Core Products: Optical Media and Flash Cards [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

Media Made Easy Announces the
Availability of the Media Made Easy
Media Center PC

Media Made Easy Announces the
Availability of the Media Made Easy
Media Center PC 03/24/2005 08:30 PM
Media Center PC World Mar 25 2005 12:48AM GMT

Media 100 offers hardware-based Media
100 HD

Media 100 offers hardware-based Media
100 HD 12/10/2003 03:10 PM
Media 100 Inc. has supported the Mac with updated OS X-native versions of its Media 100 i software, but it's been eight years since the company produced any hardware for the Mac. Now that drought has ended with the introduction of the Media 100 HD, a new native High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) editing system that resides on a PCI-based expansion card.

I Want Media - Media People: Jeff Jarvis

I Want Media - Media People: Jeff Jarvis 03/13/2003 09:58 PM
Jeff Jarvis: 'Bloggers Are Becoming Influencers' .. I Want Media" interview with Jeff Jarvis .. questions

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News: Media 100 to offer software-only
Media 100 HD

News: Media 100 to offer software-only
Media 100 HD 04/04/2005 03:18 PM
Optibase Ltd. subsidiary Media 100 has announced Media 100 sw, a software-only version of its Media 100 HD editing system. The software will be distributed as a CD-ROM-based installation, available as a public beta. It'll be distributed exclusively on CD-ROMs available at Optibase's booth at the NAB 2005 trade show later this month.

Parliamentary disclosure

Parliamentary disclosure 06/08/2004 10:27 AM
They Work For You lets you see everything your MP has said since 2001. You can also search by topic, with space to add your own comments. (Here are two examples from Perfect.co.uk, as well as The Guardian's coverage.) . Waaaay cool. We need this here in the Colonies....

Disclosure Over Objectivity

Disclosure Over Objectivity 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about how he is starting a company and that may change the nature of his blogging. Can I, as an entrepreneur and a blogger (and a consultant and a journalist—my career is a portfolio rather than...

Google, Ethics and Disclosure

Google, Ethics and Disclosure 05/18/2004 10:13 AM

Andrew Orlowski (The Register): Google's Ethics Committee revealed. As gatekeepers to information, Microsoft and Google deserve special scrutiny.

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Possible bug in
PHPNuke and other CMS

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Possible bug in
PHPNuke and other CMS 06/01/2004 03:27 PM
Sam Bashton (Jun 01 2004)

The Guardian and proper disclosure

The Guardian and proper disclosure 06/02/2004 08:38 AM

We're getting nowhere with The Guardian on the lack of proper disclosure in Ben Hammersley's s tory about the supposed "wars" in the RSS community. The editors take weeks to respond, when they do they say the same thing over and over, they think his conflicts were adequately disclosed, but they don't explain why.

I asked two people who were not subjects of the Guardian article to look into it, Rogers Cadenhead and Lance Knobel. Both concluded that The Guardian had not properly disclosed Hammersley's conflict, in violation of the standards of the publication. Lance's and Rogers' pieces were posted publicly, weeks ago, and have yet to get a response from The Guardian.

This is the arrogance of big media. They are not accountable to their readers, or to the subjects of their coverage. We're supposed to accept whatever they pass off as journalism. A software developer that worked this way, on receipt of a bug report from a user, would simply blame the user for the bug, and when that didn't work, say it's not a bug at all. Now certainly some developers do this, but we are harshly critical of them. It's time to apply the same standards to journalists. They often claim their thorough research sets them apart from bloggers, but when it clearly doesn't, they don't respond.

It's an op-ed piece that's not labeled as such, and no opportunity was provided for an opposing point of view. An even more thorough investigation would show that the points Hammersley made are straight from the hype on the mailing lists, but this time they appear under the banner of a respected publication. This not only gives a black eye to the technologists, but it also discredits The Guardian.

Disclaimer: This is my opinion only.

RE: [Full-Disclosure] DOS@MEHTTPS

RE: [Full-Disclosure] DOS@MEHTTPS 08/09/2004 12:55 PM
Peter Fregon (Aug 09 2004)

ISS Goes Public with Disclosure Policy

ISS Goes Public with Disclosure Policy 12/03/2002 08:34 AM
In the face of public criticisms over its handling of software security alerts, Internet Security Systems (ISS) goes public with its vulnerability disclosure guidelines.

Attorney: More disclosure will end GPL
case

Attorney: More disclosure will end GPL
case 04/23/2004 04:14 PM
Dutch company Sitecom can get itself out of legal hot water if it releases all the necessary software to comply with the General Public License, an attorney says.

Cutenews 1.3 information disclosure

Cutenews 1.3 information disclosure 12/02/2003 12:32 AM
scrap (Nov 30 2003)

AOL Groups/AIM Information Disclosure

AOL Groups/AIM Information Disclosure 09/19/2004 05:22 PM
Link Linkovich (Sep 14 2004)

Promixis LLC, Releases NetRemote 1.1
Featuring MediaBridge 2.0, Expanding
Wireless Control of Users' Digital Music
Collection to Windows Media Player,
iTunes, Winamp and J. River Media Center

Promixis LLC, Releases NetRemote 1.1
Featuring MediaBridge 2.0, Expanding
Wireless Control of Users' Digital Music
Collection to Windows Media Player,
iTunes, Winamp and J. River Media Center 06/17/2005 03:26 PM
Promixis LLC today announced the immediate availability of NetRemote 1.1 featuring Media Bridge 2.0 at its website: http://www.promixis.com. NetRemote allows users to wirelessly view and control playback of their digital media using Windows Media Player, iTunes, J. River Media Center and Winamp. NetRemote runs on Windows and Pocket PCs. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

Microsoft Windows Media Center Extender
Technology Delivers Digital
Entertainment and the Media Center
Experience to Any Screen in the House

Microsoft Windows Media Center Extender
Technology Delivers Digital
Entertainment and the Media Center
Experience to Any Screen in the House 01/08/2004 07:35 PM
This evening during his keynote address at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled Windows® Media Center Extender Technology. The software will power a new generation of products that will extend the Media Center Edition PC experience allowing consumers to access their favorite digital entertainment, such as live and recorded television, photos, movies, and music that reside on their Windows XP Media Center Edition PC, from any room in the home -- regardless of where the PC is located. Media Center Extender Technology will not only provide access to rich content and services, but will enable devices throughout the home to utilize the full processing and storage capabilities of the PC creating new opportunities for services and providing unprecedented choice and access to content for consumers

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: WEBLOGS ARE
EXCELLENT COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA, BUT
LOUSY COMMUNICATION TOOLS

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: WEBLOGS ARE
EXCELLENT COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA, BUT
LOUSY COMMUNICATION TOOLS 06/04/2004 11:02 AM

Ton Zijlstra is on to something. He describes blogs as "personal presence portals", and then goes on to describe the "awkwardness" that we feel when we go from 'knowing' someone through their blog to meeting them in person. His solution to that is simple: acknowledge the awkwardness explicitly in the first face-to-face conversation, and then work through it. Jon Husband chimes in with the observation that on-line 'presence' is still foreign to us, and we need to learn how to use it, much as at one point in our lives we first learn to use the telephone. So why is it that learning to use the telephone is childsplay, while learning to use blogs, especially when 'enriched' with Skype VoIP telephony, IM, wikis and webcams is so awkward, so hard? It all comes down to the subject of Ton's post: presence. Ton refers to this article that defines presence as a high-quality simulation of actual personal existence, high-quality implying socially rich, perceptually and socially realistic, transporting (in both senses of the word), immersing, and natural. Do blogs, with or without add-on multimedia tools, provide a high-quality simulation of the author's existence, do they have presence? To understand why this question is meaningless, we need to turn to the guru of media, Marshall McLuhan. In his landmark book Understanding Media, almost half a century ago, he explained the difference between media and tools. Communications media are place holders for content, for the message ("the medium is the message"). Communication tools are technologies that deliver the content, the message . In today's electronic age, he said, the two have become blurred together. So my communication media decision tree from last year, reproduced above, while useful, is somewhat flawed, in that it mixes the two together. But if we want to understand blogs, which are part media, part tools, we need to unblur these distinct characteristics. The best way to do this is to understand what, in McLuhan's terminology, the constituent parts of blogs are extensions of. The telephone, a communication tool, is an extension of the ear and the voice. Radio is a communication tool, likewise an extension of the ear and voice, but the radio program is a communications medium, an extension of the programmer's memory (and, if we tape it, an extension of our memory as well). Blogs, like newspaper columns or news digests, are essentially communications media, extensions of our memories, place holders for our ideas and messages. They are not really extensions of our brains, because they capture, like a snapshot, our thinking at one point in time. Although we can try to make them conversational and describe our thought processes in a blog article, they do not, in their simplest form, allow the reader to truly engage our brains in real or close-to-real time. Now, blogs also have two communication tools included: a publishing and subscription tool (RSS), which does transmit our messages (very well), and the rudimentary comments 'thread' functionality which, like a poor web forum, does allow some dialogue with the author and with other readers. The thread is a (lousy, and because it's asynchronous, jerky) extension of our brains. To some extent the Internet itself is a communication tool that disseminates our blog comment; it is the blog's 'printing press'. And by that analogy, RSS is like the delivery truck that takes the newspaper to the subscriber's house -- both are communication tools, though RSS is clearly the superior delivery vehicle. So what? Well, there is a huge amount of discussion about how to make blogs better, how to use them in business, and what their future is, none of which makes the essential distinction between their role and value as communication media and their role and value as communication tools. I would argue that the critical functionality of blogs, both in personal and business use, is as a personal communications medium i.e. a storage space for everything of consequence in our memories, and everything of consequence in that other extension of our memory, the filing cabinet (and its electronic analogue, the 'My Documents' folder). As I've said in my posts on the future of blogs and in my future state visions, I think blogs will eventually (and properly) morph into purer, simpler versions of this one critical functionality -- they will become the proxies, the substitutes for our memories, for use by friends and business contacts when we're busy or away from the high-presence communication tools, by vendors to ascertain our need for their offerings, and by ourselves as a place to organize, store and access our own thoughts and memories, thus freeing up more of our real memories for new ideas and perceptions. There have been some interesting articles lately by people who say that making and keeping huge numbers of dynamic lists and notes, instead of trying to keep all that in our memories, we can actually enrich our brain's power, our intellectual effectiveness and even our intelligence by 'freeing up memory and brain CPU'. Next-generation blogs could be perfect for that, not only freeing up our memories but also allowing others access to our ideas and learnings. So to that limited extent, blogs have presence -- they can be excellent simulations, surrogates, proxies for our personal memories. But what if we need more context to be able to properly understand the message, or effectively use or build on the content of this virtual memory? Then we need high-quality, high-presence communication tools, not communication media. We are rapidly moving towards a convergence of several 'online' communication tools: telephony, e-mail, IM, and potentially voice-mail and videoconferencing. Right now, the content, the stored messages of these various tools are unintegrated, but voice recognition and transcription is quickly improving and we will soon be able to 'record' conversations in any of these media in one simple, intuitive way, and with Simple Virtual Presence we will also have a simple intuitive way to connect with people using any or all of these media. Then we'll need a 'bridge' to allow each of the participants in a conference to see anything in the blog/virtual memory of any of the participants. Until that day arrives, blogs get high marks as a communication medium, but barely a passing grade as communication tools. If the technology developers understand the distinction, and start building tools that are properly engineered for simple, seamless connectivity, then one day the blurring won't matter, and the integration between media and tools will be complete.

Microsoft Adopts thePlatform media
publishing system To Manage MSN Video
Downloads; thePlatform's Media Manage

Microsoft Adopts thePlatform media
publishing system To Manage MSN Video
Downloads; thePlatform's Media Manage 01/06/2005 07:20 AM
Investors Business Daily Jan 6 2005 11:38AM GMT
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