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A Prime Time News Conference Before a
Special Interest? Make Sense to You?

A Prime Time News Conference Before a
Special Interest? Make Sense to You? 04/13/2004 03:38 PM
The moment calls for a rough grilling by a special interest group eager to sink your standing with voters. (Liberals, too.) This would appear to be the logic of tonight's White House press conference. But that logic went bust.

Special to PressThink: Interview With
Herbert Gans, America's Senior
Sociologist of News

Special to PressThink: Interview With
Herbert Gans, America's Senior
Sociologist of News 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Sociologist Herbert J. Gans wrote the scholarly classic, Deciding What's News, in 1979. In it, he calls for news from multiple perspectives, which means "reporting all ideas that could resolve issues and help problems, even if the ideas come from ideologically small groups." That would change coverage of politics, the economy, war, and everyday life.

President Addresses the Nation in Prime
Time Press Conference

President Addresses the Nation in Prime
Time Press Conference 04/14/2004 02:27 AM
President's press conference on Iraq .. the President's address in full .. White House link

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"President Addresses the Nation in Prime
Time Press Conference"

"President Addresses the Nation in Prime
Time Press Conference" 04/15/2004 02:33 AM

Special to PressThink: Interview With
Rodney Benson on Journalism, French and
American Style

Special to PressThink: Interview With
Rodney Benson on Journalism, French and
American Style 01/07/2004 03:12 PM
"After looking at how the French talk about their press, what stands out for me is how so much seems off limits for debate here." A scholar immersed in a comparative study of the French and American press unfolds some of the key differences.

skeptomai: A special sense of humour

skeptomai: A special sense of humour 04/17/2004 06:10 AM
skeptomai: A special sense of humour .. Sorry our President is an idiot .. small, unassuming blog posting .. did not vote for Bush .. French greeting .. Skeptomai .. Photo

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Trying to make Web services make sense

Trying to make Web services make sense 06/22/2004 07:29 AM
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.

Intel Forms UWB Special Interest Group

Intel Forms UWB Special Interest Group 02/18/2004 07:58 PM
Intel and other Multi-Band OFDM Alliance members have formed a SIG (special interest group): This SIG appears to be in reaction to the stall in the IEEE 802.15.3a group on Personal Area Networking in which Motorola represents the classical ultrawideband approach and the MBOA represents a newer formation that Motorola thinks is too un-UWB-like. Bluetooth is also the product of a SIG, but the Bluetooth SIG worked with IEEE 802.15.1 to create an IEEE ratified large subset of the Bluetooth 1.2 spec that can be used by manufacturers who want BT features without using the BT name. (They have to pay reasonable and customary patent fees, of course.) Intel will also participant in an industry group to codify wireless USB, which is a broader alternative than Bluetooth as a cable replacement technology. Wireless USB (and FireWire/IEEE 1394) are gaining interest as a generic way to use existing protocols for connectivity without being tied to a specific cable or radio medium....

Special-Interest Add-Ons Weigh Down
Tax-Cut Bill (washingtonpost.com)

Special-Interest Add-Ons Weigh Down
Tax-Cut Bill (washingtonpost.com) 04/18/2004 10:50 PM
washingtonpost.com - Congress's task seemed simple enough: Repeal an illegal $5 billion-a-year export subsidy and replace it with some modest tax breaks to ease the pain on U.S. exporters.

Semantic Web and Information Systems
Special Interest Group

Semantic Web and Information Systems
Special Interest Group 02/19/2004 06:14 AM
Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Interest Group (SIGSEMIS)
http://www.sigsemis.org/

The portal site of Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Interest Group (SIGSEMIS). Through this portal a number of value adding services cultivate the semantic web vision in Information Systems Research Community. They are looking forward to active participation and collaboration for their initiative: SIGSEMIS is an open forum and they invite you to join them and to share your thoughts and perspectives.

Doesn't make sense...

Doesn't make sense... 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
I haven't posted a lot because I've got too much stuff to post about! OK, I know it doesn't quite...

Democratic special interest groups are
getting into the act now with an attack
ad on Howard Dean

Democratic special interest groups are
getting into the act now with an attack
ad on Howard Dean 12/13/2003 07:06 AM
When Democrats Attack Democrats .. offers some suspects .. Blog for America .. are running ads

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When AdSense Doesn't Make Sense

When AdSense Doesn't Make Sense 07/14/2004 01:13 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Christopher Knight over at EmailUniverse.com has a useful article this week that outlines some of the reasons why running AdSense may not make the most sense for your Web site....

13 things that do not make sense

13 things that do not make sense 03/19/2005 02:51 AM
From the New Scientist, it's 13 things that do not make sense: placebos, homeopathy, dark matter, cold fusion, and more....

Does SenseCam Make Any Sense?

Does SenseCam Make Any Sense? 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Microsoft researchers are busy at work on dozens of futuristic devices like the SenseCam, a 'visual diary' worn around the neck that captures 2,000 images daily. On the horizon are forge-proof ID cards and traffic-savvy alarm clocks.

When Secrets Make Sense

When Secrets Make Sense 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
Recently I wrote a short piece making a strong and general claim that the same forces that are pushing data towards XML are pushing software towards Open Source. There was an interesting and well-written pushback from Microsoft’s Joe Marini. I think that, as Joe says, there are places in software where secrets make business sense; but we disagree as to where they are...

Publishing News at PressThink

Publishing News at PressThink 02/05/2005 09:20 PM
It was announced today at Publishers Marketplace as their "deal of the day." And it was in Publisher's Lunch, a popular e-mail alert. Gatekeepers Without Gates, my book project, has been greenlighted.

Linux Doesn't Make Sense For Desktops

Linux Doesn't Make Sense For Desktops 09/02/2004 07:21 PM
Linux just isn't a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS. By David Coursey, eWeek (via MyAppleMenu)

Net Phoning Is Starting to Make Sense

Net Phoning Is Starting to Make Sense 05/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week May 17 2004 10:06AM GMT

13 Things in Science That Do Not Make
Sense.

13 Things in Science That Do Not Make
Sense. 03/19/2005 02:22 AM

I love checking the RSS feed from the NewScientist.com everyday. They have some great articles and they know how to dumb-down the articles so even I can understand them. Today they have a truly intriguing article on 13 things that do not make sense in the field of science. I can remember many of the incidents but I did not understand the ramifications of what was going on at the time, until now. The article breaks down the incident and the questions it created and the reasons it does not make sense. Great reading for all geeks.

Does new TiVo ad feature make any sense?

Does new TiVo ad feature make any sense? 03/28/2005 11:20 PM
Blog: TiVo has released the first in a series of new advertising tools it will be testing. The feature, a tag, pops up when viewers...

Thirteen things that don't make sense

Thirteen things that don't make sense 03/17/2005 02:58 AM
Also: Tech worker sent to prison for hacking. [News.com Extra]

New Scientist 13 things that do not make
sense - Features

New Scientist 13 things that do not make
sense - Features 03/19/2005 02:16 AM
New Scientist: 13 things that do not make sense - Features .. www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600

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Does The Embargo Still Make Sense In An
Age Of Instant Info

Does The Embargo Still Make Sense In An
Age Of Instant Info 12/24/2004 12:18 PM
Reporters get stories that have been "embargoed" all the time. Basically, they're told about some information, but they can't write about it until a certain date. While the basic idea behind this is that the reporter can research the story thoroughly, rather than rushing to "scoop" other reporters, the end result actually comes off more as a coordinated PR stunt when all of the articles about some new company, technology or scientific breakthrough all come out at the same instant. The PR people love it -- but some reporters are starting to question whether or not the embargo makes sense. Especially in the age of the Internet, where information flow is nearly instantaneous, the idea of the embargo makes less sense. It gets even trickier when bloggers get involved. I can't remember where, but earlier this year, a blogger broke some story on his blog because he had been sent a press release that had been "embargoed." Realizing that he had never agreed to any embargo, he didn't feel it was a problem. Other bloggers have run into embargo problems as well, as they don't know quite how to handle a situation where they're under embargo for information, but others let it out earlier anyway.

Why Charging For Newspaper Content
Online Doesn't Make Sense

Why Charging For Newspaper Content
Online Doesn't Make Sense 11/07/2003 04:16 AM
One of the arguments that shows up here repeatedly is on the backwardness of local newspapers charging for online content. There are a number of reasons why it's a bad idea - from the level of taking yourself out of the online discussion and believing that walled garden content can survive to misunderstanding the very basic economics of the internet. Still, many newspapers are trying to do so, and some even believe that it's going well. Along comes Vin Crosbie, who knows both the newspaper business and the online content world, to smack a little sense into them. The Albuquerque Journal explained why they thought they were brilliant for creating a "successful" operation charging for their online content, and Crosbie picks apart the argument, bit by bit, and explains how they're actually losing money on this plan - and how all their other examples of newspapers charging for online content are bad (or irrelevant) examples. If you're interested in the economics of online content, it's worth a read.

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense
Approach to Web Usability

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense
Approach to Web Usability 03/29/2005 08:28 PM

Open source systems make business sense

Open source systems make business sense 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
CNET Mar 19 2003 1:24AM ET

Quick Summation Of Why Software Patents
Don't Make Sense

Quick Summation Of Why Software Patents
Don't Make Sense 02/12/2004 02:16 PM
Wired is running an interview with Pamela Jones, who has been doing an amazing job analyzing every SCO misstep over at GrokLaw. If you follow the case at all, you're likely to be familiar with the site. The interview, though, focuses on what she's going to do with the site once the SCO mess goes away. It's clear that she's not going to stop, but is gearing up to take on other intellectual property messes (which will continue to come, fast and furious). The reason I'm posting this, though, is a great quote from her concerning the problem of patenting software: "With time I expect that as tech savvy-ness increases in the judiciary, and it will, someone will notice that software is just math, creativity and math, and patenting 1 + 1 = 2 will eventually set us up to where only the owners of that and similar patents can write software. Meanwhile the rest of the world will move ahead in development, while the United States is stuck in the mud because no one can write 1 + 1 = 2 without crossing somebody's palm with silver."

Do high schools make sense in an age of
jets and Internet?

Do high schools make sense in an age of
jets and Internet? 07/13/2004 07:02 PM

I've recently finished up the school year doing volunteer tutoring in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's most expensive (and one of the worst-performing) public high schools, right across the street here in Cambridge.  Simultaneously I've been reading some articles about the most expensive high school ever built in the United States, the $286 million Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles (b ackground article).  I'm beginning to wonder if the idea of a local public high school isn't just a leftover habit from the 19th century when international travel was expensive and time-consuming and telecommunications did not exist.

Suppose that you had a 16-year-old named Johnnie and the $14,000 per year that the local school district will spend to keep him occupied for a year.  If there were no Boeing 747s, cheap telephones, or Internet you might want to send him to a nearby school.  But for less than $2000 we can send that kid anywhere in the world and bring him back for Christmas and Spring Break.  For a few cents per minute we can pick up the phone and talk to our kid regardless of where he happens to be.

Hmm... maybe we can send Johnnie to China for one year.  He will go to an elite private boarding school and learn Mandarin, probably the most useful language for business, aside from English, for the foreseeable future.  With the money left over from the $14,000 after subtracting for airfare and school fees we can send Johnnie on a backpacking tour around Australia during his summer break.  Next year, because Johnnie was never that great at math, maybe we'll send him to India to be tutored 1:1 by a math PhD (compare to being one of 25 students in a classroom led by a teacher only slightly ahead of the better students).  The $12,000 we have left over after paying for airfare is more than the salary of a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, one of the world's finest universities.  So Johnnie can also learn how to manage a few servants and maybe play some polo.  For Johnnie's last year before college maybe it would be good if he learned fluent Spanish and got to know our neighbors in Latin America.  So we send him off to Argentina or Mexico to attend one of their finest private schools.

Wouldn't Johnnie be a lot better prepared to distinguish himself among college applicants with such an education?  And better prepared to get a job in a global economy?  Maybe the best option to settle the debate over what kind of high school is best is "no high school".

Linux Doesn't Make Sense for Desktops
(Ziff Davis)

Linux Doesn't Make Sense for Desktops
(Ziff Davis) 08/31/2004 10:00 AM
Ziff Davis - Longhorn's woes may open a door for Linux—a very tiny door—but Linux just isn't a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS.

PressThink: News Judgment Old and News
Judgment New: American Nicholas Berg
Beheaded. Now What?

PressThink: News Judgment Old and News
Judgment New: American Nicholas Berg
Beheaded. Now What? 05/17/2004 12:06 PM
News Judgment Old and News Judgment New: American Nicholas Berg Beheaded. Now What? .. at stake for news media

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Microsoft Office Conference Draws Strong
Interest

Microsoft Office Conference Draws Strong
Interest 02/05/2005 09:46 PM
Microsoft kicked off their first Office Developer conference today at the Microsoft Conference Centre in Redmond, US.

The conference, aimed at system developers for Office, drew more than 800 developers from over 40 countries world wide. Those attending the three-day conference include professional developers and software architects from systems integrator, independent software vendor and enterprise customer companies.

Microsoft Office vice president, Richard McAniff delivered the opening keynote presentation this morning and Bill Gates is expected to provide a special keynote this coming Friday at 10AM PST.

In the past 15 months, more than 70,000 partners have been trained to build, customise and use Microsoft Office System-based solutions. These partners specialise in helping developers and ISVs deploy Microsoft Office applications.

Microsoft claims that more than 1 million developers are building solutions tailored to Microsoft Office 2003. One third of these developers are building solutions that utilise XML and nearly 200 thousand are using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System 2003.

Video: Watch Bill Gates Keynote - Friday, 10AM PST
View: Microsoft Office System 2003

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What's Prime Time?

What's Prime Time? 12/11/2003 05:06 AM
Prime time TV may quickly be a thing of the past. While the rise of personal video recorders like TiVo mean time shifting shows out of prime time (or, into prime time) is playing a role, new studies are suggesting that many people are simply giving up television programming for alternatives like the internet, DVDs and video games. Broadcasters were so surprised by the severity of the numbers in one recent ratings report that they originally claimed that the data must be bad. However, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that there's quite a large movement away from broadcast television. What the broadcasters still don't realize is that people are beginning to realize that they want more control over their entertainment time. They don't want to be force-fed what a producer picks. They wanter interactivity or they want choice - which goes against the entire broadcast mentality. In the meantime, the advertisers are realizing that this shift is happening, and thus are moving their advertising dollars to other venues such as the internet and video games.

Growing Interest in XML Seen at AIIM
Conference on Content and Records
Management

Growing Interest in XML Seen at AIIM
Conference on Content and Records
Management 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
A report from the AIIM Content and Records Management conference and exposition from Dale Waldt, at which the interest and usage of XML grows ever stronger.

Not ready for prime time

Not ready for prime time 04/14/2004 07:43 AM
President Bush went on TV Tuesday to reassure voters about the war in Iraq. Instead, he came off as a schoolboy who hadn't done his homework.

Future: A new prime time

Future: A new prime time 12/11/2003 03:51 AM
CNET Dec 11 2003 3:21AM ET

Help Get RSS Ready for Prime Time

Help Get RSS Ready for Prime Time 12/09/2003 02:37 AM

Rename RSS Contest

"Rename RSS Contest allows readers to submit three names to take place of RSS. Prizes included...." [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]

While we're at it, how about we come up with a better button for the feed, too. You know, one that would mean something to a non-techie. Seeing Bryan Bell's white-on-orange-XML-button on a site warms my heart, but the meaning needs to be more obvious.

Wi-Fi TV Not Ready for Prime Time

Wi-Fi TV Not Ready for Prime Time 06/02/2004 05:37 AM
Sharp's Aquos Wi-Fi TV is a neat gadget for television fanatics who just can't bear to miss one second of their favorite programs. But its cost and glitches offset the cool factor. A review by Elisa Batista.

CSS Ready For Prime Time

CSS Ready For Prime Time 01/28/2003 11:37 AM
Although most think CSS is mainstream, we have to ask one question: why are so few top 100 sites using it?
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