] "My goal was to say farewell to 20th-century Korean
] journalism, with the concept that every citizen is a
] reporter," said Mr. Oh, a wiry, intense man whose mobile
] phone never stops ringing.

Oh my the South Koreans are blowing the American's doors off. They rocketed from Agrarian to Industrial culture in about 20 years, and they haven't slowed down. If you want to know what MemeStreams will become, this is it.

Online Newspaper Shakes Up Korean Politics

] The only point of this site is to find out as much as
] possible about a North Korean military nuclear
] installation disguised as a subway.

Explore North Korea. See the communist murals and the "extras" that hang around when visitors are present. Listen to North Korean muisc. Check out the fallout shelter. Wonder at the futility of it all...

The Pyongyang Metro

It begins! Fly the REAL friendly skies. I wonder if they serve buffalo shrimp on the plane??

HootersAir - We loves us some flying, and it be showing like a mofo

] So who will perform the function of Microsoft in the
] Linux world?

More Sony CEO interview. Not as good as the last, but I figured I'd keeping posting...

Sony's Idei - Part 2 :: AO

] A grand jury today indicted the police chief here, the
] assistant chief, two deputy chiefs and six other police
] officers on charges related to a fight outside a bar in
] November involving off-duty police officers and to
] accusations of a cover-up after the fight.

San Francisco Police Chief and Deputies Indicted in Cover-Up

In case you missed it, here are the transcripts and Real Video of the Saddam Hussein interview with Dan Rather.

Transcript and Real Video for the Saddam interview with Dan Rather

] Witness to centuries of bloodshed, the ancient walls of
] Jerusalem's Old City saw only white Tuesday as
] Palestinians and Israelis traded snowballs instead of
] stones and bullets.

Yahoo! News - Snowballs Replace Bullets as Snow Hits Holy Land

Title says it all. Blogging so I can follow it..

Joi Ito's Weblog

quoted (illegally, I guess)

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The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space
by Ocean Howell
(© 2001. No portion of this essay, text or image, may be reproduced without author's consent.)

Abstract:

Skateboarding is a thorn in the side of landscape architects, planners, and building owners; so much so that there are now design workshops that teach a series of defensive architectural tactics for deterring the activity. The type of skateboarding that plagues these architects and the spaces they create, "street skating," has only existed for about 15 years, and in fact was born out of the barren, defensive spaces created by redevelopment. Viewed in this light, it is clear that street skating is not only an impetus for defensive architecture, but also a symptom of defensive architecture. Recognizing that redevelopment spaces fostered pathologies, cities and corporations have begun to build more friendly spaces in the past couple of decades. But they have been careful to ensure that the spaces are only friendly to a select subset of the public, namely office workers and consumers. To create such spaces requires knowledge of the minutest details of undesirable behaviors—a knowledge that can only be gleaned through surveillance. Because the resultant spaces appear open but exclude the vast majority of the citizenry, they represent a restrictive discourse of publicness. Although the destructive effects of skateboarding have been exaggerated, the purpose of this essay is not to argue that skateboarding should be permitted in public space. It is by virtue of its status as a misuse of these spaces—and because it is a symptom of defensive design—that skateboarding is exceptionally good at drawing attention to the quietly exclusionary nature of the new public space. Ultimately, skateboarding affords an observer glimpses of the larger processes of surveillance and simulation by which public space, both physical and cultural, is produced.

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There is no such thing as urban public space. The copyright notice is a little ironic given that there is no such thing as public information space either.

The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space

] Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has
] purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created
] some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the
] increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time