] We invite you to browse through the songs and artists on
] this site and download anything that strikes your fancy.
] The artists on this site have released their music under
] the Creative Commons license and agreed to allow their
] music to be used by you in any way and form for
] webcasting, as long as you don't take credit for the
] original work. We hope you will find something that will
] be useful to you in your Pod Cast!

Meme Alert - "Pod Safe Music"

Pod Safe Audio - Pod Safe Music under the Creative Commons license for Podcasts and Webcasting

] Consider yourself lucky if you've ever had a traveling
] companion as fascinating as William Gibson is in No Maps
] for These Territories.

I had never heard of this before!

Amazon.com: DVD: William Gibson - No Maps for These Territories

] The Media Bloggers Association announces the appointment
] of Ronald D. Coleman, of the Coleman Law Firm, PC as
] general counsel. Coleman will be build a team of attorney
] around the country to provide MBA members with first-line
] counsel on matters relating to the use of intellectual
] property, defamation and other issues arising from their
] weblogging.

This is cool. Media Bloggers has organized a legal defense organization for Bloggers who get cease and desist notices. They are also working on insurance and education efforts.

Media Bloggers Association Lauches MBA Legal Defense Project * A news item at mediabloggers.org

] Remember Howard Beal - the frustrated anchor from the
] movie Network? He's a hero to Bob Cox, who has become
] one of the country's best-known bloggers.

Rattle and I are visible in the video footage included with this article.

BlogNashville brings new breed of writer to Music City

] This morning, the DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals
] struck down the loathsome Broadcast Flag, ruling that the
] FCC does not have the jurisdiction to regulate what
] people do with TV shows after they've received them.

Sweet!

Boing Boing: V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT!

] I'm worried about my country. I love America. I think
] it's the best country in the world. But I also think
] we're not tending to our sauce. I believe that we are in
] what Shirley Ann Jackson [president of Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute] calls a "quiet crisis." If we
] don't change course now and buckle down in a flat world,
] the kind of competition our kids will face will be
] intense and the social implications of not repairing
] things will be enormous.

This is a great article. I've been meaning to post it once wired placed it online, but Flynn beat me to it. :)

Why the World Is Flat

] Try using Web Accelerator on a forum site, one with lots
] of geeks who love Google and probably already have Web
] Accelerator installed. Why, if you're lucky, you'll be
] logged in as someone else, as the folks at
] SomethingAwful.com discovered. The posters in that forum
] discovered that most of the times they refreshed the
] page, they were logged in as a different person, seeing
] their friend's control panel for the forums.

Sweet! Morons.

The problem with SiteFinder was that Verisign took advantage of their central position on the internet to make a change to it which benefitted them, but that change forced everyone else to make changes to accomidate them. They helped themselves and hurt everyone else. Google Accelerator is similar. Its more useful then Sitefinder, and Google has less "lock in" as a central net figure then Verisign, but unless this thing dies a firey death in the next few days every webmaster in the world who runs something more complex then a personal homepage is going to have to make changes to accomidate it.

Much Controversy Over Google's Accelerator 

] The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content
] behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages
] loading faster (since they've already been
] pre-loaded behind the scenes). Here's the problem:
] Google is essentially clicking every link on the page
] including links like "delete this" or "cancel that."

What a mess. Is anyone on MemeStreams actually using this thing? Maybe you don't mind if Google now has ALL of your internet traffic logged forever, but you probably ought to mind if it goes through and cleans out your MemeStreams or webmail account. I cannot imagine that this thing is THAT much faster.

Lauren Weinstein put it eloquently:

Google is smiling their way into becoming -- probably more through a
bizarre combination of hubris and naivete than purposeful intentions
-- a one-stop surveillance "shopping center" for every lawyer,
police agency, district attorney, government agency, and so on who
wants to know what people are doing on the Internet.

Of course, Lauren Weinstein is one of those people who thinks you should be forced to make your home phone number a matter of public record in order to have a domain name.

You can't win...

Google Web Accelerator: Hey, not so fast - an alert for web app designers - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

] Over the last 50 years, we've had to cope with an
] explosion of media, technologies, and interfaces, from
] the TV clicker to the World Wide Web. And every new form
] of visual media - interactive visual media in particular
] - poses an implicit challenge to our brains: We have to
] work through the logic of the new interface, follow
] clues, sense relationships.

The latest issue of Wired sucks less. They seem to be reaching back to their roots. Smart people talking about interesting things rather then journalists talking about smart people talking about interesting things...

Wired 13.05: People are getting smarter.

Hosted by Bill Butler, Scott, Kozicki and Tim Moses, this show aims to discuss new and interesting technology on a weekly basis. This show is based in Nashville, TN.

Bill and Tim were founders of Telalink, which was one of Nashville's first ISPs in the early 90s. Bill now runs Butler Networks (www.butler.net) and Tim runs Monster Labs (www.monsterlabs.com)

Scott was founder of BlueStar, an early DSL provider in the southeast headquartered in Nashville. Scott is currently the CTO for American Healthways (www.americanhealthways.com)

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