] The Chasing Bush campaign is asking people to "disrupt the
] PR" of the visit by spoiling stage-managed photos.
]
] They are being encouraged to send location reports and
] images by mobile to be posted on the Chasing Bush site.

Flash mobs use internet to track Bush's location. The angry mob threat model ain't just for cryptanalysis anymore.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile users told to 'chase Bush'

Jeremy wrote:
] I think there is a message in here about the evolution of our
] interaction with media... we are collectively suffering from a serious
] case of attention deficit disorder...
]
] Music used to be an event, not a product. For the iPod
] generation, music as Art is being increasingly devalued, even
] as it becomes pervasive to the point of ubiquity.

I no longer read books really. I read the internet. I read MemeStreams. And I hate long winded articles like Al Gore's recent speech. I want everything to be fast. I don't have time for details because there is so much else to look at. I like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, cause its 15 minutes, as opposed to West Wing, which I have to devote an hour to. And my TV is cut up by my Myth TV. I watch it when I want to and not when shows are programmed. And even so, when shows pile up on my mythTV and articles pile up in my memebox I feel like I just have a lot of work to do. There is no way in hell I'm going to read quicksilver. It seems unfit for the times. It seems like my life is just more hurried then it was even a year ago.

Where is this heading? Is this progress or regress? I have so many shiny things competing for my attention that I can't really delve into any of them... Are we loosing out ability to think deeply, or are we simply trying to break things up into smaller time slices so we can task switch more effectively?

RE: Social discrimination by iTunes playlist | Wired News

] Playlistism, Aubrey explained, is discrimination based
] not on race, sex or religion, but on someone's terrible
] taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music
] library.
]
] Aubrey said an iTunes music library tells a lot more
] about people than the clothes they wear or the books they
] carry.
]
] Aubrey said Wesleyan students are enjoying a new parlor
] game -- going through music libraries trying to guess
] what their owners are like. At any one time, 30 or 40
] iTunes libraries are available on the campus network,
] which is shared by about 2,000 students.
]
] Students are starting to realize they must manage their music
] collections, or at least prune them, to maintain their image, Aubrey
] said. He confessed to deleting a lot of stuff himself.

Wired News: Social discrimination by iTunes playlist

] The FCC press release (in PDF format, no HTML) said that
] 255 MHz in the 5.470-5.725 GHz band are now available for
] unlicensed devices. This action will also harmonize the
] spectrum available for these U-NII devices throughout the
] world, enabling manufacturers to reduce product
] development costs by allowing the same products to be
] used in many parts of the world.
]
] The FCC is also requiring the items covered in IEEE
] 802.11h, which was developed to conform to European/World
] Radio Congress concerns, also apply to the lower indoor
] bands of 5.250-5.350 GHz as well as the new 5.470-5.725
] GHz bands: dynamic frequency selection (DFS) - a
] listen-before-talk mechanism — and transmit power
] control (TPC).
]
] That additional 255 MHz should translate into as many as
] 12 additional nonoverlapping channels for 802.11a, which
] already has 12 nonoverlapping channels. In a talk with
] Atheros that Glenn had recently, the company noted that
] bonding channels in 802.11a to create multiple channel
] throughput of 108 Mbps or higher has enormous potential
] because of the lack of channel overlap.

Wi-Fi Networking News has the scoop.

Wi-Fi Networking News: Update on Wrinkle in U-NII Expansion Plans

] Startup MagiQ Technologies Inc. yesterday announced it's
] shipping what appears to be the first security system
] based on quantum cryptography.
]
] Quantum cryptography goes a step further than electronic
] cryptography through its employment of a stream of
] photons, the quantum properties of which determine the
] key. The fun part is that if an intruder observes or
] intercepts the transmission, those properties get changed
] -- an unavoidable principle of quantum mechanics --
] meaning the sender and receiver can tell if anyone is
] eavesdropping. Perhaps more important, the key can't be
] copied or faked (see Optical Science Gets Spookier and
] Quantum Cipher Sent by Fiber ).
]
] It's a potential breaththrough, though working with
] photons has never been easy, and, as the optical
] networking bubble has shown, it can be an expensive way
] to build technology.
]
] MagiQ's Navajo system, a box made to fit in a standard
] telecom rack, was unveiled in February and began beta
] trials in March.

Startup Says Quantum Crypto Is Real

William Mitchell, the head of the MIT Media Lab media arts and sciences, has written a book, "Me++"

] Me++ describes the move from virtual reality - the old
] 90s idea of the net as a separate, alternative realm - to
] "augmented reality" (AR), in which ubiquitous computing
] and mobile wireless networks are used to reconnect us to
] the real world.
]
] Mitchell muses on how AR will change our sense of our
] selves. Me++ is "a play on C++, the popular programming
] language. Among programmers,++ means incremented or
] extended, so Me++ suggests the computationally extended
] self." He suggests we should no longer think of ourselves
] as "fixed, discrete individuals", but as nodes in a
] network. "I am part of the networks and the networks are
] part of me. I am visible to Google. I link, therefore I
] am."

"I link, therfore I am," has resonance for MemeStreams.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | I link, therefore I am

] Like the Segway, Bombardier's Embrio concept--a prototype
] that may or may not make production--uses gyroscope
] technology to balance riders but adds a dash of flair
] absent in the Segway, which we as car nuts find slightly
] nerdy.

leet!!

Canadian Segway

] Former FCC Chair Reed Hundt reads a recent letter from
] FCC Chairman Michael Powell to Senator Ron Wyden to
] indicate that the FCC is speeding towards an unknown set
] of VOIP regulations with as little public comment as
] possible.

FCC to tax VOIP?

] M Ken Co has developed technology that allows users of cell phones
] with a camera function to photograph an advertisement containing an
] electronic watermark and then immediately connect to a related website.

Smartest application for watermarks ever. This is a way to interconnect the real world the network. I think the applications are absolutely fantastic. This is going to be big.

If anyone on Memestreams owns a camera phone please contact me.

Watermarks connect IRL objects to the web...

] Each musical subscriber is supplied with a special
] directory giving names and numbers of records, and the
] call number of the music department. When it is desired
] to entertain a party of friends, the user calls the music
] department and requests that a certain number be played.
] He releases and proceeds to fix the megaphone in
] position. At the same time the music operator plugs up a
] free phonograph to his line, slips on the record and
] starts the machine. At the conclusion of the piece the
] connection is pulled down, unless more performances have
] been requested.

Turn of the century online music on demand.

Distributing Music Over Telephone Lines (1909)