noteworthy wrote:
] "We're happy to see The New York Times acknowledging the
] importance of subscription-based revenue that we have
] long seen as a key element," said Todd Larsen of the Wall
] Street Journal.
]
] Will you subscribe? Or will you say goodbye to Tom Friedman?

Goodbye Tom Friedman. Your insights were useful while they lasted. In 6 months no one will be talking about the New York Times.

RE: NYTimes.com to Offer Subscription Service

] Mr. Marbles is a cat who turns up dead, floating in a
] swimming pool. The prop is a jointed cloth construction,
] with pieces of plastic tubing to keep the limbs rigid,
] and filled with small air bladders to make it buoyant.
] The skull was cast in insulation foam in a silicone mold
] of an actual cat skull. The eyes and teeth are from a
] taxidermy supply company.

Everyone should have Mr. Marbles floating in their pool.

Mr. Marbles

] Thought Thieves is about people stealing and profiting
] from your creation or innovation. Think about it: how
] would you feel if you saw your hard work being passed off
] as the property of someone else? What would you do?
]
] We want to know!
]
] Send us your short film on intellectual property theft by
] 1st July 2005 for your chance to win £2,000 worth of film
] and video equipment vouchers. And finalists will be invited
] to attend a special screening of their films and presentation
] ceremony in London.

Coming soon, Thought Crime.

Microsoft Thought Thieves

] For more than a century, residents on Cheung Chau island
] erected tall bamboo towers covered with white steamed
] buns. People would scramble up the structures that looked
] like inverted ice cream cones and snatch the buns -
] offerings for wandering ghosts that the locals believe
] will bring peace.
] But the quirky ritual was banned after a bun tower
] toppled over in 1978, injuring 100 people.

] But the 26-year-old civil servant complained the new
] measures have made the game a little too safe.
]
] "It's more like rock-climbing," Chan said.
]
] "In the past, many people swarmed the mountain during
] the scramble. Now with just 12 people, the atmosphere
] just can't compare."
]
] "It's good to be safe but there are too few participants."

Hong Kong revives bun-snatching tradition after a 26-year break - Yahoo! News

Brought to you by the Ted Nugent Camp For Kids.

Shoot / Don't Shoot - Today's Molment of One-Way-Clicking Zen

] This design, by Brooklyn company Brave Space, is intended
] for "Life-size play", and the blocks really do have the
] exact proportions of the original Tetris pieces. The
] storage units are sold piece by piece, so you can buy as
] many as you want and arrange them however you want. Just
] think - you can recreate your own gigantic Tetris
] game in your living room - only without the bottom
] row disappearing every time you align things properly!

This is awesome.

Each piece is $350. That's a little too much. The first to have the same concept in Ikea style fiberboard cheapness, wins all the money. Ready, set, go!

Furniture - Tetris Shelving

] The broadcast nails the podcast down in two dimensions:
] 1. Time and 2. Geography. So it seems that the
] broadcasted podcast should reflect the specifics of the
] time and geography. This says that the KYOU broadcasted
] podcasts should somehow reflect the culture of the Bay
] Area, something I know about, luckily, having lived there
] for 22 years. Even better, I like the culture of the Bay
] Area, when compared to that of say, Nashville, which I am
] coming to detest. With a passion.

] Sylvia Paull says it's time for me to head west. She might
] be right. Maybe Nashville is the clue. Or maybe, as Steve
] Gillmor says I could do the Bay Area scene from Florida
] or New York. Or maybe Nashville is really saying "Come
] home Dave." Maybe that would be the punishment they
] are asking for, the penalty they deserve? Heh.

The intelligent and the rational are able to separate ideas and positions from the people expressing them. This is one of the key practices necessary to engage in fruitful discourse where opinions differ radically.

Winer, while someone who preaches roughly this same idea, seems unable to separate the ideas and positions of the people he dealt with in Nashville from the city itself. This is the mark of a fool.

Scripting News: Dave Winer, Respectfully Disagreeable

] backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network,
] providing content feeds for anyone to build with.
] Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC
] content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play.

Its my BBC even though I live in the states. Its NOT my PBS, my NPR, and its certainly not my CSPAN (although they don't receive public funding).

BBC Backstage

] C-SPAN zealously and actively monitors and protects its
] intellectual property, including the video it
] produces and C-SPAN registered service marks and logos.
] C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit organization.
] It does not, and never has, received any government
] funding. C-SPAN video is not in the public domain.
]
] C-SPAN does not permit the following uses:
]
] Any posting or streaming from an Internet site

The above is even if you have a license. Its your government, but its not your CSPAN.

This was Brendan Greeley's point in the podcasting discussion at BlogNashville. We need to be able to retransmit and remix the content of our government's public discourse. This means that C-SPAN is obsolete. We need a non-profit organization with recording devices in both houses of Congress collecting data and publishing it in the public domain. We need it now.

Its not your C-SPAN!

] The stuff people talk about when they talk (and talk and
] talk) about blogging: dispatches from last week's
] BlogNashville convention

Brittney Gilbert, who also blogs at Nashville is Talking (http://www.news2wkrn.com/nit/), about BlogNashville.

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