] "I think that bloggers have put the issue of
] professionalism under attack," said Thomas McPhail,
] professor of media studies at the University of
] Missouri-St. Louis, who argues that journalists should be
] professionally credentialed. "They have no pretense to
] objectivity. They don't cover both sides."

"These damn people with their own presses!"

The New York Times - The Internet: Web Diarists Are Now Official Members of Convention Press Corps

Decius wrote:
] UPDATE: There are some very interesting posts flying
] around about this guy being an ebay scam artist:
]
] http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/26/stargate_fansite_ope.html
]
] People he has screwed are all over the place talking about it
] in the context of this story. Kind of brings his credibility
] into question.

There is some seriously important information missing from this story. Its the only way I can rationalize it. This one needs to develop. This guy could be a serial con artist and this is just charge #1..

] Moving copyright cases into the criminal justice system was
] bad, bad, bad law. It seems like we're going to get a stiff
] lesson in why.

Going at him using the criminal end of the system using streaming videos as a charge seems odd. It implies very auspicious circumstances..

The Patriot Act being used is very disturbing. We were told that would not be used in domestic criminal matters. That at the very least implies that they could have gotten his ISP finical records another way, and they were just doing their records harvesting in the easiest way available (which I don't like). I would like more details on this.

This entire story is a little thick. Things don't fit.

However, some other things fit perfectly. If lets just say iBook, tape drive, etc, came via some scam or fraud the FBI were aware of, sending the stuff back broken after lawyer demands is exactly the type of thing I could picture happening.

RE: Stargate Information Archive - Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive

This is an interesting application that tracks word count across various webpages.

My name is the 3050th most used word on the web. It is followed by votes, proud, preform, and hung.

WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language

They have been running an interview from last Friday. Worth watching.

Last week I met with a leading military officer stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq, whose observations dovetailed remarkably with the 9/11 commissioners. He said the experience of the last few years is misleading; only 10 percent of our efforts from now on will be military. The rest will be ideological.

MemeStreams is a weapons system in the war of ideas.

War of Ideology

Intelligence is moving to the edges and the edges are found on the Asian mainland.

Cook Report | September-October 2004

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

Like "maturity" and "reality" and "progress", the word "technology" has an agenda for your behavior: usually what is being referred to as "technology" is something that somebody wants you to submit to.  "Technology" often implicitly refers to something you are expected to turn over to "the guys who understand it."

What we really need is software designs that go into realms that cannot be visualized on paper, to break ideas and presentations out of their four-walled prison.

Cyber means "I do not know what I am talking about" or "I am trying to fool and confuse you."

And please, Mr. Programmer, leave the choices to ME, not labyrinths of software outside my control, because I DO NOT TRUST YOU.

The Web is a foam of ever-popping bubbles, ever-changing shop windows.
The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make.

If you haven't read Ted Nelson you're not really a hacker.

] Today, the only way for media companies to survive is to
] own everything up and down the media chain--from
] broadcast and cable networks to the sitcoms, movies, and
] news broadcasts you see on those stations; to the
] production studios that make them; to the cable,
] satellite, and broadcast systems that bring the programs
] to your television set; to the Web sites you visit to
] read about those programs; to the way you log on to the
] Internet to view those pages. Big media today wants to
] own the faucet, pipeline, water, and the reservoir. The
] rain clouds come next.

'My Beef With Big Media' by Ted Turner

] Russell Simmons owns a loft facing ground zero. Since 9/11
] there's been extremely limited access to the building,
] but this morning our good friend, photographer Glen E.
] Friedman get in for a few minutes to make a statement
] which will be up through the RNC. Here's a bunch of
] pictures from inside and out.

The who of this is as interesting as the what. I want this guy's loft!

seanbonner: Facing the WTC

] The Rino 120 is state-of-the-art GPS navigation and
] two-way communications combined, with enough memory to
] download detailed mapping for driving, hiking, hunting,
] fishing or just about anything else you can dream up.
]
] It's waterproof and can "beam" your exact location to
] another Rino user within a two-mile range (on the FRS
] spectrum) using "Position Reporting". The radio
] functionality of the Rino 120 provides two-way
] communications for up to two miles (using FRS channels),
] and you can talk to friends or family who own
] conventional FRS radios. There's also a voice scrambler
] and a vibration mode for silent calls.
]
] The Rino 120 has a built-in basemap consisting of
] American road and highway detail, along with 8 MB of
] internal memory for downloading additional road, street,
] and points-of-interest data from MapSource®
] MetroGuide, Fishing Hot Spots, Topo, or BlueChart
] CD-ROMs. The PC-interface cable also comes with the Rino
] 120.

Garmin: Rino 120 - GPS-Integrated FRS/GMRS Radio