Immediately after I saw that Drudge had posted up an MP3 of Dean's yelp, I yelped myself. Only this is me, so its IRC:

Jan 20 08:18:01 [rattle] Common remix culture.. I wanna here a techno track featuring Dean's yelp by the end of the day!

And I did.. Lots of people yelped.

Now, having seen this page.. Less then a week out.. Umm.. Hot damn!

You know, this is a pretty interesting time to be alive. In many respects. None of this should surprise me anymore.

See, there in lies the both the danger and the power. The danger is that group think can become so misguided. I asked for techno. I consider myself "in the know". I should not have to detail this any further. The power, lies in the eye of the beholder of this page.

Net Goes Nuts, Just Add Reason

I just noticed that C-SPAN has live streams available of all their channels.

Yes, C-SPAN can be boring as hell.. However, Washington Journal is one of the best things to watch in the morning for a review of all breaking news that effecting US politics. Its all caller driven, the anchors keep their opinions out of it, and they tend to have interesting (or at least relevant) people interviewed every day. Highly recommended if you find yourself needing some useful and informative background noise between 7-10am EST.

C-SPAN.org - Public Affairs on the Web

Recently I've weaned myself off my TV news habit. For _years_ I have always had one of the major news stations running in the background whenever I worked. Its background noise thats informative. These days I've been doing the streaming radio thing.

About the only news/talk radio I've found on the web is BBC World Service and NPR. Is there anything else out there anyone would care to recommend?

Emphasis on news, commentary, analysis, etc.. Foreign, domestic, whatever. I need more stuff to flip around between.

] The more commercial television news you watch, the more
] wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq
] War and its aftermath, according to a major new study
] released in Washington on Thursday.
]
] And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News
] channel, in particular, the more likely it is that your
] perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by
] the University of Maryland's Program on International
] Policy Attitudes (PIPA).

Fox News, keeping America stupid and confused..

Asia Times - Study: People who watch TV less likely to understand Iraq

] Talker Author Bill O'Reilly lashed out against this space
] during his popular FOXNEWS O'REILLY FACTOR Wednesday
] night -- just hours after closely guarded book sales
] figures were splashed over the internet.
]
] Sales figures show how, contrary to his claims,
] O'Reilly lags far behind rivals Al Franken and Sen.
] Hillary Clinton for nonfiction props!

The quote above is from Drudge, but the Kos has all the important details in one place thats easy to find and link to, so he gets the link over Drudge..

The main reason I blog this is to keep track of the places where Bill O'Reilly has been caught in blatant lies, where he would have had to know the truth.

O'Reilly 430,407, Franken 674,024, Hillary 1,084,520..

That's not even in the same ballpark. Not even close. People who have track records of lying should not be put in a position where they gain a reputation as a trusted news source.. A Prime Time news slot got Bill his rep, because it got him out in front of many more people then at any other previous point in his career.

Good job Rupert, you have built a cult-of-personality out of a blatant liar. This is a great disservice to the american people, who you claim to serve in a "fair and balanced" way. Thanks to O'Reilly, we know without a doubt where Fox stands on ethics and journalism versus ratings, otherwise this guy would have been off the air a long time ago.

I don't think I'm making a big deal of this either.. Newscasters that regularly get caught in lies should not be newscasters.

Daily Kos || Drudge vs. O'Reilly Smackdown!

In 1998, many artists realized that their own interests were not necessarily aligned with those of the recording industry.

Musicians Protesting Monopoly in Media

Get a quick idea of what is going on in the world by simply looking at pictures pulled from top stories...

News-Images.com

] let me just say that, as a slashdot troll, i have a
] firewall which allows me to dynamically modify my o/s
] fingerprint, a highly adaptive cookie manager/poisoner
] that can decode many cookies in realtime (stop using
] urlencode!), a browser plugin that lets me modify my
] entire http header including user agent, a
] database-driven transparent proxy tracker which harvests
] new proxies 24/7, scripts to generate free email accounts
] by the 100's, good web scripting skills, and on a good
] day around 500 moderation points on slashdot from over
] 1,000 monitored accounts.

This is a really great discussion between a troll and a sysop. It really speaks to the fact that governance of an internet community is a very complex problem that shares many of the social dynamics of governance of a IRL community.

Trolls vs. Sysops...

] No -- future TV will may be unrecognisable from today,
] defined not just by linear TV channels, packaged and
] scheduled by television executives, but instead will
] resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of
] content, some indistinguishable as actual channels. These
] streams will mix together broadcasters' content and
] programmes, and our viewers' contributions. At the
] simplest level -- audiences will want to organize and
] re-order content the way they want it. They'll add
] comments to our programmes,programmes, vote on them and
] generally mess about with them. But at another level,
] audiences will want to create these streams of video
] themselves from scratch, with or without our help. At
] this end of the spectrum, the traditional "monologue
] broadcaster" to "grateful viewer" relationship will break
] down, and traditional advertising and subscription models
] will no longer be viable.

The director of BBC New Media on why MemeStreams is the future of Television. :)

TV's Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning: PaidContent.org

] After Sept. 11, when all the newspapers were recording
] who, what, when, where -- there was a big question of
] why. Why did this happen? What's going to happen in the
] future? A lot of people were spending a lot of time
] looking for news, and I was one of them. All the servers
] were slow and it took a long time to find the content.
] Fundamentally, I wanted to build a tool that would
] automate this: Here's a new development, let's find all
] the articles that talk about this development.

OJR article: Interview with Google News Creator