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- My Mom is coming over to visit today so don't expect any posts until later tonite :) |
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- Ian points in an email to a Douglas Adam's piece originally published in 1999: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet |
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Propagation (Feb 23 2002 09:44 GMT) - Interesting propagation delay. Tuesday I published a piece I'd worked on over the weekend. Coming from a more traditional broadcast background, by Wednesday evening I had already written my work off as 'ok, but not earthshattering' because I only saw my traffic rise about 25% This morning I noticed in my referers report that I was getting major traffic from both blogger and scripting news. These links coming later has once again taught me new and valuable lessons about organic distribution. In other organic news, the comments feature for "Radio" has been released and it works on any server running "frontier" and "manila". |
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- Andersen makes settlement offers to Enron shareholdersArthur Andersen has reportedly begun contacting attorneys for various Enron groups offering to settle a pending class-action lawsuit to prevent the accounting firm from being put out of business by fallout from the Enron scandal. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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- Plastic is pointing to a Village Voice piece about the Top Ten Questions the Media Can't Answer. Its a real eye opener to read this then flip on CNN or FOX News and listen to the verbal diarrhea. Fun for the whole family. |
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- Following up on previous non-specific claims in Greenpeace Germany's magazine in November that a US government biologist was behind the spate of anthrax mailings, the (UK) Independent newspaper reports today that the US Federation of American Scientists has claimed the FBI knows exactly who mailed the anthrax, but is dragging its feet over bringing charges "because the suspect is a former government scientist." |
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- A federal appeals court yesterday nullified two long-standing government rules limiting the size of the world's largest media companies, opening the door to a new wave of mergers among cable television conglomerates and broadcast companies. Deregulation in meida industries always takes place when politicians need their media outlets to be loyal. Usually around election time or during wartime. Be wary of what you see on TV. |
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- Christina: "Did you ever stop to look at the sky the rain? The sun? Well actually I think it is pretty strange. Every spactacular day of our lives their is a diffrent kind of weather sky, and feeling to the world. |
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- Good afternoon from Belgium. Hard at work today on building the interfaces I want to use for the radio show that kicks off march 8th here in The Netherlands. I'm trying to do something new, by enabling the audience to help information flow into the show through weblogs using a variety of formats. "rss" is the preferred way of course, but also we plan to offer other interfaces so listeners can actively participate. Conversely, I want the show to flow information straight back through similar interfaces. |
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- Have you ever had someone get so mad at you that they tried to get you fired? I did, and although I wish it was a bigger name that attempted to pink-slip me, Richard Marx gets all the glory in this Chronicle. |
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- Enron Voice Mail system |
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- The NY Times couldn't have provided a better lead-in to my essay: "The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries, military officials said." |
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- I have been producing and presenting television programs since 1983. Thousands of hours, millions of viewers worldwide. And I lied to every single one of them. |
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Writing Day (Feb 23 2002 09:44 GMT) - Goodmorning from the Belgian Castle. Many ideas floating around already. Rejiggered my fonts 'cause I plan on lots of writing today. |
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- While working on a custom version of the most excellent iFrame webservice for viewing Updated Weblogs I discovered something cool. You can run webservices in TextEdit on OS X! |
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- Jonathan Green: "My friend Kim [Wilde] has a new single out call "Loved". It's very much like Madonna's 'Nothing Really Matters'/'Ray Of Light' - but that's a good thing (!)" |
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css (Feb 23 2002 09:44 GMT) - Now that I've ventured into the 'IE-Only' world of iFrames, I figure I might as well give CSS a whirl while I'm down here :) I found this an excellent starting point: Going Crazy with CSS: Raggett Stylie. [via More Like This WebLog] |
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Whoops! (Feb 23 2002 09:44 GMT) - The sun has gone down past the yardarm, so I'm going to build a fire and we're settling in for the evening. I made an interesting boo-boo today when I posted a screenshot of my Command Center. It included the cellphone# of one of Holland's more famous singers with a reminder to call him. Needless to say I'm sure there are some smiling Dutch bloggers out there :) |
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laser penis (Feb 23 2002 09:44 GMT) - America's laser of death cleared for take-off. George Bush's penis grows fourfold. [Daypop Top 40] |
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- JRo is piling onto a CNet story about GC, bandwidth and .com failures. I think it is finally becoming clear that almost every centralized .com failed to realize that unlike television and radio broadcast models, on the internet each 'viewer' you add to your audience increases your total cost. |
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- Alfred Hitchcock. "Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it." [#] |
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Uri is back (Feb 23 2002 09:44 GMT) - Uri Geller plans mass experiment on 20.02.2002. Readers are warned not to worry if they feel warm, see an orange and blue aura around his eyes or experience things jumping off shelves. |
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- Is this still America? Where the Feds can legally demand to see which books you purchase? |
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- Wowie! I added the iFrames to my Desktop Website Command Center. Now I get an update of the 15 most recently updates weblogs and automatic refresh of the current song playing on Wolf FM. Now this is really getting interesting.... |
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- Whoops, hold on. iFrames *does* work under OS X. The actual webservice the iFrame was trying to call was unavailable. This raises the question of a WebServiced world. If one service is down, how do I catch and resolve that? |
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