Friday, June 28, 2002

NOSTALGIA Like it use to be! Recreating a Golden Age of Radio. Thouseands of items relating to the development of electricity and early radios plus hundreds of radios from the 1920's through the 60's are on display at the American Museum of Radio. By Suzanne Charlé. [New York Times: Arts] 6:14:48 AM     Comments[]

CONFLICTS became obvious when we learned accounting firms were also providing consulting advice. Similar conflicts have been obvious between stock analysts and stock brokers. Until there are clear lines separating these two, no broker or analyst will get a fair hearing - no matter what he or she is suggesting! That assumes we're talking about someone who doesn't have any other ax to grind. Here's a guy who seems to be completely uncertain about his role! Timing of a Rating Shift Is Raising Some Questions. Stock analyst Jack B. Grubman is caught in the spotlight as government investigators dig in to the accounting mess at WorldCom. By Patrick Mcgeehan. [New York Times: Technology] 5:57:35 AM     Comments[]

Miss Piggy. "Never eat more than you can lift." [Quotes of the Day] 5:42:09 AM     Comments[]

AN INTERESTING PANEL I'M GOING TO BED EARLY, since I have to get up at the crack of dawn to fly to DC for the Blogosphere panel. [InstaPundit] This panel at the National Press Club, sponsored by The Idler, A Web Periodical (http://www.the-idler.com), has invited prominent "Bloggers" to answer these questions. Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Instapundit.com Mickey Kaus, Kausfiles.com James Lileks, Lileks.com Dennis Loy Johnson, Mobylives.com Doug McLennan, Artsjournal.com James Taranto, "Best of the Web," OpinionJournal.com John Hiler, Microcontent News Johsua Micah Marshall, TalkingPointsMemo.com Discussant: Alice Goldfarb Marquis, The-Idler.com. The National Press Club is located at 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor - Washington, DC. Admission is free. 5:32:20 AM     Comments[]

HOW IT ALL WORKS RSS news feeds unmasked RSS Tutorial. Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web "In this workshop you'll learn how to create, validate, syndicate, and view your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of RSS XML/RDF metadata for dynamically publishing...." [via Serious Instructional Technology] Now this is an excellent resource! Put up by the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) folks in Utah, this one-page tutorial gives a brief overview of RSS, what it looks like, aggregators (they call them "viewers"), how to locate feeds, how to create your own feeds, how to validate your RSS, and more. [The Shifted Librarian] 5:27:10 AM     Comments[]

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