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Friday, June 14, 2002 |
On The Trail of "Deep Throat"
"But for nearly 30 years, the identity of 'Deep Throat — the legendary, cigarette-smoking, scotch-drinking secret source — has remained a mystery.
Now, a soft-spoken professor and an eager team of journalism students are vowing to change that.
'The goal is to find out the person who was Deep Throat,' says Professor Gaines.
'Dateline' followed their search, what they hope will be the final phase of a remarkable, three-year investigation. Using modern computer technology and old-fashioned research, these students are finding new clues, trying to crack the case that’s baffled official Washington and the rest of the world for three decades....
And, although they’re far from certain, the students told 'Dateline,' they have a hunch.
Do they know who Deep Throat is?
'We all think we know,' says one student.
'Buchanan. Yes, Buchanan,' they all say.
'We all think Buchanan.'
Patrick Buchanan — the same Pat Buchanan who would later run for president himself. They think Patrick Buchanan is Deep Throat?
'Right now. Right now,' they say. [MSNBC, thanks to Susan]
11:11:07 PM Permanent link here
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Interview With Morbus Iff
"Aaron and Sean have an exclusive interview with Morbus Iff (the creator of the ever popular AmphetaDesk) on the release of the latest version of his news aggregator (.93). If you are into RSS, it would behoove you to read the whole thing.
I have been using AmphetaDesk for a few weeks now (I know, I know, very late on the bandwagon) and I adore it. Not only that, but Morbus is a great guy who is able to answer any questions that I have instantaneously. We had a conversation this morning and he helped me with RSSing Yahoo Groups (apparently, the ability to do so is shady at best)." [Library Stuff]
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Prairie Blogs Directory
"For anyone out there who wants it, I've created an OPML file that can serve as the 'distributed directory' for Prairie Bloggers. It's a pretty small list right now, and I'm happy to add others. One of these days we'll actually get together. In the meantime, send me your link and I'll add you to the crew.
Note: if you're a Radio user and wish to include the directory in your own Radio Directory, here are the simple steps:
That's it!" [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]
I'm all over this one, although not until next week. I'll be offline for a big chunk of the Friday and Saturday because one of my best friends from high school is visiting. So expect few to no postings until Sunday (maybe a few at night).
Thanks to Rick for setting this up!
12:57:08 AM Permanent link here
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FeedReader
"I'm starting my series of reviews of news aggregators with FeedReader. FeedReader was the first tool that I used that really got me into news aggregation....
Ultimately, I think that a stable version of FeedReader could be the most popular news aggregator out there, at least until RSS feed monitoring is built into Mozilla. It's pretty, it's easy to install, and it's easy to use. It already does the neat 'minimize to system tray' trick. If FeedReader were reasonably reliable, it's the application I'd install on my mother's computer (assuming she were interested in monitoring RSS feeds). Alas, this power user had to go another direction. Still, FeedReader is a damn fine application, and will be even better as the 2.0 release cycle progresses." [rc3.org]
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Two items to note that should help Teri with some stuff she's working on right now. They'll both be integrated into my own presentations, as well.
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"My new soul brother Glenn Reynolds blogs John Hiler noticing that the unsigned music and unpublished books he's finding via weblogs are pretty good. Yeah. I wrote about this in my Monoculture piece last month. 'Perhaps monoculture has run its course. Maybe what's happening now, but it's hard to see, is that each of us is taking more responsibility for getting our own information, for creating our own entertainment, and not giving that power to the centralized entertainment and information industries.' " [Scripting News]
It's the break-up of the mass market. I already see it with my Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and how littlle I listen to the radio anymore. I have gotten for more trustworthy and relevant suggestions from my virtual social network than I have from the centralized industries. All it means is smaller, more focused communities, which are a win-win situation because they're an advertiser's dream, while the community members themselves benefit from a better signal-to-noise ratio.
If you look around, you'll see it happening all around you. I mean come on - there was no room for ESPN's Fantasy Fishing League in the monoculture. It's only now that a large enough community can come together every day to make something like that happen.
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© Copyright 2004 Jenny Levine.
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