Explaining why he doesn't use a Mac, this pretentious System Administrator makes so many mistakes it isn't even funny. Every single argument has some mistake, but the guy writes as if he knows something we don't (he doesn't). What an ignorant klutz!

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Everybody has been mentioning Teoma, a new search engine. I hate it. Some of the results are really weird, for example Scientology, it has sponsored links by the Church of Scientology and Operation Clambake does not appear on the first page. In fact, the first page is all pro-scientology sites.

In a less controversial search, looking for Alfredo Octavio doesn't lead to alfredo.octavio.net, but to one of the inside pages... My front page has a lot more hits and a lot more links, this guys suck!.

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Boston Globe.  Welcome to Blogistan where talk is cheap.  Globe columnist Alex Beam exercises his limited analytical abilities in this article on weblogs.  Choice nuggets:

• Welcome to Blogistan, the Internet-based journalistic medium where no thought goes unpublished, no long-out-of-print book goes unhawked, and no fellow ''blogger,'' no matter how outre, goes unpraised.

• The Web loggers' main shortcoming is their compunction to ''say'' something several times a day, consequences be damned.

• Another cloying attribute of bloggers is their intense admiration for other bloggers.

• ...in blogland's infinite echo chamber of self-regard.

• If you've read this far, you may have enough time on your hands to become a blogger yourself.... Maybe you will even be mocked in a medium that people actually read.

Such anger! He must really feel threatened. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Alex Beam doesn't like blogs, blogs do not like Alex Beam. What a looser

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Funny they didn't say anything about the suicide bombers...

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Judge Weighs Dismissal of Charges in Digital Copyright Case. A federal judge heard arguments on a request to dismiss the prosecution of a Russian software company charged with violating a digital-copyright law. By Chris Gaither. [New York Times: Technology]

Imagine if the DCMA is declared unconstitutional...

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We are the Blogs. Journalism will be Assimilated. by John Hiller

It's a good article, worth a read. John Hiller does get a couple of points wrong. The first is about the Google/Scientology/DMCA story. Most Blogs I read did not make the mistake of thinking the story was over, they (as I) did not understand why xenu.net front page was reinstated, while the inside pages were not. I don't think it's clear yet. What's the difference between a page with a presumed copyright infringement and a page pointing to a presumed copyright infringement? In terms of the DMCA, none. That's way Scientology can go after Google.

The second point he gets wrong is the difference between Borgs and Blogs. The former share thoughts only, while the later have different thoughts. To put it another way, the Borgs are like a cluster of computers acting like a mainframe, while Blogs are like the internet (they are the internet, most people just don't know it yet): A lot of independent computers that may or may not collaborate with each other and may do it in different ways. That's a much more powerful entity.

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John Hiler complains about the bloggers stealing his story. Schmuck. It's the other way around. The epiphanies he's been having and expressing so well are in the archives of the blogs he writes about. Sheez. I like a newbie as much as anyone, but not one who complains about losing control of ideas he didn't originate. Same old shit. Next thing we'll see a "history" of weblogs that begins with John Hiler. Hehe.  [Scripting News]

Dave may be having a bad brain day. This is actually a great article from a funny perspective. Blogs as Borgs. He doesn't complain as much as Dave implies, he's just making a point. It requires a better answer...

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Seethru Music has a concise list of Napster alternatives.  [Scripting News]

The best of all alternatives seems to be the best kept secret out there. Even Dave is ignoring it. I sent him an email promoting imesh. It works better than all the others. Too bad is Windows only.

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The Path From Oslo to War. To justify Israeli actions, two deliberate distortions of reality are being employed in Israel's war against Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority By Raja Shehadeh. [New York Times: Opinion]

The real distortion is to use a legal argument to justify breeding hatred in kids to kill other kids. Racism is not justified, neither is terrorism, doesn't matter what injustice is being carried out or was carried out before. If the Palestinian want peace let them stop terrorism, if they want war, they should fight with armies against armies, not against cafes and hotels. Cowards. You want to know how far out of left field is this article? Apply the argument to 9/11...Do injustices by the US Government in the past justify blowing up the World Trade Center? Think about it...

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The Kazaa Ruling: What It Means. Last week's court ruling in the Netherlands that file-trading software is legal might not help American companies that make similar claims. By Brad King. [Wired News]

Well, they can move to Holland and be free from DCMA. It also points out to how hard it will be to pass DCMA like laws in reasonable countries. So, it might help American companies by hurting the American economy, but that's what you get when you elect assholes and bought people to congress. They want to obey a mouse...

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