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Orchestra management puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of union president Emile Subirana. .< 8:34:07 PM  >Six Months With A TiBook. The only reason I went for a TiBook instead of an iBook is because I need dual monitors. The extra speed is not worth [the] thrice-daily cable struggle. (Workingmac.com via MyAppleMenu) [Macintosh News] .< 8:28:15 PM >Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's WWDC. Apple today announced that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with a keynote on Monday, May 6, 2002, beginning at 10:00 a.m. [Macintosh News] .< 8:12:57 PM >MS Trial: A Call for a New Office. An economist says the public would benefit if Microsoft created a version of Office that runs on alternative operating systems. Robert Zarate reports from Washington. [Wired News] Argh. The public would benefit if it weren't so idiotically dependant on MS Office. Why do people use this package? Because every one else does. We all need to be able to open MS Office generated files. Why do people still use programmes designed for generating printed documents? Beats me. OK. I'll drop my incoherent rant now. .< 7:10:39 PM >Media O.D.. Todd Gitlin talks about media overload, the cluelessness of the TV networks, the Washington Post's love for Ken Starr and why conservative viewpoints thrive on TV and radio. [Salon.com] 'I've been realizing that during the year 1998, when bin Laden walked into national life by organizing the massacre at the two embassies in Africa, obviously that was a news story, but it pretty much came and went, while of course, the big story was Monica and Bill.' Lots of good stuff in here. A friend and I were talking about this recently. I feel like I'm out of touch with this. I don't watch much tv other than specialty channels with arts programming and films or CB news. I get a lot of my news from online sources, including weblogs. And because I can push back, think out loud, via my weblog, I forget that many people just absorb their media.'This is a message from a Fox News senior vice president to staff, dated November 28, 2001:
"Let's not get sidetracked worrying about the plight of Afghans this winter, or how many children are undernourished. We can help that country as soon as they cough up the guys who killed 5,000 Americans. When in doubt, take a look at the WTC collapsing." ' Cool. Thanks Adam. I was thinking I should get one going on my sites. .< 12:23:47 AM >New OS X/UNIX ad [MacNN] .< 12:22:52 AM >PS 7 ships for Mac OS X [MacNN] That's Photoshop, for the uninitiated. And this is big news. Apple's about to sell a pile more copies of OS X. Or maybe sell more machines. .< 12:18:58 AM >A chilling note from Doc Searls: IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover. David Berlind in ZDnet: IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover: IBM and Microsoft have been quietly busy behind the scenes for the last two years building a toll booth that could position the two companies to collect royalties on most if not all Internet traffic. The bottom paragraph: According to documents on the W3C's Web site, IBM and Microsoft not only own intellectual property within specific Web services protocols, but also have no intentions of relinquishing their IP rights to those protocols should they become standards. The documents indicate that the two companies are currently maintaining their rights to pursue a reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing framework as opposed to a royalty-free-based framework. The RAND framework is widely acknowledged as the one that keeps a vendor's options open in terms of being able to charge content developers and Internet users a royalty for usage of relevant intellectual property.There's more on Slashdot. [via Doc Searls] [Macintosh News] .< 12:11:45 AM >Newsweek: [OE]Don't Dumb Them Down'. Q&A with Jakob Nielsen. We have this myth that children can just do it . That's not true. For instance, because kids have literal thinking, they don't scroll down the page. It's "out of sight, out of mind." And when they encounter error messages, they just ignore it and go someplace else. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 12:09:15 AM >Useit.Com: Kids' Corner: Website Usability for Children. Most website designs for kids are based on pure folklore about how kids supposedly behave -- or, at best, by insights gleaned when designers observe their own children, who are hardly representative of average kids, typical Internet skills, or common knowledge about the Web. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 12:06:00 AM >Chavez rises from very peculiar coup. World latest: Hugo Chavez is once again Venezuela's president after a week of turmoil concluded by the failure of a military coup against him. [Guardian Unlimited] |
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