Thursday, 9 May 2002
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Sherlock plug-in available for macosxhints [Mac OS X Hints]
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Remember Westray victims with better safety: miners
Family and friends of 26 men killed in the Westray mine disaster 10
years ago say politicians must remember the dead by placing more
responsibility for workplace safety on corporations.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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In response to feedback about problems with
Apple's Knowledge Base,
the company has now eliminated its highly-unpopular login requirement, permitting faster, more efficient access and allowing Mac support people to reference documents in URLs to help their clients.
(There may be other performance improvements, as well.) [Macintouch]
Good stuff. I don't mind having to be a member, but I do mind not being able to point people to the information (since in all likelihood they are not members).
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[15:30 ET]
The Story of Nadine describes the incredible junk a non-existent email account received following a simply typographic error and the Kafka-esque experience awaiting people trying to deal with this kind of problem. [Macintouch]
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NY Times: The Entertainment Server. Entertainment servers are making their way onto the rack next to the television. These various devices -- game systems, audio centers, set-top boxes and digital video recorders -- have four common attributes: a microprocessor, networking capability, a graphical user interface and a huge hard drive. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Radio 8: Multi-Author Weblog Tool. [Scripting News]
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Bill lays out reproductive technology rules
The federal government has introduced a controversial bill on
reproductive technology that would allow research on embryonic stem
cells under certain conditions.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Auditor general refers Liberal contracts to RCMP for investigation
Canada's auditor general recommended Wednesday that the RCMP investigate
contracts worth $1.6 million awarded to a Montreal ad agency.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Journalism Students Trumps BigPubs. Jadine Ying interviewed me via email for the University of Illinois Journalism Department's Spike Magazine about blogging and journalism. The article just appeared , and it's about the finest explication of the tendrils that connect and surround reportage and blogging -- and which separate journalism from journaling -- that's appeared in any publication anywhere. She's got a bright future with this tone and analysis. I confess after reading Dave Winer's graf on the latest New York Times piece on blogging that I just didn't read the article. Dave's usually dead on, and I'm sick of the Andrew Sullivan is a Journalist articles that ignore and dismiss the rest of the blogging world. Dave writes today about the role for professional journalists, a sort of call to arms for more analysis, more critique, more engagement ... [GlennLog]
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