One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 23 March 2004

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Wired: Why RSS Is Everywhere ....

Wired: Why RSS Is Everywhere. [Scripting News]

A simple introduction to RSS.

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Following a public beta release offered in early February, Apple on Tuesday released iChat AV v2.1, the latest version of its instant messaging software for users of Mac OS X. The new version can be downloaded through the Software Update system preferences pane or from Apple's Web site. [MacCentral]

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When you create websites like this, you are, in effect, saying "screw you, web." Flash websites don't get indexed, so their content is neither world, nor wide, nor web.

This isn't television. [Reinvented News]

Bingo. Flash sites bug the heck out of me. This thought was going through my mind just today. They are almost worthless. You might look once and 'poof', it's gone. Most unweb-like. Some of them win smarty pants prizes. I go to look at the site and my eyes almost immediately glaze over. I've got to figure out how to navigate them. They almost never inform me. They might entertain. Usually they frustrate.

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Public inquiry demands to question Bush's national security adviser. [Guardian Unlimited]

Dr. Rice has time to appear on talk shows where she can control the spin but will not appear before a commission. I saw a clip from one of those talk show appearances and my impression was that she looked really rattled. She's losing sleep over Clarke's allegations.

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Regional leaders criticized Israel for ratcheting up the violence at a time when the first tentative steps toward peace were being taken in almost four years. [New York Times: International]

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The Department of Defense has identified 577 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American yesterday:. [New York Times: International]

21, 22 and 31 years old.

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Starbucks Coffee Company, through its Hear Music brand, has launched an innovative music delivery experience that makes it easier for customers to discover, acquire and enjoy music. The company's new retail digital music service, enabled by HP technologies, launched earlier this week with the grand opening of the Hear Music Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, CA.
[ProSound News]

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BookBITS: Apple Confidential 2.0 (22-Mar-2004; 3.5K) [TidBITS] 'Owen W. Linzmayer's Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company. This cleverly written, well laid-out history of Apple Computer contains plenty of nuggets that all Apple aficionados will appreciate.'

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The fate of RealNetworks, a pioneering maker of music-playing software for the Internet, is a question awaiting an answer. [New York Times: Technology]

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Proponents say that the time has come for online radio, and now they hope mainstream advertisers come along. [New York Times: Technology]