Yesterday, I deleted a post from the night before because I thought maybe I being a little harsh in my comments about SunSpot.net.  The post had to do with the fact that they had reported that a tentative date was set for the for the baseball players union strike early in the day (late morning), and then replaced the article with a different article in the evening that said no date was set for the strike.  In that second article, they showed an evening time as the time the article was originally published.  There was no mention of their misreporting of the facts earlier in the day.  In afterthought, I decided that maybe I was being unfair and deleted my entry about it.

Here we are 2 days later.  The abstract of an article that appeared in my aggregator at 4:53 PM EST said "Dow soars 6.4% in biggest point gain ever."  The same article appeared in my aggregator at 9:53 PM, only this time, the abstract said "Advance of 490 points is second-largest ever" (which I believe is correct).  Okay - so mistakes happen and it's great when they get corrected.  But, I can't help but think this is a news organization more concerned with fast, spectacular headlines/abstracts than being certain about the facts.  I edit my posts, too, but I don't sweep errors under the carpet.  And, I'm not a newspaper or a journalist, either.  If that's unfair to say, so be it... 

Justice Dept. forges ahead with TIPS, despite Armey ban  [Just cheap dirt] 

Bait And Switch Ad  No end to the feelings of disaffection for Apple's plan to charge for iTools/.Mac accounts. Good grief. C'mon, Apple. Come up with a cheap email-only plan and do some damage control.  [ViewFromTheHeart] 

Scott Loftesness:  "I got involved in the early 80's -- first using an Atari 400, a 300 baud Don Stoner modem, and a MicroNet subscription (as CompuServe called its service back then)." 

Copyright in the Balance.  Q&A with Lawrence Lessig.  [Tomalak's Realm] 

  Welcome to The Peanut Gallery, our newest member of jenett.radio.randomizer - thanks for joining Will! 

Roland Piquepaille tunes into the subtext in Bill Gates's email to millions of Internet users last week.  [Scripting News] 

IBM, Opera Will Create Multimodal Browser.  The tech giant and independent browser maker expect users will be computing on the go with multimodal technologies.  [internetnews.com: Top News] 

John Robb on Could Hollywood hack your PC?:  "Congress is working on a bill to authorize the media industry to hack your computer.  This is insane." 

Size must matter to someone: "I don't know how to make your penis bigger. Don't keep asking me! "  [Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob]

hehe... 

Bill Simone on "Legalized hacking":  "How can they (record companies, movie studios, etc.) tell the difference between a pirated song and one that was legally installed on my computer? Their inability to do so may be why the proposed bill eliminates almost all liability when they screw up." 

Myhrvold, Bad Software and lawyers: Oh my 

July 2002

 


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