Plaintiffs who sued after being jailed for failure to pay traffic and misdemeanor court fines have won a $2.7 million settlement from the city of Wichita. [FindLaw]
A man who was ordered to stay away from Nicole Kidman has filed a $200 million libel lawsuit, claiming she made false allegations against him to generate publicity for her starring roles in "Moulin Rouge" and "The Others." [FindLaw]
Ex-Hooters Waitress Settles Toy Yoda Suit. They told her she would win what she thought was a foreign car, but it turned out to be a worthless Star Wars trinket. [FindLaw]
So when is "blogging" going to be a feature article in Newsweek or Time? Hell, I'm thinking it's possible that before the summer is over it will be a cover story.
2:39:19 PM
Now that Radio has the Multi-Authoring Feature, I'm looking for a Partner. The obvious choice?
Radio's RSS writer is now user-extensible. The RSS writer in Radio is now officially user-extensible. "Before generating the RSS, we check user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile," Dave writes today. Excellent. This will open the floodgates for all sorts of useful metadata experimentation. We'll see Radio UserLand sites emitting RSS 1.0, and others extending RSS .9x. It's not the format that matters to me, it's the experimentation. ... [Jon's Radio]
This is brilliant news. Ordinary Radio users like me can now experiment with tagging topical categories of posts related to "official" court filings (such as opinions), court rules, and FAQs. Enabling an end user to sort, filter or interpret by topical content.
One Small Example: A lawyer in New Orleans, is watching the progress of asbestos mass litigation in the courts of Louisiana, becomes aware that very similar issues involving medical monitoring and asbestos mass litigation are pending before the West Virginia Supreme Court. If the WV court has an XML feed for recent opinions (which we do), the lawyer in New Orleans could subscribe to that feed and watch for orders and opinions regarding asbestos mass litigation. Understandably, however, the lawyer in New Orleans may not want to read all of the posts about another jurisdiction's opinions - only those concerning limited issues. With this new feature, the lawyer in New Orleans can target the request, saving bandwidth and precious screen time. [Rory Perry's Radio Weblog]
I'm glad that Rory was able to translate Jon's post for me. I figured it was a "good thing" but I didn't know why. WOW!!!! I'm all for this. Where do I sign?
1:11:45 PM
Why I 'Blog - Or How You Too Can Be a Blogger....
Talking to my friend Ched yesterday, I found myself describing the weblog thing with the usual over-the-top enthusiasm. But, unlike many of the people that I have preached to (who smile kindly, but with a deep wish that I would move on to something more interesting), he was intrigued. He asked me: "how would I start?"
I was flummoxed. I didn't have a prepared speech. Well, now I do. Here's my pitch on the mechanics of starting a weblog.
12:53:36 PM
A Message from Management Regarding Training
We will begin the new training program tomorrow and, after careful analysis, we have determined to initiate training where it is needed most, and where it will have the greatest immediate impact. In accordance with that inititative, would those of you who know just enough to be dangerous please report to the main conference room tomorrow at 9:00 am. Thank you.
Sorry, that rant was inspired by something that just happened at work. The details are unimportant.
Bert, Bert, Bert. Will you never learn? Via [
