Saturday, May 17, 2003

A resolution calling on Howard Coble to apologize for his remarks on Japanese-American internment and to resign as chairman of the House Sub-committee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will be introduced in the California State Assembly on Monday. Expect Howard to continue not apologizing and not resigning. 2:08:24 PM

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Elijah is learning how to create PowerPoints in fifth grade. He already sees how dumb and reductive they can be. I’ll show him this article from Business 2.0 to reinforce the point – he’ll love Peter Norvig’s Gettysburg Address PowerPoint spoof. Thanks to my colleague Debbie Gage for passing along the article...   ...which led me to another article by writer Jimmy Guterman on business use of weblogs. Guterman: “Most of the companies I've observed using blogs are trying it on their customers before unleashing it internally on their staffs.” 11:01:22 AM

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Blogging can be hazardous to your personal life, reports the (Dave-linked early edition of tomorrow's)Times. Not to mention that fact that blogging about your personal life can be hazardous to your weblog; banality is the curse of the daily journal.   I will nevertheless offer this observation:   Having two great kids…priceless. Having both great kids spend the night out…even pricelesser. 10:41:06 AM

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News & Observer: “The owner of a Web site covering N.C. State athletics is suing the University of North Carolina system and its officials for denying him press credentials to cover sporting events…‘You can't pick out one media source and say television is OK, print is OK, but online, you can't come,’ said Michael Byrne, [the plaintiff’s] lawyer, who is also executive director of the Institute of Justice North Carolina chapter in Raleigh.”   Thanks for the link to Greensboro’s newest journalist-weblogger, Mark at thoughtsignals.   * * *   If the ACC has to expand, and that expansion is to include three schools out of a pool of four – Miami, Syracuse, BC, and Virginia Tech – then surely Tech should be a lock by virtue of geography, existing and possible rivalries, and similarity to the current members….right? Wrong. 10:23:50 AM

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