Monday, June 30, 2003

Portrait...Aicha Hockx [Sandhill Trek: A Public Space for Self Expression] 11:51:10 PM

From around the world The latest from the Antipixel blog: One-Minute Vacation. Quiet American, one-minute vacation. A brilliant collection of recordings from around the world. [Antipixel - Excerpts] 10:08:38 PM

Online Political Funding Site PayDemocracy.com New way to influence politicians online. is an interesting new way for easy-forming groups to pool money together to support political candidates & advance causes. Its kind of like forming an instant PAC. MoveOn is similar however PayDemocracy is non-partisan and more of a platform that lets the user be the activist. By (timster). [Metapop] 8:41:49 PM

John Mellencamp Good interview with John Mellencamp. The link and lyrics to the MP3 for his song "To Washington" was posted on Mediaburn here. Ain't that America?. Denounced as un-American after he blasted Bush on his 21st album, John Mellencamp talks about the rise of Fox News, pay-for-play, what's wrong with the Rolling Stones and why most Republicans aren't rich enough to be Republicans. [Salon.com] 7:27:58 PM

From the 101-365 weblog 27 years ago, or was it just five, I wrote a Wiki in Frontier. XML had just been invented, and I wanted to play with it, so I tried cooking it into the Wiki. (RSS was not yet even an eye twinkle.) I asked some questions on the Frontier mailing list. Chuck Shotton, the Bringer of Internet to Macintosh, answered my (very basic) questions. I had been thinking about using alternate editors for webpages, and did not mean to create a need for syndication, but hey. Finally, RSS and weblogs and all that stuff made web writing easy, so I quit working on Wacky (the Wiki.) It doesn't work in XML at all any more, because the state of the art tool when I quit working on it has depreciated, and I no longer support it. Which brings us to the current RSS vs Echo issue. Echo is being pushed as a replacemant for RSS. But I worry that Echo may already be owned by some big company, or at least tied up in their litigatory legalities. Listen Echo guys, RSS (mostly works. I'm not sure that I want IBM or whoever deciding how my content is represented, anyway. [101-365] 1:36:08 PM

Raumpatrouille, the Movie. On the Trailer website are a lot of new MP3s to listen to. Dialogues are German, but the music is here to stay; check out "Title 31 - Invasion"(7.1MB, MP3). For everyone. But the spaceship still looks funny. They really should have used my version of the Orion VIII. Thanks, Marc. I have to link your BASIS 104 now... [The Cartoonist] 1:08:59 PM

The Media Ecosystem of the Blogosphere   Bloggers Explaining The Media Ecosystem of the Blogosphere Bloggers Explaining The Media Ecosystem of the Blogosphere. The blogosphere is a self-organizing webspace that is constructed through the presence and interlinking of the 3 million weblogs (blogs) ....[Elwyn Jenkins: MicrodocBlogger] [Audioblog/Mobileblogging News] 12:17:36 PM

North Rim still ablaze; other fires nearing end. Where other wildfires stand: [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:21:51 AM

Analysts warning of open revolt from Iraqis. BAGHDAD - U.S. troops in Iraq are being ambushed everywhere and every day - while guarding gas stations, investigating car thefts or on their way to make phone calls home. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:19:51 AM

Study: U.S. unprepared for another terror attack. WASHINGTON - Nearly two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States remains "dangerously unprepared" to handle another catastrophic attack, according to a study by the Council on Foreign Relations. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:17:36 AM

Up from the ashes, new hope sprouts. "God has a sense of humor," people told Bob Zimmerman after the Aspen Fire destroyed 70 percent of Summerhaven's properties but left his real estate office intact. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:15:34 AM

Carl Sagan. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." [Quotes of the Day] 12:48:05 AM