Monday, July 7, 2003

CNN's Mark Shields on Howard Dean - No Special Trick, Just Message Howard Dean's "Trick". Mark Shields at CNN gets it: [Blog for America] 1:50:33 PM

Chiariglione EE Times: Chiariglione launches Digital Media Project. Anticipating membership from companies around the world, the initiative will seek solutions for breaking up the current digital media logjam created by technical, political, legal and economic differences. Another goal is "helping the digital media revolution take hold," said Chiariglione. [Tomalak's Realm] 11:28:59 AM

Reinstating Regulations on Media Ownership This message came from the Boing Boing blog. You can also click on http://capwiz.com/consumersunion/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=2682001 to send your elected officials the message that media de-regulation has already damaged our democracy and should not go any further. - Gary Santoro Call your Senator, reinstate media ownership regulations. This website is calling on Americans to phone their Senators and ask them to support a bill reversing the FCC's shameful decision to allow for increased consolidation in ownership of mass media. A month ago the FCC dramatically relaxed media ownership regulations, stifling the cornerstone of American democracy: a free, fair, and open public debate. Because one million Americans raised their voices against the FCC decision, the Senate Commerce Committee recently sent a bill to the Senate floor for a vote that would roll back many of the rules. Today the challenge is to get that bill to the floor of the Senate and House for a vote. Call your Congressional representatives and demand that they support the rollback. Enter your zip code and find out if your elected officials are currently supporting rolling back the FCC. If they are supportive co-sponsors, then thank them for their support and ask that they keep the bill alive. If they are not a co-sponsor, ask them to become one. [BoingBoing] [Ottmar Liebert] 10:45:21 AM

Scott McCloud's Online Graphic Novella The Right Number. "The Right Number is a new online graphic novella about math, sex, obseson and phone numbers." By Scott McCloud. It's also an experiment in micropayments. [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] 10:27:19 AM

Notes from Guitarist Ottmar Liebert Higher Octave calls and wants us to report the direct sales of The Santa Fe Sessions at our concerts so they can report them to Billboard Magazine. They say that I will need to make the numbers official if I want to sign another recording contract sometime in the future. They don't get it - I am never signing another recording deal. If this doesn't work and I sell at least 20,000-50,000 CDs from our web site and at concerts I will retire. That's all there is to it. There is no turning back... [Ottmar Liebert] 12:33:42 AM

Quicktime Virtual Reality QTVR panorama: Chapel of Jean Cocteau. QTVR evangelist Hans Nyberg describes this full-screen panorama by photographer Antonio Moya. "Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) is one of the most famous French artists from the last century. If he had lived today he would probably been called a multimedia artist. This brilliant artist was a poet, novelist, he wrote plays, articles, ballet, opera. He also made thousands of drawings, paintings, modelled clay, was a sculptor, and designed costumes. Most of us know him for the famous 1946 movie Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete). By many considered one of the best 10 movies ever made. He decorated many Chapelles in France and the Chapel Notre-Dame-de-Jerusalem also called Chapelle Cocteau was the last. He never got it finished and it was his friend and spiritual son, Edouard Dermi who finished his work. The floor is by the ceramist Roger Pelissier. It is located in the South of France at the village of Frejus." [BoingBoing] [Ottmar Liebert] 12:21:07 AM