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Wednesday, October 08, 2003
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Music Label Cashes in by Sharing. Magnatune is trying to turn the music industry on its ear by encouraging file sharing and giving artists a large chunk of the proceeds. It seems to be working. By Chris Ulbrich. [Wired News]
5:49:28 AM 
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Get a load of this report from Reuters...I was just howling...
German women fed up with their partners' grumbling on weekend shopping trips can now dump them at a special kindergarten for men offering beer and entertainment.
"The women are issued a receipt for their partners when they hand them in and can pick them up again when they return to us later," Alexander Stein, manager of the 'Nox Bar' in the nothern city of Hamburg told Reuters today.
The men are given a name badge on arrival and for 10 Euros ($11.80) they get two beers, a hot meal, and televised football and games.
Read the full article at abcnews.com: Kids, Beer, and Football
{GM - Bone Lace}
5:47:12 AM
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Progressive Voices: 'Let It Begin Here'. I haven't added to my Progressive Voices list lately, but I've got a great one tonight - Toby Sackton's 'Let it Begin Here'. I really can't describe Toby's blog any better than he does himself: I am from Lexington, Massachusetts.... [Channeling Cupertino]
5:18:32 AM
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Walter Cronkite on Ashcroft. Walter Cronkite was a powerful voice of reason, honesty and moderation throughout his career as a journalist, and has continued to speak from his heart for a better America. In many ways, I learned my sense of right, wrong and... [Channeling Cupertino]
5:17:52 AM
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Yahoo News Search RSS feeds.
It's not a new idea (Feedster has been doing it for a while) but it's a first for a major search engine: Yahoo are now offering RSS feeds of the results of searches within Yahoo news. The feeds are advertisement free, probably because you have to click through to the news stories to read them in full. I wonder how long it will be before someone starts offering custom feeds like this with advertising in the feed itself? As RSS is an XML format parsing out adverts before they get to the user is a much more obviosu step than ad-blockers in web browsers. [Simon Willison's Weblog]
5:08:21 AM
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Weblogs bring Second Amendment logic to the First Amendment.
The Second Amendment means everyone gets to have a gun.
The First Amendment means everyone gets to say what they want to say. But a limiting factor on freedom of speech has been that the tools of mass communication have been unavailable to most individuals. Some people are more equal than others.
Now push-button publishing onto the Web means everyone gets to have a printing press and a distribution network.
Weblogs won't undo professional media, any more than personal gun ownership has undone the military. But many Second Amendment advocates believe an armed citizenry provides a check on the government. Arming people with weblogs certainly provides a check on corporate media and the government.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, this could be a very positive development. [EdCone.com]
5:05:47 AM
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