Died, at 72, in New York, Neil Postman, NYU professor and media critic. His Amusing Ourselves to Death has been on my shelf for many years, and is a fine, principled critique of the devastation of public discourse by the mass media, which I fondly hope this medium may help repair. The irony of his departure on the heels of the California recall election is profound. [Due Diligence]

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The Good News, there is a G_D. The Bad News, he's a paranoid speed freak.. [ via BoingBoing ] Eileen Gunn asked a few professional science fiction writers for their reactions [More Like This WebLog]

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Yet another way of restricting free speech - suing (generally) penniless students...

DRM Company Plans to Sue Student Researcher. SunnComm, maker of the CD copy protection method that a Princeton University graduate student exposed as utterly lame in a... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

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