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Tuesday, March 08, 2005
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Philip Greenspun explains
what the Harvard Business School applicants did that resulted in their
being denied admission. It's a real stretch to call it hacking. And
that's an understatement. [Scripting News]
Interesting perspective on what hacking means today. These guys
got screwed by HBS - the school is just embarrassed about the exposure
and need to get over themselves. But, hey, remember this is the place
with the president that believes woman can't do math
7:46:43 PM 
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4 New Human Cases of Avian Flu Are Reported in Vietnam.
Health officials worry that the avian strain's genes may combine with
genes from human influenza viruses to create a deadly new virus that
could spread around the world. By By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN. [NYT > Health]
everytime i read this, i realise that we are already dealing with
an epidemic and we just don't know enough data to show it... and you
know something? WHO and CDC know it too. If this healthcare
worker has it, we are in trouble now.
11:05:13 AM
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Television Ads it Up. Product placement has gone too far. [The Motley Fool]
the dark (and stupid) side of consumer influence. question of
integrity, transparency and goal keeps coming up with me these days!!
and, don't the marketers get it yet? The stupid hick they imagine
not able to see through this stuff isn't as prevelant or as stupid as
they think.
10:47:18 AM
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The First Blogger Died in 1794. On Scripting News this morning, Dave Winer nominates Harry Truman as the patron of bloggers.
I'd like to go a bit further back to find the patron saint of weblogging: Harbottle Dorr.
Dorr was writing a hyperlinked daily journal on current events two centuries before the technology existed:
On January 7, 1765, in the middle of the Stamp Act controversy, Boston shopkeeper Harbottle Dorr took the current issue of the Boston Evening-Post and commented on its contents in the margins. Every week thereafter, he collected one or both of the Evening-Post or the Boston Gazette, (sometimes adding a Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser)
and continued expressing himself in the margins on the events,
referring backward and forward in a maze of cross-references to other
documents and stories relevant to the events reported in the news.
The final result 12 years later was an astonishing archive --
3,280 pages of annotated newspapers, plus the appended documents and
Dorr's own indexes to the four volumes he compiled. This entire
unbroken run of annotated Boston newspapers will not only allow
students of American history a unique look at the pre-Revolutionary era
in New England, but will also provide insight into the thinking of
citizen Dorr on the controversies and topics of the times.
An average citizen marking up the news every day with his own
opinions and furiously cross-referencing his work, Dorr was a blogger.
Reading about this collection makes me want to park myself at a
microfilm reader for a few months to read his hypertext. So many
questions: Was he a warblogger? Did he fisk people? Would he have
objected to autolinking? When Dorr died in 1794, his entire estate consisted of the four "newspaper books" that constituted his blog. They sold for 7 pounds and 10 shillings. [Workbench]
10:44:14 AM
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2005
Judy Smith.
Last update:
4/22/2005; 5:17:52 PM.
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