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Saturday, March 19, 2005
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Protesters at Hospice in Florida Push Showdown Over Schiavo.
Lawyers for Terri Schiavo's parents sought new avenues today to keep
their daughter alive as protesters tried to enter the hospice where the
critically brain-damaged woman lay in bed. By By ABBY GOODNOUGH. [NYT > Home Page]
Just before 11 a.m. Saturday, two people were taken into police custody
after trying to enter the hospice, saying they wanted to perform
citizen's arrests on those inside who are involved in withholding food
and water from Ms. Schiavo. Outside the hospice on this bright, chilly
morning, others waved signs reading "Stop Renegade Judges" and
"Colorado Loves Terri." Others stood in circles reciting the Lord's
Prayer and curious passers-by looked on, drinking coffee.
1:00:58 PM 
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Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases (David Weinberger) [Edu_RSS]
This kind of thing gets me thinking about how the brain puts thoughts
together and at the same time, how different brains use the patterns of
their experiences and beliefs to put things together. Will AI
type things like the above be able to be neutral? If not, how are we
going to the know context of the beliefs and attitudes of the AI?
Where is AI transpareny? We have trouble enough getting context
in the glut of info we are messing with now. But, at least I can hunt
around and get some sense of a person's experience, education, bio,
whatever to decide on the context of their perspective. Or, I can talk
to them in some fashion. How will we do this per the above and
it's offspring? Don't get me wrong. I think this stuff is
great and want to see us pursue it but we seem to (yet again) be
messing with technologies and getting the tactics right before we
consider what it could and might do for us, to us or against us.
One thing I've learned over the years, technologies are rarely neutral
if they are effective. May not be what the folks thinking it up
want to here but, that seems to be the way it is.
12:48:08 PM
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Schiavo feeding tube reported removed.
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - The feeding tube for Terry Schiavo, a
seriously brain-damaged woman, was removed Friday, an attorney involved
in the case told NBC News, despite an extraordinary, last-minute push
by Republicans on Capitol Hill to use the subpoena powers of Congress
to keep the woman alive.
Read remarks from Joe Gandelman, Tom @Corrente, Baldilocks, and Michelle Malkin. [memeorandum]
some of the links on this are, well, amazing to read... I don't know
about the results of the no child left behind program but it is
apparent that our school systems aren't exactly doing their job on
getting people to futher out on issues that staring at their own navels
or repeating the dogma they were taught at 5 years
old. It takes more than Sunday school rethoric to
discuss these particular issue but I don't see a whole lot of that
coming forth.
12:10:55 PM
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What happens to staff if they don't do their recordkeeping?.
We've been doing a bit more work in the area of records management
recently, and I've been chatting to a fair few people about approaches.
Our interest is not on the back-end aspects (retention, disposal, etc)
but on the adoption... [Column Two]
Summary - what gets measured, moves. If we aren't measuring
whether people are doing the records management thing, it isn't
important to bother with. Empty threathening statements with
neutral or nonexistent measurement, gets, hmm, no results. Now that is
rocket science level thinking from corporate amerika, huh?
10:28:31 AM
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Character traits.
Shawn Callahan has posted a list of character traits, which are very
useful when constructing archetypes or personas. To quote: When
extracting archetypes from a body of narrative, I have found it useful
to give the workshop participants a large... [Column Two]
Great poster. This page also shows a link to a white paper about
connecting people and content. concise description of how blogs
can be used to increase informal communication with sales and technical
people. Makes so much sense, amazin' that more of us don't
do it huh??? :-)
10:25:17 AM
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2005
Judy Smith.
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4/22/2005; 5:17:59 PM.
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