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Freitag, 28. Januar 2005 |
My collection of scripts
Steve Kirks: "I'm a UserTalk script junkie. I write some scripts for fun, but mostly I write for use in future Radio releases. I've created a page with a list of scripts, what they do and a link to an installer that will let you use them all. I'll update this stuff as I go and let you know if/when it makes it into the final Radio install for some reason." [gefunden bei Radio: The Missing Manual ...] 11:53:43 PM
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Andy Hertzfeld: Macintosh Folklore
Join Andy Hertzfeld for a memorable keynote talk on Macintosh folklore from someone who was there at the very beginning. Not only will you learn how the Mac came to be, but you'll also gain a clearer understanding of the values that underly the platform, which will help clarify the decisions that Apple makes today. [IT Conversations audio from the Mac OS X Conference] [mehr über die Konferenz bei IT Conversations ...] 4:36:00 PM trackback []
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Musikindustrie mahnt heise online wegen Bericht über Kopiersoftware ab
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ecto - 2.2.1
next generation blogging client [gefunden bei VersionTracker: Mac OS X ...] 11:32:48 AM trackback []
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Skype - 0.15.0.4
p2p client for conference calls, telephony: call regular phones [gefunden bei VersionTracker: Mac OS X ...] 11:32:16 AM trackback []
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Blogging for fun and (not) profit
Jay Rosen has posted a walloping trilogy of responses and reactions to the recent Bloggers, Journalism and Credibility conference at Harvard. (One, Two, Three.)It's clear that a lot of editors and news execs got their minds opened a little wider, and some number of bloggers got to see that the monolith of the so-called MSM is made up of real, dedicated people. There's no war here, except when an occasional provocateur decides to stir things up (inaccurately, says Rosen).
As my five-year-old son Matthew likes to say: "Whatever."
But there is still, I think, a gulf in understanding between journalistic professionals and blogging amateurs. Professionals have been conditioned for life into thinking that "reach" equals value and that news and information that is not commercial is news and information that is not significant. Amateurs typically don't care as long as they get to do what they love. (Some amateurs do care, but they are not true amateurs -- they are simply aspiring professionals, pros who just haven't yet been hired.) So pros fail to understand the significance of the vast reaches of the blogosphere that do not compete with pro journalism and don't wish to. These multitudes may have tiny followings; they may desire slightly larger followings -- who doesn't want to be heard? -- but they don't dream of stardom or of quitting their day jobs. (Not, at least, in order to blog.)
When a New York Times Magazine writer declared last fall that "nobody reads" most blogs, he casually flattened the space between "mass or niche market" and "nobody." This formulation shoves everything that falls below the threshold of media significance into the null void.
Pros -- stuck on the understandable but by now, one hopes, discredited idea that blogging aims to replace journalism as we know it -- often can't kick the habit of valuing blogging purely as a business proposition. Some quotes from Rosen's roundup illustrate this.
Here's Jim Kennedy, vice president and director of strategic planning for The Associated Press: "The real 'ecosystem' of news -- with reporters, editors, bloggers and wikipedians -- won't truly flourish until we figure out how to support it. Can we provide services to each other, form business partnerships, generate mutual traffic benefits?"
(But the ecosystem is flourishing now -- just have a look!)
Here's Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard: "...I think that the brand and distribution power of the mainstream media will be even more important in an increasingly crowded blogosphere."
(Yes, if your aim is to corral eyeballs. But there are other standards.)
Here's Faye M. Anderson, , former national correspondent for PoliticallyBlack.com, former vice chairman of the Republican National Committee's New Majority Council: "Bloggers' credibility will be established by the market. If readers find us credible, they will come. If not, we'll be left with a community of fifteen people."
(Millions of blogs, each with a community of fifteen people? That adds up to a rather large sphere of communication.)
Ethan Zuckerman seemed to get what I'm talking about: "This conference reminded me that both camps [bloggers and Wikipedians] are firmly in the 'amateur' camp -- where 'amateur' doesn't mean 'unprofessional', but 'motivated by love, not by financial remuneration.'"
Blogs are superficially similar enough to newspapers, magazines and commercial Web sites that professional journalists can talk about them while hanging onto their old yardsticks and habits of thinking. To a lot of editors, a blogger just looks like a byline in search of a paycheck. But the Wikipedia's nameless, recompense-less multitudes can't be dismissed as easily.
That's why, I think, the Wikipedia seems to have blown so many pros' minds at the conference. Gee -- maybe this stuff really is, you know, new. And different. And worthy of, if not outright preening, then close attention.
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Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
Cory Doctorow: A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying it's type and it's doing strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker.Armed police, a van, a police cell and national news later the police have gone in SWAT styley and arrested someone having their lunch.
Out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad PR for BT and the Police....
So just goes to show if you use anything other than Firefox or IE and you rely on someone else to interogate access logs or IDS logs you too could be sitting in a paper suit in a cell :(
Link (Thanks, Patrick!)
Update:: The source that told me about this has corroborated it with more detail in private email, but is leery of going public. I hope that more publicly available details appear soon, and will post them when I have them. [gefunden bei Boing Boing ...]
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Use Cases
At A List Apart this week Norm Carr and Tim Meehan ask What's the Problem? We are ten-plus years into developing on the Web and we still don't know what users really want. This article slides into the realm of using Use Cases to help answer this question. While I think use cases are better than nothing and closer to a step in the right direction, I think a site can be much more effectively served by developing User Scenarios and/or User Personas. All three of these things are different products that attempt to lead to the same thing, but it's just been my experience that use cases seem to be the least effective product. [gefunden bei Digital Web Magazine - What's New ...] 10:18:19 AM trackback []
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Insight verreisst Medienweblogs
Autsch! Im Medienmagazin Insight werden unter dem Titel «Senfstau im Cyberspace» Medienweblogs verrissen. Der DIENSTRAUM ist auch darunter. Der... [gefunden bei DIENSTRAUM ...] 10:10:08 AM trackback []
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CNET adds TrackBack
CNET News.com became the first major news site to support TrackBack links in November, and since then, several thousand blog links have been recorded and posted on the site. "For each article produced by CNET News.com, TrackBack automatically creates and... [gefunden bei CyberJournalist.net ...] 10:02:19 AM trackback []
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Online Citizen Journalists Respond to South Asian Disaster
Weblogs berichteten über Tsunami
By Shefali Srinivas: An army of online citizen journalists quickly provided the world with essential first-hand accounts, photos, sounds and video of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated South Asia. [gefunden bei Online Journalism Review ...]
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http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/
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djs, thema weblogs
weblogs? bitte erklären.
onlinejournalismus.de: einmal gebloggt, nie mehr gestoppt
umfangreiches dossier über weblogs - der beste überblick zum thema.
literaturverzeichnis zum thema blogs und journalismus
von thomas mrazek. sehr ausführlich.
diskutieren blogger wirklich so viel?
ja. über blogs, ihre magie und das verhältnis zu klassischen medien diskutieren blogger gern, leidenschaftlich und fast immer bei eingeschaltetem verstand.
die ungleichen brüder - über blogger und journalisten
lesenswerter artikel, gute zusammenfassung der aktuellen debatte. heute.de, von mario sixtus.
alle macht den bloggern | blogs sind kein journalismus
verdi.de lässt stefan krempl und holger wenk das pro und contra debattieren.
blumencron-interview bei onlinejournalismus
über kein stöckchen wurde öfter gesprungen: 99 prozent der blogs sind journalistischer müll, so das fazit des spiegel-online-chefs.
blogbar.de/
ein blog über blogs. und: das blog zum buch "blogs".
das dümmste, das jemals über blogger gesagt wurde?
schwer zu sagen. ein all-time-favorite bleibt der tagesspiegel:
"allzu häufig stecken hinter blogs gescheiterte journalisten, die gern auf die inhaltlichen und ethischen regeln des berufs, nicht aber auf die aufmerksamkeit verzichten möchten."
ich kenne keine weblogs - irgendwelche tipps?
vorweg: hier geht's in den bereich des subjektiven geschmacks. wer noch keine blogs gesehen hat, sollte in alle schattierungen hineinschnuppern. die thematische spannweite ist enorm: medien, krieg, politik, naturkatastrophen, österreicher, skurriles, new economy... everything goes.
einen klick wert sind bspw.:
www.bildblog.de
arrog.antville.org
www.dienstraum.com
rebellmarkt.blogger.de
www.kottke.org
eben.hzcr.cc
www.boingboing.net
crisispictures.org
tsunami-blog.zdf.de
ich will selbst bloggen - wo sind die tools?
kurze antwort: auf der linkliste des weblog-dossiers bei onlinejournalismus.de.
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Total jeck
Manche Promis wissen, was sie ihren Fans schuldig sind. Heidi Klum zum Beispiel. Die hat auf ihrer Website angekündigt, beim Kölner Rosenmontagszug mitzufahren, von ihrem Wagen ordentlich Fruchtgummis zu schleudern und mit einem Handy Fotos zu machen, die direkt auf ihre Website gestellt werden. So weit, so harmlos.Nun ist's aber so, dass daraufhin der Kölner Zugleiter Alexander von Chiari in der Presse mehr oder weniger deutlich Bedenken äußerte, ob eine solche Foto-Aktion überhaupt erlaubt sei, da ja der WDR die alleinigen Rechte für eine Live-Übertragung besäße.
Bild.de berichtete daraufhin am Nachmittag:
"Hinter den Kulissen" des Kölner Karnevals tobe wegen der nicht abgesprochenen Fotoaktion ein "erbitterter Streit". Der "mächtige Westdeutsche Rundfunk" habe inzwischen "ein strenges Fotoverbot" "verhängt".
"In der Sendeanstalt hält man sich mit Äußerungen zurück. Statt dessen polterte der Leiter des Rosenmontagszugs, Alexander von Chiari: 'Falls sich die Dame nicht daran hält, hole ich sie notfalls persönlich aus dem Zug.'"
Puh! Klingt nach mächtig Ärger.
Allerdings schreibt Bild.de nicht dazu, dass von Chiari die Äußerung, mit der er laut dpa in einem "Pressebericht" zitiert wird, längst entschärft hat (bzw. dementiert). Selbst wenn von Chiari sich dementsprechend geäußert haben sollte, wüsste Bild.de vermutlich kaum, ob er dabei tatsächlich "polterte" – fragt man den Zugleiter selbst, erklärt er, seitens "Bild" habe niemand mit ihm gesprochen.
In der Pressestelle des WDR heißt es auf Nachfrage, dass der Sender selbst erst aus der Presse von dem angeblichen Zoff erfahren habe. Ein "Fotoverbot" seitens des WDR gegenüber Klum, so versichert Sprecherin Kristina Bausch, habe es zu keiner Zeit gegeben. Man habe gar nichts gegen Klums Aktion.
Woher Bild.de weiß, dass der WDR sich (bis zu dieser Einigung) "mit Äußerungen zurück" hielt, ist ebenfalls unklar. Die WDR-Pressestelle kann sich bis heute Abend, 18 Uhr, jedenfalls an keinen Anruf aus der Bild.de-Redaktion erinnern.
Die hat ihre Schlagzeile inzwischen übrigens abgeändert. Jetzt steht da:
Der Text darunter ist – abgesehen von einem hinzugefügten Absatz – allerdings noch immer derselbe.
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Titan attracts record visitor and media attention...
Titan attracts record visitor and media attention to ESA [gefunden bei SpaceRef Top Stories ...] 9:12:17 AM trackback []
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