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Freitag, 11. März 2005 |
Der entschleierte Schleier des Titan
Nachdem der Cassini-Orbiter den Saturnmond Titan intensiv unter die Lupe genommen hat, präsentiert das Team des Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) eine erste Zwischenbilanz, aus der hervorgeht, dass Titan einst ein höchst dynamischer Himmelskörper war [gefunden bei Telepolis News (26.11.2004) ...] 11:34:06 PM
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Blog - Der Begriff bürgert sich ein - seit 1999
Peter Merholz erinnert sich 11:26:52 PM trackback []
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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 this 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. [gefunden bei Workbench ...]
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A summary of the Google Toolbar controversy...
A summary of the Google Toolbar controversy from an article on Kuro5hin:While Winer et al. have been attacking AutoLink, a number of people have been calmly debunking their arguments, often in amusing ways.
Can you guess which side the author's on? [gefunden bei Workbench ...]
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Reaction to Griffin Nomination
- Science Committee Democrats Welcome NASA Administrator Nominee- Boehlert, Calvert Praise Nomination of Mike Griffin as NASA Administrator
- Space Foundation comments on nomination of Mike Griffin To be NASA administrator
- Griffin Good for Space Exploration, Says Planetary Society
- The Right Person at the Right Time - NSS applauds choice of Dr. Michael Griffin for NASA Administrator
- Rep. Weldon Statement on President Bush's Nomination of Michael Griffin for NASA Administrator
- Sen. Hutchison statement on NASA Administrator nomine
- Rep. Calvert Applaudes Nomination of Griffin as New NASA Administrator [gefunden bei NASA Watch ...] 11:19:16 PM
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Podcasting by public broadcasters
Mike Janssen, the Associate Editor of the Current Newspaper, passes on this excellent list of broadcasters who podcast: | American Public Media: Future Tense | American Public Media: Weekend America | BBC: Fighting Talk | BBC: In Our Time ... [gefunden bei CyberJournalist.net ...] 11:10:48 PM trackback []
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Social networks: All around the Net, but underused by news sites
By Daithí Ó hAnluain: Social networks continue to blossom online by appealing to people's deepest needs for connection. What promise do these technologies offer for news sites? [gefunden bei Online Journalism Review ...] 11:02:31 PM trackback []
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Entschuldigungen und Gegendarstellungen ...
... amerikanischer Zeitungen in einem Weblog (Watchblog):
Regret The Error
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MdB Otto startet Weblog
Hurrah, endlich mal wieder eine kleine Innovation: Das Mitglied des Bundestags Hans-Joachim Otto (FDP) hat seit Anfang Februar einen eigenen ... [gefunden bei Metablocker ...] 10:48:02 PM trackback []
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Blogging is good for your career
Cory Doctorow: The perfect antidote to those fired-for-blogging posts: Tim Bray explains why blogging is good for your career:
1. You have to get noticed to get promoted.Link [gefunden bei Boing Boing ...] 10:39:48 PM
2. You have to get noticed to get hired.
3. It really impresses people when you say "Oh, I've written about that, just google for XXX and I'm on the top page" or "Oh, just google my name."
4. No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice.
5. Bloggers are better-informed than non-bloggers. Knowing more is a career advantage.
6. Knowing more also means you're more likely to hear about interesting jobs coming open.
7. Networking is good for your career. Blogging is a good way to meet people.
8. If you're an engineer, blogging puts you in intimate contact with a worse-is-better 80/20 success story. Understanding this mode of technology adoption can only help you.
9. If you're in marketing, you'll need to understand how its rules are changing as a result of the current whirlwind, which nobody does, but bloggers are at least somewhat less baffled.
10. It's a lot harder to fire someone who has a public voice, because it will be noticed.
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Euro software patents demystified
Cory Doctorow: The on-again/off-again European fight over software patents is confusing as hell -- what is the procedure here? What does the directive say? Why are software patents dangerous? This O'Reilly Network article brilliantly demystifies the process.
For example, article 4a of the Council document states that "A computer program as such cannot constitute a patentable invention. Accordingly, inventions involving computer programmes, whether expressed as source code, as object code or in any other form, which implement business, mathematical or other methods and do not produce any technical effects beyond the normal physical interactions between a program and the computer, network, or other programmable apparatus in which it is run shall not be patentable."However, article 2a of their document defines the term "computer-implemented invention," which the document uses later to describe inventions that are patentable. It states that "'computer-implemented invention' means any invention the performance of which involves the use of a computer, computer network or other programmable apparatus, the invention having one or more features which are realised wholly or partly by means of a computer program or computer programs."
Confused? You should be. Some recitals in the proposal are phrased in such a way that they seem to indicate restrictions in patentability, while many of the legally binding provisions in the articles confirm the 30,000 software patents already approved by the European Patent Office and leave the door wide open for further patenting of software. The Parliament text of 2003 made the distinction close to watertight.
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IBM Using iPod to boot Linux on PCs
Applejack writes "Looks like iPod fever has caught on to Big Blue. IBM has a yet unreleased iPod-based software for rescue, restore, and recovery of failed Windows PCs. I read this description of the software on Amit Singh's blog, whose group at IBM apparently created this stuff. If I understand this correctly (and I think I do), the iPod contains IBM's rescue software along with Linux. A crashed PC boots into Linux from the iPod, after which you get all kinds of rescue & restore functionality ... web browsing and all, even if the PC's drive is totally hosed. All this while the iPod keeps working normally as a music player as it would. The blog has pointers to further information, including a Windows Media demo of the thing. " Should be noted this is not iPod specific; USB devices will do. [gefunden bei Slashdot ...] 10:35:02 PM trackback []
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Its Mike Griffin
Mike Griffin will be named as the next NASA Administrator on Monday.White House Statement on the Nomination of Michael Griffin to be NASA Administrator
NASA personnel will be briefed by Fred Gregory at 3:30 PM EST this afternoon.
Editor's personal note:In 1993, during the redesign of Space Station Freedom, many of us felt that the books had been cooked by NASA HQ such that the SS Freedom configuration (Option B) was deliberately handicapped and that the other two options A (MSFC) and C (JSC) were given an unfair advantage. Hardly an apples to apples review. Mike Griffin, who led the Option B effort (headquartered at LaRC) wrote a letter for the record at one point, standing squarely on principle and pointing out the discrepancies and inequities in that review process. That letter received wide circulation - and Mike's NASA career suffered as a result. He was promoted to some pointless job by Dan Goldin and eventually left the agency. I can say from personal experience, that Mike Griffin has demonstrated personal integrity - and did so in a public way that was rather career adverse. I expect he will bring that same integrity to the job of NASA Administrator. As such, yes, at this point, I am biased in this regard. [gefunden bei NASA Watch ...]
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report # 3813
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report # 3812
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report # 3811
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Russland plant riesige neue Rakete
Russland plant den Bau eines neuen Raketensystems mit dem bis zu 110 Tonnen Nutzlast transportiert werden können.
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Organisation mit Tools für den Mac - MacDevCenter.com
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Weblog-Kolumne in der Frankfurter Rundschau
Jede Woche Mittwochs wird berichtet, welche Themen gerade besonders diskutiert werden in der Blogosphäre - also der Gesamtheit aller Weblogs. 6:30:22 PM trackback []
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