Living in a Political World

Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Matrix Expands to Wisconsin. The Matrix -- an interstate antiterrorism database that tracks billions of records on ordinary Americans -- expands into another state. While privacy advocates have some success in curtailing its expansion, cops can't resist the powerful tool. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
9:34:02 AM

I'VE SAID THAT LOCAL-BLOGGING has a big future. Here's a guy who's doing it now, with extensive coverage of a school board election, including MP3 audio. (Via Jeff Jarvis.)... [Instapundit.com]
9:31:51 AM

Music swappers face home invasion. The homes of online pop-swappers could be raided if a new European directive gets voted into law. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
9:29:33 AM

UK go-ahead for GM maize crop. The UK government approves the commercial growing of one variety of genetically-modified maize crop. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
9:28:12 AM

"Big Media" Meets the "Bloggers". Title links to a 26-page deconstruction of the Trent Lott affair put together by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Aside from the irony of stamping "Do Not Copy" across all the pages of a freely downloadable document on the Internet, this is a very interesting look at the role that Weblogs and bloggers played in the demise of the senator. If I could copy any snippets out of this freely downloadable document, I'd paste some of the more salient conclusions drawn about the blogs vs. journalism debate. But I can't. Suffice to say the line is blurry at best. [Weblogg-ed News]
9:26:42 AM

Executive backs UK GM crop move. The Scottish Executive is supporting the Westminster government on the growing of GM maize in the UK. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
9:23:50 AM