[ caught In between ] b.s.: 06/01/2005 - 07/01/2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005
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  1. {06302005}
  2. {11:00:57 AM}
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  1. GarageBand: Recording Your Podcast
    
    (Apple.com)
  2. How-to publish your podcast to iTunes.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
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  1. {06292005}
  2. {01:47:21 AM}
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  1. No, I'm not keeping up with your blog.
    
    (Joho the Blog)
  2. ClueTrain guy: "I don't want to lie any more. I don't want to feel guilty any more. So let me tell you flat out: There are too many blogs I like and too many people I like to making 'keeping up' a reasonable expectation, any more than you should expect me to keep up with Pokemon characters or I should expect you to keep up with Bollywood movies. I'm not going to feel guilty any longer about my failure."
    
    Everyone experiences information overload, but only some are self-important enough to share the experience. There are also too many podcasts, books, movies, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and talk shows to reasonably keep up with all of the things you're interested in, and that's just for starters. What about actually spending real time with real people? Shouldn't everyone apologize, for contributing to this Tower of Babble(sic), or are only so-called "A-List" bloggers/writers, or people with the bully pulpit of Big Media behind them allowed to complain about too much information? I thought the whole idea behind blogging was that Everyman could have a Voice. Now, according to one of the so-called "blogosphere's" biggest hypesters, there's too many voices? Get a cluetrain.
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Sunday, June 26, 2005
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  1. {06262005}
  2. {05:52:49 PM}
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  1. Oprah's Not Going to Let Hermes Wiggle Out of its Blatant Racism
    
    (BlackAmericaWeb.com)
  2. Indeed, hell hath no fury like a billionaire black woman with an internationally popular TV show scorned.
    
    Well, on the other hand, it was a French store, and you know how they are. But I love the part about the store flunkies saying, "We're having trouble with 'North Africans.'" Are those code words? Maybe Oprah should start patronizing Black -- maybe even North African -- fashion designers who probably could use her business and media stature to help their business and brand recognition grow.
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Sunday, June 19, 2005
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  1. {06192005}
  2. {08:27:06 PM}
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  1. SAMBO'S BACK (IN JAPAN)
    
    (Poplicks.com blog)
  2. "But Mori [a psychologist] said most Japanese were surprised to learn that "Little Black Sambo" had racist overtones. "It never occurred to us," he said. "It was just a story." Intrigued by the controversy, Mori conducted academic experiments involving readers that he said showed the Japanese take nothing racist away from reading "Little Black Sambo."
    
    And the bruthas [those who be psychologists, ya dig] find no racist overtones in the words "Hiroshima" or "Nagasaki." There's a common denominator in there, somewhere, between slavery and nuclear annihilation, but your mileage may vary, depending on your politics and phenotype.
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  1. {06192005}
  2. {05:10:45 PM}
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  1. Coming soon: Googling the truth
    
    (Guardian Unlimited)
  2. Google is for the first time planning to rank news stories according to their accuracy and reliability as well as their topicality (and they're filing a patent on it.) OK, now: paging George Orwell.
    
    b/w: HuffPo
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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  1. {06152005}
  2. {01:18:09 PM}
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  1. Legal Guide for Bloggers
    
    (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  2. FAQs designed to help you understand your rights. To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice.
    
    b/w: Google Blogoscoped
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Sunday, June 12, 2005
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  1. {06122005}
  2. {11:01:51 AM}
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  1. The Downing Street Memo
  2. Full text.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
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  1. {06082005}
  2. {09:52:23 AM}
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  1. American Express Begins Issuing Contactless Payment Cards
    
    (ContactLess News blog)
  2. ExpressPay is a new payment feature that consists of a secure computer chip powered by RFID. ExpressPay transactions are 63 percent faster than using cash. In addition, the Company announced 7-Eleven, Inc. as the latest national merchant partner to accept ExpressPay.
    
    We're getting closer to the day where you can walk into a store, pick up a bunch of items, walk out the door, and automatically have your account charged. Isn't there something in the Bible about "only those with the 'mark of the beast' being able to buy and sell?" Convenient or creepy? Jury's still out.
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Saturday, June 04, 2005
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  1. {06042005}
  2. {01:16:28 PM}
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  1. WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
  2. [A] deeply personal journey into the everyday lives of families struggling to fight goliath.
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  2. movies and films
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Thursday, June 02, 2005
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  1. {06032005}
  2. {06:58:01 AM}
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  1. Porn sites to get their own Internet domain
    
    (Reuters.com)
  2. It's a nice little red-light district for the pornographers, but...
    
    And what a big, juicy but(t) that is.
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