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 Thursday, February 27, 2003
started 2/27/2003; 1:27:02 AM - last post 2/27/2003; 3:59:02 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, February 27, 2003 
2/27/2003; 5:27:02 AM (reads: 12381, responses: 6)
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Evhead of the class 
Behind, the Times
| | Okay, hey, my mustache is gray. I'll give ya that. And yeah, the sidewalls are pretty well pigment-free at this point. But the top is still mostly brown and mostly there. True, I've got a balding spot, but it's in the back, and not nearly as big as Kevin Spacey's. |
| | I remember feeding the writer some really righteous quotable deep-thinky lines that I was sure put The Whole Thing in perspective and would advance BigJo Understanding of Blogging As It Really Is or something like that. Instead, I got busted, again, for hogging the john. |
| | Tony was much more gracious: |
| | for the record, i was not suprised by how "down-to-earth" Doc Searls was, as i was quoted to say. i had met him once before and he was down-to-earth then, so i didnt expect anything different than what he is: your typical santa barbaran excellent soul living the good life that he deserves. |
| | What the fuck is "the record," anyway? I think it's broken. |
I always wanted to have a neighbor just like Fred
| | Nobody was ever nicer to kids than Mr. Fred Rogers. He helped raise two of our kids, and still says nice things to our youngest, now six. |
| | There wasn't a cynical, nasty or unkind bone in Mr. Rogers' body, which has now departed, leaving a body of work that will continue to be one of the best things on TV, literally, ever. |
Blog du Jour
| | The eponymous LukeFord, discovered via Ken Layne. Meanwhile, Ken, Matt Welch and others around the LA Examiner, are busy pioneering the territory where little-j and big-J journalism overlap. And having way too much fun. |
Link & learn
| | In Disaster: Time to Shut Off user Registration? Steve Outing in Poynter notes that the Providence Journal, which gave comprehensive local coverage to the Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed nearly 100 people last week, was denied the national recognition that would have come in the the form of inbound links, because so much of the paper's editorial matter hides behind a linkwall that requires visitor registration. Here's more: |
| | Sheila Lennon, who writes the Subterranean Homepage News weblog for ProJo.com, notes that her blog has been outside of the site's registration all along. That's primarily so that the rest of the "blogosphere" can easily link to her stuff. With the nightclub story, the site did a fire weblog that was behind the registration wall over the weekend, but was removed from it on Monday. ProJo.com plans to have future breaking-news weblogs out from the registration wall. Lennon laments: "It has been troubling to see links going to national news outlets when the in-depth coverage is here." That's the down side to news site user registration. |
| | Be curious to see what happens after this story seeps though the BigJosphere. |
Site hanged for piracy, left swinging from yardarm
| | Alan Karl points to this Washington Post story, about how the U.S. Department of Justice has siezed a Web site, The Iso News (isonews.com), from David M. Rocci, aka Krazy8, of Blacksburg, Va, as part of a plea agreement concererning Mr. Rocci's admitted "conspiracy to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by trafficking in devices known as modification, or 'mod,' chips" that would allow his customers to circumvent the copyright protections built into game systems such as Playstation2 and XBox." |
| | The site itself now swings like the corpse of a pirate from the yardarm of Capt. Ashcroft's ship: All that remains of The Iso News is its logo, which now serves as the opening phrase in a bold headline that reads "...is now the property of the United States government," flanked by the official seals of the Justice Department and the Customs Service. |
| | The site carries a warning to others who doubt the Feds' "dedication to enforcing the intellectual property laws of this nation online": |
| | Piracy is the unauthorized, willful reproduction or distribution of copyrighted material, such as software, movies, music, and games. People who distribute pirated works over the Internet via IRC, FTP sites, web sites, or file-sharing networks, and people who download or reproduce pirated works are risking criminal prosecution. Piracy is a crime even when the works are distributed over the Internet for free or where the conduct does not involve monetary gain, such as the trading of pirated products for other pirated products. |
| | The Department of Justice and federal law enforcement will continue to investigate and prosecute individuals and groups that violate the federal criminal copyright laws at home and abroad. For more information on these and other federal anti-piracy investigations, visit www.cybercrime.gov . |
| | The Cybercrime site lays out the Feds' offensive strategy against "piracy" and other offenses through investigative and prosecutorial efforts such as Operation Buccaneer which is concerned with "illegal 'warez' organizations and Internet piracy." Although Mr. Rocci is not the operations' list of defendants, it would appear from the nature of his admitted crime that he's one of them. |
| | The whole site makes interesting reading. Check it out. |
Nuevo Boutin Villa
After effects
| | It was in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, that I hoped to see Jah Shaka when I was there last Fall on the most recent Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise. But Jah told me it was too soon. He said I should await word from Marc, who told me about Jah's work in the first place. |
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Bernie Dunham - Linux Lunacy 2003
2/27/2003; 2:22:16 PM (reads: 497, responses: 0)
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It would be great to cruise back to Alaska on the Holland America "Amsterdam" for Linux Lunacy 2003. Listening to jazz saxaphone all afternoon while drinking Alaskan beer at the Red Onion Saloon was an oasis of tourist fun. Having attended a previous Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise, as well as Perl Whirl, MAC Mania, and .NET Nirvana, these cruises just keep getting better. Part of the reason is that there is a core group of geeks now on most cruises, so there is a circle of friends that I only see on a Geek Cruise. The seminars are first class, featuring industry leaders and important authors, as well as the usual suspects in the digital Illuminati. There is a very good chance that I never would have met Doc Searls, Glenn Fleishman, Richard Stahlman, Eric Raymond, Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Ben Long, Simon Phipps, Q (John DeLancy hates to be called Q), Jon Mad Dog Hall, and of course Neil Bauman, if it were not for Geek Cruises. Because of geek Cruises I also have the coolest job assignment, providing WIFI for seminars on cruise ships, and it was on Linux Lunacy that the entire project was launched two years ago. We have the 802.11B fine tuned now just in time for the release of Wireless G.
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lou josephs - Site Registration
2/27/2003; 3:58:03 PM (reads: 456, responses: 0)
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1. I block the pop ups with Mozilla anyways.
2. I tell them I was born in 1900, end of story. You want demos you get my demos.
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Ryan Irelan - Fred Rogers
2/27/2003; 6:01:15 PM (reads: 488, responses: 1)
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lou josephs - ISS crew gets downsized
2/27/2003; 6:32:00 PM (reads: 457, responses: 0)
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With the stores out of bottled water, tp and the other vital with and 6 to 8 inch snow storm on the way later today, NASA has told Congress that it's going to down size ISS to two crew instead of three sometime this spring. The investigation review board did a nice presentation video for Congress, they told the House that they will have a definte cause of Columbias break up shortly.
And that's the latest from your nations crapitol.
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lou josephs - More snow for DC
2/27/2003; 7:59:02 PM (reads: 504, responses: 0)
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10-11 inches by Friday morning. Look for the Federal Gov't to shut.
Current base of packed powder is 2 feet. Feel like I am in Vermont.
Can't wait for mud season.
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Bernie Dunham - Re: Fred Rogers
2/28/2003; 12:10:26 AM (reads: 591, responses: 0)
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It's a sad day in the neighborhood. Someone unique and rare in the global village has passed away.
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