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 Monday, April 16, 2007
started 4/16/2007; 6:52:01 AM - last post 4/17/2007; 9:12:29 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, April 16, 2007 
4/16/2007; 10:52:01 AM (reads: 5724, responses: 2)
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Special chilling effects 
| | But, to the US War Leaders, Don Imus represented the most serious threat, to date, of the growing assault against them by America's media personalities threatening to expose the truths behind the events of September 11, 2001 and the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars; and to such an extent that another American media personality, Rosie O'Donnell, has expressed concern that US Military Leaders could actually imprison Mr. Imus. |
| | From our past research of the tactics used against those threatening America's War Leaders, the likelihood of imprisonment for Don Imus would only occur should he persist in his threats to undermine their authority, and which appears, at this time, unlikely after the public disgrace he has had to endure. |
| | Thanks to Mike Taht for the heads-up. |
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A guantlet for hardware OEMs
| | A few weeks ago I was talking with folks who worked inside one of the large hardware OEMs. Somewhere in there they told me about their "Linux strategy". I told them they needed a "Linux strategy" about as much as a construction company needs a "lumber strategy". |
| | If you're going to have a Linux strategy, make that strategy about getting past an OS-bound view of the world. Because the big difference between Linux and Windows is that you can build anything you want with Linux. With Windows you can only build what Microsoft lets you build. |
| | And a challenge for the Linux community too: Let's move beyond Linux advocacy as a cause in itself. We're pretty much done with that. The cause that matters now is Make what you want, any way you want to make it. |
| | Of course, VRM will help too. Because, if you want to follow customers, they have to be free. |
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Mike Taht - Re: Monday, April 16, 2007
4/17/2007; 8:30:35 PM (reads: 781, responses: 1)
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Jeeze, Doc...
For once I'm not happy with being credited for something.
I sent you the steer to the pravda piece on Imus - with a smiley face - and referencing the national enquirer - as meta-example of the Big Lie - as a possible example of a weapon of mass distraction being deployed on an easy target.
No matter what the truth is, some percentage of people are pre-disposed to believe Pravda in this matter, even if the article is surrounded by links to strange, national enquire'ish things. It's my hope that anyone with half a memory can still remember when Pravda was the USSR's official propaganda arm, but that's just a hope.
It's admittedly quite odd some of the groups who defend Imus's remarks.
I note that every time there is a giant brouhaha in the mass media over something like this I worry mostly about what we are being distracted from, and I go looking for counter-memes - subcurrents in the war - scary bills in congress - or ongoing investigations of other popular figures that were big in the news until this week - think of all the reporters coming off the Anna-Nicole beat that might actually have found something more interesting to dig into than Inmus....
Now, remembering to do this, to question everything, is kind of the antithesis of today's googled world, when it's easy to find exactly what you are looking for, all the time, even if it isn't true.
I'd love to have a search engine that also showed me what I wasn't looking for, when I least expected it, by selectively using antonyms in key phrases or via other means. That sort of search result would keep our minds nimble and (more often) outraged - and best of all - keep people of wildly disparate views talking to, rather than killing, each other.
I guess I'm off to click on wikipedia's random button again.....
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John Quimby - Re: Monday, April 16, 2007
4/18/2007; 1:12:29 AM (reads: 821, responses: 0)
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Mike,
Sounds like you could be describing a phase effect where positives and negatives add up to zero.
In any case I like your idea for a search engine that finds what you're not looking for...kind of like harnessing anti matter, or the improbability drive from Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
Regards
JQ
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