Archive for March, 2006
Monday, March 13th, 2006
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, TV health news segments are under-informative and often factually inaccurate.
As if this is shocking. TV news is consistently among the worst sources of information available in the US.
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
If you don't know about Technorati, it's a good way to follow the blogosphere. As one of several really simple ways to "claim" your new blog there, you can offer a link like this asking them to update your Technorati Profile.
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
The directions that censorship takes in China sometimes baffle me. Here's one of several news stories about how China has banned movies that mix animation and live actors. This article reports that China "has said it might ban all foreign cartoons from prime-time television once the quantity and quality of ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
An Ohio University graduate student was recently charged with a misdemeanor for inducing panic when the Columbus Division of Fire's bomb squad shut down several buildings and destroyed his bicycle. The cause for concern was a sticker on the bike featuring the name of a Florida punk band, "This Bike ...
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
Today, another good example supporting last night's thesis: the Times has respectable tech and tech law coverage, as long as you don't mind being a bit behind the curve and missing some of the nuance. Their stuff is uninspiring, and if you're reading it there for the first time, you'd ...
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
I've long been thinking about--and linking to--Times coverage of technology and tech law; I now share that thought.
The Times is a respectable source for technology and tech law news--they don't give the blow-by-blow details of every story, and they're not always the fastest, but they cover almost all the truly ...
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Here's a shock: the big 4 music labels are under investigation by the DoJ for price fixing.
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Scripps Howard tells the story of a very ordinary married couple who paid off a large chunk of their credit card bill and thereby attracted the attention of Homeland Security.
Pay your bills, get harassed by secretive federal agency. That's awesome. In fact, that's exactly what the Founding Fathers had in ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Today, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a bill mandating network neutrality today. Without it, companies like Verizon and Comcast will begin to create a tiered, even walled internet, where content providers that can pay for the delivery of their bits will get speedier access (or any access) to ISPs' customers.
In ...
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