stand alone AppleTV?

June 11, 2007 – 6:38 pm

New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners?
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David Halberstam On Competition

May 2, 2007 – 12:02 pm

Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with. As a newspaper man who started at the smallest newspaper in Mississippi and worked his way up to the New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the Vietnam War, he [...]

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Pranks International

April 9, 2007 – 11:15 pm

Matt tells us the office pranks he masterminded a couple weeks ago got reported in Saturday’s Daily Mirror (scan above):
JOKER Matt Batchelder had the last laugh after he was left out of an office conference trip.
Alone at his desk for a week, the snubbed computer geek dreamed up a series of pranks to greet his [...]

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Warren (and Dog Sledding) On TV Tonight

January 31, 2006 – 12:53 pm

The folks at WMUR’s Chronicle are featuring my friends Joe and Wendy and their dog sledding tonight. The photos above are of Justin in a race a few years ago (video of the finish also online). Warren hasn’t been so proud since we put the rocket up.
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The Bathroom Reader

December 10, 2005 – 11:44 am

Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. It’s based on a report by the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. For five years running now, the center has tracked internet use (and non-use) in a 2,000 household representative sample [...]

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FrontRow For Everybody

December 8, 2005 – 9:22 pm

Via an IM from Ryan Eby: a pointer to Andrew Escobar’s directions on how to install Apple’s Front Row.
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Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging

October 25, 2005 – 11:30 am

Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today. This may become a series…[[pageindex]]
More: my presentation slides and the Daily Show video.
Introduction
Public awareness of blogs seems to begin during the years of campaigning leading up to the 2004 election, but many people credit bloggers for [...]

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James Torio’s Blogging Thesis

October 13, 2005 – 12:31 pm

James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis.
I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media [...]

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What Bloggers Need To Know About Cahill v. Doe

October 12, 2005 – 12:04 pm

Wendy Seltzer alerts us to the Delaware Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Cahill v. Doe, a case that tested our rights to anonymity online, as well as the standard for judging defamation.
As it turns out, the court decided against the plaintiff, a city councilman, and protected the identity of “Proud Citizen,” who the councilman [...]

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If I Close My Eyes, Does It Go Away?
Can Bush Censor His Shame Away?

September 9, 2005 – 2:50 am

Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship:
“It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression.
Brian Williams’ MSNBC Nightly News Blog:
While we were attempting [...]

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Fox and Conservative Pals Out Spreading More Slander and Libel

July 13, 2004 – 10:24 am

Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it.
Here’s my theory, and it’s supported by stories in Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media and Al Franken’s Lies: conservative groups [...]

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WNYC’s On the Media Does Sex Show.

December 3, 2002 – 11:52 am

On the Media’s recent show on November 29th and a piece in All Things Considered explored the relationship between technology and pornography. This is familiar territory for some — Wired magazine reports on it regularly…
Click the links above and listen for yourself.
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