Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Booty Call – The publishers are terrified of losing control and trying something they don’t understand. And, like other portions of Big Media, they’re thus on the road to make the same mistakes that are likely to render them increasingly irrelevant (and hated).
- With the iPad, Apple just jumped the shark – If anyone can make the tablet market work, it seems it will be Apple. I remain uncommitted as to whether it’s going to be a smashing success or failure — I can’t even figure out if I want one for myself (or, rather, why I would) … but, then, I don’t assume my own computing needs are those of anyone else.
- Top DADT Advocate Says Abu Ghraib Abuses Happened Because Women Are Allowed In The Military – Well, for heaven sakes, don’t let little things like REALITY get in the way of your rhetoric!
- In the Future We’ll All Have Online Reputation Scores – Doyce beat me to the comparison to Cory Doctorow’s “whuffie” – the issues to face are how to ensure that reputation cannot be gamed (positively or negatively), and how to handle the multiple axes of reputation (e.g., reflecting I’m an acknowledge authority on widgetology, but I’m a crappy vendor on at an auction site).
- In the Future We’ll All Have Online Reputation Scores: Hutch Carpenter
- Texas BOE Bans Children’s Book Author [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]: Ed Brayton none@example.com
- Google Voice Does End Run Around Apple, Launches New Web App – Nicely done.
- SoCal school district bans the dictionary – I remember the month I went through and flagged all the “dirty” (i.e., sexy) words in our home dictionary. My mom’s reaction when she discovered this: “Well, did you learn something?”
- After 3 Months, Only 35 Paying Customers For Newspaper’s Web Site: Meg Marco
- Rahm Emanuel: Liberals are “F–king Retarded”: Jane Hamsher
- The Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre, as seen from… Pizza Hut: Minnesotastan
- Not From The Onion – There are probably definitions for all sorts of other things the parent in question finds morally reprehensible, too. Like, say, “murder.” Or “slavery.” Or (snicker) “censorship.” But let it be an academic definition about something SEXUAL and all of a sudden you’d think the sky was falling. Disgusting.
- Gridiron time – Football (American) is notorious for standing-around vs play-action anyway (as bad as baseball). Add in commercials …
- Doug Bruce Pretends Not to Know What You’re Talking About – Wow. Bruce is smart enough to realize his name is poison in Colorado political circles? Amazing!
- Mask Fail – GAH!
- Waterboarding Under the Bridge? – And what people will remember — and other people will suffer for — is the lie initially told.
- Fox News executive attacks rival networks for focusing too much on Haiti and ignoring ‘big stories in America.’ – Yeah … big stories like, “Hey, look, the guy we urged you to vote for is winning!” Yeesh.
- Beck condemns O’Keefe’s operation: ‘If they were doing that — that’s Watergate. Insanely stupid and illegal.’: Alex Seitz-Wald
- Lobbyists For Foreign Corporations Begin Fight To Ensure Foreign Money Can Influence American Elections – Remember! It was a victory for the Little Guy!
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