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Net coverage takes conventional approach

… shadow convention (www.shadowconventions.com) is addressing some issues the Republican and Democratic establishments find too difficult to handle.

The shadow convention is tackling the growing scandal of campaign finance, where “one dollar, one vote” has replaced ” one person, one vote” in every way that counts. It’s examining the increasingly obvious damage that the foolish, failed drug war has inflicted on this nation.

If we the people don’t hold the parties, and government, to remorm they will not do it themselves. If we the people don’t hold the news outlets to really cover the election process why should we expect the “new media” news to be any better. We the people get what required which has become meaningless least common drivel. We the people are even letting the son of a president, ive league colleget, owner of a baseball team and oile tycone get away with being a “common man” get real.

How does that old computer saying go, “garbage in garbage out”?

the monkeyfist collective Five Greatest Americans “Who’s on your list?”
Not sure of my top 5 but here is the list that first came to my mind, in no paticular order:

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Ex President Jimmy Carter
• Fr. Walt Bado
• Linda Dunlevy

“Who’s on your list?”

Who owns what parts of your webpage? Covering such issues as
deep linking, scraping, annotation, search engines, web catalogues, etc.

NewsBlogger ::: All the news that’s fit to blog

IBM offers free tool for writing Linux software

A team of IBM summer interns has created a free, new tool that eases the task of writing Linux-based software.

But where are the Linux downloads?

The Future Depends on What We Do Now brings up good points but no solutions.

Mozilla.org puts browser to work as word processor

A new group dubbed MozOffice wants to accelerate the convergence between PC-based software applications and the Web with a blueprint for a new browser that would incorporate functions such as word processing.

Not sure if this a good thing or not. Just hope that it doesn’t delay a Mozilla 1.0 release.
Eventully location of www.MozOffice.org

DaveNet: Software and the First Amendment

There is no difference between code and writing. I think I can prove it. Manila, the content management system that I use, supports macros. When you put text in curly braces, as the page is rendered, the macro is evaluated. Such macros can be embedded in protected speech, ie prose. What goes inside the curly braces is program logic. So if I want First Amendment protection for my code all I have to do is embed it in a Web page.

Source code should be a protected form of speach, as in free speach protection. Nuf said.

“WIRM is a Perl-based application server that provides a high-level programming environment for developing web information systems. The WIRM consists of an object-relational database and a suite of Perl interfaces for visualizing, integrating and analyzing heterogeneous multimedia data. WIRM provides facilities for creating context-sensitive views over a multimedia database, allowing developers to rapidly build dynamic web sites that adapt their content and presentation to multiple classes of end-users.”