Scott Rosenberg: Nice, clean, surgical lies. Between the deficit forecast, the continuing doubletalk on WMD and the worsening situation on the ground in Iraq, shouldn’t Bush and his team begin to be held accountable for their deceptions?
Letter to Romanesko: Want to be a real sportswriter? Got a photo? Got a hundred bucks? Okay, you’re in. Foxsports.com, which recently canned its entire writing staff, isauctioning off, on Ebay, the chance to be Foxsports.com’s NASCAR columnist and actually cover a NASCAR race.
When we sell space in our newspaper, we call it “advertising.”
If this works, how long will it be before Murdoch dismisses the entire Fox News Channel staff and replaces them with eBay buyers?
Would that mean, extrapolating Ms.Marshall’s comment, only those with money will be able to get their views and opinions in front of the public?
Though it would be nice to think that for Fox “News” it could only be an improvement.
Well, this is an interesting extension of “reality TV” — reality journalism. Why watch professional entertainers when real humans are more entertaining? Why read news produced by real journalists when real humans are…more entertaining?
I think this Fox News eBay thing is partly a result of the blog phenomenon. It’s obvious there’s a public appetite for content produced by “real” people; this is only a natural extension.
Just to clarify, I think this is a ghastly development. But a logical extension of Murdoch’s approach to mass media, which has always been to squeeze the last dime out of it and total contempt for viewers.
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Just installed a security update from Apple, and now iChat AV crashes every time I start it up. Oh, well, I wasn’t having much luck getting the video working very well, anyway. Got some good advice and restored iChat 1.0, which works fine.
Meanwhile, a bunch of disk permissions got whacked. My Applications folder was rendered read-only — a hassle I only discovered when I couldn’t install an application update. Ran the “Repair Disk Permissions” feature of Disk Utility, and now at least that problem seems to be solved.
Someday I’ll learn not to be the first on my block to install updates to operating systems…
UPDATE: I’ve tried just about everything to get iChat AV working, with no success. I reverted to iChat 1.0, then reinstalled AV, and it still crashes reliably. Guess I’ll revert again. Sigh…
AV still works for me after the security update. (shrug)
Could be a corrupted pref… Have you tried another user in the same machine? (first trick of Mac OS X troubleshooting)
Someday vendors will learn not to send upgrades and new operating systems to journalists until AFTER they have been debugged.
No problems here with security update and iChat AV! imac 800mhz 15″ flat panel running 10.2.6.
Regarding vendors and journalists: I tend to be a Bermuda Triangle for new technology in any event. If there’s a bug I’m likely to be bitten…
I had the same problem at first. I booted with a Mac OS X installer disk and used Disk Utility to verify the disk and also repaired permissions. That did the trick. Hope this helps!
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No problems here with iChat AV and security update.
Different big problem with the Update related to disk images but iChat AV is working.
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OpenOffice.org 1.1 is already available in the Release Candidate stage, but not on the Mac. For reasons that continue to elude me, the OS X version is grossly out of step with the other versions.
It’s apparent that Apple and Sun don’t wish to support OpenOffice on OS X. The question is why. They have a common enemy, Microsoft, but you’d never know that from their inexplicable behavior in this case.
At some level Apple probably needs to keep Microsoft onboard as having “real” Office is a requirement for more than a few Mac users in the business world (even if a clone is good enough).
That said I’m very happy with Keynote as my PowerPoint clone and Nisus Writer for word processing. Both are great improvements over the Microsoft experience if you largely create documents for your own use. (both read/write MS formats, but the mapping isn’t perfect)
Unfortunately, Nisus doesn’t have a “track changes” feature. For several projects I’m working on this has been an absolute requirement.
What do you think of ThinkFree Office?
It’s interesting and well-donw. But it has the same problem for me with Word: no track changes feature.
I used Open Office on Linux and aside from the lack of track and change it was pretty solid. The Windows version seems to work well also. Since converting everything to OSX I had to get a copy of MS Office for OSX. Open office seems thave trouble on osx.
A Mac version (ANY Mac version) of this has been lagging since before it began!
I’ve been waiting for it for almost four years, first as StarOffice, and now, OpenOffice. I’ve been told that there was a “serious commitment” to the Macintosh community. To date, I’ve never had a version of StarOffice or OpenOffice that would run on a Mac of any flavor.
Frankly, I wouldn’t hold my breath on ever seeing it.
While Apple and Sun (I hope) do regard MS as a common foe, they both have to worry about Linux. Several articles in the trades have commented on the problem Linux poses for both of them – possibly moving Apple to 3rd place on the desktop and confining Solaris to the high end. Neither is an enviable place to be.
Seems to me that Apple would benefit from a solid OS X version of StarOffice.
I’ve been using OpenOffice 1.0.3 on the Mac for a few weeks now, and I haven’t had any problems with documents yet. I haven’t need any of the advanced Office features yet, though, so I probably get a more rosy picture than some. It’s ugly, but it does the job, and configuring .doc and .xls files to open using OpenOffice worked just fine.
My older, wiser brother Steve has posted this item, “The Sound of Silence,” about how his RSS (Really Simple Syndication) newsreader alerted him to the reappearance of Ray Ozzie’s blog writings after a long absence. It helps you understand why RSS matters so much.
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Californians are fond of using the politicial initiative process, sometimes for good and sometimes not. But this exercise in direct democracy can, at times, be a useful check on an incompetent or corrupt government.
So it’s time for Californians to pass an initiative protecting financial privacy, or at least going in that direction, now that the Legislature has again refused to do it. Visit this site for more information on the initiative.
Another issue: Before the RFID crowd puts little radio transmitters into everything we touch, we can start speaking up where it counts.
More on both of these matters in my Sunday column.
Side note: Wal*Mart already tracks the movement of all products through their locations from distribution to item placement on the shelf. This information is linked to a purchase group then individual transaction. If a check or credit card is used, then that purchase is linked against an individual.
Inventory management (even at this scale) is used by any retail establishing who uses discount card or loyalty programs. It reduces costs of delivery — plus the collected data helps develop an understanding of buying behavior that improves consumer choice.
Technically information about buying behavior is already available, but not shared between stores or brokered as a saleable item (like mailing lists.) Laws need to be put in place to prevent the brokering of customer identity behavors.
As a consumer it doesn’t bother me for a business to understand what I do in their stores, it is when they share this information I become concerned. In addition, we have all heard about credit cards being stolen, it’s in the news daily. Many companies can’t be trusted to provide adequate protection for this volume of data.
There is a balance to maintain, security must be a key concern at the point of data collection. It goes a long way to establishing a relationship of trust with buyers-and-sellers when the buyer knows facts about them will remain private.
Thank you for highlighting these privacy points in your writings.
Ps. Think privacy is a concern, just want till tracking customer interaction points get to the retail level as they are being used in B2B companies. The RFID chips would have made this easy to do.
Corporations are treated as individuals in many ways. Corporations don’t like to have their privacy (proprietary interests, trade secrets, etc.) violated. Perhaps we should push for individual privacy protection equal to corporate privacy protection.
Several folks have sent me e-mail saying they’re unable to post comments on this site. If this happens to you, please send me e-mail describing what happened when you tried, and I’ll forward to the tech folks who are working on this. Sorry for the troubles, and we’ll get things working as fast as we can.
NYT: Pentagon , Justice Dept. evade 9/11 probe. In what they acknowledged was an effort to bring public pressure on the White House to meet the panel’s demands for classified information, the commission’s Republican chairman and Democratic vice chairman released a statement saying they had received only a small portion of the millions of sensitive documents they have requested from the executive branch.
I’m listening to a retired admiral describe how vital it is in modern warfare to have reliable and timely information, plus the context to understand it. This is precisely what American law-enforcement and national-security people either lacked or ignored before the Sept. 11 attacks.
And it’s what the Bush administration refuses to supply to the bipartisan panel trying to learn the hard lessons of that awful day. Why? Cover-ups and stonewalling tend to stem from fear — of how Congress and the American people might react if they knew the truth.
This is another scandal. If the Democrats ever recover their spines, it’s also a campaign issue.
Microsoft’s move to end stock options in favor of direct stock grants is a good one. Contrary to the hysteria you’re hearing from some quarters, it’s not a disaster for innovation in Silicon Valley, as the Mercury News’ Mark Schwanhausser notes in this story.
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Posted by: mpr on July 17, 2003 01:21 AM
The recent blunders out of the White House regarding Iraq and WMD seem out of character. No one can deny they have been (up until now) a well-oiled media machine. The story is gaining traction in the press and the White House almost seems to be feeding the frenzy with miscomment here, miscomment there.
Kind of makes you go hmmmm.