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Generalized Video

As I got on my short Jet Blue flight home Wednesday night, nearly every monitor was re-(re-re-) playing the landing of the stuck-gear jet at LAX. I had been in class, and not following the event. I mentioned to the flight-crew that having a “crash landing” Jet Blue jet on the displays was probably not […]
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The servants’ table

I remain wary of those eager to label blogging a revolution and skeptical when people claim that the mainstream media “doesn’t get it.” But then there is something like this: I think we would be poorly served as a nation were the primary news-gatherers to fall on such hard times that we had to count […]
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Mesh FM

Kevin writes about Infinity Broadcasting starting an AM broadcast made up entirely of podcasts, submitted, filtered, and checked for FCC acceptability. Bah, I say. 1: Set up a submission site to add your podcast. 2: Set up a community filtering system. I’m thinking something along the lines of kuro5hin. Those podcasts that are popular (as […]
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On Wikinews

I have to admit, I haven’t really been tracking on Wikinews since it went live. I visited recently, and I remain ambivalent. In many ways, by surviving as long as it has, it may have made it through the shakiest part of its gestation. But it still doesn’t stand well on its own. The Wired […]
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