Rowr
Reasons to be jealous of my Powerbook: list of Panther’s kick ass functions.
January 13th, 2004
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Technology
January 2004
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Technology
Great Alternative Sources for News
As part of the Current’s coverage of the FCC hearings, I’m writing a story about the alternatives to corporate media - a sort of “Create Your Own News” primer to RSS feeds, news aggregators, and blogging. As part of my story, I’m including links to great alternative sources of news. My goal with this [...]
January 13th, 2004
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Journalism & the Media
News You Can Use
Newsday: People are shifting from traditional news sources such as newspapers and nightly network news for information about the presidential campaign, a poll found. Led by young adults’ changing habits, the public is finding more of its information from such alternative sources as the Internet and even television shows like “The Daily Show” and “Saturday Night [...]
January 13th, 2004
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Journalism & the Media
Big Brother Watching the Friendly Skies
Hot off the presses from the ACLU email: “Despite strong opposition from airlines, privacy advocates and Members of Congress, the Bush Administration is pushing ahead with plans to implement a computerized airline passenger profiling program that would — without making us any safer — create secret blacklists of innocent people prevented from flying. This new [...]
January 13th, 2004
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Beer Good, Old Bad
“A German brewery has developed a beer containing vitamins and minerals it says are designed to slow the aging process. The Neuzeller Kloster Brewery plans to introduce its ‘Anti-Aging-Bier’ this year and sell it in grocery and drug stores, a spokesman for the company said Friday. ‘It tastes like beer more than it tastes like [...]
January 12th, 2004
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Food
The Neverending Campbell’s
“With self-refilling bowls of soup and jumbo buckets of stale popcorn, professor Brian Wansink has identified one culprit for U.S. obesity: excessive food portions. The University of Illinois researcher has set up several food experiments that show the more people are given, the more they will eat — regardless of whether they are full or [...]
January 11th, 2004
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Food
Understanding the convergence
Affliated stations and networked-owned stations. What is the difference, and why does it matter? Well, if an NBC affliate (like Channel X NBC) is owned by NBC, then breaking local coverage goes unbroke. Yep, because interrupting ER to cover a local fire means that the people who paid big money to NBC to run an [...]
January 7th, 2004
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Journalism & the Media
FCC hearings
The San Antonio Current is preparing for its special two-issue coverage of the FCC hearings that will soon be held in San Antonio. Being new to the controversy myself, (despite being an alternative journalist), I find it hard to wrap my mind around the impending issue. Essentially, the FCC is debating removing the few remaining [...]
January 7th, 2004
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Journalism & the Media
Fat City
“San Antonio went from No. 13 to No. 4 on a list of America’s fattest cities compiled by Men’s Fitness magazine. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still ranks us as No. 1.” AP
January 6th, 2004
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Hankisms
“Always remember what they say - When you get locked up in jail, keep kosher. You’ll eat better.” -Hank Harrision
January 6th, 2004
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