A Palm Sunday Link: Dan Gillmor notes that David Bollier draws a parallel between today’s internet collaboration & the King James Bible.
We high-tech moderns like to think we have little connection to the past, but as I pondered the new online collaborations, I couldn’t help thinking that we could benefit from considering one of the greatest literary collaborations in history, the King James Bible.
James Fallows discusses several software tools that help organize thoughts, ideas and projects. Well worth reading. I use a couple of these tools: Aquamind’s NoteTaker as well as Omni Group’s Graffle & Outliner. ConceptDraw’s Project is another similar product.
Scott Simon takes a fascinating look at the singles scene at Home Depot. Evidently, some of these stores have hosted weddings…
I find the conversation about Government video news releases much ado about nothing. How is this different than a media organization reprinting a press release – which happens all the time? The problem is not completely with the government, rather, it’s publishers who don’t bother to look into these releases and determine if there is another angle, or even a story worth spending time on, rather than just hitting the “print” button, as it were.
Wisely, GM has decided to support audio line-ins from any portable music device, starting this fall in a handfull of models.
“I have to pay for a service I’m never using,” he said.
He has no choice. His telephone company, SBC Communications, will not sell him high-speed Internet access unless he buys the phone service, too. That puts him in the same bind as many people around the country who want high-speed, or broadband, Internet access but no longer need a conventional telephone. Right now, their phone companies tend to have a “take it or leave it” attitude.
Local telco provider TDS Metro has the same policy: you must purchase legacy phone service with dsl internet access.
To get inside the mind of the Great White shark, Fabien Cousteau is getting inside its body. Not such a strange endeavor, perhaps, for a third-generation oceanographer who was practically born with fins. ?I did my first dive on my fourth birthday,? says Cousteau. ?My father found me on the bottom of the pool buddy-breathing ? a pretty advanced technique for sharing an oxygen tank ? with a family friend.?
Since then, Cousteau has hardly surfaced for air. Following in the wake of his famous grandfather Jacques and father Jean-Michel, Fabien has made the oceans his second home. ?I went along on their expeditions during every school break,? he says. ?I?d scrub the hulls, paint the rails, do whatever needed to be done ? and dive. For me, that was vacation. I loved it.?