Thursday, April 08, 2004
Passover at Saddam's PalaceRabbi Mitchell Ackerson, the senior Jewish chaplain for Operation Iraqi Freedom, was set to lead historic seders this week for Jewish servicepeople and civilians in Saddam’s former Presidential Palace in Baghdad. As he readied a seder for up to 125 Jewish troops, civilian administrators and diplomats, and even a few Iraqi Jews, Ackerson considered the prospect of celebrating the Jewish people’s liberation from slavery in Egypt in Saddam’s palace appropriate.
I just wonder if Blogware has some sort of "torn paper" rendering technology coming out now?
Joi notes that Dan Gillmor is opting out of Plaxo. Great idea, but I thought that I'd done this already.
Hrm.
I just spent the last five minutes dropping every single address I have into their form and responding to their confirmations.
Hopefully I never get another request from them. If anyone wants my vCard, all they have to do is ask.
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Context Broker Architecture. CoBrA is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and... [Raw]
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Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and smart vehicles). Central to this architecture is an intelligent agent called context broker that maintains a shared model of context on the behalf of a community of agents, services, and devices in the space and provides privacy protections for the users in the space by enforcing the policy rules that they define. Key differences between CoBrA and other similar architectures are the following:
Figure 1 shows an overview architecture diagram of CoBrA. For more information, please see the documents listed in the paper section. | |
This has to be an error… Or perhaps an April Fool?
While rummaging through my newsfeed and tips today, I found the following quote from Mediapost.com in — New Ad Models Take Flight — with an intro by Adam Herman, and the sub-article in question — Social Networking Promises Value of Peer-to-Peer, Viral, Behavioral, Contextual, and Search — By Kate Kaye.
In which Kate Kaye says, and I quote:
Owned by TV mogul Barry Diller, InterActiveCorp has also snapped up Tribe.net, Match.com, and Evite.
HUH? Does Mark Pincus know that Barry Diller has “snapped up Tribe.net”?!?! I know that one of Barry Diller’s execs expressed an interest in the Tribe.net business model a while back — around the time of announcing InterActiveCorp’s plan to acquire ZeroDegrees. Does Kate Kaye have prescience? (-:= [The Social Software Weblog]
I can tell yah that as of last night - Tribe was not sold.
Easter Egg hunt and Face Painting
"Lot a poor man got the Cumberland Blues. He can't win or lose."
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This is truly a technology of cooperation, by people whose work I've trusted and respected for years. Help grow the Youth Media Exchange, a free, open media publishing platform for youth media organizations worldwide. I'm committing myself for $100. I recommend it. Components of the project:
- An online "commons" - FREE storage and bandwidth for any video we want to share online, provided by the Internet Archive. This alone has tremendous collective financial value.
- Interfaces and tools - To level the playing field for access to that commons, no matter where you are or what language you speak, and to highlight the work most worthy of attention.
- Mainstream exposure - YME will be working to finance development of television pilots for the best of the material, to be aired through Link TV, one of the partners that reaches 20M American homes, and other outlets.
- Long-term sustainability - There is significant financial value in such a community of creators and viewers, and YME will also be working with the various partners to realize that as a nutrient for the whole ecosystem.
It took this blog from Howard - to remind me that I hadn't blogged this yet. Congrats ot Brad deGraf on his continued effort (and teh rest of the YME team - as well!) There's a blog and a SocialText Wiki - BTW - for those who want to help. Meanwhile.........
Citizen-financed Media Revolution
| "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both... A people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." -- James Madison "We want the airwaves, baby!" -- the Ramones Okay, we've proven we can mobilize financially in resistance (like the $500,000 MoveOn raised in one day for ads against Arnold). Now let's do it constructively and proactively. And what better focus than media, the fulcrum for change. Rapidly evolving information technologies democratize media and enable whole new media ecosystems based on "public interest", not simply on what conglomerate media wants the public to be interested in. The purpose of this initiative is to pool small donations from people like you to fund "mammals that eat dinosaur eggs", thriving public-benefit media enterprises that compete aggressively with monopoly media. Traditional venture capital is not going to do that for us. We need your participation to make this work. Help us create momentum by funding the Youth Media Exchange, or one of our other small but worthy projects. Then we'll really get ambitious. Chip in whatever you can afford (we're currently doubling all donations thanks to a $3000 challenge grant from benefactor Addi J, and $2500 from Shei'rah Foundation !), and spread the word to anyone who wants media democracy enough to help make it happen. And register with the Rolodex if you want to be part of the on-going conversation. |
The Memespread Project. i'm offended that i didn't get to be the meme's originator. SMILEY! :) [anil dash's daily links]
I'm offended that this ridiculous usage of blogosphere juju is going unabated. First LOAF, the blx, now this.
Grow up people - get a life.
<oXygen/> XML Editor [Ted Ritzer: BizBlog]
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NTT's Typepad powered blogging service
Here it is, and it looks great even though I do not understand Japanese. NTT is providing blogs to their millions of clients. Congratulations to Six Apart's team in Japan. Can't wait to see our first Typepad powered ISP & portals partnerships in Europe ! [Loic Le Meur Blog]
I need to put something witty here for my friend Loic.
How 'bout "Yes, we all want to see coming out of France, besides Wine and Cheese."
I wonder what my astrological chart says about this.
A good reason to head South for May.
In May we'll be treated to a pair of comets that are rare visitors from the Oort Cloud. Their names are NEAT (C/2001 Q4) and LINEAR (C/2002 T7). The picture above is one my seven-year old boy, who is even more into this stuff than I am, insisted I put up. It's copied out of the excellent Starry Night Pro Plus. When I get the Linux laptop back I'll be wanting to try the same thing with also excellent KStars. The image shows the placement of the inner planets and the two comets around May 15.
Unfortunately for us North Hemispherians, the show will be most visible from the South half of the planet.
Bonus link: A Java comet tracking program, following NEAT at the NASA site. Zoom in, center on Earth and watch how close this mother comes. Almost a bull's eye.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]Eric Clapton Sets Digital Sales Record
Posted Apr 8, 2004, 9:01 AM ET by Alberto Escarlate
Eric Clapton’s new album — called ”Me And Mr. Johnson” — is a tribute to the blues pioneer Robert Johnson. Its digital pre-release has broken Warner Music records for this category of sales. The album was released to various digital music stores March 23rd, including iTunes, Napster, MusicMatch, Rhapsody, and Liquid Audio. The CD release on March 31st, debuted as #6 on Billboard 200 chart.
The fourteen-song collection, produced by the artist and Simon Climie, and featuring such Robert Johnson classics as “Kind Hearted Woman Blues,” “Come On In My Kitchen” and “Hell Hound On My Trail,” was made available on March 23, a week before its official release at retail on such digital outlets as applemusic.com, napster.com, musicmatch.com, listen.com, buymusic.com. and liquidaudio.com, as well as the Warner Bros. Records Digital Music Store.
As a result, Me And Mr. Johnson racked up more pre-sale digital orders than any other artist release in Warner Music Group history. It’s a trend that continues with high demand for the album at retail outlets following its March 30th release, resulting in a debut at #6 on Billboard’s Top 200 album sales chart this week.[The Digital Music Weblog]
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