via Poynter: 702.tv, Vegas cool   ¶ 6/30/2009 11:46:00 PM 0 comments

  For fun and profit, Jeff Jarvis loves to see himself as a prophet We haven't kicked around Jarvis for a while so this little bit of lunacy presents itself as an excellent opportunity.

We think Judge Posner drank deep of the kooky koolaid but Jarvis saying that newspapers are free-riding on the links created because of the value of the content they have originated is just absolute reactive horseshit: It flies in the face of creating value through content.

We blog but we have an enduring love of the business we grew up with. We think that the professional news gathering businesses (across print and broadcast) have largely failed to utilize the Internet. But...

(Soliloquy: Let's do without all the malarkey and cut right to the current darling of the Web, Twitter)

Imagine everyone (a big bunch, anyway) retweeting (kinda like Elmer Fudd advancing in the other direction) some innocuous thing such as "For fun and profit, Jeff Jarvis loves to see himself as a prophet". While the statement appears to be true it is an opinion that has no inherent value. The retweeting (essentially a linking) might bring it to the top of Twitter Trends but without the value of substantiation and a lucid coherent presentation it has no real value.

Update: Actually, they'd have to use a hashtag on Twitter to get to the top of trends. As soon as "retweet" was associated with Fudd all thinking stopped. Oh well. Again, essentially a linking.  ¶ 6/30/2009 10:01:00 PM 0 comments

  The Pitney/Milbank pettifoggery Pitney could have very easily established his journalistic independence by asking a question other than the one expected.

The White House has an Internet connection and simply wished to be relieved of the responsibility of selecting the question to be answered. Probably not a good idea to depend on the HuffPo for a distillation of the Internet.  ¶ 6/29/2009 04:22:00 PM 0 comments

  Jacko will be taking the dirt nap without kids Add this to the list of reasons why we are cynical (if you're keeping tally); Big money, no remorse.

Sometimes genius comes out twisted. Real twisted.  ¶ 6/29/2009 03:31:00 AM 0 comments

  Circumstances bring an end to domestic spy satellites On the bright side, some creepy Bush era program is ended.

On the not-so-bright side, doesn't seem like it was done out of any great concern for civil liberties.  ¶ 6/23/2009 01:34:00 AM 0 comments

  Google goes Bing Well, sorta. These backgrounds can be seen as a reaction. The high quality photographic backgrounds of Bing have gotten a very positive response: We like the embedded links.  ¶ 6/19/2009 09:34:00 AM 0 comments

  Corn and Pinkerton, back in the saddle again   ¶ 6/19/2009 12:16:00 AM 0 comments

  Process obsessed on Twitter This really needed to be said:

"The protests in Iran are about the strength of the Iranians not the strength of Twitter"  ¶ 6/18/2009 09:10:00 AM 0 comments

  Broadband marches on Broadband adoption has continued to grow in this recession despite price increases, according to the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project report.  ¶ 6/18/2009 08:10:00 AM 0 comments

  Why is the NSA still illegally reading email?   ¶ 6/17/2009 04:00:00 PM 0 comments

  Wingnuts in bloom, another downside: LVJR to roll on comments Tough choices often present themselves at the worst of times. The editor Mitchell's choice to err on the side of caution, while perhaps somewhat understandable, fails to live up to newspapers' historic role and undermines the very often wild conversation with readers that newspapers need in order to move forward.

As for the legal boilerplate defense: We'll go with a comments proxy.  ¶ 6/17/2009 02:08:00 PM 0 comments

  Cyberwar in Iran boingboing links to helpful stuff.  ¶ 6/17/2009 09:23:00 AM 0 comments

  Windows 7 a winner again Finally beat the problem with the Intel 845 graphics driver for the HP D510USDT. With a right click to open the driver install package in XP compatibility mode, we were able to use HP's WinXP driver to give greater functionality (i.e., sleep function, some degree of hardware acceleration) in Win7.

Two points, though: No Aero, it's not a WDDM driver and this isn't a use of Win7's virtual "XP Mode"- the processor doesn't support that function (a surprising number and variety don't).

We're very happy with the outcome. This model is about seven years old and it speaks well for Win7 that it will perform as well as it does with the dated technology.  ¶ 6/16/2009 06:21:00 PM 0 comments

  Murdoch's Myspace develops newspaperitis Staff reduction by a third.  ¶ 6/16/2009 06:15:00 PM 0 comments

  Don't let the sun go down on...   ¶ 6/15/2009 04:32:00 PM 0 comments

  The CIA's Iran budget will skyrocket now   ¶ 6/13/2009 03:50:00 PM 0 comments

  Who do they think they're kidding? Porn filter our asses. Haven't seen or tested the software but knowing the Chinese government we think porn played a very small part in their desire to have the software on every PC in China.  ¶ 6/12/2009 06:12:00 AM 0 comments

  As we said, the wingnuts are in full bloom Some withered old anti-Semite this time.  ¶ 6/10/2009 11:36:00 PM 0 comments

  Windows 7 progress We installed the RC on a few old HP business machines with a mixed bag of results. All were set up to dual boot with XP for easy comparison of performance with the same hardware.

Couldn't find a driver for the Intel onboard graphics on one, though the VGA driver Windows 7 selected gave basic functionality (loaded Flash Player and could watch Hulu), it wasn't even able to play a decent game of Freecell because of the lack of hardware acceleration. This particular project turned out as a positive as it was used to back up a Vista machine using Windows Easy Transfer and a Belkin Easy Transfer Cable: Had previously used it with Vista finding it somewhat slow and cumbersome. This custom transfer of key files wasn't much better but once on the Win7 machine it was possible to move them over to the XP logical drive.

Going to attempt a full system migration from the 32-bit Vista system to a more capable Win7 64-bit machine: Will update on the process.  ¶ 6/07/2009 05:59:00 PM 0 comments

  Twitter makes Pareta quota   ¶ 6/07/2009 03:08:00 PM 0 comments

  Took the plunge with SP2 for Vista Downloaded the large standalone installer for our personal computer.  ¶ 6/07/2009 09:18:00 AM 0 comments

  MsDewy.com done Attempt to sex up Microsoft Live Search. The ad agency responsible for the attempt has apparently taken over the domain.

Bing should be so nice.  ¶ 6/06/2009 04:50:00 PM 0 comments

  Telecoms get a walk on warrantless wiretapping These companies were bad corporate citizens. It wasn't like they jumped up to help in a time of national crisis. It has been reported their lawyers resisted initially for many of the same issues involved in these suits. It wasn't until the idiots of the Bush administration threatened economic reprisals that the telecoms saw their way clear to comply. The telecoms had a duty to resist illegal acts and chose not to based on bottom line concerns.

So the telecoms get (insert dollar figure here) their friends in Congress to pass unconstitutional protections for them. This is bad law and is the stuff that makes us cynical.  ¶ 6/04/2009 07:26:00 AM 0 comments

  Study: Medical bills underlie most bankruptcies More weight to the Obama message that health care reform is an economic necessity.  ¶ 6/04/2009 07:14:00 AM 0 comments

  Geeks crank out a good one   ¶ 6/03/2009 11:46:00 PM 0 comments

  The wingnuts are in full bloom AP reports the suspect in the killing of Dr. Tiller was a member of the Freemen, had been caught with explosives and was well known amongst the loonies.  ¶ 6/01/2009 09:55:00 AM 0 comments

  Beyond the bombastic, Sotomayor nomination big issues   ¶ 6/01/2009 07:34:00 AM 0 comments