SunMink

Simon Phipps's other Weblog
(a WebMink in the Sun)

links for 2008-08-18

• A Sound Legacy: 60 Years of Folkways Records and 20 Years of Smithsonian Folkways
  Awesome free sampler available from Amazon US with classic American folk - leading with Woodie Guthrie and going from there. Grab it while it's free.
• Lessons on Blogging from Jon Stewart
  Fine analysis from Tim. Of course, some say that you have to be a "liberal" to love Stewart, but I think his style builds trust and is the future of US journalism. I sense Brian Williams at NBC heading in this direction - interesting he has been a repeat guest for Stewart. Not sure it would transfer to the UK though, Stewart's style is too respectful for over here...
• National security and free speech - The Boston Globe
  "Thus the T, in reality just another local transit system struggling under crushing debt and long-term mismanagement, transmogrified a temporary threat to its fare collection system into something so urgent as to override the First Amendment." I wonder what it will take for us all to wake up to the threat to liberty that the so-called defence of liberty has become?
• Perspectives: Firefox3 Extension for OpenSolaris
  Moinak Ghosh has already ported and built Perspectives for FF3.0.1 for OpenSolaris. Awesome stuff - maybe we should have OpenSolaris.org offer a notary? The idea of a peer-based trust system is very appealing here.
• Bolt Of Lightning Doesn’t Fall Anywhere Near NBCOlympics.com
  I've seen a little of the US coverage via "Nightly News" and it is unbelievably lame, with the US-only focus masking out pretty much everything else. And the medals table they use is sorted by "total medals", not the usual "gold medals won", presumably so that the US can come top. I gather the "live coverage" is delayed 12 hours and edited to death as well. No wonder they fear the web - I bet they try to blame it for their failure.
• Still posting manually. You can tell, I expect!

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