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Month: June 2007

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Internet Radio's Death Rattle

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Today is a day of silence for Internet radio. Small broadcasters all the way up to Yahoo are shutting down in protest over the outrageous royalty rates approved by the Copyright Royalty Board. Who’s the CRB? Essentially, they are an arm of Congress, tasked with reviewing and setting royalty rates. How bad are the rates? […]

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Why Don't We Talk

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I’ve seen, at a minimum, four posts in the last week about people complaining about people not “conversing” on their blogs. As a member of the sub-M level of bloggers, let me posit this. It’s not that no one cares, it’s that they’re really not into conversing. The Internet is passive on its prima facie. […]

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Social Networking VPN

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A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a network technology that let’s you use public Internet resources to securely use private network resources (such as you work network from an open WiFi access point). When do we get something like this for social networking. Not my Top 8, not a bit-flip of friend or not a […]

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Web 'Design' on the Cheap

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Backstory: J– has decided to start a business. She’s not quitting her day job or anything, but tossing her spare time into a new venture; henna. For those not in the know, henna is the mostly-Indian (as in the sub-Saharan continent) practice of staining the skin with a natural paste. Some of the design are […]

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Christian Reformed Church lifts barrier to female ministers

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I am shocked. Pleased, surprised, curious, but shocked. Delegates meeting at their annual synod voted Tuesday to remove the word “male” from the requirements for church office. This is a huge step for one of the most conservative Dutch Reformed organizations in the world. I’m absolutely certain this will cause a split in the church, […]

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Articles You Just Want to Be Real

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Second Life Makes Dream Of Owning Fictitious Coffee Shop Come True | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “Since I’ve never been too interested in inventory tracking, accounting, or interacting with people except inside a complex computer simulation, running this simulated coffee shop has been the greatest experience of my life.” Bwahahaha!

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