Too many links to write about with insight or concision. Here's a log of half of my readings from the past 24 hours:
Home-Brew iPod Ad Opens Eyes -- Homemade ads will play a big part in marketing, just like blogging is shaking up the news.
When saving the world with song, mind the lyrics -- "Do They Know It's Christmas" raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The lyrics, complain some today, "fail to help ordinary Westerners understand that it is politics, bad governance, unfair trade arrangements, and burdensome debt that are crushing Africa...." Well, yeah, but none of that is as catchy as singing about snow.
File Sharing Goes to High Court -- File sharing is "inflicting catastrophic, multibillion-dollar harm on petitioners that cannot be redressed through lawsuits against the millions of direct infringers using those services," the appeal by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and other entertainment companies says. So complained movie studios about the VCR, and composers about radio, and back and back and back. Dinosaurs always complain about the weather.
Who was Minnesota's faithless elector? The pledged 10 electoral votes to John Kerry during the election, but one voted for John Edwards instead. Mistake? Protest? The ballot was secret and no one will admit to doing it.
Missteps Cited in Kerik Vetting by White House -- How does someone with more skeletons in his closet than Jeffrey Dahmer get nominated to run Homeland Security?
Security Issues Plague Windows-Based PCs, Impairing Ease of Use -- "The current Mac operating system has never been attacked by a successful virus, and almost no spyware can run on it."
More to come.
