June 12, 2003
A content management system for fast-changing sites
Josh Clark of Global Moxie sends along word of Big Medium, a new website-management software that may be of interest to editorial and production teams responsible for publishing online news.
Check out the demo here.
From newspaper's blacklist to bestseller list
Miami Herald: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a reporter who quit the Los Angeles Times with a 3,400-word resignation letter, landed a $475,000 deal for a novel she wrote in six days at Starbucks. The Dirty Girls Social Club has landed on the bestseller lists.
I like happy endings.
Thanks to IWantMedia for the pointer.
Daycare webcam plan draws criticism
Toronto Globe and Mail: The Quebec Human Rights Commission believes a proposal to equip preschools with Web cameras so parents can watch their children's day care activities over the Internet runs afoul of the province's Charter of Rights.
Sorry, folks, but if I want to see how my young child is being treated in preschool or daycare, I should be able to. When I was head of the editorial department at BabyCenter, my colleague Ed Murrieta and I proposed a babycam service that would let new fathers and mothers peek in on their little ones from their offices over a secured web browser. The proposal was a sound one, and some day it will be a feature parents will increasingly demand.
Thankfully, the article goes on to report:
In the U.S., the company ParentWatch uses Web cams ó cameras designed to take digital images and transmit them over the Internet or other networks ó in day cares in Texas, New Jersey, Florida and other states.Parents can see live images of the kids, but no video is recorded ...
What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?
Act For Change wants an investigtation into what the Bush administration knew about the non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Trouble is, when one party controls all the branches of the government, that's not going to happen.
Is rip mix burn fair use?
Mary at bIPlog (always a worthwhile read) points to Fiat Lucre's Willful Infringement and the 4-minute trailer for their movie about copyright. Just saw the trailer, and it's very cool (I never caught that particular Rip Mix Burn commercial -- from Apple 1-2 years back, I presume -- on the tube).
Here's Jed Horovitz's explanation of why he made the film.
Digital Music Hits the Road
From today's NY Times Circuits section: Digital Music Hits the Road. Excerpt:
Even the smallest flash-memory MP3 players can hold an hour or two of music, and hard-drive-based players like the Archos Jukebox or the Apple iPod can hold thousands of songs. A couple of roadworthy playlists could save me the frustration (and bad habit) of fiddling with the radio or fishing around for the right Talking Heads album while driving. I thought it would be great to hook up my portable MP3 jukebox player to a car stereo on my next long trip.Looking for options, I found plenty. There are all kinds of devices, including cassette adapters that connect the MP3 player to (and allow it to play through) the car's tape deck, and new CD players that can spin a disc with several hours of MP3's as you drive along. ...
Simple Guide to the A-List Bloggers
Making the rounds on blogdex: Simple Guide to the A-List Bloggers. Among the celeb bloggers skewered: Dave, Doc, David Weinberger, Dan, Howard Rheingold, Joi Ito, Chris Locke/Rageboy, Ben and Mena, Adam Curry, Anil Dash, Robert Scoble, Cory and others.
A bit sophomoric, but some chuckles in here.
Ed Cone has a satirical wrinkle or two up his blog sleeve as well.
Weblogs on the city scene
Mark Glaser's latest is a good one in OJR: Local Weblogs Gawk, Stalk -- But Balk at Minting $$. Can gossipy local Weblogs like Gawker and L.A. Examiner outdo them with lean, mean staffs?
He chats with Nick Denton, Gawker's Elizabeth Spiers, Matt Welch, SF blogger Greg Beato (a terrifically funny and sardonic guy whom I interviewed last year for a piece on animated cartooning) and others.
Meantime, I've removed NY's City Blogs from my blogroll because it hasn't been updated since December.
