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+-   Leo Laporte voted president of the interwebs-> on Tuesday July 14, @07:15PM chewy_fruit_loop

Submitted by chewy_fruit_loop on Tuesday July 14, @07:15PM
announcement
chewy_fruit_loop writes "Leo Laporte beets Molly Wood, Mark Andreessen and Jason Calacanis in the TechRepiblic election for president of the net. Molly Wood hopes for secretary of state. What will happen when the president returns from his tour of China?"
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+-   Al Jazeera release archive with Creative Commons 3-> on Sunday February 22 2009, @11:21PM mutantSushi

Submitted by mutantSushi on Sunday February 22 2009, @11:21PM
themedia
mutantSushi writes "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License

Doha Qatar — January 13, 2009: Al Jazeera Network today announced the world's first repository of broadcast quality video footage released under the 'Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution' license. Select Al Jazeera video footage — at this time footage of the War on Gaza — will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled and eventually by users and TV stations across the world with acknowledgement to Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera will release its exclusive Arabic and English coverage produced by the Network's correspondents and crews in the Gaza Strip online at http://cc.aljazeera.net./ The ongoing war and crisis in Gaza, together with the scarcity of news footage available, make the repository a key resource for anyone producing content on the current situation.

This the first time that video footage produced by a news broadcaster is released under the 'Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution' license which allows for commercial and non-commercial use.

Mohamed Nanabhay who headed New Media at Al Jazeera and launched the project stated, "As one of the only international broadcasters in Gaza, our coverage of the war has been unsurpassed. The launch of Al Jazeera's Creative Commons Repository means that our Gaza footage will be made available under the most permissive Creative Commons license (CC-BY). With the flexibility of the license we expect to introduce our outstanding coverage to an even wider audience across the world. This means that news outlets, filmmakers and bloggers will be able to easily share, remix and reuse our footage."

Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons organization and Professor of Law in Stanford University, stated, "Al Jazeera is teaching an important lesson about how free speech gets built and supported. By providing a free resource for the world, the network is encouraging wider debate, and a richer understanding".

Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and a world renowned Web 2.0 entrepreneur, added, "Video news footage is an essential part of modern journalism. Providing material under a Creative Commons license to allow commercial and amateur use is an enormous contribution to the global dialog around important events. Al Jazeera has set the example and the standard that we hope others will follow".

As a pioneer in news and media Al Jazeera is always looking for ways to make its unique content accessible to audiences across the world and the launch of Al Jazeera's Creative Commons Repository is another concrete step in this direction.

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+-   Can Flash and Java save Journalism? on Tuesday January 13 2009, @09:57AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 13 2009, @09:57AM
themedia
An anonymous reader writes "New York magazine has a story about some of the flashy new ideas that are coming out of the labs of the New York Times. The piece prompted Peter Wayner to dig up some of the old Java applets he wrote to explore whether more promiscuity really stops AIDS and whether baseball can do anything to speed up the games. He notes that these took a great deal of work to produce and it's not possible to do them on a daily basis. Furthermore, they're cranky and fragile, perhaps thanks to the Java. Are cool, interactive features the future of journalism on the web? Or will simple ASCII text continue to be the most efficient way for us to mingle our thoughts, especially when ASCII text won't generate a classloading error?"
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Comments: 5 +-   Journal: Non-Beta Index Broken (Nope, I'm an idiot!) on Monday October 06 2008, @07:46AM

Journal by MasterOfMagic on Monday October 06 2008, @07:46AM
journal

This morning, when logging into Slashdot without JavaScript and with the beta index disabled in my account, the last stories I see are from yesterday, October 05, 2008. Turning on JavaScript doesn't show these stories. Only turning on JavaScript AND enabling the new, beta index, shows them.

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Comments: 6 +-   Who thinks Firehose software is working right? on Wednesday May 07 2008, @09:42AM NewYorkCountryLawyer

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Wednesday May 07 2008, @09:42AM
software
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I find the Firehose software to be infuriating. It seems to have no 'stickiness' but constantly reverts to other views and searches than what I was looking at. I'm about ready to give up on it unless they tell me they recognize it's dumb and are doing something to make it work right. Am I the only one who feels this way?"
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Comments: 1 +-   Journal: 15 Moderator Points? on Monday May 05 2008, @09:25AM

Journal by nherc on Monday May 05 2008, @09:25AM
bug

Now, I must admit, I've twice before gotten 10 moderator points at a time. At which time, I had gone looking to find out if this was indeed a /. bug or some new moderation code. I did come across another slashdot user journal at that point (which I can't seem to find again now unfortunately) that mentioned that they too received 10 points as well as a few comments to the same effect. However, no one seemed to know where the additional points that we were seeing came from.

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Comments: 2 +-   April Fool's, the day when Slashdot is useless on Monday March 31 2008, @11:48AM

Submitted by on Monday March 31 2008, @11:48AM
editorial
An anonymous reader writes "I think there ought to be a discussion about the merits of Slashdot's practice of publishing submissions that are fraudulent in recognition of April Fool's Day. (And perhaps a wider discussion on the wisdom of spreading disinformation for laughs.) Even when it is made clear that the day's content is bogus (with the use of the OMG PONIES theme for instance), it's still annoying to effectively have a day without Slashdot. How about a link to an alternate front page where real stories can be found?"
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Comments: 16 +-   Journal: Discussion2 In-Place Posting Testing on Saturday March 22 2008, @08:00AM

Journal by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 22 2008, @08:00AM
journal
Discussion2 rolls on... the most recent addition to the system is in-place comment posting. Essentially, little dynamic ajaxy slideout boxes to post directly within the thread, without going to a stand-alone page. This is great because you don't have to lose your place within the thread to post.
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+-   LJ eliminates free accounts, reaps flames.-> on Thursday March 13 2008, @11:43PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2008, @11:43PM
An anonymous reader writes "SUP, the current owner of Livejournal after purchasing it from Six Apart, has abandoned the free accounts that were the site's greatest asset in favor of a ad-supported or paid accounts in a blatant grab for more ad impressions. Rather than announce this change on the site, marketing drones chose to hide the announcement in a comment on an unrelated post on new features. Livejournal users, including the founder Brad, are incensed. The relevant post garnered 21 pages of entirely negative comments in only 3 hours."
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Comments: 1 +-   How PR Uses Slashdot on Sunday February 17 2008, @11:18PM theodp

Submitted by theodp on Sunday February 17 2008, @11:18PM
themedia
theodp writes "Having received sufficient Karma from her Slashdot submissions to gain access to The Firehose, PR firm owner Alice Marshall observes that negative stories which are hot and appear headed to the front page are often suddenly rated down. Is that because readers spontaneously decide stories are not the best, wonders Marshall, or are corporate flacks down-rating the stories as a form of damage control? Slashdot is a valuable public square, concludes Marshall, and it's inevitable that PR flacks will be attracted to it, leaving Slashdot editors with the challenge of finding ways to prevent them from taking over."
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+-   Microsoft "Open Value Subscription" Scam-> on Monday January 07 2008, @11:43AM daveofdoom

Submitted by daveofdoom on Monday January 07 2008, @11:43AM
microsoft
daveofdoom writes "Microsoft Open Value Subscription is none of the above

This week Microsoft launched a SMB program that contains the words "open", "value" and "subscription", none of which are common to Microsoft products, culture, or marketing.

Digging in a bit I found myself confused not only by what the program portends to be but why it would be called it "Open Value Subscription" unless they were hoping to leverage buzzwords and concepts related to open source and SaaS (software as a service). It's such lame and dishonest branding the marketing group should be ashamed."
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+-   Korean rehab camp for Web addiction-> on Saturday November 17 2007, @06:50PM caffeinemessiah

Submitted by caffeinemessiah on Saturday November 17 2007, @06:50PM
internet
caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has a story about a Korean kids' camp for "curing" Internet addiction. "Seventeen hours a day online is fine," said one such kid at the camp. From the article: "Drill instructors drive young men through military-style obstacle courses, counselors lead group sessions, and there are even therapeutic workshops on pottery and drumming....this year, the camp held its first two 12-day sessions, with 16 to 18 male participants each time. (South Korean researchers say an overwhelming majority of compulsive computer users are male.)""
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+-   Joel and the Bots are back!-> on Wednesday October 31 2007, @07:52AM AugstWest

Submitted by AugstWest on Wednesday October 31 2007, @07:52AM
movies
AugstWest writes "Unfortunately it's in separate projects, but just after Jim Mallon (the man who owns all things MST3K) announced that he would be bringing back Tom Servo, Crow and Gypsy in animated Flash shorts on the web along with Paul Chaplin (a writer from the original MST3K), Joel Hodgson, the series creator, has announced that he will be launching a new venture called Cinematic Titanic. It will feature horrible movies riffed by the original cast of MST3K, including Josh Weinstein (the original Tom Servo), Trace Beaulieu (the original Crow), Frank Conniff (TV's Frank), Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) and, of course, Joel himself. They've already got the rights to 12 movies, and will be releasing one a month starting in December for DVD purchase or download."
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+-   Telephones ready for skype?-> on Monday October 29 2007, @03:39AM duggi

Submitted by duggi on Monday October 29 2007, @03:39AM
networking
duggi writes "Mobile phone provider 3 has launched a new pre-paid handset that will allow users to make free calls over the internet via telephony service Skype. How hard would this hit the established telecom industry, and how many products similar to skype are we going to see? This would ,most likely open up a debate on what the Mobile companies are charging us, and what alternatives we have to deal with them."
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Comments: 1 +-   Radiohead's In Rainbows - Is The Album Dead?-> on Thursday October 18 2007, @06:14PM Snocrash23

Submitted by Snocrash23 on Thursday October 18 2007, @06:14PM
music
Snocrash23 writes "Last week, Radiohead released their latest album, In Rainbows, for free, asking fans to pay whatever they liked for the full length downloadable work. A week later, the "sales" numbers for In Rainbows are starting to leak. By my calculations, Radiohead made out with a ton of money."
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+-   Artist Network Visualization-> on Monday October 15 2007, @10:43PM Justin Donaldson

Submitted by Justin Donaldson on Monday October 15 2007, @10:43PM
music
Justin Donaldson writes "This is a live visualization of listening activity generated by MyStrands users. The visualization uses force directed placement for the layout and interaction. Nodes are created when a user listens to a new artist, while links are created from a user who listens to two artists consecutively. Networks of related artists are gradually formed as users link them together over time. Network nodes/components can be dragged around the screen at will, and extended information (such as artist, album, user information) is available by clicking on a given artist node. Track preview clips are offered (when available), but are only offered as streaming Microsoft WMA files."
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+-   Important Geek-Friday Celebration Required on Friday October 05 2007, @10:47AM WorthlessProgrammer

Submitted by WorthlessProgrammer on Friday October 05 2007, @10:47AM
humor
WorthlessProgrammer writes "A matter of importance. This is the first weekend that will not be wasted as a salaried slave in over 8 months; so myself, my dog, and my cat (the wife has chosen not to participate) will have a (somewhat) wild party in the high desert of Southwest Riverside county to commemorate:

1. The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, was released, in 1991. http://kerneltrap.org/node/14037

2. Monty Python's Flying Circus aired its first episode, in 1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python

3. Two good friends have returned safely from Iraq.

Among the important Activities will be (clouds permitting) first light for my just-finished 8 inch Newtonian, a six-pack of Ale, finally getting around to installing Debian 4.

Just simple reminder about what is important and that life is short. Woohoooo."
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+-   Demoniod p2p Site Returns From The Dead-> on Monday October 01 2007, @07:31AM Kaneda2112

Submitted by Kaneda2112 on Monday October 01 2007, @07:31AM
internet
Kaneda2112 writes "Demonoid is up and running after shutting itself down following a threat the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) to club it to death in the courts. This morning the site was up, but broken, apparently while it made repairs. It is still being hosted by a Canadian ISP, but is blocking all Canadian traffic to avoid trouble with the CRIA."
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+-   For Google's Founders, a Coveted Landing Strip-> on Wednesday September 12 2007, @09:59PM

Submitted by on Wednesday September 12 2007, @09:59PM
google
An anonymous reader writes "The NYT reports http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html?em&ex=1189742400&en=d65a97aea29c0825&ei=5087%0A "In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes' drive http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=Moffett+Field+NAS&daddr=1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+California+94043&sll=37.424026,-122.084928&sspn=0.007617,0.014591&ie=UTF8&om=1&t=h&ll=37.41431,-122.07086&spn=0.01926,0.04174&source=embed from their offices.

For $1.3 million a year, Larry Page and Sergey Brin get to park their customized wide-body Boeing 767-200, as well as two other jets used by top Google executives, on Moffett Field, an airport run by NASA that is generally closed to private aircraft."
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+-   Miguel de lcaza: OOXML is a superb standard, FUDed-> on Monday September 10 2007, @06:21PM you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context

Submitted by you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context on Monday September 10 2007, @06:21PM
microsoft
you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context writes "A blogger on KDE Developer's Journal has found an interesting post by Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and Mono, in a Google group dedicated to the discussion of his blog entries, in which Miguel stated that 'OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it.' In the same post, he also stated that to avoid patent problems over Silverlight when using or developing Mono's implementation known as Moonlight is 'not as long as you get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include patent coverage.'"
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