Chris Boese's Weblog

A neat instructions site for setting up a Moveable Type Blog

I send so many people to Moveable. I don't know about TypePad yet. I wish them well, but worry about the cost.

Moveable is just so wonderful and powerful, but just over the heads of some of my friends who I know would love it if they just had the slightest clue on installation...

This site seems pretty decent. Of course Scriptygoddess is over these friends' heads too, or I'd be sending them there, as the scriptygoddesses REALLY ARE goddesses.

Chris

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Is this BBC Site a Weblog?

I'm just asking because Dave Winer on his Harvard site is suggesting it may or may not be due to the absence of the unedited voice of a person. (he later says BBC site qualifies) I'm not sure. Still thinking about it.

What I mean is, unedited? Who writes anything unedited, except Natalie Goldberg doing freewrites? Everybody edits. Does he mean having some "official" editor? Mostly, I think his attempt at a criterion is pretty garbled.

Chris

BBC NEWS | In Depth | 2003 | Reporters Log | Reporters' log: Final thoughts

The Blog Feedback Loop to Mass Media is complete

We can trace the influence of Mass Media on blog content. And we can trace the influence of blog content on Mass Media. Now, by signing Salam Pax, the Guardian, a largely independent news organ, makes a move, as BBC did by hosting correspondent blogs, to inhale the micropublishing interactive media product back into the mass media fold.

What will come of it? Remains to be seen. Intriguing tho, isn't it?

Chris

Salon.com Technology | British paper signs Iraqi blogger as columnist

By Jim Lawless

May 30, 2003 �|� LONDON (AP) --

A British newspaper said Friday it has signed as a columnist an Iraqi architect whose Internet diary of daily life in Baghdad captivated thousands around the world.

The Guardian said the "Baghdad blogger," known as Salam Pax, would write a biweekly column for the newspaper beginning Wednesday.

The Guardian said the man lives in a Baghdad suburb. The newspaper did not identify him, but said Salam was his real given name. "Salam" means peace in Arabic; "Pax" means peace in Latin.

Salam Pax became a cyber-celebrity after his pointed and often humorous accounts of everyday life in Baghdad began circulating on the Internet.

His diary mocked both Saddam Hussein's repressive regime -- he called the Iraqi leaders "freaks" -- and the U.S. claims of "liberating" Iraq.

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The Guardian said Salam Pax began the Web diary -- http://dear--raed.blogspot.com -- last year as a way of communicating with a friend named Raed who was studying in Jordan. He gradually became consumed with telling the world about life in Baghdad on the eve of war.

But he continued to write, on his computer and in longhand. With the Internet back up, accounts from the war have been posted on his site, and he continues to chronicle the chaos of Baghdad.

OK, I redid the Clemson University Laptop Research E-Book

It has now been fully converted into blog format, using the MT software as a content management system.

Clemson University Laptop Program: Insiders' Perspectives

The US is getting to be a frightening place

This needs no commentary.

Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN

WASHINGTON, May 1 — The Bush administration and leading Senate Republicans sought today to give the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon far-reaching new powers to demand personal and financial records on people in the United States as part of foreign intelligence and terrorism operations, officials said.

The proposal, which was beaten back, would have given the C.I.A. and the military the authority to issue administrative subpoenas — known as "national security letters" — requiring Internet providers, credit card companies, libraries and a range of other organizations to produce materials like phone records, bank transactions and e-mail logs. That authority now rests largely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the subpoenas do not require court approval.

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After raising objections, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California and other Democrats succeeded in getting the provision pulled from the authorization bill, at least temporarily, Congressional officials said.

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There was some disagreement over exactly how the provision originated. Several Senate aides active in the debate said that Senator Roberts had included it in the authorization bill. But a senior Congressional official said the Bush administration had initiated the proposal and that Senator Roberts had not objected.

A C.I.A. official said the provision had come from the Bush administration, after the White House's Office of Management and Budget signed off on it.