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can we talk about it

2005-12-02T07:19:00.000-08:00

Why is Firefox being adopted so quickly? Because IE is a lame product. It's not so much about open source — but that's great — but that it works so much better ,Sun president Jonathan Schwartz, at the 2005 Open Source summit, Stanford.

Hey what's the deal anyway, why does a company the size of Microsoft have a product inferior to a company that programs an Open Source browser, which every one can have for free and do with it what they will? why is Microsofts IE an inferior browser, people say it's lame, it's riddled with problems.

Do you guy's think it's just Like a Porche V. GM issue,Boutique V. mass production? the more R&D the better the product, and well Microsoft can't possibly employ as many people as Firefox uses to test and develope their products browser, because any body in the %$#&#@! world can play with it. Have you seen all the extentions!

what's up let me know.

weblogs.......shiiiiiit,

2005-12-01T18:11:00.000-08:00

I liked the Blood article, she makes good points about the nature of what a journalistic blog is and is not, however, I feel like it’s a bit elitist of her to under fund the amateurs

The four types of blogalism she believes are valid,

• Those written by journalists.
• Those written by professionals about their industry
• Those written by individuals at the scene of a major event.
• Those that link primarily to news about current events

since I love Merriam Webster online so much lately I have brought you all their definitions of journalism If you would like to look for you self, here is the link to the journalism definition, there are five entries besides the basic one, check them all out they are interesting.

1 a : the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media b : the public press c : an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium
2 a : writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine b : writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation c : writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest

Look at definition 2.c, this definition tells us that any writing if it is intended to appeal to certain pop taste or public interest is journalism. Maybe I'm playing devils advocate here, and I know this specific dissection of Bloods notion is an easy target, but doesn't that make all blogs journalism, if blogs are the current most popular conduit for the transmission of ideas on the internet, and the public interest is piqued by what these amateur publishers are posting, then semantically all blogs could be considered journalism.

This statement must come with very strict guidelines; I do believe she is correct when she asserts that, Blogging links to other news sites or articles is not journalism. In my opinion the Blogs must be a authored first hand, and cannot simply be a set of links to other news media.

Am I being clear here? I hope I am, because it’s getting late and I’m feeling pooped out. What do ya’ll think?

“Is an eyewitness account journalism, and if so, when? Depending on the event? Depending on the inability of another individual to compile a more complete version of the story? Depending on the skill or training of the person writing the account? The standards used to determine when a personal recollection becomes a journalistic report are likely to vary from case to case.” (Blood)

I’m just learning about journalistic convention and standards, but how can Blood make an assertion that the talent of a writer has anything to do with defining the practice of journalism. To me that’s like using experience level as a judgment criteria to tell whether or not someone is sitting on top of the bicycle and riding. Just because he is four years old and just got off the training wheels yesterday doesn’t mean that the action and work being done cannot be defined as riding the bike. If the kid is going down the hill on two wheels, though he may be completely out of control and the only foreseeable outcome is a serious concussion with a trip to emergency to have some stones removed from his forehead, the Kid is still riding the bike.

Lev Manovich, give me strength

2005-11-30T07:37:00.000-08:00

“Live Picture, an image editing program, converts a pixel-based image
into a set of mathematical equations. This allows the user to work with an image of virtually unlimited resolution. Another paint program Matador makes possible painting on a tiny image which may consist of just a few pixels as though it were a high-resolution image (it achieves this by breaking each pixel into a number ofsmaller sub-pixels).”(manovich)

The notion of infinite pixel manipulation reminds me of the campbells soup in the mirror image, when a can of soup is placed between two opposing mirrors, the image is multiplied infinitely, as a far as the light source will allow the eye to see. Like the computer pixel or arrangement of pixel, the reflected image(can of soup) is broken down into sub-images, and you could suppose that the larger the mirror used to reflect the real object the more numerous the reflected images will be, similar to breaking down a standard pixel into sub-pixels, the large the array of pixels the more sub-pixels you have. would you be able to create a pixel, an UberPixel, by manipulating and increasing the value(density of color, or saturation) of the sub-pixels

“How much information in an image can be useful to the viewer”(manovich)

can this digitization of analog media help accessibility(I would like to define an other accessibility mode)the model is of the average user who must sit for extended perionds of time in front of a screen and read digitized data. I can sit for a while, I don’t know if it’s the electromagnetic weridness my computer gives off, but lately I am feeling the effects of the loss of information through the transfer analogue to digitalin my forehead, we talked about this before, and I guess I'm wondering will digital density ever rival that of the printed page. I could pick up a caopy of any book on the shelf now and feel the pain leave my aching head, unless all of thi s is simply a case of dehydration.

here is the definition of analogue: for those of you who are unsure,as I was, about its absolute meaning :

1 : something that is analogous or similar to something else
2 : an organ similar in function to an organ of another animal or plant but different in structure and origin
3 usually analog : a chemical compound that is structurally similar to another but differs slightly in composition (as in the replacement of one atom by an atom of a different element or in the presence of a particular functional group)
4 : a food product made by combining a less expensive food (as soybeans or whitefish) with additives to give the appearance and taste of a more expensive food (as beef or crab)

Is there a different definition of the analog Lev and other computer and audiophiles discuss, or iis it just a the transference of an analogous piece of recorded music or file from media type to mediatype? not clear to me. what do you guys think?

I'm on a Mexican radio

2005-10-24T07:37:00.000-07:00

Well this is my first blog on pirated airspace, I think my neighbor has a new wireless toy, and I'm reaping the benefits...only A fifty percent connection though so downloading anything larger than a few MB sucks...So copywriting, I've been banging my head to figure out what the most important aspect is and well I think there are many important aspects, the grassroots dilemma is critical, does the artist have a right to protect their work? Absolutely, whether it’s a Song or a poem, or a cartoon or a dissertation they have the right to be recognized and protected. Secondly, something cbd said in class Friday, struck me. Labels, copy right bozo’s, they’re the ones who buy the music, they pay the artist a hefty sum for the rights to play and distribute the music over the airwaves, however, they are not the sole proprietor, they are the acting agent, the contractor, or the muscle if you will, when a dispute is raised. So I think more discussion should be directed to the industrial giants who usurp rights, or are given agency from and by the artists to contract this work.

My question is, and I guess this is interface/copyright issue, is fire fox an open source browser, or is it just a very convenient browser interface? I am having some trouble getting through the ANTI MAC article, my goodness it’s dry, I like their explanation and reasons for flawed thinking and the “time has come and gone” idea for the reality metaphor, it hasn’t though has it? Things haven’t changed dramatically in the last ten years in fact, the only real differences as far as interface design in the (wimp) world is the esthetics. Perhaps there are some file transfer short cuts that have changed and I’m sure windows has come along was in the production of background services, but, I’m not really sure what has and what hasn’t grown.

Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

2005-10-18T15:00:00.000-07:00

I love the freedom of expression book, I haven’t gotten to far yet but what I’ve already know is that people are protective, I mean that is what a copyright is protection for my stuff, inventions, processes, art, Ideas developed by me and used to make money, that’s the key term here, it’s about the almighty dollar, clams, “beenz”, Pay Per view. The truth, the hard truth of the matter is that everybody wants a piece of the pie. It seems, now don’t get me wrong, I want my own large bag O’ loot; and of course this is going to be a generalization, but the companies and individuals squabbling over what’s what are acting like selfish children, remember when want your brother or sister, respectively to play with your stuff and you, of course, wanted credit for the stuff, “that’s Mine”, or you can play with my Lego’s THAT way, you’re supposed to play with them this way, end of story. What you wanted was recognition and praise for the work you did, there was no money then, just fragile emotional needs. As we grew, the needs remained the same, after all, we’re human and humans are emotionally sensitive, internally stirring creatures, the thing that changed was our individual and collective power to protect our stuff. The Constitution gave us individual rights to pursue liberty and happiness; the dollar gave us the ego, the status quo and greed. People work for their money, yes, but they also what it easy. It seems we haven’t grown up very much yet, of course there are the givers and the takers, and sometimes the lines separating the givers and the takers are a bit blurred, however if we chose to give a bit extra and take a little less return on our dollar, then maybe the we would realize that our caregivers were not so full of shit when they accused us of being selfish.

Metadata Abstract

2005-10-14T06:58:00.000-07:00

I have chosen metadata as my subject for English 480 writing Assignment, this is why. (To be continued) ten to twenty minutes pass. OK I’m Back.... Well Rachel made some good points in her networking blog, she postulates that because of the sheer size of the internet ubiquitous standards may not be possible. Good thinking Rachel, it is vast, like the Illinois prairie and how does one set standard work for the entire world of the internet, I have no idea, it sound like each network group is going to have a set of standards that are unique to their world, if one group cohabits with another standards are going to have to be elastic, people will have to adapt, evolve, and standards are no different, but back to standards later. I wondered the other day what makes my web page searchable, and why my Google adsense advertisements were not making any cents, sorry that was cheap!, So enters the metadata, Why is it important for e-business, and internet marketing? Is there a universal standard for the coding of metadata? Is Metadata important for the greater good of internet users at large? Can the entire internet be indexed, a library of web sites, or is the internet itself a library, which is just waiting to be wrangled into categorization? There are more questions to be answered

2005-10-04T11:55:00.000-07:00

I printed the rest of the dive into accessibility stuff, and the more I read the more I see parallels between the standards argument and the accessibility issues. We talked about standards sapping creativity from a web site. the question what is more important, giving the web author freedom to reign supreme over all of the work he does, or conform to certain standards set down by organizations and committees? What is more important creativity or business?

In my humble opinion both are equally important. There is really no way to separate the two, there is always going to be a creative force behind the production of a visual medium, and since the web is an interactive visual medium, there will be a creative process behind the development of web sites. So there is always creativity in the building of such things. However, I have an e-business site, and I want my web site built in a certain way, then creative liberties taken with my site, without my approval will be discouraged. The idea of creative liberty has an even greater relevance with a company or institution that is creating a brand identity. The developer must create within the context and framework of the reigning standards organization and if he or she want to express their virtual liberties without the boundaries of the standards board, then let them go and built on their own plot of land, they are getting paid to do a job, if the job specifies to use blue paint on the border, and make sure there is a search engine on each page, then you are obligated to do follow the rules, if not, then let somebody else do the job.

If you are a punk and subscribe to the whatever, wherever, whenever school, get your own site, and flail away at it, but if you are contracted to do a job then do it.

Barista: “Isn’t it true that standards enforce creativity as well”

JM: “Yea your right, I guess?, the standard forces you to re-think the approach,.

Barista: “Standards develop resourcefulness.”

JM: “I haven’t thought of the inverse like that yet, I was only thinking that the standards are a constricting force, not an enrichment force”.

Barista: “Do you want another bianca maraschino grade latino press?”

JM: “sure, this is the last one though, Oh well look at it this way, if your going to build a house, the building standards are only there to make the place inhabitable, if they’re weren’t any standards we would all be living like that lady in the Mother Jones article, her walls leaking, her sky light installed upside down, and the bathtub that crashed into he living room, when full.

But the idea is that as long as there are codes and standards then you can build as big and tall and wide you like, without the worry that the walls are going to come crumbling down around you.”

JM: “(slurp), Jesus man you make the best white chocolate latino I have ever tasted.!?!”

Barista:“Cheaper than a gallon of gas too”

Oh about the parallels to accessibility, next time,

I've Got a standard for Ya! Right Here!

2005-09-26T10:46:00.000-07:00

I am Pissed!!!!!.....

i just finished this long ass blog about the excitement and comaradery I felt today in class, and blammo, the session expired and prompted me to sign in again. Lost everything. FRUSTRATION.
watch the page doesn't expire on your #$^ !!!

New post

2005-09-23T10:08:00.000-07:00

Just to let all of you know I have been doing some working with my local Blogger and a have found out a few fun things for myself and all of you noble english 480 students, Julie I found the way for you to feel ok about your blog role, I have also created a new blog called Rare Chinese Vegetables and Campbells soup, which I will be posting things that are in conflict with the currently mandated sanctions on Nuovissimo.

I also wanted you guys to all check out the assignments page on the eng480 site, I have not thought about these things too much yet, I should have been. What do Ya'll think, email me with your thoughts, should we have a sit down to discuss game plan so that we are all on the same page? Is that cool? Does anybody have time? It sounds like fun to me......

Julie email me about the links, also, to everyone I would like to apologize about my last post It was definitely over the edge for the class blackboard, I think I ruined It for everybody, I never want to be that guy again.

peace,

Jason

2005-09-21T15:00:00.000-07:00

Afternoon

2005-09-20T13:39:00.000-07:00

Trish mentioned on Monday that I haven't posted anything recently, well, that is true. Sometimes it's hard for me to post my banal rhetoric on these pages so that people other than me and my councilor know of my incompetence. Sometimes I have nothing to say; sometimes I'm too lazy, sometimes I don't feel like admitting weakness. Well, today I tried to log on to del.icio.us, rather I successfully logged onto del.icio.us, and I had no Idea where to go from there. I logged on, went to my email, checked the box to confirm my account, went back to log in again and nothing, nada, zippo. So I try again and zero again, could be a slow connection, I just downloaded Opera, and the transfer rate was embarrassingly slow for the university connection, so perhaps I’ll try again later.

I couldn’t find the marklets at the bottom of the page,( like the directions said) but I could have tried harder, but I was getting impatient and may be able to get into it later, but I’m still glowing from a marketing exam I smoked today, my body is battered and bruised from a combination rollerblade accident and a slack line shellacking that I received Monday afternoon, so I think I’m going to call it a day and go sit in the Jacuzzi and meditate on the genocide in Darfur, have you all heard about it? I would like to call W and ask him why it’s so hard to be him?

Someone get back to me on the del.icio.us thing, and read this Times article I’ve posted here for your convenience.

A Wimp on Genocide
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: September 18, 2005

President Bush doesn't often find common cause with Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. But this month the Bush administration joined with those countries and others to eviscerate a forthright U.N. statement that nations have an obligation to respond to genocide.

The Century's First Genocide

It was our own Axis of Medieval, and it reflected the feckless response of President Bush to genocide in Darfur. It's not that he favors children being tossed onto bonfires or teenage girls being gang-raped and mutilated, but he can't bother himself to try very hard to stop these horrors, either.

It's been a year since Mr. Bush - ahead of other world leaders, and to his credit - acknowledged that genocide was unfolding in Darfur. But since then he has used that finding of genocide not to spur action but to substitute for it.

Mr. Bush's position in the U.N. negotiations got little attention. But in effect the United States successfully blocked language in the declaration saying that countries have an "obligation" to respond to genocide. In the end the declaration was diluted to say that "We are prepared to take collective action ... on a case by case basis" to prevent genocide.

That was still an immensely important statement. But it's embarrassing that in the 21st century, we can't even accept a vague obligation to fight genocide as we did in the Genocide Convention of 1948. If the Genocide Convention were proposed today, President Bush apparently would fight to kill it.

I can't understand why Mr. Bush is soft on genocide, particularly because his political base - the religious right - has been one of the groups leading the campaign against genocide in Darfur. As the National Association of Evangelicals noted in a reproachful statement about Darfur a few days ago, the Bush administration "has made minimal progress protecting millions of victims of the world's worst humanitarian crisis."

Incredibly, the Bush administration has even emerged as Sudan's little helper, threatening an antigenocide campaigner in an effort to keep him quiet. Brian Steidle, a former Marine captain, served in Darfur as a military adviser - and grew heartsick at seeing corpses of children who'd been bludgeoned to death.

In March, I wrote a column about Mr. Steidle and separately published photos that he had taken of men, women and children hacked to death. Other photos were too wrenching to publish: one showed a pupil at the Suleia Girls School; she appeared to have been burned alive, probably after being raped, and her charred arms were still in handcuffs.

Mr. Steidle is an American hero for blowing the whistle on the genocide. But, according to Mr. Steidle, the State Department has ordered him on three occasions to stop showing the photos, for fear of complicating our relations with Sudan. Mr. Steidle has also been told that he has been blacklisted from all U.S. government jobs.

The State Department should be publicizing photos of atrocities to galvanize the international community against the genocide - not conspiring with Sudan to cover them up.

I'm a broken record on Darfur because I can't get out of my head the people I've met there. On my very first visit, 18 months ago, I met families who were hiding in the desert from the militias and soldiers. But the only place to get water was at the occasional well - where soldiers would wait to shoot the men who showed up, and rape the women. So anguished families sent their youngest children, 6 or 7 years old, to the wells with donkeys to fetch water - because they were least likely to be killed or raped. The parents hated themselves for doing this, but they had no choice - they had been abandoned by the world.

That's the cost of our passivity. Perhaps it's unfair to focus so much on Mr. Bush, for there are no neat solutions and he has done more than most leaders. He at least dispatched Condi Rice to Darfur this summer - which is more interest in genocide than the TV anchors have shown.

One group, www.beawitness.org, prepared a television commercial scolding the networks for neglecting the genocide - and affiliates of NBC, CBS and ABC all refused to run it.

Still, the failures of others do not excuse Mr. Bush's own unwillingness to speak out, to impose a no-fly zone, to appoint a presidential envoy or to build an international coalition to pressure Sudan. So, Mr. Bush, let me ask you just one question: Since you portray yourself as a bold leader, since you pride yourself on your willingness to use blunt terms like "evil" - then why is it that you're so wimpish on genocide?

~ J
can you help?

13, September, 2005 "The Birthday of Roald Dahl"

2005-09-13T07:34:00.000-07:00

It's the birthday of Roald Dahl, born in Llandaff, South Wales (1916). He was sent off to private boarding schools as a kid, which he hated except for the chocolates, Cadbury chocolates. The Cadbury chocolate company had chosen his school as a focus group for new candies they were developing. Every so often, a plain gray cardboard box was issued to each child, filled with eleven chocolate bars. It was the children's task to rate the candy, and Dahl took his job very seriously. About one of the sample candy bars, he wrote, "Too subtle for the common palate." He later said that the experience got him thinking about candy as something manufactured in a factory, and he spent a lot of time imagining what a candy factory might be like. Today, he's best known for his children's book, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Today we should all look past the carnage of the south and the grizzly insurgent driven wars in the East and forget our ignorance of the mother earth, and for one day hold back from chiding or scapegoating the Republican cesspool running these United States, it's not their fault, it's greed, they are not the ones in control, they are literally Puppets. (What do you think of a political cartoon in the New York Times OP-ED section with W. in the White house pressroom speaking to correspondents, with a giant hand up his ass labeled Big Oil, the cartoon should be a split view, (the front view), W, at the podium spewing his simpleton rhetoric, (the rear view), W. with a Big Oil up his ass.)

Let us forget all this today 13, September,2005, because It's the birthday of Roald Dahl

~JJ Mercury

Flat Tire

2005-09-11T15:39:00.000-07:00

I went climbing today, it was completely refreshing the weather was hot and humid, but we were in the shade. I climbed four times and was successful(made it all the way to the summit)twice, mind you this is not Everest but the expert wall has this 20 degree grade at the top your really fighting gravity your muscles are straining and if you don't get it the first time, the second and the third attempts get increasingly difficult, finally you reach muscle failure, and can no longer proceed, you must give in to gravity, you fall back finally with a gentle sigh of relief and bound back to earth with the help of a man on the ground. What a delightful afternoon. Time to study and take care of the laundry. On the way here I got a flat...shit!I forgot...

~J.J.Mercury

Blog...Blog...Blog

2005-09-11T09:45:00.000-07:00

Sunday September 11th, 2005. This has been one of the single most lonely weekends of my life. This realization, which was first recognized Friday night while perusing the shelves of the local family Video, alone, meaning there was no human being who made a cognizant decision to be seen with me at the aforementioned Family Video, for while I was alone, I was NOT alone, there were some who spoke only to themselves there were some who spoke to those around them as if they were characters in there sad little movie too, there were those who spoke only in third person, referring to there personal bootleg film collections, "yes, He does already have bootleg hookers three, but it's stretched , haaahaag if you know what I mean. HaaHaag." NO ONE responded to him." This is when I began to feel nausea and dizziness, I started to sway back and forth with each contemplative step, analyzing my weaknesses further and further, telling myself things will inevitably be ok. "They have to get better right." I had reached family-vid limit and while I chose the movies I(heart)Huckabees from dollar rental and Everest Imax from free documentary and educational video section I thought for some reason of the word Blog. It's the sound one makes when gutturally purging three to six 4 ounce packages of Black forest Gummybears onto the street. Coincidence, maybe, maybe not...

~To be continued

J

Nuovissimo

2005-08-31T11:52:00.000-07:00

Looking for love in a woman’s play dough is like living on welfare and bragging that you are successful, you’re just living from paycheck to pay check. I'm trying to talk abbot sex in a very innocuous way as not to offend those of you out there who will read this in an academic setting. I found the one who I thought I loved and well, it became a pay all expenses ride on the moral side, which I desperately needed, don't get me wrong, respect and honesty are invaluable. Those things don't come easy, they have to be fought for. I had to be watched every moment, I had to learn to check myself, I had to learn to love myself. I don’t think that I do yet, but I’m on the way.

~Tomorrow

Nouvissimo Giorni

2005-08-29T09:37:00.000-07:00

Today a decision was made; events were set in motion, that will, drive me with new ferocity toward my goals.