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Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
 Jon hits it. Certification isn't worth doody. "Garbage in, garbage out."
BTW, for those visiting to see my goofy post (above), you might want to check out today's posts. Good stuff.
9:20:59 PM 
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The Toxicology weblog. Worth the visit.
It's a great example of a professional weblog (K-Log), on a serious subject.
9:15:56 PM
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Rick Klau is jazzed by the new high end BMW. After careful consideration, my next car will probably be a 7 series BMW. I have owned a 733i and an X5, both were excellent (although they typically have electrical problems after only a couple of years). The only car that could tempt me is the Prius, just for the geek factor.
7:29:53 PM
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I'm with Dave on his analysis of Friedman's horror (see below). As we (the world) quickly beging to settle in on a single system of economic and social organization (read Fukuyama's "The End of History"), the natural assumption is to believe that the methods of information dissemination we have traditionally used in the western world (one to many broadcast models, where information is presented like the ten commandments) will make the transition intact. Not so. We are moving rapidly towards a world where individual producers and consumers of information are increasingly powerful. We are stepping off one roller coaster (historical conflicts over competitive models of social and economic organization) and onto another potentially more aggressive one (a world where individuals are increasingly in charge of their minds and bodies). The rise of the individual -- leveraged by infotech, biotech, and nanotech -- will require new modes of organization that ride on top of democratic and free market processes. It will take time to sort out this new layer of complexification.
11:02:33 AM
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Newsweek. Another article on weblogs.
10:39:55 AM
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NYT. Friedman is just starting to get the paradox of the "global village" enabled by the Internet. He decries the potential for disharmony in emerging societies due to cacophonous messaging from the west (primarily) over the Internet and cable. His premise: the Internet and multi-channel cable makes it possible for "untrusted" news sources to gain an audience world-wide, and that people in emerging societies aren't sophisticated enough to understand that Fox news and Internet sites managed by untrusted authors aren't reliable sources of news and opinion.
>>>What's frightening him, he added, is that there is an insidious digital divide in Jogjakarta: "Internet users are only 5 percent of the population — but these 5 percent spread rumors to everyone else. They say, `He got it from the Internet.' They think it's the Bible."<<<
Hey. Get over it.
9:52:29 AM
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NYT. Sony delivers the coup de grace to Microsoft's Xbox. Cuts price on Playstation by $100.
8:57:03 AM
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