23/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Security by Hunter S. Thompson
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23/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Who's the coolest blogger of them all? - That's not Google
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23/02/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
jimray : Google does the movies - movie:keyword gives you reviews, etc [via waferbaby]
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23/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : Norman Koren photography: images and tutorials - More photo howto
kayodeok : Norman Koren photography: images and tutorials - Tutorials on photography
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23/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : I am a kottke.org micropatron
jkottke : Support kottke.org by becoming a micropatron - I will be working full-time on kottke.org for the next year (more info here) and I need your help to do so. If you are a regular reader or find kottke.org valuable in any way, please consider supporting the site by becoming a kottke.org micropatron.
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23/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : How to Do Anything Photographic - Take better pickshures [via mefi]
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Philippe Janvier : Uunderstanding Vorn - "Understanding VORN has seen suicide notes, sex pictures, and love letters, but these poignant moments inevitably get swallowed by time, as the program advances, obsessed with finding what's new". [via] #
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ricmac : Wired News on Kottke quitting his job to blog - "He [Rafat Ali of paidcontent.org] estimates that as much as 80 percent of the blogging world's revenues will probably come from advertising."
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23/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Shinkuro - secure, cross-platform file sharing, screen sharing, and chat for private groups [via] [via]
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23/02/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Ten Steps for Boosting Your Creativity - Can't hurt (cancelling cable as soon as the ACC tournament is over!) [via /popular]
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23/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Life Poster - Photoshop Instructions - "...the instructions for creating a life poster using Photoshop..." [via] #
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23/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
ricmac : Day two of kottke.org full-time - "...while I think the micropatronage idea fits the best with what I'm doing, there are also elements of the subscription idea in there as well."
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23/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Doonesbury on file-sharing - Trudeau's covering the topic all week
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23/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : ExplorerXP adds tabs to Windows Explorer - freeware utility for Win2k/XP [via] [via]
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Making your video look more like movies
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23/02/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Strike threat to Paris 2012 bid - Ah! This is so typically French. At least they won't be able to say they weren't warned. Strikes here are about annoying the most folks, not management
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23/02/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Philippe Janvier : spip.blog - Un blogue spip sur les blogues spip. [via] #
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23/02/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Andy Baio : WTF OMG - from the Found Objects group on Livejournal
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23/02/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jkottke : Ken Rockwell, who runs an excellent photography site, explains the dangers of fetishizing your gear - "Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images."
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23/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Scientists at Cardiff University have detected a galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - A galaxy without stars? There's a mindjob for you.
plasticbag : Astronomers find star-less galaxy - An entire galaxy apparently composed of dark matter - couldn't be more imaginatively evocative if it tried, even if reality will probably prove less interesting...
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23/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Some U.S. appeals court judges are skeptical of the Broadcast Flag - "'It's going to have less content if it's not protected, but Congress didn't direct that you have to maximize content,' Sentelle said. 'You can't regulate washing machines. You can't rule the world.'"
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23/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : High mileage travellers get extra special perks as part of their frequent flyer memberships - Free luggage from Delta? That's as lame as most of the bags and backpacks you get at conferences.
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23/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kellan : DownHill Battle is looking for a Mass. based PHP coder. - You just know you'll be working on something cool. #
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jkottke : A dream of journalism without advertising - From E.W. Scripps' experiment in Chicago to trying to A.J. Liebling's vision of newspapers funded by endowments.
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23/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : How to buy lenses for your Nikon camera - Includes a good section on digital.
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23/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with David Foster Wallace in which he talks about challenging readers - "I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own s
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23/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Thants - If you don't know why this script makes me laugh like a ninny, then you're missing one of the best comedies on TV. #
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23/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Beekeeper Comix has returned! - Two years after "Shutterbug Follies" wrapped up, Bee has a new series of weekly adventures.
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23/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : $2.50 for your thoughts - $2.50 for your thoughts: Jason Kottke quits his day job to become a full-time blogger. Will you pay him for that?
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Matthew M. Boedicker : a nice cool glass of Joyce
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Richard Rutter : Killing programs under OS X - An aide-memoire pour moi. Answer: Activity Monitor (filed under Apple).
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Ethan Marcotte : Superman is a dick. - Irrefutable proof.
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Andy Baio : Creative Commies t-shirt in Maxim - very weird context for the illustration
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Andy Baio : Banned Books in the Year 2191 - [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Author's father leaves bad reviews of son's book on Amazon - the only review less than 4 stars [via] [via]
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Anne van Kesteren : What have you guys been doing since IE6? - W3C? Huh? #
Simon Willison : What have you guys been doing since IE6? - With regards to rendering, the answer appears to be "not a lot". (via) [via]
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deusx : Our waste howling 'cyberness' | csmonitor.com - "I, for one, am not convinced that the computer will ever be a terribly useful tool for real, personal connections." Hrm. Well, *most* of my real, personal connections have been made via computer.
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23/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? - Using dirty technology tricks to maintain your cash flow?
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Ethan Marcotte : Baby got...book? - "I like big Bibles and I cannot lie, you Christian brothers can't deny..." How far we've fallen.
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23/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Jon Stewart on bloggers - Hilarious
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23/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
plasticbag : The Mapping of a Cat's Brain - Been everywhere meme that I liked despite myself...
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23/02/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Standards du web : théorie et pratique - Un dossier du JDN sur les standards web. [via] #
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23/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Tidy Service - OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy (filed under Tools & software).
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23/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : M. J. Rose interviews Kevin Smokler of Virtual Blog Tours - "...If we can look past our fears and prejudices and embrace the opportunities that blogs, rss feeds, wikis, social software, that web 2.0 presents to us, I think it has the potential to revolutionize the way we connect books and readers..."
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jimray : Bookbinders - Life Editions; Fremantle, Western Australia - Groovy journals, books n stuff [via journalismo]
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jimray : glarkware - I'm a sucker for a good ironic t-shirt, what can I say
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jimray : AARP Social Security Blog - Damn, those folks can squeeze a lot of text into a space, that's fer damn sure (also, get off our damn lawn ya, crazy kids!)
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jkottke : Some PBS stations are unwilling to air a documentary with profanity in it for fear of getting fined by the FCC - I hope the web remains a wild and woolly place for expression of all kinds, it's content not shaped by the FCC's self-marketing concerns.
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Boston Wireless Advocacy Group
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Matthew M. Boedicker : How was Paris Hilton's Sidekick hacked?
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Andy Baio : How Paris Hilton got hacked? - weak security question, but also a weak security system [via] [via]
Rod Begbie : MacDevCenter.com: How Paris Got Hacked? - Paris Hilton's dog responsible for hacking? #
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23/02/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : Phallic cookery - "It would look like the food was creating a progression of ideas where (1) I like the shape of cock and balls, and then (2) I express my happiness about cock and balls by rearranging the meat to look like a smile".
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jkottke : The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less - And very few of those words are small.
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jkottke : The 10 best-selling books of all time - The Bible and Mao's little red book are #1 and #2.
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jkottke : How to repel telemarketers - "Caller ID says: MCI. Jonah picks up and says: ATT Wireless, how can I help you?"
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ricmac : Complex Ecosystems and the End of the Dinosaurs - Somehow connects the age of dinosaurs to the age of the Internet, explaining evolution along the way, in a single blog post!
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jkottke : If you're looking to upgrade yuor camera, Dell has a deal going on the Canon 20D dSLR, just $1304 - Free shipping and no taxes in a lot of states.
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jkottke : The 2005 Independent Food Festival Awards - Love their categories: "Baking Sugar with the Most Personality" and "Food Worth the Risk of Injury".
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jkottke : Massive, massive spoilers for Star Wars Episode 3 - Don't read this if you don't want to know what happens.
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Isofarro : Introduction to Jython - 'you can embed Python directly into your Java applets and applications, or you can use Java classes in Python, along with the modules of the standard library that Jython supports'
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Isofarro : What about the Users? - 'Web content is easy to modify by its very nature, and that's not going to change... it shouldn't change. Users have a right to see your content as they want to see it... and if you don't like that, take it to a different medium.'
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Isofarro : ROTFLMAO at Google Toolbar Attacks - 'I thought I was enhancing my experience and tailoring the web to work the way I'd prefer. Instead, I was walking down the slippery slope of Big Brother control of the web. If that plug-in can insert a graphic after a PDF, for example, what's to stop it f
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ricmac : ThinkEquity - investment bank blog - "ThinkEquity is betting that the blog will attract analysts, bankers, investors, venture capitalists and anyone else interested in talking about growth investing, and in the process, help the company generate ideas."
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Andy Baio : Paypal Fee Calculator - a neat little utility [via] [via]
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Andy Baio : Gorilla Cover Gallery - 500+ comic book covers featuring gorillas [via] [via]
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23/02/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
cobra libre : classic love songs! - chances are you've heard most of these, but they're all gooood [via] #
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Andy Baio : AllofMP3.com facing criminal copyright investigation by Russian police - well, there goes the best pseudo-legal source of DRM-free music online [via] [via]
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23/02/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Charles Miller : The Graded Theory of Male Braid Length - The graded theory of male braid length. A must-read for any would-be vikings out there.
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23/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Introduction to Jython - Short but sweet; covers the essentials nicely.
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23/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : The Observer Blog - All kinds of funky blog gizmos on this one. (via) [via]
Rod Begbie : Observer Blog - The traditional media and the "blogosphere" collide some more. Excellent regular content from the fine folks at The Observer. [via] #
plasticbag : Observer Blog launches with help from Mr Hammersley - Much more attractively designed than the Guardian's current crop of weblogs - we'll have to wait and see if the content's interesting
jimray : Observer Blog - The Observer has a damn slick looking blog [via linkbunnies]
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23/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Code for Fighting Google AutoLink - Code for Fighting Google AutoLink: we all knew this would happen
François Nonnenmacher : Code for Fighting Google AutoLink - Already!
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23/02/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Andy Baio : The Jayhawks break up - to me, they broke up when Mark left the band [via] [via]
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23/02/2005 @ 01:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Nullifying insidious HTML 3.2 constructs - Heh, although it may be a bad. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Firefox IDN Info - Plugin that shows possible spoofed domains using the info box. #
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23/02/2005 @ 01:01 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate - Haha! And so true. #
Ethan Marcotte : How to spot a web standards advocate - Funny 'cause it's true. Or something.
Paul Hammond : HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate - If there is a match, you have spotted a wannabe
deusx : HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate - "If there is a match, you have spotted a wannabe."
Eric Meyer : HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate - An oldie but a goldie.
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23/02/2005 @ 01:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla soft hyphen development fund - Heh [via] #
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Anne van Kesteren : WordPress 1.5 Migration - When I migrate to anything, I do not want all my posts to be marked as new. Not everyone has to know I am migrating. At least not that way. #
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23/02/2005 @ 01:00 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : and now for a little zen - The book! The book! #
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Anne van Kesteren : Search Phrases. What the?! - Heh #
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23/02/2005 @ 00:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : pointless xul - Yeah, too bad. Maybe someone should create a wrapper or such? #
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Anne van Kesteren : Entity Parsing - Read comment 3 before jumping to conclusions. #
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23/02/2005 @ 00:59 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Extending the list of CSS pseudos - Hmm. For how many situations would this be useful? #
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23/02/2005 @ 00:58 GMT
Steve Cook : Bradley's Almanac posts some live Low MP3s - Because nothing says Valentine's Day like "I Remember"
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23/02/2005 @ 00:58 GMT
Steve Cook : Have Love, Will Travel - And two other indie Valentine's songs from Drew.
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Steve Cook : Symmes' globe - "Globe used by John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) to illustrate his theory that the earth is hollow and that the interior, reachable through openings at the Poles, is habitable." Libraries -rule-.
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23/02/2005 @ 00:57 GMT
Steve Cook : Stats Weenie: a blog devoted to tracking browser market share - "This probably indicates a significant change in their methodology. This change is most noticable in the figures for 'unknown' browsers, which have jumped from their previous background level of 0.2-0.3% to about 1.6-1.7%."
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Steve Cook : Correcting the "Crimeogenic" Crowd - City Comforts responds to a Reason hit piece on the New Urbanism.
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Steve Cook : Ordinary Least Square: The Puck Stops Here - Ongoing analysis of the forces determined to kill hockey.
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Steve Cook : Touch and Go Records - The record label of Shellac, Naked Raygun, and the Mekons is now "internet savvy" (and blinding!).
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23/02/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Steve Cook : Black and Decker Jar Opening Robot - But is it proud of its beauty? Can it sing a duet with you?
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Steve Cook : An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis - The efficient market theory hits baseball. (via Infectious Greed)
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Steve Cook : There%u2019s Someone at the Door, He Says He%u2019s From the Future. - Two men spend two years making a random 18-year-old gamer the subject of their art project, in which he is informed he is the savior of the future human race. Possibly the greatest conceptual art piece of our time.
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23/02/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Steve Cook : The Uncle Liam Show - My uncle is awfully cool, but I never got a music video from him.
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23/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cutpurse - The Dekker and Middleton play, otherwise only middlin', features my favorite Jacobean cross-dresser: she swears, she fights, she speaks to high and low, and she refuses to get married at the end.
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23/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Experts have not yet quite swallowed the blogospheric Kool-Aid - A majority of experts think the future of art and entertainment is digital (and increasingly amateurized), but only a third foresee terminal partisan filtering.
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