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Monday, April 24, 2000
Carl Hiaasen has a piece in the New York Times' series of writers on writing (free registration required). Hiaasen is the author of many novels including Tourist Season and Sick Puppy. He is also a columnist for the Miami Hearld. You can read his columns from the last month or so (including several sensible ones on Elian). The Wildest Ride in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo which was nominated for an oscar in the best short documentary category airs on http://dsc.discovery.com/>Discovery Tuesday, April 25th at 8 pm & 11 pm eastern time. Entertainment weekly gave it an A- in a http://www.ew.com/ew/tvtoday/0,2544,tue,00.html>brief review. It comes from the same production company which did http://www.gabrielfilms.com/Farm_project_pg.html>The Farm, which is also about Angola Prison and is available on video. Saturday, April 22, 2000
Tuesday, April 18, 2000
A number of reporters for online sites were http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000418/tc/dot_com_clinton_2.html>part of the press pool during Clinton's digital divide tour. Brock Meeks filed stories for MSNBC.com on Clinton's trip to East Palo Alto and his speech at Comdex. He also wrote about what it was like to be on the tour. Monday, April 17, 2000
Monday's New York Times had an http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/041700guggenheim.html>article on Frank Gehry's design for a new Guggenheim museum in New York City. An exhibit on the proposed building opens on Wednesday at the Frank Loyd Wright designed Guggenheim museum. Saturday, April 15, 2000
On Sunday and Monday, protests are taking place against the policies of the IMF and World Bank. Joeseph Stiglitz who was chief economist at the World Bank from 96 til late last year and a top economic advisor to the Clinton Administration before that has a piece in the New Republic, What I learned at the Global Economic Crisis, which is critical of the IMF.
Thursday, April 13, 2000
The New York Post has a story, Kozmo Accused Of Avoiding Black Areas, and I'm sure there will now be more coverage since the Equal Rights Center has sued Kozmo on behalf of two residents of Washington DC who tried to order from the company's website, but were told their zipcodes were not served according to Kozmo.com hit with lawsuit in wake of MSNBC.com probe:
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Eliot Zaret and http://www.cyberwerks.com/cyberwire/>Brock Meeks have done an investigative piece for MSNBC.com, Kozmo’s digital dividing lines. They found "that in the cities it [Kozmo] serves, the company does not offer delivery to many neighborhoods with high concentrations of black residents. The company says it only looks at Internet usage when deciding which areas to serve and says race is not a factor. But some lawyers and advocacy groups say the investigation may have exposed the first case of cyber-redlining." Donna Hoffman, an expert on ecommerce, is quoted in the piece.
Monday, April 10, 2000
The Pulitzer site seems to be back up. They have a http://www.pulitzer.org/2000/2000.html>list of the winners along links to the citations and a list of the other finalists in each category. The finalists in the public service category are worth reading. The Philadelphia Inquirer's series on how the police dealt with sexual assaults was praised for the innovative presentation on the paper's website. And the Chicago Tribune was a finalist for their series on the failure of the death penalty in Illinois. It and the release of innocent people on death row helped lead to Gov. Ryan's decision to impose a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty. The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were just http://www.pulitzer.org/2000/2000.html>announced. I'm actually listening to coverage right now on Freedom Forum's webcast.
Monday, April 03, 2000
As expected, Judge Jackson ruled that microsoft has violated anti-trust law. You can read the opinion in http://usvms.gpo.gov/ms-conclusions.html>HTML or http://usvms.gpo.gov/ms-conclusions.pdf>PDF as well as the earlier findings of fact. Sunday, April 02, 2000
Molly Steenson has an interview with Lisa Miya-Jervis, editor of Bitch Magazine, in Maxi. I wrote an article about Bitch three years ago (the original online version of Bitch was done by the people who created Maxi and my piece gives some background). It looks like we're going to continue being in Elian http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/World/Elian_Gonzales/>overload for a while. I did watch the diane sawyer "visit" with Elian on 20/20. It was bad enough that she did the piece. It was even worse that she used loaded language like this near the end of the piece:
His eyes didn't ask that question, Sawyer imposed her viewpoint on the story. You could just as easily argue that Elian will be hurt more in the long term by being kept from his father and grandparents.
I realize I can just put links to articles I need to go back and read here. Like these articles on the crisis in men's college basketball from the href=http://www.nytimes.com/library/sports/ncaabasketball/040100bkc-ncaa-troubles.html>NYT and washington post (the post link probably will only be good about two weeks). I've been watching too much of the men's and women's NCAA tournament the last couple of weeks. wow, it works. I should have started a weblog a long time ago. I've been posting weblog like items to http://www.bud.com>bud.com, a zine Justin Hall started for nearly two years.
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