How Dare I?

So how DARE I stay with GCast Podcasting? Lookee here (from their site):

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How DARE I stay with them? Oh, and G-Cast, HOW DARE YOU !?

Panera Bread, Heavy, but light on WiFi

Panera bread locations that have Wifi (not all do), while free, still might come with a price - two prices, in fact:
1: privacy/security - you can forget about it, they track every website you go to and
2: site blocking; one in particular I found rather odd is the blocking of livevideo.com - as they are one of the few from the "ustream/sitckam/blogtv" crowd that actually has an always-defaulted-on Family "Friendly" button!
The problem I find here is that Panera isn't actually checking these blocked sites for contraband, other than perhaps for keywords; such as "twogirlsonecup!". Well, we all know that 99% of those sites are reaction videos and (thanlfully, yet how would I know) not the "real McCoy" - or is it MacCoy? How Dare You, Panera? You need to lighten up or you may find your free access go the way of the dodo.

And, btw, they also block Anonymizer.com - go figure.

Public Access? Net Neutrality? Can anybody say "throttling"?

Shenan Stanley, MS-MVP on tech-archive.net? WHY?

Shenan Stanley, MS-MVP needs to have his MVP status yanked.

I was googling for a way to stop, once and for all, Adobe's shockwave from installing or starting Norton PC whatever-the-crap-software, Shenan didn't help anon. and by default didn't help me.

But, that's not important right now, what is follows:
Check that link - he tells anon. that the SP2 update of WinXP does not "force" the user to install IE7 on their computer. True, but that is NOT what anon. said, nor was that anon.'s concern, nor was that anon',s IT dept.'s concern.

At the time IE7 was being PUSHED on MS customers of XP updating (or not, as it turned out) from SP1 to SP2, MS did not - in fact - force any user to install IE7, BUT every update would always INCLUDE the update to IE7 for EVERY SINGLE UPDATE AFTER installing any update or service pack from then on - until you would actually leave THE BOX CHECKED IN THE UPDATE LIST. Everytime, it never failed to be in s list and checked in that list.

At the same time, a MAJOR known issue of IE7 was that it was not compatible with Blackboard software. That affected a lot of schools who used and still use that service.

PeopleSoft also recommended a "not yet" attitude OFFICIALLY and with CONCURRENCE WITH MS regarding the install of IE7.

All this escaped an MS-MVP? Any MVP that new none of these issues or concerns needs MS to rescind the MVP title from those individuals - and use Stanley as a perfect example.

Shenan Stanley, MS-MVP - How DARE You?

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"

All the more reason to use Acrobat.com's Cloud. Wait a minute.......HEY!

SoundExchange

If you want a lesson in how never to provide CONTENT (I am no guru on visual design) on a website, you need and try to read the flash-only, non-zoomable text web site of SoundExhange. I need say nothing more.

they have re-designed it since I last posted by this date, and yet they still insist on crap-coding - look how their flash-only scroll bar shoves 5% of the left AND right of the whole page out of the window frame! Part of their logo is chopped off on the left, and their contact info to the right.

Morons - and they want even more money from small internet broadcasters! They don't deserve the regulations they have "fought" for.

The Little prince

http://wwww.princefansunited.com/

Go there, and multiply. Prince, How Dare You?

O Ye of Little Faith!



Prince, Pal, Bud....what in the HellBoy is wrong with ye? R U "Crazy"? Oar R U jus B Inge re-COCK-u-LOUS ?

It's a damned good thing that publishing to blogs and bloggers who publish are covered by U.S. Supreme Court Ruling regarding blogs and bloggers' FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Ya, they are kind of covered as far as US law is concerned.

The first time I thought U might B a wee bit outta WHACK, was after hearing Kevin Smith's anecdotal evidence on his College Lecture Tour (also available on YouTube and DVD) - and with this latest spate of crit of your fans critting you, you done stepped over the line with this law suit crap.

B a part of the solution.

In support:






OK, that is the fun side of the issue. Now, for the serious side.
F.U.N.K. , How Dare You?
Kudos to your group in looking to quell anger or consternation among the Prince Nation of Fans, but frankly, if I want to start a blog (fan site), I will start one - whether it is for the P or against the P, I don't care all that much. I like Prince's music. As a person, Prince is a little cry-baby bitch. No, make that Bitch. I am not the problem nor the solution, nor should I be either. Prince is both the problem and the solution when it comes to fan sites (official or unofficial). Fan sites will exist or coexist with or without Prince's help. But, if Prince decides to interfere with the business of fan sites, he should best stay in the Dove World of Music and out the World of Law.
I mean COME ON, who in their right mind thinks an assistant can run out at 3am in the morning for some smokes, when all the damn stores are closed?
Prince, just stay here on Earth with the rest of the dove poop. Quit trying to fly around so high there, bud!

Rights of Excercising your rights. (, and your lefts ?)

Yep, thems are fightin' words! So, here is yet another in a series of plagiarized articles for you to peruse - and I mean peruse!

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How to resolve the dispute over the Daily 49er's future

(Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Reprinted with permission of the author.)

Commentary By William A. Babcock

Faculty members at California State University, Long Beach's Department of Journalism have a two-fold task: to help students understand the mass media and prepare them to survive and thrive in their chosen media field.

One of the best ways journalism instructors can foster the respect for a free and ethical press to both journalism majors and students from all academic disciplines is to provide them with opportunities for publication, be it in traditional print or photojournalism or online writing or graphics or streaming video. Nearly all comparably sized universities in America thus have hefty print and online daily campus newspapers.

Since coming here as department chair six years ago I have seen the number of majors in CSULB's Department of Journalism nearly double as the department has implemented a new student-friendly curriculum, brought in outstanding faculty with professional experience and doctoral degrees and recently become the home for the Southern California News Council. Earlier this year the Department of Journalism received a strong vote of endorsement by an Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications pre-accreditation team that came to Long Beach to assess Journalism's program.

The ACEJMC team, however, was critical of CSULB's lack of support for the campus newspaper, the Daily 49er, saying, "The University needs to face up to the challenge of sustaining a first-rate, independent campus newspaper." The ACEJMC report added, "Virtually no such independent campus papers can and do survive in U.S. universities on advertising revenue alone."

Unfortunately, the Daily 49er now survives almost exclusively on ad revenues, which lately have totaled about $300,000 per year. Thus, the print campus daily newspaper often consists of only a few pages of tabloid-sized newsprint. The Daily 49er generates nearly all of this advertising revenue. By comparison, the online version of the newspaper attracts about $500 in advertising dollars.

CSULB's Department of Journalism is one of nearly two-dozen departments in the College of Liberal Arts, which at one time paid the salary packages of two full-time professional Daily 49er employees and, more recently, made up for any red ink the paper incurred - a figure that often was between $20,000 and $30,000 per year, according to Daily 49er financial records.

Recently, CLA Dean Gerry Riposa said he is considering eliminating the daily print campus newspaper or reducing it to a weekly print paper, and plans to conduct a study to see if this might be feasible.

When he came to the Friday, Sept. 14, departmental meeting in Journalism's conference room to discuss such a study, three student journalists from the Daily 49er newsroom across the hall entered the conference room. A reporter from Long Beach's Grunion Gazette weekly also came into the conference room.

After a few minutes Riposa left the conference room, and was widely overheard in the hallway saying he did not want to discuss a feasibility study with student journalists present, and left the building. Two hours later a Sept. 12-dated memo from Riposa was hand delivered to the Department of Journalism announcing that as of September 2007 CLA would no longer cover cost overruns for the paper from its general funds.

The next working day Riposa said he was removing me as chairman of the Department of Journalism at the end of the week, even though I had been re-elected in May by Journalism faculty to another three-year term. I requested that he retain me as chair until the end of the 2007/08 academic year to avoid disruption to the Department of Journalism. He denied this request.

The purpose of this op-ed piece is not to argue with a dean's ability to dismiss a departmental chair, as chairs serve at the "pleasure" of deans. Rather, the hope is that:

1. Dean Riposa will once again decide that CLA has a stake in having a strong, vibrant, informative daily print and online campus newspaper, and that the college will help fund this daily newspaper accordingly.

2. Provost Karen Gould realizes that a strong, well-funded campus daily newspaper provides an invaluable service to and for all students in a way that is impossible for a journalism class- or lab-newspaper produced as the result of a course assignment for journalism majors.

3. President F. King Alexander exercises his ability to have students pay a modest $4 per semester "circulation" fee for receiving the print Daily 49er, and also provides university funds to offset the salary package (about $75,000) each year of one professional daily campus newspaper employee.

With a campus faculty and student body as large and diverse as that of CSULB, we can't afford to close this vital avenue of dialogue within our community. Riposa, Gould and Alexander are relatively new in their respective positions. The hope is that they all will understand the benefits of fiscally supporting a strong, non-lab print and online daily campus newspaper to which all 35,500 students have been welcome to contribute and of which everyone at CSULB will be proud.

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William A. Babcock is a professor in CSULB's Department of Journalism and executive director of the newly formed Southern California News Council. In a former life he directed the University of Minnesota's Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, served as senior international news editor and writing coach for the Christian Science Monitor and was on the faculty of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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If you're concerned about what's happening at CSU Long Beach and want to do something, write a letter to:

William A. Babcock
Professor, Department of Journalism
& Executive Director, Southern California News Council
1250 Bellflower Blvd., SS/PA 024
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840-4601
E-mail: wbabcock@csulb.edu

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What pisses me off about this, isn't the call for help proposed here by Babcock, but that the writer/publisher feels that much will be righted if we contact Babcock. No, I say. Much comfort might come to Babcock by writing to him. But, as with Congress, if you want it done, you complain about the top to the top - that would be Risoto, Roposa, whoever, you know who I mean. You put the journalistic pressure on that guy, and then you will get change. If a community college can get a butt load of plants removed from a lobby, a Fonte off their backs, and have a Chairman change his mind before we change his eating, drinking, & private "clubbing" arrangements, all by direct confrontation and commentary, then so can Babcock get his word to the wise-ass, I mean WISE MAN, Rizzo, Riposa, wh...you know who I mean.

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