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"Many studies suggest a glass or two of red wine is good for health Scientists in Italy are developing a pill that will have all of the health benefits of a glass of red wine. " though the researchers remark, ""However, as a general rule we advise people to stick to original foods instead of taking supplements." BBC News, Thursday, January 15, 2004.

The party car in full swing on the last of 10 cars of a Bay Area Rapid Transit train. January 24, 2004.

Boingboing reports: An anonymous partycarster says, "The last car on the BART is always the party car. Critical mass transit. Friday, Jan 23rd - 16th/mission BART - Richmond train departing at 5:30 if you miss that train, get the next one. bring music, visuals, people."

"Instead of having to wait for Windows to boot, the technology allows all a PC's entertainment functions - TV, DVD, CD, MP3, radio - to be run on a pared-down version of the open-source Linux operating system, called LinDVD. Rather than sitting on a hard drive, LinDVD is small enough to be held in a read-only memory chip and boots in 10 seconds flat." New Scientists, January 16, 2004

The IADIS WWW/Internet 2004 Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments.

"Camera phones changing the definition of picture-worthy: Unlike the traditional camera, the camera phone is an intimate and ubiquitous presence that invites a new kind of personal awareness, a persistent alertness to the visually newsworthy that makes amateur photojournalists out of its users." -- Japan Media Review, Wireless Report 01.26.04

Keitai Log

Keitai Log, an occasional Web diary by a group of Tokyo college students who are researching the changing role of cell phones -- keitai -- in Japanese society. Check in every week for new musings from our keitai team reporting in from the wireless capital of the world.

Japan Media Review

Japan Media Review, an online-only journal that examines how emerging technologies are changing the practice, ethics, law, business and politics of journalism in Japan.

"MoveOn claims 2.3 million members whose energy has been channeled into advocacy and millions of dollars for anti-Bush ads - much of it coming in very small donations from people who never gave to politicians before.

'It's been a magic injection of courage and backbone for the Democratic party in many ways,' said Democratic consultant Jenny Backus. 'We've been overwhelmed by talk radio and Republicans' ability to stir up their base, and MoveOn has really stepped into that void.'"

The MoveOn.Org itself links to a third thread of organizing -- MeetUp.Com.

"According to figures released last October by Perseus Development Corporation, a company that designs software for online surveys, there are expected to be 10 million blogs by the end of 2004. In the news media, the blog explosion has been portrayed as a transformation of the industry, a thousand minipundits blooming. But the vast majority of bloggers are teens and young adults. Ninety percent of those with blogs are between 13 and 29 years old; a full 51 percent are between 13 and 19, according to Perseus. Many teen blogs are short-lived experiments. But for a significant number, they become a way of life, a daily record of a community's private thoughts -- a kind of invisible high school that floats above the daily life of teenagers." Emily Nussbaum, New York Times Magazine, Sunday, January 11, 2004

The blog sites mentioned, (re)arranged in what seems to be a popularity order -- at least in the school she visited --

• LiveJournal
• Xanga
• Blurty
• DeadJournal
• DiaryLand

fotolog

fotolog.net hosts personal and "group" photo logs - ramen, tokyotoday, ... photos are also sortable by city, state, country, and probably other parameters. A bit more variety (or perhaps just randomness) - and a lot better resolution - than a webcam. Time versus Space? Warhol versus ?

WINKsite workcreates a free mobile site, moblog or community that's available worldwide on any web-enabled phone, keitai, PDA or desktop PC. Each WINKsite is outfitted with easy-to-use mobile channels including mobile chat, blog, syndicated feeds, RSS-to-Mobile aggregator, surveys, journal, rant/rave, agenda, guestbook, links, field reports, notes, email and more.

UIQ

The user-interface (UI) is the software on a mobile phone that the user operates from the moment it is switched on to the moment it is switched off.

UIQ is, the customizable pen based user-interface platform for media rich phones based on Symbian OS, can be found at www.uiq.com/uiq. A sample of UIQ phones is at ww.uiq.com/uiqphones.

"The Hello World Project will [...] let you send a short message by Internet or SMS and you can have it projected on a major landmark in one of four cities around the globe: the UN headquarters in New York, a fountain in Geneva, a mountainside in Rio de Janeiro or a skyscraper in Bombay. Seven languages are supported." -- Seattle PI, December 09, 2003

Also found at "Say hello to the world," Mumbai Newsline, India - Dec 8, 2003

the OGIA system is modeled on the (now defunct?) TIA (terrorist information awareness (nee total information awareness)) system. it is designed to provide government (personnel, agency, organization) information to ordinary citizens.

see also the essay Of Friendsters and Foes: The conspiracy art of Mark Lombardi: Crime-fighting tool, Lawrence Rinder, Village Voice, December 8th, 2003 4:00 PM