Nothing and Some More

I just rewatched Pump up the Volume thanks to the wonderful technology called DVD. I like it.

Watts: We at the F.C.C. feel that democracy is about protecting the rights of the ordinary citizen. Un-regulated radio would result in programming of the lowest common denominator, the rule of the mob.

Boomtown is back on the air.

And, of course, because it's good, it's in trouble of disappearing off the primetime schedule due to middling ratings.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Storyteller

-What are you doing ?
- Entertaining... and... educating.
- Why can't you just masturbate like the rest of us ?

Reader, I've been sinning (in the rain, almost) again. Sin 3, thinking about writing on the web, being read and so on... I have _no_ aspiration of being a journalist. I have no time to be a journalist. I see myself more like a really subjective educator, hinting at worth-a-read webpages, shaping readers opinion but not too much, and always giving enough links. So they can discover the wonderful world of surfing, finding bits of information here and there, discovering new words,worlds,ideas and way of thinking: the World Wide Web.
It also shapes my relation to the number of hits: I'd rather have 2 readers (Google and I) and 50 ex readers now actively writing/compiling words of their own than 500 linking to me. That's why I like Pump Up the Volume (and the music is great, anyways). It doesn't make sense, does it ? watch the movie and let's talk about being a media.

I.T in the next years. I'm pretty sure you've noticed the "On the other hand, the French worship Jerry Lewis as the king of comedy, so we can't expect their actions to be entirely rational."

Panorama informatique français, de semaine en semaine

LeMonde: Quand Pamela Anderson fait baisser le niveau du bal de l'Opéra. And the picture courtesy of Tony Pierce

Un roman de journaliste

Dominique Le Guilledoux a été envoyé spécial du Monde à Grozny. Comme d'autres. Il y a vécu l'enfer, comme d'autres. Il y a pété de trouille, comme d'autres. Il y a fait son métier, comme d'autres de tous médias. Et il en est revenu complètement et à tout jamais marqué. Comme d'autres, d'ici ou de là, du Rwanda, de Sarajevo, de partout où ce métier exige qu'on y tutoie la peur et l'horreur du monde.

Fiction Interactive: Filaments, un nouveau jeu en français pour Inform (via la liste de discution inform-fr)

The man, the myth: Johnny Legend (via GMT+9)

Welcome to the world's largest collection of tongue twisters! I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream! Les chaussettes du mari de l'archiduchesse, chasseur sachant chasser sans son chien, sont seches et archi seches mais sont-elles couleur prune ou poire, dans le panier ou le piano ?

Lingala blog. Le lingala est une langue parlée au Congo. Son auteur l'apprend par amour et consigne ses efforts, trouvailles et observations. (via Mouche)

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Blag (via Jill/txt)

[His] colleague Bill Sherman informs [him] that blog is suspiciously close to "blag," British slang for "talking at length and with authority about something you don't know anything about." Hmm.

Daypop: Tim Bray with its Ongoing - What This Is

It seems to me that a necessary part of blog-ness is lots of links to other web discourse of the day. I'm not a good link transmitter because I don't do that much primary surfing. I track the web through other people's blogs and in particular their newsfeeds, and in particular through NetNewswire.

Read also his Biz and Truth views.
Later: Anomalies

I'm not going to invest the time in running the numbers properly, but a couple of glaring anomalies emerge:

• Macintoshes are over-represented; about 18% of all browser requests. Particularly in the early hours, before the word really got out, the proportion of Macs was very high.
• Internet Explorer is under-represented: 22% of Windows requests came from non-IE browsers, mostly Mozilla with a bit of Netscape and Opera.

I guess this says something about the kinds of people who watch RSS feeds and check out the new weblogs.

Comment nier le choc Islam-Occident ? (via Emmanuel)

Il n'empêche que, dans leur ensemble, les Occidentaux d'aujourd'hui – sur ce point les Européens ne diffèrent pas des Américains – sont sincèrement convaincus de la valeur universelle, c'est-à-dire de l'absolue supériorité, de la démocratie occidentale sur tous les autres systèmes de valeurs et de l'urgence de sa propagation, notamment dans le monde arabo-musulman. C'est un fait.

A rapprocher de L'islam de France entre gauche et conservatisme

Jospin s'exprime, contre la guerre: la France ne peut se déjuger

Une alliance n'est pas une allégeance, un allié n'est pas un vassal, les Nations unies ne sont pas une chambre d'enregistrement des décisions américaines auxquelles il conviendrait seulement de conférer une légitimité juridique. N'ayons aucune hésitation, comme nous l'avons fait au Kosovo, à agir aux côtés des États-Unis contre les antiaméricains de principe – quand leurs choix nous semblent justes. Mais si nous ne les partageons pas, avançons nos propres analyses et, s'ils persistent dans leurs intentions, gardons notre liberté.

Another view on Iraq

I can't get it up