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The latest twist in the webcaster bill saga – Jesse Helms explains the hold he put on HR 5469: October 21, 2002 Dear Friends, Thanks for letting me know of your opposition to the so-called “webcasting” bill (HR 5469) currently pending in the Senate. I agree that this bill is …

Since my switch over to Blogcritics I have not thrown myself into a lot of overt political controversy. It’s been kind of a nice break, but to avoid this particular flap would be nothing less than cowardice. Charles Johnson, who runs the exemplary and brave Little Green Footballs site is …

In response to the bombings in Bali and the Philippines, performers opt out: – Concert tours to Southeast Asia have become the latest casualty of recent bomb blasts in Bali and the Philippines with veteran jazz guitarist George Benson and rock groups Red Hot Chili Peppers and Oasis canceling shows. …

Baseball and IMAX

It’s a jungle out there in the West Village: THE big prize all the sharp-elbowed paparazzi want to collect – when it happens – is the first photo of Sarah Jessica Parker with her baby. The exclusive photo could be worth more than $200,000, so shutterbugs are already staking out …

What We Eat series hosted by Burt Wolf starts this weekend: The True Story of Why We Put Sugar in Our Coffee and Ketchup on Our Fries A THIRTEEN-PART SERIES PRESENTED BY CONAGRA FOODS IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AIRING IN OCTOBER 2002 ON PUBLIC TELEVISION NEW YORK, May 2002 – …

Record industry going to have to learn to monetize downloading, say conference speakers: The one-day conference, sponsored by American University’s Washington College of Law, was meant to open discussion on how to protect the copyrights of music and other intellectual property in the age of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which allow …

A corollary to yesterday’s post on endless chatter about the Washington sniper – the content of the chatter tends to reveal political mindsets: “When facts are few,” observed the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, “speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.” Or political ideology — as in the case of …

Windows Media 9, with “electronic locks” on songs and videos, being distributed via P2P network: In early September, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates staged a Hollywood gala to impress the recording and movie industries with his company’s latest software for digital music and video, Windows Media 9. A few weeks …

Letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, signed by our own David Weinberger, Doc Searls, and Kevin Marks, among a number of other digerati: Dear Mr. Chairman: We thank you for your leadership in FCC efforts to understand the causes of the current telecom debacle, and especially for convening the FCC’s …