http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/the_legend_of_dennis_hayes.php Those of you under 30 may never have heard of Dennis Hayes. But once he was somebody. I knew him. His was one of the first tech stories I wrote in Atlanta, back in 1982. Dennis Hayes made modems. His... 49433@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/26/evolution_changes_its_mind_again.php One of the great absurdities of the “intelligent design” debate is when someone says “science says.” Scientists say a lot of things. Scientists agree (and sometimes disagree). The consensus among scientists is what science “teaches.” But that consensus can change,... 49336@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Science 2006-02-26T15:00:45-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/what_must_craigslist_do.php News of the Civil Rights lawsuit aimed at making Craigslist mediate its listings has hit The New York Times. The Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law says that the company’s current ads often violate laws against non-discrimination.... 49181@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-23T15:45:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/18/danas_quick_writing_course.php I've been writing for over 40 years, professionally for 30. If you're interested in doing the same, here's a simple four-step process that will make your writing all it can be. Writing is easy to learn, easy to do. But... 48837@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ fun stuff 2006-02-18T10:13:57-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/17/blog_pimple_about_to_pop.php Slate has another of those "blog bubble about to pop" stories out. (The doll's name is pimple, available here. We are not into grossing y'all out here at Mooreslore.) As a business story it may be 100% accurate. As a... 48828@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ blogging 2006-02-17T13:11:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/14/yahoo_gets_lost_in_translation_baddaboom_baddabing.php Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That's actress Charlize Theron, but she's very small, hard to recognize. That's deliberate, as you'll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with... 48566@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-02-14T14:37:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/12/the_phony_fon_scandal.php By ignoring what blogging is about, The Wall Street Journal has created a scandal out of whole cloth. Here's the conflation, in a nutshell. Journalists can blog, and blogs can be journalism. Thus many journalists assume all blogging is journalism.... 48413@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-12T17:40:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/08/a_blogger_ethics_panel.php I have been a journalist for over three decades now, and a blogger for almost five. Want to know the difference between the two? Bloggers admit mistakes. Why is that? Simple. News cycles. Authority. The first is an outgrowth of... 48151@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-08T20:23:19-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/a_world_of_rationed_liberty.php If you want to launch a lynch mob against the "Chinese Communists," I'll probably be there with a pitchfork. I'm an American who believes in ordered liberty, after all. Of course, when Congress tried to get the leaders of the... 47776@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-02T14:16:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/corruption_on_the_web.php Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos is a big investor in incumbency. And he gets value for money. OpenSecrets.Org reports that he gave $84,000 in political contributions during the 2004 cycle, and has (with his wife) given another $24,700 in 2005. The... 47774@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2006-02-02T13:31:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/19/murder_the_beloved_country.php One reason I haven't been around much lately is I have been (finally) reading Salman Rushdie's latest 2005 1997classic Shalimar the Clown. Like all great writers Rushdie tends to be ahead of his time, sometimes far ahead. Just as his... 46726@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ fun stuff 2006-01-19T14:38:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/the_watermarking_of_the_web.php The news business is going to try cracking down on the Web this year. Already, I'm seeing all news pictures, even common mug shots of celebrities, given labels. They're small, usually in a corner. They read AP or AFP or... 45768@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T16:02:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/congress_passes_blatantly_unconstitutional_law_against_internet_speech.php If Congress thought Netizens were angry before, now we're furious. Declan McCullagh revealed today that buried inside some must-pass legislation from last year is a provision from Sen. Arlen Spector, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that bans all anonymous... 45801@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T14:33:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/29/end_impeachment_talk_now.php There has been some talk on the left calling for the impeachment of President Bush. That talk should end now. No competent legal authority has the facts justifying any charge. The Congress is the only such authority, and Congress has... 45044@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2005-12-29T08:02:26-05:00