| Requiem for Old-Time Radio
I remember what we now call "terrestrial radio" with ridiculous fondness. I recall huddling with it long past bedtime, the volume set low, hoping to hear something I loved. Thus the truism of how radio is the most intimate medium: You're in bed with the lights out, the music and the DJ's voice going straight into your brain, the images created are yours alone. I remember, with terrible pangs of longing, my first days as a college radio DJ. Doing a 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. slot in a small town in Ohio, even if, during those still and wintry nights, I could have been the last living person on earth for all the people who were actually listening. All of which testifies to how old I am. Realities of the music world—the explosion in both expression and availability, first on independent labels and now everywhere, thanks to the Internet—began overtaking commercial radio stations well over 20 years ago.
S.F. park to host massive music festival
The inaugural Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival will launch with all the subtlety of a rocket ship. With a lineup that includes headliners Radiohead, Tom Petty and Jack Johnson, this three-day festival has the potential to be one of the biggest concerts in Bay Area history. The event is set for Aug. 22-24 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Radiohead will headline the first night, with Petty and Johnson batting cleanup on, respectively, Aug. 23 and 24. Those are the only three names that have yet been announced. The festival is being put together, in part, by the same folks that present the mammoth Bonnaroo Festival each summer in Tennessee. The event, perhaps the most ambitious in the park's rich history of hosting concerts, will feature five performance stages and the programming will represent a wide range of styles, from rock and blues to hip-hop and reggae to soul and jazz.
Sex, lies & surveillance
Some of the clients listed have never actually used Morgan Turner Freeman for a specific job. "They just like people to know they've got us on their side," says Michaels. "Sometimes people just flash around one of our business cards. 'We're going to get these guys looking at you.' That happens a lot." Where a Damien Delzoppo will sort out a crisis in the tour bus circuit (one operator serially slashing the tyres of his Asian-tourist toting competitors) for $2500, Michaels' firm will shut down a multimillionaire theft of construction business for a multinational for about $250,000. "The trick to dealing with a big company is shrinking down the number of people who you're talking to. The less people who know that we're taking a particular route to get the job done the better. We prefer to deal with only the person who is writing the cheque." He points to a recent construction job in Singapore, where an inside mole was diverting business to another operation run by a former employee.
Category: virtualization
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Apple and Business — Is it 25 Years Too Late? Posted in: Open Source Personal Technology Hardware Infrastructure Apple Linux Microsoft Datacenter Utility computing Hewlett-Packard IBM Intel iPhone Red Hat Research In Motion VMware virtualization EMC RIM Sun Dell Hey, Apple's releasing the Insanely Great iPhone SDK so we can all write enterprise iPhone applications! They're going to make the iPhone compete with the BlackBerry and hook it up to corporate Exchange email servers! Whoopee! Apple has a Business strategy! Oy vey. Look, I think it's great that Apple is finally doing something with the iPhone to make it into something that Crackberry addicts like myself might finally find as an attractive alternative.
HP Launches Program Promoting Cultural and Environmental Awareness ...
Despite the news-making circumstances of today's world and the media's attention to global issues, studies show that young adults in the United States and abroad have little knowledge of geography and other cultures. According to a recent National Geographic-Roper survey, three out of 10 young adults surveyed worldwide were unable to locate the Pacific Ocean on a world map. Eighty-three percent of young Americans could not find Afghanistan. Through the HP Digital Cultural Exchange program, HP is inviting a dozen schools from the United States, Argentina, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, India, Lebanon and Senegal to come together to learn about each other's countries, customs and cultures through an exchange of photo essays. The photo essays will be shared online during the program, which will culminate with a live exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in May.
Video: PR Newswire to Acquire Leading Hispanic Press Release, Clipping ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire today announced its acquisition of Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips, and Hispanic Digital Network, recognizing the need for highly targeted marketing tools among those who communicate with the influential, fast-growing Hispanic market. Manny Ruiz, President and co-founder of the Miami-based businesses, as well as the company's senior management team will join PR Newswire and assume responsibility for creating additional services to benefit the Hispanic marketplace. "We are very pleased to join forces with PR Newswire because they share our passionate commitment to serving our clients, media partners and the Hispanic community," said Ruiz, who will remain the company's president. "The tangible benefits of this partnership will be immediately evident to our clients in the form of 24/7 hours of operation, expanded product offerings and soon to be launched, new communications services." "The acquisition of Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips and Hispanic Digital Network is in line with PR Newswire's mission to enhance our multicultural services in the U.S.
Creating a lasting impression
One recent week, her calendar was booked with more than 70 hours of appointments, meetings and tasks. District officials say her trademark focus and drive will be needed more than ever during her final months on the job. She wants her successor to inherit the district with no unfinished projects. Part of it is the superintendent's desire for closure, but, mostly, it's about leaving a mark. "It's leaving a legacy," Cowan said. "I want mine to be that the Auburn School District is a great organization that is running well." A meticulous leader Colleagues say Cowan is a persistent leader who goes out of her way to understand the ins and outs of her schools, which takes her out of the office and into schools and homes.
Time to Dump IE?
The tight ties to Windows means that the slightest IE security issue becomes an OS-wide panic. It's not just IE, either: Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, and even DirectX, are all, in my opinion, overly integrated and give hackers too much access to core PC functions. But corporate users don't spend a lot of time playing with DirectX-based games, listening to Windows Media Player, or checking e-mail with Outlook Express. They do spend a lot of time in IE, and the more they surf the more they're vulnerable to its eccentricities. That's why more than a few corporations, not to mention individual users, are looking at alternativesany alternativeto the built-in browser. Browsing the Alternatives
Despite dire predictions from Netscape (now a unit of America Online, which, weirdly, continues to bundle IE with its software), the market for non-Microsoft browsers didn't go away.
HANNA: A CITY'S HAVEN
You'd also have 20 miles of trails that wind through one of the largest pieces of true Coastal Hardwood Hammock left on the Southeastern coast. Why not throw in a 60-acre freshwater lake where speckled perch bite year-round and 10-pound largemouth bass get caught by kids? While you're wishing, add over 100 species of seasonally indigenous birds, including the white pelican, belted kingfisher and sharp-skinned hawks. Don't forget possums, raccoons, armadillos, squirrels, marsh rabbits and an elusive bobcat or two. The truth is you do own the parcel of land described above if you live in the City of Jacksonville. It's Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park, owned and operated by the city. And as taxpayers and residents, it's yours. It was the fishing that called me to Hanna Park. The name has come up almost weekly, while writing fishing reports or forecasts for the newspaper.
May 2007 Archives
But on Wednesday I was at the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park in NYC having cocktails at Rise bar and who walked out on the balcony bar but Steve Schirripa. The name may not ring a bell, but he plays Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri -- Tony's brother-in-law. I contemplated tackling him when he walked by, so I could rough him up and get some finale secrets, but I thought better of it. He's slightly bigger than me. I guess I can wait two weeks. More: Sex on My Desk writer Josey Miller had a great star sighting of her own -- Chris Noth (a.k.a. Sex and the City's Mr. Big, who I've bumped into a few times in the last couple years.) You must read her post about their tense run-in. He wasn't all that nice. .
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