message | Kris Smith has read these articles about "message" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "message" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpCopycat or Hoax- February 17, 2008 UIC Campus at night by Elliot et Zach. UIC officials have arrested a 24-year-old student after she allegedly sent out e-mails threatening violence on the West Loop Campus. The e-mail apparently went out Friday afternoon, and an eventual recipient was a senior administrator who reported the e-mail to police. According to a university spokesperson, the e-mail threatened violence in the spring. Chicago policed assisted UIC officials in the investigation. It's not clear how many people...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chicagoist/~3/236511909/copycat_or_hoax.php Michael Bay singlehandedly wins the HD format war- February 14, 2008 Filed under: HDTV Finally, Michael Bay has stepped down from Cheese Mountain to pontificate on the finer points of the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray war. Speaking from the inner-sanctum of his lair -- located equidistant from the Church of Scientology and a gigantic cotton candy stand -- Mr. Bay reminds us that, "Blu-ray's better, and I told everyone," then goes on to further prop himself by adding, "I was very vocal about it. I knew HD DVD was not going to make it." We're glad that Bay can sleep at...http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/235027984/ FriendFeed: I Think They Get It- February 13, 2008 It's been just a couple of days after I posted my epiphany regarding FriendFeed. I've noticed that I've spent more and more time in the system, and it's starting to take the place of TechMeme and Digg, to a certain extent, for me. Whether it's a commentary on how astute the folks I chat with online are in spotting important upcoming news stories, or the speed at which the FriendFeed system updates the myriad of RSS feeds it indexes, I'm able to catch the news there before it shows up in any...http://mashable.com/2008/02/12/friendfeed-comment-moderation/ New: SMS Messages Sent From Paper- February 12, 2008 The website Yanko Design describes a fascinating new product it is distributing. This would be D: Scribe, a digital fountain pen that allows users to send SMS and email messages from paper. Here's how this works. You write out your message and circle your recipient's name. The pen also records everything you write which can be accessed on a computer. What's going on underneath We're told it is a quill and inkwell-based architecure, whereas the quill is the writing apparatus and the inkwell...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MobileMessaging20/~3/233736681/ Succeeding in Independent Online Media- February 7, 2008 Last year around this time, we all thought for sure that independent video makers were all just months away from making it. Someone would be first, and then the rest of us would roll along behind in this massive zeitgeist and we'd all be making $200,000 a year or something making videos. (Maybe we all didn't think that. I thought it, and so did a bunch of folks I'd talk with at events.) This year, I get into conversations all the time, usually in email, and often in desperation, about how...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/chrisbrogandotcom/~3/230961247/ Some of the Tweets All of the Time vs. All of the Tweets Some of the Time- February 6, 2008 I find Twitter to be both fun and useful, but, rather infamously, it's also always been rather spotty with regard to uptime. The entire service has had a tendency to go down somewhat frequently ever since its inception. Over the last week or so, however, I've noticed something different: the service has been up (for the most part), but individual tweets are seemingly being dropped. The main place I've noticed this is with replies (a message sent to username is treated by Twitter as a reply or..http://daringfireball.net/2008/02/tweet_dropping BREAKING: WGA meeting Saturday at Shrine- February 6, 2008 The WGA West has announced the time for its general membership meeting on the negotiations -- Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the Shrine Auditorium south of downtown Los Angeles.Members have been told to bring a picture ID. The WGA's hoping to have a draft contract to present to the boards of the WGA West and WGA East and negotiating committee by Friday. In an email message to members late Monday the WGA's negotiating committee chief John Bowman notified members of the upcoming informational meetings..http://weblogs.variety.com/wga_strike_blog/2008/02/breaking-wga-me.html |