All Driving Licenses 2B Re-Evaluated & Renewed :: Disregard of SC Orders on Noise Pollution

10:45 PM 10/29/2005 :: 2 hours extension till midnight 15 days a year, and only the state guvs can grant the permission... this is just a PR exercise... hoi polloi being informed 4 the first tme that there is something wrong even though the numbers on their side... but all through the Nav Raatrii durga Kali kaalii festivity feast fest festival, which went on till about 2 in the morning. Not just that but it was broadcast or citycast or narrowcast whatever LIVE!?!... and about 4.30 the Moslems used loudspeakers la Ramazaan... blew sirens 5.40 AM etc., innocent hoi polloi or blatant disregard 4 the supreme koraT... and shudn't SC is PLed about the driving licenses renewal & reevaluation with new standards and regulation... will generate employment 4 millions... the trainers and educators of driving... this wud save 100s of thousand lives...

½+ Journoes Blogg... But here not even 1% Publications aware of RSSing

01:24 AM 10/23/2005 :: NDTV, TOI, The Hindu doesn't have RSS [Really Simple Syndication] as yet... nor does HT, Deccan Herald/Chronicle. But Indian Express is on big way on this new syndicating... many other publications 2b checked... write 2 them, urging them 2 join the bandwagon... poor Kashmir/ kaashmiir quake relief effort... lack of coordination, lack of resources... even mass-media so friggin' slow... unconnected 2 the distant unapproachable places on a Hilly terrain... AfgHaan donated a million dollars 2 the USA post Katrina, wonder how much they gave 2 the Kaashmiiris... RSS @ Harvard Law :: Syndication technology hosted by the Berkman Center :: RSS 2.0 Specification and probably the best rss feed reader is @ the feedreader.com... best basic rss2 feed generator is Feed4all

More than half of journalists use blogs :: Shel Holtz blogg

06:21 AM 10/11/2005 :: So only 11% of all Internet users read blogs [erlier term 4 weblogger was Linkalist as in Journalist] according to Pew Internet and American Life study. If you think that means blogs wield little influence, you need to break those numbers down. Among that 11% are are a lot of journalists, 51% according to an annual study of media’s use of the Net. And 28% rely on blogs for their day-to-day reporting.

It’s no great stretch to conclude that blogs are influencing the content that gets into the mainstream media.

The Survey of Media has been going on for some time; I [Shel Holtz] cited it in the first edition of my book, “Public Relations on the Net,” which was published in 1999, and it already had five years’ worth of data at that point. Columbia University’s Dr. Steven Ross has been with the study since it started, partnering with Don Middleberg of New York’s Middleberg Public Relations. According to Ross—who is also a partner in Euro RSCG Magnet (which acquired Middleberg):

"As blogs continue to gain in popularity, quality and influence, it is becoming imperative that journalists and journalism students continue to integrate blogs, especially blogs that cover technology, into their reporting practices. A number of credible and influential Weblogs - such as Scobleizer, Gizmodo, and Boing Boing"- provide an invaluable trove of research, story ideas, and other information that current and future journalists would be remiss not to leverage in their reporting."

Thanks to Editor’s WebLog for the heads-up.

UPDATE: Constantin Basturea sends along this link to the slides presented by EURO RSCG Magnet at the launch of the 11th Survey of the media (PDF, 1.8 M).

How To Syndicate News & Blogs

How To Syndicate News & Blogg... here is an excellent Acrobat pdf titled "Developer's Guide to Syndicating News & Blogs" RSS & Atom :: Ben Hammersley [27 Page pdf, 363kb]

Influencers Use RSS

RSS took a hit early this month when Forrester released research results that showed only about 2% of Americans use RSS. How important can it be? Today, however, Nooked released results of its own survey focusing on key influencers—journalists, analysts, and bloggers—showing that RSS usage in this group is a whopping 87%, with 92% aware of RSS. The results are probably somewhat skewed since 45% of survey participants were bloggers, who are among the most RSS-aware; 25% were journalists, 15% were analysts, and the final 15% were “interested parties.”

Still, the study determined that “Journalists and Analysts have moved beyond the ‘ RSS for beginners’ stage and now demand information be delivered to them through a clean channel, in a specified location with specialist content.”

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What Is RSS

what is rss :: RSS [Real Simple Syndication] is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

Bob Dylan Biography & Phil Ochs :: Lumpen right wing polity & lynching in Bihaar

11:10 AM 10/10/2005 :: 2 part Bob Dylan biography on History Channel and as they left out Che from Castro biography, here left out Phil Ochs, the singing reporter Dylan Village buddy [btw both sang on lynching]... John Yoko Lennon turning 65, no celebrations?!? what about 8th of December!?! ...Lynching of a dissent right wing bajrangii when he shot @ BJP public rally in Bihaar [he was indeed shown being beaten mercilessly but survived and indian media did no follow-up on the nature of his injuries], now that was ample demonstration of why these lumpen has no right 2 rule... me tribute 2 Phil Ochs an old post follows...

Tathagat  9/12/2001 3:29:13 PM  ( 455 of 510 )
appa DeepO bhava
Have you seen the rivers of the blood,
First a trickle, then a flood,
First the ocean's pounding roar,
Then a tidal wave hits upon the shore?
Knives and arrows fell like rain,
And the powder burst aflame,
And the flames they flew so high,
Dropped their poison from the sky.
In the shadow of the bygone days,
Millions died in a million ways [rather billions].
Now the whining of the missile's call,
It's time to rise or it's time to fall.
For now one million bombs are stored,
But they keep building more and more.
And you hear the warning sound,
Don't you know there's time to turn around?
--Phil Ochs

...In the tradition of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs sang the news of struggle addressing events and issues related to the civil rights, anti-Viet Nam, student, and labor movements. More than just a reporter, however, Ochs was a singer of ideas posing a critique of an entire social order. Unfortunately, as the movements of the 60s lost their momentum and deteriorated, Phil Ochs also lost his way. At the age of 35, disillusioned and depressed, he hanged himself on April 9, 1976.

THE LEGACY OF PHIL OCHS :: SANDY CARTER @ ZMag
I Ain't Marching Anymore :: Phil Ochs [Quotes]
REMEMBERING PHIL OCHS Sonny Ochs
Phil Ochs AUDIO...Please take a moment to download and listen to these recordings which speak about lynching and the consequences of lynching.
An assortment of subjects from the Sixties/60's

[Broken Links?!? yahoo/googlexa ur way into it]

SC Chickening on Noise Pollution!! :: All The 'BhaRwa' Tribe Got Moolah From KGB, CIA & MI5

08:09 PM 10/03/2005 :: SC chickening on their tough stand on Noise Pollution as religious cacophony. Indian opposition asking 4 probe & a white paper on politicians from the center & Left were bribed by the KGB... CIA must have distributed many many more times... proof and that Eugene O'Neill called them all that 4 nothing... INC is another side of the same coin as the right wing lumpen... 2nd October Gaandhii B-day, they kept calling this country its unofficial name, the Urdu word Hindustan... which is Hindutwa in from the backdoor. So INC ruling with a little help from left but trying hard 2 shift 2 the right... Jaipal Reddy turns out 2 be arrogant. 10 AM SaMskrit bulletin simultaneously on 2 DD channels... Now a 7 AM one as well... a language which has not even thousand speaker 2 boot [but Urdu with 450 million speakers just 3 PM news and that 2 on just the DDN...] dekha duniyaa gaaNvwaaloN how this 'bhaRwa' tribe talks something and do something quite contrary...