I added this little Java applet to my phone today, and it’s remarkably fast, and very cool. Check it out at www.plusmo.com. You can also mobilize your blog at http://plusmo.com/badge/badge_welcome.shtml. So you can read your blog quickly and easily on your phone, and your friends can subscibe to your blog on their phones. It’s free!
These two are quite the actors. I wonder how many takes they had to do? Brilliant writing though! 
Thanks to David for passing this on:
Apple Ordered To Pay Legal Fees For Bloggers
A California court made it clear to Apple that if the company wanted to find out who leaked details of an in-development product to bloggers, they’d actually have to do it legally. That lesson cost the company almost $700,000 in legal fee reimbursement.
This drama begins in 2004, when Mac fan sites AppleInsider and PowerPage reported the technological details about a product codenamed “Asteroid.” Apple sought the identity of the sources who leaked the information by filing suit against the bloggers, and subpoenaed their email records from email service provider Nfox.com. The company claimed that the reports violated California’s trade secret laws.
A Santa Clara County court ordered Apple to pay the legal fees of their opponent this month, a development considered “a large moral victory for bloggers,” according to Macnn.com.The case brought up several important questions related to the status of the blogosphere: Do bloggers qualify as journalists? Can blogs be considered news sites? Does a private company have the right to suspend the protection of journalistic sources guaranteed by the First Amendment?
Though the court didn’t actually qualify the bloggers as journalists, it was assumed that they were journalists for purposes of opinion, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who headed up the defense.The EFF also convincingly maintained, based on the expert opinion of Professor Thomas Goldstein, former Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, that AppleInsider and PowerPage qualified as legitimate online news sites:
The publishers, editors and authors connected with Power Page and Apple Insider are engaged in trade journalism, bringing news to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month. Further, Apple was prevented from accessing the email records of the defendants under the federal Stored Communications Act, which forbids ESPs from disclosing the contents of customers’ emails and other electronic communications to private parties.
Though Apple claimed it had a right to protect its trade secrets, the EFF responded that the case wasn’t about business rights, but about the means by which Apple can seek evidence. Subpoenaing journalist sources is not an acceptable means of discovery. EFF opposes Apple’s discovery because the confidentiality of the media’s sources and unpublished information are critical means for journalists of all stripes to acquire information and communicate it to the public.
Because today’s online journalists frequently depend on confidential sources to gather material, their ability to promise confidentiality is essential to maintaining the strength of independent media. Furthermore, the protections required by the First Amendment are necessary regardless of whether the journalist uses a third party for communications.
About the Author:
Jason Lee Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
From: Mike
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:07 PM
To: Carey
Subject: Re: I’ve added you as a friend on Facebook…
You can refer to my original post on these two “Idols”. I will repeat that; they already have agents, are interested in being in movies, and one of them has already changed his name! What’s next? An Oscar, a la Jennifer Hudson?
I have no idea how he constantly gets away with this, but watch these REAL interviews. HILARIOUS!! He talks this Congressman into saying he has a meth problem, and likes “sausages”. 
This is surely one of the funniest “Better Know a District” pieces he’s done.
Sixty-five percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other, according to a study conducted for Redwood City, Calif.-based SupportSoft Inc. The “cyber stress” study found that while 84 percent of Americans are more dependent on their home computer now than they were three years ago, their personal computer relationship is suffering. The average consumer has experienced computer problems about every four months over the last three years, and is wasting 12 hours per month trying to resolve those problems, the survey found. Read more.
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Today was a great day, I got so much accomplished even though I didn’t sleep last night. I worked on a presentation for work until the wee hours, and then after watching the Oscar nominations, drove to Burbank to pick Tyson up at the airport and take him to CalTech. We’re going to dinner tomorrow night, so I’m going to try to take a video of him with my phone, solving my Rubik’s Cube. 
Also got a haircut tonight (a bit too short, but it’s OK with the goatee) and went to the grocery store. I’m heading to bed after this though!
“like Margaret Cho said in one of her tours, “Growing up in America in an immigrant household… you get fucked up shit in your lunch box. other kids would get ding dongs and ho-hos.. i got.. squid & peanuts (i really did as a kid get this!). other kids would have juice boxes and pb&j sandwiches.. i got.. dried fish. you can’t trade that.”
) It’s not on YouTube. I can hardly wait for her show to come back on. It’s hilarious, just like her standup. 
You people who don’t have Trader Joe’s don’t know what you’re missing! 
I’m watching Heroes on my DVR as I type this. If you haven’t seen this show, now is the time to catch up. The website is almost like a DVD, where you can get commentary from the actors, in separate windows while you watch the latest episode. And yes, for those of you overseas, you can watch full episodes online!
It’s great to see such a diverse cast on TV too. I wonder when they’re going to give James Kyson Lee credits besides just being a guest star? Masi Oka was up for a Golden Globe which was great, and he has some really great scenes in this week’s episode.
OK, this is freakin hilarious: (Don’t worry, it’s not dirty 
Thanks David)
“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” (M. Etheridge)
