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Computer security experts mi2g say Al Jazeera “is running its computer network like a ‘match-box’ organisation in comparison to its Western peer group”: Al-Jazeera, the at times controversial Arab news satellite channel, has had its computer network compromised by Trojans with built-in mail relay engines since the Arab weekend began …

New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh has struck a nerve – again – this time with an article published yesterday about changes in American intelligence oversight and bureaucracy, and covert activity in various countries including Iran: Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran …

No, it’s not a new band, but a list of the top 10 most viewed stories in the NY Times this year. Besides content, other variables likely involved include availability (most news stories are only available for free for one week) and date of publication (older stories have more time …

The media machinery is scarcely able to control its glee with the approach of the Michael Jackson child molestation trial at the end of the month, most giddy of all are Court TV for obvious reasons, and E!, well, also for obvious reasons. While Court TV has a lurid special …

Now please understand that I love radio and have been involved with it as a DJ, programmer, or commentator for much of the last 30 years, but commercial music-based radio, for a number of reasons including consolidation, for the most part and in the general sense, sucks dog ass. I …

A history, in words and pictures, of the People Who Love Macs.

I am honored and humbled — to a degree of which my typically expansive ego is unaccustomed — to have been asked by Small Business Trends to speak live on the global nerve-net as part of their speaker’s series “SMB Trendwire” Thursday, December 16 at 4pm ET. The conversation with …

For years on his Pee Wee’s Playhouse TV show, and most concentratedly in Tim Burton’s classic Pee Wee’s Big Adventure film, Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) walked the razor’s edge between innocence and decadence, willfully ignoring the implications of his determined naivete while the audience howled knowingly at the innuendo …

New radio documentary tomorrow on famed NYC columnist and muckraker Jimmy Breslin, on KCRW, NPR’s flagship station for Southern California: “JIMMY BRESLIN: THE ART OF CLIMBING TENEMENT STAIRS” Documentary produced for KCRW TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 at 2:30pm (PT) — A “Politics of Culture” Special Program Love him or hate him, …

Is this shit fair? Hell no, but it is reality and even the mighty U.S. military cannot redefine reality as it sees fit. We must live and learn, refine, be flexible, get smarter as we go. Words of wisdom from Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post: Last week Arab satellite …