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Entries from February 2003

Wednesday, February 26. 2003

"Officials say..." - new title for the New York Times

I had the pleasure to see Robert Fisk, reporter for the British Independent, when he was talking at MIT recently. He suggested that the New York Times should be renamed into "Officials say...", reasoning that many articles use this phrase continuously, while rarely elaborating on who those officials are.

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Posted by Michael Jastram in News at 01:15 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Thursday, February 6. 2003

Where is Concurrent today?

Philadelphia's Business Journal just ran an article on my empoyer, Concurrent Pharmaceuticals, and the article captures well where we are today.

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Posted by Michael Jastram in Job at 17:10 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday, February 5. 2003

Copyright revisited

Most people these days think of Copyright as a fundamental right - but this is not in the spirit of the original copyright laws, as Eric Raymond prominently stated 1998 in the Cathedral and the Bazaar. Instead, it is "a bargain with the public." It is nice to see that this idea is being discussed more widely these days, as in this Economist editorial.

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Posted by Michael Jastram in News at 05:08 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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