I really do like Cinema Minima. Personal digital cinema: news for movie-makers. Where other Radio hackers create links to Google or DayPop from post titles, this blog creates queries to the Internet Movie Database and the Movie Review Query Engine.  This Radio blog stretches what you can do with the tools, but it's all about making movies. Terse writing, indie focus, passion for filmaking. 

Mediabloggers, pay attention.  

Every project needs a weblog. Even the ...

Don't Blog weblog.

Blogging the growing backlash.

What happens when blogging becomes mainstream? What bad things will we face? Other technologies experienced a public backlash after a hype cycle. This blog attempts to chronicle that coming backlash.

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Recent headlines from the future:

• Microsoft gains 87% share of Enterprise Blogging Market.
• Wife Wins Joint Weblog In Divorce Court.
• Spammers Tailor Mail Using Blog Data.
• Trackbacker Worm Shuts Down Blog Community For 3rd Day.
• Google deletes 23,000 weblogs under PRC pressure; Terra closes division deletes 150,000 blogs.

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Scotland Sunday reports:

About the only sector of Japan’s economic life that is still growing: karoshi, or death from overwork. The number of Japanese working themselves to death is rising dramatically, particularly among white collar office workers.

Newly released karoshi figures from Japan’s Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry, covering 2002, show a record 317 deaths that were directly attributable to long hours in the office. The previous record was 143, set just the previous year.

But experts believe the figures are a huge underestimate of the actual number killed by overwork. They believe the number of white collar workers putting their lives at risk could be as high as one million.

Attract better talent by cutting back to a 50 hour workweek from 60, and forcing everyone to take at least two week vacations yearly. Checking your blood pressure wouldn't hurt either. Living, less stressed employees get more done and make better decisions.  

The Soliloquy from Carousel.

Billy
I wonder what he'll think of me
I guess he'll call me the "old man"
I guess he'll think I can lick
Ev'ry other feller's father
Well, I can!

I bet that he'll turn out to be
The spittin' image of his dad
But he'll have more common sense
Than his puddin-headed father ever had

I'll teach him to wrestle
And dive through a wave
When we go in the mornin's for our swim
His mother can teach him
The way to behave
But she won't make a sissy out o' him

Not him! Not my boy! Not Bill!

Bill... My boy Bill
I will see that he is named after me, I will.
My boy, Bill! He'll be tall
And tough as a tree, will Bill!
Like a tree he'll grow
With his head held high
And his feet planted firm on the ground
And you won't see nobody dare to try
To boss or toss him around!
No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully'll toss him around
I don't give a hang what he does
As long as he does what he likes!
He can sit on his tail
Or work on a rail
With a hammer, hammering spikes!
He can ferry a boat on a river
Or peddle a pack on his back
Or work up and down
The streets of a town
With a whip and a horse and a hack
He can haul a scow along a canal
Run a cow around a corral
Or maybe bark for a carousel
Of course it takes talent to do that well
He might be a champ of the heavyweights
Or a feller that sells you glue
Or President of the United States
That'd be all right, too
His mother would like that
But he wouldn't be President unless he wanted to be
Not Bill!

My boy, Bill! He'll be tall
And as tough as a tree, will Bill
Like a tree he'll grow
With his head held high
And his feet planted firm on the ground
And you won't see nobody dare to try
To boss or toss him around!
No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced,
Pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully
Will boss him around
And I'm hanged if he'll marry the boss' daughter
A skinny-lipped lady with blood like water
Who'll give him a peck
And call it a kiss
And look in his eyes through a lorgnette
Say, why am I talkin' on like this?
My kid ain't even been born, yet!
I can see him when he's seventeen or so
And startin' to go with a girl
I can give him lots of pointers, very sound
On the way to get 'round any girl
I can tell him ...

Wait a minute!
Could it be?
What the hell!
What if he is a girl?
Bill! Bill!
What would I do with her?
What could I do for her?
A bum with no money!
You can have fun with a son
But you got to be a father to a girl
She mightn't be so bad at that
A kid with ribbons in her hair!
A kind o' sweet and petite
Little tin-type of her mother!
What a pair!
My little girl
Pink and white
As peaches and cream is she
My little girl
Is half again as bright
As girls are meant to be!
Dozens of boys pursue her
Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her
From her faithful dad
She has a few
Pink and white young fellers of two or three
But my little girl
Gets hungry ev'ry night and she come home to me!
I got to get ready before she comes!
I got to make certain that she
Won't be dragged up in slums
With a lot o' bums like me
She's got to be sheltered
And be dressed in the best money can buy!
I never knew how to get money
But, I'll try, I'll try! I'll try!
I'll go out and make it or steal it
Or take it or die!

Christian Crumlish writes:

... A tragedy befell a young musician and his extended family and friends in the bay area music community when Matthew Sperry was struck by a pickup truck and killed while riding his bicycle at an intersection near the Emeryville-Oakland border on Stanford Avenue.

I didn't know Matthew, but I had several friends who knew and loved him, and played music with him, and loved his playing. A page at Scot Hacker's Birdhouse blog has become the de facto tribute page for Matthew. ...

There was a musical memorial at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, and there is a memorial concert in the works. Hacker has also now set up a dedicated memorial web page for Matthew at matthewsperry.org.

[aka Obituaries a la Blog]

16-year-old gets life without parole for crime he committed at age 14. Very serious, madly violent, life threatening crimes. But nobody got hurt. imho, unjust sentencing for a juvenile. Children are by definition not done being formed. We have to move more trials back to family court or have superior court judges apply family court sentencing guidelines. And elect and appoint less cynical, more reasonable judges. I've got $20 for the campaign fund of anyone who runs against Orange County Superior Court Judge William Froeberg. We can do better.