From The New York Daily News: David Hinckley (a good friend to the Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention) comments on NPR’s new morning program, saying it’s NPR-as-usual.
http://www.nydailynews.com/05-04-2004/entertainment/story/189758p-164176c.html

I don’t exactly agree, but then I haven’t been listening very much.

Terry Gross on Fresh Air interviewed Bob Edwards yesterday for airing today on local stations around the country. I was truly horrified to listen to her say, “I’ll tell you, though, I feel too close to the story because I know so many of the people at NPR…so I’d just as soon stay away from the whole controversy surrounding your reassignment…” Yeah, that’s it…let’s avoid anything that might even accidentally insult the bosses at NPR.

Terry, I know you do soft-ball interviews, but this has got to be a new low. I couldn’t be more disgusted.

From Wired: If you have ever seen the cult ’60s British television program The Prisoner, in which captured Cold War spies live on an island under constant surveillance, you can imagine what life may soon be like on Ayers Island, on the Penobscot River near the University of Maine.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,63316,00.html

Talk about seriously creepy…if some people get their way, this is how we’ll all live.

Since a whole lot of this blog’s (and this correspondent’s) time has been taken up with the issues at NPR, I’ve created a new category so that these articles can be more easily found (or, for those uninterested in this issue, more easily avoided). Update your feeds if you’re using category-specific ones, kids.

From InfoWorld: Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday will unveil a new version of the Linux operating system software designed for the corporate desktop.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/04/HNredhatdesktop_1.html

Even ignoring that there are other, non-propriatary, truly open-source, and free linux distributions available, this is still way too expensive. Red Hat is getting too “commercial;” I mean, I don’t mind them making money off of other programmer’s efforts (that’s the whole point of the open-source movement), but this company is giving very little back to the open-source community.