 MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE:
Hi-Tech After The Fall
ROD AMIS
 It seems nearly a century ago that some other IT pundit chose me as one of the top ten IT columnists on the Internet. Nearly as long since I even described myself as a tech journalist, based on a nasty series of disappointments, the stock nose-dive and an ensuing sense of disillusionment. BUT WORD DIDN'T GET OUT TO THE FLACKS. (Pardon my yelling. Press releases, announcements and jetsam from various "cutting-edge" corporations, interested parties and publishers continue to appear on my desktop. So I thought I'd share a few with you ... More
G21 ASIA:
The Subcontinental Summit
N. GUNASEKARAN
Was the summit between Indian Prime Minister Mr. Vajpayee and the Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf at the Indian city of Agra a failure? The global media portrayed it like a hopeless exercise. The Times, in its report on the Summit said:" Nothing was achieved." Even in many of the Indian media "failure" was the word most frequently used.
In spite of the high hopes dashed in the summit, the fact that the two
adversaries met and shook hands creates and spreads optimism among thinking people in both countries on this crowded subcontinent. However, there were enough reasons for the prevailing frustration.
First of all, the joint statement was not released as the summit declaration. Though the draft Agra Declaration was ready, the heads of both countries did not sign it -- owing to the vast gulf between their approaches to the key issues... More
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DAY ONE:
Bush Report Card
KEVIN CAREY
Any survey of the political scene before the Summer break must begin with President Bush.
Uniquely, his Gallup rating is exactly where it was on Inauguration Day, at 57%. Considering the controversy over his election, the closeness of the result in any case and the number of errors he is supposed to have committed since, all of them taking him away from 'compassionate conservatism' and towards the 'far right', that is a remarkable number.
First -- and foremost -- there was the tax cut whose proposed terms were so extreme that millionaires blushed. In the light of economic performance since, the best that can be said of it is that it was somewhat precipitate.
Then there was the infamous renunciation of the Kyoto Climate Protocol which went hand in hand with measures, reported very little in Europe, to pay back the energy producing industries for their electoral support. Whatever its scruples, the United States should never allow itself to be in a minority of one at a world forum; it is simply politically inept... More
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COMING MONDAY THE THIRTEENTH:
We couldn't stop KEVIN CAREY from launching an all new feature. But we had to admit our Editor & Publisher would pick the name. A new version of our provocative commentary. Be here to check it out.
A new writer for us (an alum' of SALON & other more "respectable" publications) , D.A. BLYLER, weighs in at the SEX COLUMN. Eee-yew !
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RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : After Gotheberg and Genoa, there has been a lot of "official" and punditary talk about what democratization and globalization mean for the people of the world. Much of it has been gobblety-gook for most average people. My wife hits the "MUTE" button on our remote control whenever these two words come up in television commentary.
I have to admit that even I go into the MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) effect when those words come up. And, because I like to think of myself as a "thinking person," a person with some critical depth, I care about these terms, globalization and democratization. When G21 asked me to come back, I thought it would be appropriate to describe what I thought becoming a democratic society should be... "Democratization" BILL STEVENS More
RDR 07.30.01: BILL STEVENS has a few things to say about "The R Word Syndrome"
RDR 07.23.01: RADIO RAHEEM is back from his honeymoon. And he wants to talk trash. "Brother from Another Planet"
RDR 07.16.01: G21 Alumnus JEFF WINBUSH interviews an Internet sexworker "For Your Pleasure"
 VOX POPULI: From Yona R., San Francisco, CA, USA:
SUBJECT: The Journey
rod...reading your story reminds me of the person you were when i first met you.... homeless, waiting for the money to come in, and the main character in some strange book you were writing.
in a sense i don't get it. in another i do. i hear this amazing emotionality in your 'voice' ( even if i am making up what you sound like as you write). the ups and downs are where you thrive. boredom and routine seem to be your enemy. so is the projection of your fears onto others. i never heard felicity ask you to leave... but then perhaps you omitted that part. what i did hear is this huge anziety well up inside you .... and the search for a place where it could be dispelled.... More
MY GLASS HOUSE: NEW ORLEANS - 5 AUGUST, 2001 - FULL MOON - Caio is moving into our flat this week, even as the moon turns. Think: Aries, Aries, Cancer. A new mix. My pal, JENNIFER BLUE predicts that the moon will be in Aquarius. Okay.
If you start the Web site here, you come to get a barometer -- even as I attempt to give you the best of the "on-the-ground" reporting on the planet. But I guess that doesn't matter to some of you as much as the personal chronicle of how I manage to (barely) survive.
We'll get back to me after I tell you about this fab edition ..."A Bus Named Desire" ROD AMIS More
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Congratulations to KEVIN CAREY, whose commentary "GENOA," last week was featured on the cover of THE MEDIA CHANNEL. If you haven't visited their site in a while, or if you're a media-junkie looking for the straight scoop, you should certainly check The Media Channel when you're not enjoying the feast here.
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