LA Observed has the back story of how Arnold Schwarzennger’s indis­cre­tions when he was 29, detailed in Oui mag­a­zine, bub­bled up to the main­steam media

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MSNBC.com: When it comes to U.S. Inter­net use, the East Coast and West Coast dom­i­nate, while fewer than half of all South­ern­ers go online, says a new study of online habits.

Thanks to IWant­Media for the pointer.

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My friend Jack Shafer has a new piece up in Slate: Bill O’Reilly wants you to shut up. In which Shafter tal­lies up many of Bill O’Reilly’s quotes telling peo­ple to shut up.

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Mark Glaser in OJR: Google News draws more than 3 mil­lion unique vis­i­tors a month, but Nielsen and Media Metrix have excluded them from news site rank­ings. Now both say they are look­ing into rank­ing them with the other top news outlets.

Google News is not ranked in Nielsen//NetRatings’ Cur­rent Events cat­e­gory along with other top media sites, such as CNN.com and MSNBC.com, and it isn’t in com­Score Media Metrix’s Gen­eral News cat­e­gory for July 2003. A recent Reuters report on aggre­ga­tors noted Google News’ omis­sion but posited that it was because Google News doesn’t have an orig­i­nal report­ing staff — some­thing miss­ing at Yahoo News and AOL News, too, though they are in both rankings. …

I’m all for adding Google News to the net rat­ings ser­vices, but let’s point out that Yahoo News and AOL News both have edi­tors and edi­to­r­ial staffs, while Google News does not.

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Bruce Ster­ling in Wired mag: The iron fist, the invis­i­ble hand, and the bat­tle for the soul of open source. On cyber­cap­i­tal­ism and free information.

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In today’s San Jose Merc, Mike Lang­berg looks at the hot new thing in tele­com: Push-to-talk ser­vice, a sort of instant mes­sag­ing for voice. This could be a potent weapon in Buzz’s hands.

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NY Times: An impro­vised tele­vi­sion net­work is reach­ing stu­dents over the Internet.

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CNET News.com: A group of Web­cast­ers has filed a suit against the Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica, alleg­ing that the asso­ci­a­tion tried to push inde­pen­dent music sta­tions offline. Thanks to IWant­Media for the pointer.

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Guardian UK: The BBC’s director-general announced plans this week to embrace Napster-style file shar­ing to make its archives free for license payers.

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In response to a recent let­ter I sent to my alleged con­gres­sional “rep­re­sen­ta­tive,” Richard Pombo, ask­ing for an inde­pen­dent inquiry into the miss­ing weapons of mass destruc­tion in Iraq, Pombo takes the sleight-of-hand posi­tion that just because we haven’t found them doesn’t mean they weren’t there. Here’s his full email response:

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