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CSTV, the first 24-hour college sports network, announced the series’ first 17 games on yesterday. The remaining games—including post-season—have yet to be determined...
...might weave a story that really does defy expectations. But for a show that prides itself on strangeness, it is the most conventional HBO drama in years. If you took away the nudity and profanity from The Wire and Six Feet Under, they still couldn't air on network TV: their morality is too vague, their characters are too complex. Clean up Carnivale, and you'd have something not unlike ABC's spooky Miracles from last season. Carnivale's myth and Manichaeism may lure viewers inside the tent, but weirdness is merely a dime-store novelty. Capturing the ambiguities...
...sound as if psychographics and the Psychic Friends Network have a lot in common. But LifeMatrix's proponents say the system isn't guesswork. A variety of inputs, including public- opinion polls and media usage, is used to create categories that accurately reflect personality types. Ed Keller, president of RoperASW, says companies applying LifeMatrix to their customer databases will have far greater success in predicting what those customers will buy. Keller says researchers using demographic data alone can correctly guess what kind of car an individual will buy only 18% of the time. But "when you combine people's attitudes...
...Another important step is readying the "software" of disease control: an open, international surveillance network capable of quickly identifying the first cases. The biggest problem there is that the symptoms of SARS are so variable, making it hard to spot. Singapore's newest patient, for example, had a fever and a dry cough but lacked the telltale pneumonia of most cases. Even the best early diagnostic tests are slow and at most 80% reliable. The good news is that China, which tried to hide the extent of its outbreak last spring, has a new attitude. Guangdong has begun regularly sharing...
Peer-to-peer networks have been the subject of controversy since Napster appeared on the scene several years ago. Record companies are fighting to protect their intellectual properties - the source of artists' livelihoods - while at the same time, the technology for downloading music is advancing faster and faster. The conflict reached a peak recently when the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuit targets included a 12-year-old girl who had downloaded several songs from the KaZaA media network. What do you think? How can the industry protect its copyrighted material, while still adapting to changing technology...