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Crazy story:

It might have ended there, another high-flying company with big ambitions and a lousy product. But the crash put a spotlight on Eriksson and raised a series of questions: Who is he? What kind of person drives nearly 200 mph on a coastal highway? The answers led to even more puzzles. In just a few years, it seems, Eriksson went from languishing in a European jail cell to making millions as a tech executive to, even more improbably, becoming deputy commissioner of antiterrorism for an obscure Southern California transit police force.

Read more at Wired News.

I’ve been following this NewAssignment.Net thing, but Jay writes too damn much to point to any one piece he does on it for someone else to read (not that I read it all). This interview with /. goes all over the place, its not just about NA.net, and talks about some pretty interesting things in reporting (and is fairly readable because he is talking down to /., not to his academia buddies).

Create more writers and suddenly you may need more editors. “The conversation feeds journalism, journalism feeds the conversation” is a powerful idea, but we are several steps away from knowing how it works to create a live, intelligent filter in the newsroom.

The normal tensions with the press were driven deeper: keep them back, keep them out, tell them nothing, tear them down. If someone does break a story from inside you immediately punish and isolate anyone who spoke to the reporter. You make them disown their words. You make them repent.

This is the story Woodward missed because he got inside it, so to speak. Ron Suskind, one of the few in Washington who did not miss that story, called it “the retreat from empiricism.” To me, it’s the big narrative yet to come out about the Bush White House. Attack Without a Plan was too crazy to be credible to Woodward. So he wrote Plan of Attack instead.

Read more at PressThink.

A 5min bit on BBC’s The World, reporting on the [corporate] censorship of Jonathan Hexner’s video art piece “I Like America and America Likes Me” which was to be displayed on the Axel Springer building in Berlin. You can view the video piece on The World’s website (you might want to download that and play in quicktime unless you have a browser window wider than 2016px).

Via David Post at Volokh.

A 737 hits an executive jet, the 737 goes down killing 155, and the executive jet is fine to make it to an airport?

Story at BBC News.

Update: Joe Sharkey of the NYT who was on the executive jet, tells his story.

Thomas Fehlmann shakes his cute German booty during a live dub set: one, two.
One of the best shows of my life, the energy he brought was great.

The whole Decibel weekend was awesome, check out more videos by basicsounds here, or his blog post where he says Decibel was better then Mutek (he is Canadian even!).

Make sure to watch the Ryoichi Kurokawa videos one, two. That shit blew my mind.

Also Andreas Tilliander at the after-party Sunday morning. I felt like I was back in Berlin, Seattle still partying at 7am? This was regarded as the best set of the weekend but I was too fucking dog tired to enjoy it.

Posted by JESSE GREEN to NYT > Arts.

Traditional Broadway overtures — several minutes long, made up of melodies heard later in the show and played by an orchestra before the curtain goes up — are disappearing.

Producers and directors say they doubt the audience’s ability to perceive useful information encoded in orchestral sound. Decoding that information depends on the habit of listening to music for its own inherent expressiveness, without words, pictures or action: a habit that disappeared from mainstream American culture.

Read more at NYT > Arts.