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...feel a lot safer not only because of the precaustions.... I'm convinced now that it was just a random attack," said the student...
Most riveting, though, is the keyboard and sampling of Mark De Gli Antoni. Moving from swing music to random movie quotes (the prevailing fad of alternative music today), he contributes to the measured chaos of Soul Coughing. This is a sound that won't create a Dead following, or break into the mainstream a la Hootie (and who would want to?), but it will captivate club audiences and generate some fine bootleg tapes to exchange for that DMB at UVA concert...
...left out--not if they glanced at a newspaper the next morning, or watched television news, or listened to a radio talk show, or tapped into any one of dozens of computer Websites. In fact, for the next 24 hours they could hardly escape the darn thing. Just a random sampling...
While journalists are in the communications business, that communication has been mostly one way: from the top down. Online media is about one person communicating to many--and many communicating back: it's about community building rather than simple "publishing." In his upcoming book, Virtuous Media (Random House, due out in January), Katz argues that traditional media didn't understand that notion when they rushed online. "They ended up throwing billions of dollars away in a culture that's completely alien to them and weakens them," he says. The established media were betting that all roads pointed online; what...
...speak a native language, and not even knowing which tribe his mother belonged to, he lives a solitary existence as a high-steel worker on a skyscraper being built in downtown Seattle. After years of brooding about his lost heritage, he begins to kill whites, whom he picks at random. Eventually he kills himself...