http://www.wikio.com/search=Jeff Stone Wikio - Jeff Stone http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62837734 Sports columnist Woody Paige responds to your questions in Woody's Mailbag. In this installment, Woody takes eight Q's, including one about a local, sports-themed version of Mount Rushmore. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:39:29 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62837734 editor@denverpost.com (Woody Paige<BR><I>The Denver Post</I>) 2008-07-03T00:39:29Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62560891 You've probably seen it played on TV and smirked. Olympians chucking giant hunks of granite across ice. Athletes in funky shoes gliding across a rink. Grown men and women sweeping with goofy brooms to clear the path for a big rock. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:26:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62560891 2008-07-01T05:26:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62415188 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:59:45 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62415188 2008-06-30T03:59:45Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62321082 For 20 years, the MRF Pace Academy has been shaping uncut stones into fast bowling gems. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:55:30 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62321082 2008-06-28T20:55:30Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62231043 An autopsy was underway Friday morning on Southern Marin Fire Protection District Deputy Chief Jeff Powers who collapsed at work Thursday. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:35:46 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62231043 2008-06-27T19:35:46Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62087262 When the news broke on June 24 that microblogging sensation Twitter picked up new venture investors, including Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, the company -- as luck would have it -- was suffering a service outage. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:10:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=62087262 2008-06-26T17:10:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61985826 Amazon head honcho Jeff Bezos has thrown some money at microblogging service Twitter, confirming a long-running rumor. Bezos made the investment through his Bezos Expeditions company along with fellow new investor, Spark Capital. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone did not divulge financial details in the announcement made via his blog, but the blogosphere buzz puts the [...] Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:33:28 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61985826 2008-06-26T02:33:28Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61894761 Twitter formally announces their additional investments and welcomes Jeff Bezos and Bijan Sabet [1] as investors in the company. Bijan Sabet will join the board of Twitter. Jeff Bezos, of course, is the founder and CEO of Amazon [2]. Biz Stone writes on the twitter blog:Jeff Bezos is said to have displayed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. Having worked on Wall Street as a computer scientist, built a network for international trade, founded Amazon.com, and launched the human space flight startup Blue Origin, Dr. Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions, his personal venture investment company) serves as more than an investor and advisor because he is also an inspiration to all of us at Twitter. Jeff's attention to business process details and distinctive, "honk-like laugh" are similarly admirable traits as far as we're concerned. Now that Twitter actually has the dollars from this investment, we're looking forward to the day that the service has a sustainable revenue model of some type - and is able to stay online and functioning. Over at TechCrunch, Michael Arrington writes [3]:I agree that Twitter is on track to become an indispensable service. In April I said “Twitter is becoming an Internet utility,” and meant it. Twitter is still a relatively small service, but users are averaging at least 15 twitter messages per day, meaning they are highly engaged. If they can get the platform stable, I believe they will eventually become as ubiquitous as email, instant messaging, sms and other forms of communication. [1] http://blog.twitter.com/2008/06/welcoming-bijan-and-jeff.html [2] http://amazon.com [3] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/24/twitter-announces-their-funding-calls-itself-a-communication-utility/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:54:53 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61894761 2008-06-25T11:54:53Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61820270 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:11:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61820270 2008-06-24T21:11:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61819540 Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has thrown a little love (and presumably a lot of money) at Twitter. Twitter creator Biz Stone made the announcement via his blog that Bezos Expeditions, Bezos's investment firm, joined Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet on the Twitter investment team. read more Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:20:39 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61819540 2008-06-24T20:20:39Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61809409 It’s been in the works for several months, but Twitter has finally announced its new round of funding. Led by Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions (and also chief executive of Amazon), existing partners Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage also participated as well. Sabet has also accepted a seat on Twitter’s [...] Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:26:35 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61809409 2008-06-24T19:26:35Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61369906 Nicholas Nicholson and Jeff Stone are among the local nominees to the Florida Building Commission from Gov. Charlie Crist. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:39:19 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61369906 2008-06-20T16:39:19Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61152206 Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers By CommonDreams.org by Jeff Cohen It was nineteen years ago this week that I.F. (Izzy) Stone died. The legendary blogger was 81. Confused? You say he died years before web blogs were invented? Well, yeah, but when I think of today’s blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of Josh Marshall or Glenn Greenwald or Arianna Huffington. I think of Izzy. Before there was an Internet, Izzy Stone was doing the work we associate with today’s best bloggers. Like them, he was obsessed with citing original documents and texts. But before search engines, Izzy had to consume ten newspapers per day — and physically visit government archives and press offices, and personally pore over thousands of words in the Congressional Record. That’s how he repeatedly scooped the gullible, faux-objective MSM of his day in exposing government deceit, like that propelling the Vietnam War. Izzy was the ultimate un-embedded reporter. His journalism was motivated by a simple maxim that resonates loudly in our era of Cheneys and Rumsfelds and WMD hoaxes: “All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” Month after month from 1953 to 1969 I.F. Stone’s Weekly (biweekly through 1971) exposed deceptions as fast as governments could spin them. His timely and timeless dispatches are gathered in an exceptional paperback, The Best of I.F. Stone. In real time in August 1964, Izzy was virtually alone in challenging the Gulf of Tonkin hoax, an imaginary “unprovoked attack” on U.S. warships used by the Johnson administration to send several hundred thousand American troops into Vietnam. How did Izzy do it? By citing international law texts and finding nuggets of truth in the Congressional Record of the Senate debate (no C-SPAN then) and in contradictory reporting in mainstream publications. Izzy’s expose began boldly: “The American government and the American press have kept the full truth about the Tonkin Bay incidents from the American public.” He fumed at the credulous MSM: “The process of brain-washing the public starts with off-the-record briefings for newspapermen.” Only two senators, Oregon’s Wayne Morse and Alaska’s Ernest Gruening, had voted against the Tonkin Resolution; Izzy noted that the press had “dropped an Iron Curtain weeks ago on the antiwar speeches of Morse and Gruening.” Like today’s online journalistic entrepreneurs, being his own editor and boss allowed Izzy the freedom and space to parse out the distortions of government in detail. A year before the Tonkin hoax, he wrote: “In this age of corporation men, I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise.” While most journalists “find their niche in some huge newspaper of magazine combine, I am a wholly independent newspaperman, standing alone.” Bloggers battle today’s McCarthyites who smear Iraq War opponents as un-American abettors of our country’s enemies. Izzy battled the original Joe McCarthy, in issue after issue of his weekly. Indeed, he launched his publication the same month — January 1953 — McCarthy became chair of the Senate Operations Committee, enhancing his powers of intimidation. Izzy warned prophetically: “McCarthy is in a position to smear any government official who fails to do his bidding. With such daring and few scruples, McCarthy can make himself the most powerful single figure in Congress.” Three months later, he wrote: “The most subversive force in America today is Joe McCarthy. No one is so effectively importing alien conceptions into American government. No one is doing so much to damage the country’s prestige abroad. . . .If ‘subversion’ is to be met by deportation, then it is time to deport McCarthy back to Wisconsin.” Not until 11 months later did Edward R. Murrow air his first report on McCarthy. Today, online media critics and bloggers expose the bigotry and fallacy gushing forth from Fox News and talk radio and the Rev. Moon-owned Washington Times, long-edited by Wes Pruden Jr. They blog about MSM being stenographers to rightwing extremists. When racists in Little Rock were obstructing court-ordered school desegregation in 1958, Izzy was on the scene reporting: “A staff correspondent in Little Rock quoted the Reverend Wesley Pruden the segregationist leader, as saying, ‘The South will not accept this outrage, which a Communist-dominated government is trying to lay on us.’ This was my introduction to a regional journalism which prints such statements matter-of-factly.” The Communist-dominated regime referred to by Pruden Sr. was headed by Eisenhower. Izzy loved to tell the story of how he found — hiding in plain view in different editions of the New York Times — one-paragraph “shirrtail” wire stories indicating that our country’s first underground nuclear test in Nevada in 1957 was detected in Toronto, Rome and Tokyo. Months later, just as hawks in Washington were preparing to attack a test ban treaty with the Soviets on the basis that nuclear tests could not be detected more than 200 miles away, Izzy found a seismologist in the Commerce Department who told him the test had also been detected as far away as Alaska and Arkansas. Izzy’s reporting obstructed the government’s lie before it could get its shoes on. Starting out in his teens, Izzy was a daily reporter, editor and columnist. After moving to D.C. in 1940 to become Washington editor of The Nation, he exposed U.S. corporations still doing business with Hitler’s Germany. He was one of the first to sound the alarm about the Nazi holocaust, referring in 1942 to “a murder of a people.” An anti-racist, he battled the all-white National Press Club over exclusion of black journalists. Izzy’s cantankerousness and “hound-dog tenacity” — in the words of his biographer — would make even the most stubborn blogger blush. Although he was a lifelong progressive, his journalistic hallmark was independence: “I felt that party affiliation was incompatible with independent journalism.” His writings show deep admiration for Franklin Roosevelt, yet his article on FDR’s death criticized his “deplorable disrespect for the constitutional amenities” in resisting a reactionary Supreme Court that knocked down one New Deal bill after another. He wrote books passionately supporting the birth of Israel, but strongly criticized it for mistreatment of Palestinians. He advocated peace and negotiations with the Soviet Union, while increasingly vocal in denouncing its rulers: “The worker [in Russia] is more exploited than in Western welfare states.” He despised racists, but fought for their free speech rights, and everyone’s: “Once you put ifs and buts in the Bill of Rights, nobody’s civil liberties will be secure.” That he marched to his own drummer can be seen in his dispatch from the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, in which he criticized “respectables” for muting “Negro militancy” into support of JFK’s inadequate program, and referred to Martin Luther King as “a little too saccharine for my taste.” Born of immigrant parents, Izzy was an American patriot who worshipped the Bill of Rights: “You may think I am a red Jew son-of-a-bitch, but I’m keeping Thomas Jefferson alive.” And he worshipped our country’s tradition of press freedom: “There are few countries in which you can spit in the eye of the government and get away with it. It’s not possible in Moscow.” But Izzy was never naïve about American traditions that threatened freedom, and he had a 5,000-page FBI spy file to prove it. Today’s muckraking bloggers are often belittled for working from their homes, far removed from the corridors of power. Izzy worked out of his home. If he were alive, he’d be applauding the Josh Marshalls and other independents, urging: Keep your distance from power. I made no claim to inside stuff. . . I tried to dig the truth out of hearings, official transcripts and government documents, and to be as accurate as possible. . . I felt like a guerilla warrior, swooping down in surprise attack on a stuffy bureaucracy where it least expected independent inquiry. The reporter assigned to specific beats like the State Department or the Pentagon for a wire service or a big daily newspaper soon finds himself a captive. State and Pentagon have large press relations forces whose job it is to herd the press and shape the news. There are many ways to punish a reporter who gets out of line. . . But a reporter covering the whole capitol on his own - particularly if he is his own employer — is immune from these pressures. Imagine the obstacles Izzy faced — did I mention his impaired eyesight and hearing? — launching a weekly and finding an audience at the height of McCarthy’s witch hunts (even at $5 for an annual subscription). Far fewer obstacles face today’s bloggers who seek to follow in Izzy’s footsteps — blessed as they are with relative freedom and this awesome research outreach tool known as the Internet. As these upstarts speak truth to power, I see Izzy Stone watching over them, from the heavens. – source - Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:25:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61152206 2008-06-18T23:25:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61091027 By Jeff Cohen, Common Dreams Before there was an Internet, Izzy Stone was doing the work we associate with today's best bloggers. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:23:42 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61091027 2008-06-18T16:23:42Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61091359 Last year, NBC CEO Jeff Zucker complained that Apple “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” by sticking to its guns on the 99-cents-per-song model. But now Zucker and other entertainment execs might be landing some payback, in the form of Amazon MP3. This week, the online-shopping powerhouse’s DRM-free download store announced two ongoing discount [...] Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:18:38 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=61091359 2008-06-18T16:18:38Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60951468 Adding another stone to the sinking ship of employee morale at Yahoo, long-time company stalwart Jeff Weiner has finally decided to leave, exiting to take on the role of "executive in residence" at two venture capital firms. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:59:45 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60951468 2008-06-17T16:59:45Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60696086 Bo and Jeff's Trip Around (Part of) the World Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:49:30 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60696086 2008-06-15T17:49:30Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60401053 Your weekly superficial home fix. Actress Sharon Stone slashes price on Mediterranean mansion – again! $10,000,000 [...] Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:24:46 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60401053 2008-06-12T19:24:46Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60382403 Mickey Waller was a stalwart British rock drummer who crashed the skins in a thunderously heavy style which his fellow musicians nicknamed the "Waller wallop". He played with a host of big names including the Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry, but was most closely associated with the careers of Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:40:34 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60382403 2008-06-12T16:40:34Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60081846 The 15 risque photos include: Flea Rage Against The Machine Jeff Beck Nick Oliveri (Queens Of The Stone Age) Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) Quench your thirst here. MP3: Sex Pistols - Jingle Bells Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:25:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jeff+Stone?rinfoid=60081846 noreply@blogger.com (m) 2008-06-10T15:25:00Z