AAN News
Village Voice Media Lawyers Bully Smaller "Voices"new
New York Press |
04-22-2003 5:42 pm |
Industry News
The "Homeless Hacker" Ready to Strike Againnew
Adrian Lano got his
first computer, a
venerable
Commodore 64, at
the tender age of
six. Somewhere
along the line, he
developed a twisted,
yet oddly romantic, view of electronic etiquette.
Today, at age 22, Lano roams the country by
Greyhound, flopping in abandoned buildings.
But he's never far away from a Kinko's -- and another
caper as the "homeless hacker," the criminal
mastermind who's cracked corporate Web sites as
prestigious as Yahoo!, where he once edited himself
into news stories. Lano's always been a friendly
pest -- he even helps companies repair the gaping
holes through which he's driven his laptop.
Nonetheless, he was born to hack, and he tells
SF Weekly staff writer Matt Palmquist he's
working on his biggest job yet.
Pregnant Like Menew
Deb Berry takes a chilling and personal inside look at how crisis pregnancy centers
(CPCs) use public dollars from the Florida "Choose Life" license plate fund to push a religious, anti-abortion agenda through scare tactics and
bad information. In a 1994 speech, anti-abortion zealot Robert Pearson, who wrote the manual on how to start such centers, declared: "Obviously, we're
fighting Satan ... A killer, who in this case is the girl who wants to kill her baby, has no right
to information that will help her [do that]."
LA Weekly Dissects Competitorsnew
Howard Blume says no "upstart"
among the "lower-budget alternatives"
springing up in the LA Basin will
challenge LA Weekly citywide. The paper
has fired Valley Business
Printers, owner of its
newest competitor, Southland Publishing
Co., Blume reports. Southland purchased
the assets of the closed New Times LA,
plans a summer launch of weeklies in
L.A. and the Valley, and has hired
Editorial Art Director Dana
Collins away from LA Weekly. Plus
former LA Weekly Publisher
Michael Sigman is consulting
with Southland, Blume writes.
LA Weekly |
04-17-2003 2:08 pm |
Industry News
Levine Changing Role at Chicago Reader
Jane Levine, chief operating officer of Chicago Reader, Inc., is beginning the search for a publisher, who will handle day-to-day operations. When that person is in place and trained, Levine will step back and decide what her role will be at the company. Levine has been in alternative newsweeklies since she started as an intern at the Reader in 1973. "I can't even think what the next step will look like
until we have a great publisher in place and I know what their skills
are," she says. "Right now there are too many trees in my way to see
the forest."
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
04-17-2003 10:36 am |
Industry News
Hydrogen Nownew
George W. Bush, the oil president himself, recently threw a couple billion dollars at fuel-cell research and development as part of his “Freedom Fuel” plan, announced last January. But by most accounts, fuel-cell cars are decades away from mass production. Cosmo Garvin talks to energy guru S. David Freeman, adviser to two presidents, who says we need to move to a hydrogen-powered economy today, and we don't need the fuel cell to do it.
