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I follow Chris Pirillo’s blog and other writings religiously. Two recent, contrasting posts really caught my eye because I think they reflect the popular bias against software. That is, people are glad to pay a lot for hardware gadgets at the same time as they feel reall...
Read more →Regular readers of this blog know about AllOfMp3.com, a Russian music site that sells music of all kinds for a ridiculously low price. It’s kind of like the iTunes or EMusic store, but at a fraction of the pri...
Read more →You might find find this interesting and/or useful. WebsiteGrader does an SEO analysis of your site and gives you ideas on how to make it better. According to their site: “Website Grader is a software tool to help measure the marketing effectiveness of a website.”
Hey Stern fans, can you believe what kind of a day it was today? What a soap opera, but riveting. I heard it in bits and pieces as I was driving between meetings today, and I was waiting either for Artie to quit or for Howard to fire him. And then [I read now on the Stern web site that indeed Arti...
Read more →Here’s an email I received recently. How many different languages do you count? > “Danki pa e artíkulo d Sam. Mi a haña un email di dje siman pasá kaminda ela kontami ku pronto e artíkulo lo sali i ku e lo manda mi e link. Maar jij was veel sneller. Avery a gusta e artikel hopi (mi tambe trouwens). Lo mi skibi Sam. He is a good writer. Trouwens su mama a muri in the meantime (ela skibimi). Chag Sameach (Shavuot)”
PC Magazine’s newest issue has a retrospective of their past 25 years and LotusImprov gets mentioned for one of the big deals of 1993. And yes, you can see a bad picture of yours truly back in those days. > “Innovators: Pito Salas // Set ...
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I’ve been de-friending one person after another on Twitter. Why? Because many of them are A-listers who ‘generously ‘accepted my friendship and are now spamming me via Twitter with their latest exploits. Dull. As I said in a previous post, this “Friends 2.0” phenomenon isn’t doing it for me. My advice for Twitter users: only ‘friend’ people who you really know and at some weird level care whether they are having a ham sandwich.
You know that I follow what’s going on in Venezuela. Here’s an interesting article from the Washington Post about the latest developments: > “For years defenders of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have harped on...
Read more →You’ve seen and heard of Twitter, haven’t you? If not, congratulations for being immune to the latest Fad 2.0. Other than the occasional “I just had a delicious hamburger”, many if not most of my tweets are an announcement (read traffic bait) of one thing or another, usually including a link. Why would I subscribe to that? Maybe I have the wrong kind of friends. I think if your twitter friends are really people who are actual friends (Friends 1.0) and not quote friends unquote (Friends 2.0) then you might actually care about them having a delicious hamburger. But do you know that actually has 350 friends (1.0?)
Check out this post from Boing Boing: ** David Pescovitz**: Physicians are now removing appendixes by entering the body through the mouth. The procedure, called Natural Orifice Tran...
Read more →Check out this post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): > This simple utility allows you "to save and restore your window placement and view options via Window Sets." You can have different Window Sets for differe...
Read more →Lately, for some crazy reason, I’ve found myself, multiple times, in Toronto, Canada, and Willemstad Curaçao. My Sprint phone doesn’t work in either place. As luck would have it, my Sprint contract is about to expire and so I am trying to figure out whether I should change carriers. If you are in th...
Read more →Here’s a column that I can really relate to, and a topic that I’ve written about more than once before. > “Computers would be nothing without programs to run on them, so why do we spend so much time drooling over our hardware — physical bits and pieces — and so little over the software that makes the bits and pieces do what we want them to? And why are we so stingy about paying for software?” (from Blind to Bargains, Loose Wire) Read the whole article, it’s really interesting!
Check out this post from BuzzMachine: ** The interview is outmoded and needs to be rethought. There’s no better demonstration of this than the recriprocal snipes we’ve been seeing from and around [Wired]...
Read more →I’ve been setting up a new Windows Vista notebook over the last few days for use by a non technical user. What a basket case. What a disaster. And I am referring to Vista not the user 🙂 I’ve been mentally working on a blog post titled either “Has Microsoft Lost its mojo” or “Has Microsoft Jumped...
Read more →Ok it’s not exactly about that, but the answer to that question is answered. Check out this post from Schneier on Security: > More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages. Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling. I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data. (from: A Security Market for Lemons)
Check out this post from BuzzMachine: ** "[snip…]At the Online Politics conference a few weeks ago, Joe Trippi said, “Every one of these candidates is going to get caught in a macaca moment.” They will mess up. They will...
Read more →Check out this post from Lifehacker: > TVShows offers a Mac-only take on the previously mentioned, cross platform TED (Torrent Episode Downloader), but with a somewhat improved and simplified interface. If you want to turn your computer into your own little cable box, TVShows looks like a simple way that anyone could manage. (from: Download of the Day: TVShows (Mac))
Here are some random goodies that caught my eye this morning. Don’ t count on my being your clipping service from now on, — these just caught my eye 🙂 - NYT Editorial about the Rutgers team and Imus - The best commentary that I’ve seen yet about the Imus comment - Interesting juxtaposition of the Cold War with Global Warming