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links for 2006-06-03

• [from judell] Henry Jenkins and Danah Boyd demystify MySpace (tags: interesting socialnetowrking) - [Video: 2007 Toyota Prius – CNET Reviews](http://revi...

Comment spam – solved for now?

The other day I complained about comment spam on my two blogs. Comment spam is when fake comments are added to a blog post that include links to some random site. They are supposedly put there by spammers to generate traffic to their sites, as well as try to impro...

links for 2006-06-02

• Waxxi – Mass Multiplayer Podcasting (tags: interesting podcast) - Seth’s Blog (tags: feed interesting podcasting) - Joyent (tags: interesting soflow ajax socialsoftware)

Notice the new del.icio.us feature I am using?

The feature isn’t new, it’s actually pretty old. It’s also very poorly documented. But it’s new to me. I’ve configured del.icio.us to automatically create a post to my blog of all the tags I’ve submitted in the last 24 hours. If you are a del.icio.us user, look under “settings”, “experimen...

links for 2006-06-01

• Comic for 31 May 2006 (tags: funny) - Moola – Business Model Suicide? (tags: businessmodel interesting soflow)

links for 2006-05-31

• Social Networks are the New Media (tags: soflow interesting socialnetwork) - [Take This Internship and Shove It – New Yo...

links for 2006-05-27

• /Message: First Glimpse: Visual Search from Quintura (tags: soflow interesting) - [liveplasma music, movies, search engine and discovery engine](h...

Oh, great. MSFT proposing a JPEG alternative

The great thing about standards is that there are just so many different ones to pick from! > ” … Microsoft now has plans to take on JPEG with Windows Media Photo. Microsoft Watch reported from Seattle Thursday that the company is advertising the new format as a higher-quality alternative to the aging JPEG standard.” (from BetaNews) Technorati Tags: microsoft

Help with movable type spam?

Both this blog and the BlogBridge have been getting spammed more and with both comment and trackback spam. It’s becoming a real pain. I’ve poked around my Movable Type settings looking for solutions but I am sure someone who knows MT well could tune my configuration with ease. Anyone out there want to lend a hand? Please email me! Technorati Tags: movabletype

[GEEK] OPML Camp was a lot of fun!

OPML Camp was yesterday and today, so it’s over now. We had good attendance and some really good discussions and interesting demos. Here are some highlights: - We talked about tools, both brand new, not yet written, and existing - These tools do all kinds of int...

Check out Inquisitor for the web

I’ve written about a very cool Safari (Mac OS X) add-on called Inquisitor. Very nice. Well, they now have come out with Inquisitor for the web, right in your web browser. Try it out, then I don’t need to explain it. Suffice it to say, it’s verry cool! Technorati Tags: cool, cooltool

Noah and Tabblo (Water in Arlington Mass)

As you may have heard, we’ve had torrential (and I mean torrential) downpours here in Massachusetts. I happen to live on a little isthmus ([look it up](http://e...

All you never wanted to know about colonoscopies

Our friend Dave Weinberger shares: “I had my first colonoscopy today. They didn’t find anything, except a piece of fruitcake I ate in 1978. But I figured if Katie Couric can show her colon on national TV to encourage people to get checked, then I should too.” The only surprise is that this is his first colonoscopy. David, what took you so long? (I guess my second surprise is that he didn’t link to Wikipedia’s definition of Colonoscopy.) Technorati Tags: medical

What happens when your GMail fills up? (Part 1 of ?)

Technorati Tags: amazing, gmail

eHarmony should use their own matching algorithm

This just struck me ironic because I just finished reading an interesting article in The Atlantic about eHarmonyand their scientific techniques for finding your perfect match. In Venture Chronicles, a pointer to Silicon Beat: “eHarmony appoints third CEO this year.”; (And, no Brian, I didn’t independently verify the factualness of this 🙂 Technorati Tags: funny

Amusing: “Where’s George”

Check out this odd little site, “[Where’s George](http://www...

Coffee Series, Part 3: Trade offs

First I was an instant coffee guy. Then I got into brewing whole pots, which led to my wasting a lot of coffee. Then, my friend Charlie started working at Keurig, and so I got exposed to that machine and how wonderful it wa...

Coffee Series part 2: What kind of grind?

This is an interim report on “Life with a Capresso espresso maker“. The topic for today is what kind of grind of coffee to use. Note that my experience is now about 3 or 4 days so you are learning right along with me. Basic lesson, although I ...

New espresso maker: Capresso Ultima (Model 121)

I’m a big coffee drinker, ok? I’ve been putting my Keurig single serving machine through it’s paces for the last few months and I really like it. I’ve already spent more on little coffee pods from Keurig than the machine ever c...

If you are interested in Microsoft

A friend of mine who used to work at Microsoft sent me a link to a very interesting posting about what it’s like to work there. If you’re interested in the big MSFT, you might enjoy reading this. Here’s one telling bit: ...