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Learning about Open Source

Peter Moldave, a friend of mine who has helped me immensely with BlogBridge has (gulp) [started blogging](...

Ultimate baby name choser

This one has made the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet. Whether or not you are expecting a baby, have a child, or just love cool visualizations, you’ve gotta check out “The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager“. Incredibly cool! Technorati Tags: babyboomers

Swallowing an umbrella

“The sword passes within millimetres of the heart, aorta, and other vitals but, surprisingly, few deaths related to sword swallowing have been described. A Canadian sword swallower did die, but that was after swallowing an umbrella.” (from BMJ.com, the General Medical Journal, online, via MetaFilter.) You do learn the darndest things on the web, don’t you? Technorati Tags: funny

Wiki as in Wikipedia

I assume you know about Wikis and the Wikipedia. If not, click on the links to the left and you’ll both find out and experience it, in one fell swoop. On [BlogBridge](http://www.blogbridge.co...

For advanced nerds only: How the deathstar works

From How Stuff Works: > “There is no question that the last few years of world history have seen a fair share of chaos and disorder. With so much global unrest, governments worldwide are struggling to devise new methods to maintain order. The Galactic Empire’s s...

Google API -> Open Standard

I really like this idea that Dave Winer has put forward: “Let’s make the Google API an open standard”, where he says, among other things: > “We’ve asked for a plug-in architecture for search engines, and if we can’t have that, a solid easy-to-program API is a **...

[GEEK] OPML Validator

I just came across Dave Winer’s new, beta, OPML Validator, which is a welcome development. While there is an OPML spec, having a validator too is a great, pragmatic, concrete way to give a big thum...

One more little meme

Here’s another cute one I came across, at BlogOn 2005:  “Trojan Mouse Strategy” – when you try to develop grass roots adoption of your software, bypassing IT. Technorati Tags: meme

Thinking about business models

Inquisitor is a really cool program that augments the search box in Safari (which for you heathens out there is the default Mac OS X web browser.) It’s kind of hard to explain just what it does – it’s kind of a magical word completion thingie that guesse...

Ease of use?

I recently had to buy a new cell phone, and learning how to use it reminded me again about how complicated these things are. How many out there have not bothered to learn something as simple even as programming in some commonly called numbers? I know I probably use only 30% of the features. A b...

You say tomato – I say tomahto

The street filled with tomatoes, midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets. In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen, it enters at lunchtime, takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars. It...

Pop!Tech Memes

Pop!Tech 2005 was a great conference, again. I made notes only when something struck me as interesting or memorable or quotable, so this list of memes is very quirky just based on my in-the-moment reactions! - “Barcode of Life” – [Robert Hanner.](http://coriell.umdnj...

It’s not all love and kisses

We all love Wikipedia – I know I do. I’ve sung it’s praises to lots of people and have personally often looked stuff up in it and been satisfied. Still I can’t help but be impressed with an article I came across written by Robert McHenry former Editor in Chief of the Enc...

Apple Video iPod Strategy

For you Apple and iPod afficionados, here’s an interesting articleabout what Apple might be up to, tying together various tantalizing hints into a good story: > “Apple’s a shrewd operator. First, its spreads misinformation from the top – like how Steve Jobs famously slagged off media centre PCs in a conference call with financial analysts last year. “We might as well make it a toaster too,” he said. “I want it to brown my bagels when I’m listening to my music,” he said at the time. “And we’re toying with refrigeration, too.” (from APCMag)

More iPod stuff

Continuing my iPod thoughts, today I read that a lawsuit has been broughtagainst Apple on the iPod nano screen scratching situation. So maybe there really is something going on. On my (...

Pop!Tech starts tonight

Pop!Tech is my favorite conference, and it starts tonight, in Camden Maine. I’ve been 4 or 5 times and have always thoroughly enjoyed it. It is being webcast live here, if you care to listen in. Technorati Tags: conference

I am my own PR agency

Over the last week or so I’ve been working around the clock preparing for BlogBridge’sappearance at the BlogOn 2005 conference in New York City. Contemplating this at the end of the first day, I have to say it’s been a blast although quite different from what I’ve d...

Stewart Alsop blogging!

Stewart Alsop (the III’d I think), according to his own one-line bio is “venture capitalist and former journalist/pundit” and who I never before saw wearing a cowboy hat, is now blogging. I asked his permission to point my throng of readers to his blog, and it’s ok with him! Stewart is one of those guys that knows what’s happening in the technology world, so let’s give him a huge audience 🙂 Technorati Tags: blog, stewartalsop

Amusing…

File this one under stupid flash tricks. Neat. Technorati Tags: interesting

Follow-up on my iPod Rant

After my rant a few days ago about the quality of new-fangled electronic gizmos I got various emails. Most interesting was this link to Walt Mossberg’s comments about the scratching of the iPod nano’s, wher...