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I have IM accounts on Yahoo, AOL and MSN. Actually I use the AOL by far the most, but I have an occasional correspondent on Yahoo and MSN. By the way, on Mac OS X, I use the terrific client “Adium” which talks all those protocols, and is free. It is a nice UI on to the well...
Read more →Just a final follow up on this interesting story (actually more of an event than a story because it was over so quickly:) Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine has an [interesting view](http://www.buzzmachine.co...
Read more →I came across a good story about ModestNeeds.org from Deborah Finn’s blog, where she says: > “In other words, although philanthropy no longer looks like it did in the time when most people ...
Read more →I wrote a few days ago about the coming LA Times initiative to create something they are calling “Wikitorials.” Well they’ve done it, and the results are quite interesting: Someone going by the name Han...
Read more →Francois, reacting to something written by Jason Calcanis, makes a very good point in this discussion about feed and blog aggregators nee...
Read more →Not computer service providers, but folks like carpenters and plumbers…. I came across ServiceMagic, which is a pretty cool site for locating and hiring people to work on projects around the house. I needed three doors repaired and on a lark I posted the project on t...
Read more →Ok, but, unlike Simplebits, this picture doesn’t horrify me 🙂 Technorati Tags: funny
A couple of interesting related articles on facts and non-facts: > “Wikipedia is one of the Web’s most popular sites. I asked a teenager if he understood that it carries a disclaimer; Wikipedia “can’t guarantee the validity of the information found here.” “That’s just so that no one will sue them,”...
Read more →I came across what is supposed to be the transcript of a commencement speech given by Steve Jobs (my hero 🙂 on June 14th. It’s certainly resonates with me: > “You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your ...
Read more →States Ranked: Smartest to Dumbest. No Comment. Technorati Tags: interesting
You’ve heard me complain about comment spam before haven’t you? Comment Spam is when mysterious robot software attacks my blog and floods it with fake comments? I came across this [handy little document](http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/comment_spam...
Read more →If you are interested and fascinated with the Wikipedia, how it came to be, why it is the way it is, there’s an absolutely gripping account of the history and origins on Slashdot: > “An impassioned debate has been raging, particularl...
Read more →What would you do if you received two letters from a collection agency saying that you owed $5,000 to a firm with whom you’ve never had an account with? I ignored it and the following letter, immediately smelling a rat. What would you do further, if you got a call from that agency, and...
Read more →Get this: > “A man’s severed leg – with a white Adidas sneaker still attached – plummeted from the sky onto a garage roof and bounced into the backyard of a Long Island home yesterday morning.” Want to know more? Technorati Tags: interesting, gross
If you work with software developers you’ll appreciate these two pieces by Paul Graham, author of Hackers and Painters, a book that I also recommend heartily. He always has interesting things to say: > “I once claimed that nerds were unpopular ...
Read more →We’ve been experimenting with a switcharoo of the BlogBridge web site – a major overhaul conceived and prototyped by Francois. (Thanks!) The new site will be going to production tomorrow, but you get to take a look while we are p...
Read more →I just saw references to these two books. I am putting them on my reading list. - Rebuilt: How becoming part computer made me more human – Michael Chorost. - Is Bill Cosny Right? – Michael Eric Dyson Technorati Tags: book
Just add this one to your reading list: > “(XP) challenges many of the common assumptions about software development. Of these one of the most controversial is its rejection of significant effort in up-front design, in favor of a more evolutio...
Read more →Another neat link I was shown: > “Ever since I was a wee programmer, I’ve been reminded that good code has a lot of comments. After all, code will be read many more times than it will be written. ” (from “Write Sweet-smelling Comments“) Technorati Tags: programming
I just came off listening to Dan Bricklin’s first podcast, an interview with Linda Hamel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about patents, intellectual property and open source. Quite interesting info. I am looking...
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