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I often hear folks beat up Microsoft Windows for being a breeding ground for viruses, spyware, and all sorts of malware. Bad Microsoft for being so sloppy! There was a recent exchange between Scoble and [Dan Gillmor](http://bayosphere.com/n...
Read more →I came across this bit: > “Are we going to be a player in VoIP? Absolutely. Are we going to be prepared to disrupt our own business? Absolutely, Why? Because if not, somebody else will.” ([Techdirt](http://techdirt.com/articles/20050516/00322...
Read more →Richard MacManus made a statement in a post last week which elicited a lot of very interesting responses: “Competition for Bloglines: We’re nearly halfway through 2005 and there’s still no heavyweight competition to Bloglines, in the web ...
Read more →A really interesting article about Blog Comment Spam. This is one person’s attempt to really follow all clues to their sources. It doesn’t end all...
Read more →Good morning sports-fans. We recently totally revamped the BlogBridge web site. Take a look, and let me know what you think. Importantly, it now includes a group blog where the BlogBridge team posts bits of interest to anyone interested in the project. We have started a new series of posts there called: “Did you know”where every day we (try to) post a short article describing a feature or capability of interest to users. Check it out! Technorati Tags: blogbridge, UI
Susan Senator has published a book: “Making Peace with Autism”: > “It’s her memoir about our family, and how we have dealt with the autism th...
I like to come across music from my collection of CDs that I haven’t listened to in a while. Here’s what I do: - I create a “Smart Playlist” called, for example, Folk – Unplayed - The “match query” includes Genere is Folk and Play Count is 0 As I play this list, it gets continually shorter as each song is played and removed from the list. Riff on this technique – other genres? Played once only? etc. Neat. Technorati Tags: cool, itunes
Pretty neat little web site, via Ned Batchelder: AllTheLogos.com – Gif and Vector EPS Logos: Technorati Tags: interesting
The highly anticipated Mac OS X “Tiger” arrived in my hot little hands, and I’ve spent most of the day installing it (2 hours) and getting everything to work again (6 hours and counting.) One of the highly touted new features is “Dashboard” which is a “not quite as good as” knock-off of [Konfa...
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Interesting: I can reach 1.1 Million people through my 125 connections on LinkedIn, and there are a total of 2.1 million people registered. So I can reach one out of two. My statistics are not good enough to analyze the significance of that, but it is a bit surprising. Technorati Tags: interesting, linkedin
Two of my all time favorite Mac OS X applications just came out with new releases: Adium Xis a beautiful multi-IM-service client. It’s based on GAIM but with a true OS X user interface. For PC users, it’s kind of like Trillian but nicer! They just came out with a...
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I saw this in the Wall Street Journal: > “Marcos Weskamp, a 27-year-old Web designer in Tokyo, created a graphical interface1 for Google News a...
Maybe you’ve read or heard my rants about what has become known as...
Long time readers of this blog (yes, I can say that now, it’s been 2 years or so 🙂 know that I am a Dave [Wine...
In the continuing series of “this blog things is really getting big”, the most recent issue of BusinessWeek has a whole section all about blogging. Not only that, but they’ve started their own meta-blog.
In the last few weeks or so, I’ve noticed a marked increase in the number of spam emails that are making it into my Gmail inbox. It would be very interesting to know how the spammers vs. Google arms race is going. I’ve got to believe that Google is working hard on the problem, but given that this [w...
Read more →I have to admit to being fascinated with the Vatican, and the ancient, elaborate traditions and rules that surround the papacy. Bruce Schneier, in his (excellent) monthly newsletter had a really interesting discussion about the...
Read more →Microsoft and Apple are arguing about who came up first with the idea of having a pervasive search capability built into the OS Apple is shipping it imminently in Tiger, and Microsoft, eventually, in Longhorn. Well let’s see...
Read more →Read more →“They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road – but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete. (from the BBC)“ There, I got your attention, didn’t I? That’s from the always fascinating mo...
For you closet viewers of American Idol (the TV Show), I thought you’d be amused by this new TV blog, and it’s discussion of some of the latest developments on that show. If ...
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