Beg the question? Beg your pardon?
This is amusing. Ever since I learned from glenn, many years ago, that everyone uses “beg the question” incorrectly, I can’t help noticing it whenever it’s done. Now I see we’re not the only one!
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April 2005
IBM Patent Benevolence?
Doc comments with grudging admirationthat IBM has decided to give away some parts of their much vaunted patent...
Read more →No women tigers?
No I am not talking about Tiger Woods(who also is not a woman) but about the “Engineers Who Created Tiger”, according to a recent bit of Apple Marketing. (Tiger is the name of the new release of the Mac OS X operating system.) A odd image to portray, IMHO.
Is Google setting the hook?
Recently, GMail raised the free storage available to all subscribers to 2 Gig! Amazing isn’t it? I don’t know how they do it – they must have a monstrous number of subscribers all over the world. And they are getting hooked, really hooked. Take me for example – I was getting worried when I ha...
Read more →Switcher’s log, Part 8: In conclusion…
I love the fact that I switched to Mac. A lot of the fun is that it’s new and different. Also I like the idea that there’s UNIX beneath the skin because I wanted to get more familiar with it. Also all the applications are ‘prettier‘ to look at and that’s fun. Of course the m...
Read more →Switcher’s Log, Part 7: How can Apple be so brain dead about usability?
Everyone says that the reason they like the Mac and OS X is that it’s so easy to use! I am not so sure that it’s any easier to use than Windows XP. Yes OS X has some snazzy user interface frills and it’s quite easy to use. But notwithstanding that some of these brain-dead UI decisions ** bely ...
Read more →Wow! Google rocks!
Google is now officially unstoppable! Check out how they’ve now integrated satellite images into Google Maps. Now we know what they wanted with the Keyhole acquisition. What a wonderful integration. Click on the image to see it full size! The address, by the way, is of the Harvard University Berkman Center.
[BLOGBRIDGE] BlogBridge 1.0 is out!
It’s here! We are officially declaring BlogBridge as a 1.0 product! The site is updated, the features are solid and we are off to the races. Here are some personal tidbits about where we are now and what happens next: - Actually 1.0 has been done for about a week now, and really over the last 4...
Read more →Back to the future: DECSYSTEM-20?
Would you believe that someone is reading blogs on DEC PDP-10’s, DECSYSTEM-20’s and MULTICS computers? What, you never heard of those? Oh, nevermind…
Switcher’s Log, Part 6: All is not honey and peaches in Mac OS X land
When things go wrong is when you start seeing some of the disadvantages of being on the 5% pc platform. Help is hard to find, alternatives are non-existent. Briefly here is the story: I tried a ‘better’ Palm synchronizer called“Missing Sync” from ...
Read more →Talking about RSS Aggregators
Doctor Scoble poses a provocative question: “Which aggregator do you like best”? Quite an amazing variety of aggregators are mentioned.It might be the most crowded space I’ve seen in a long time. Gee, and my own project, BlogBridge is in the space. Of course, we are willing to take on all comers because we feel that we’ve got a better mousetrap, and that we’ve pushed the envelope in some really important areas. But you know, I bet all of them feel the same way. Robert, if you read this: check out BlogBridge won’t ya?
March 2005
[GEEK] Java Web Start {again}
There’s another flame-up on the WebStart commentary on the web, this time under the title “Webstart, now I see why people don’t use it.” Even though I’ve spoken out about this once or twice, I couldn’t resist weighing in. **[Here...
Read more →Another VC is blogging – what’s going on?
If you are interested in some thoughtful perspectives about the world of Venture Capital, from a reformed (or is it a corrupted?) entrepreneur, you should check out Jeff Bussgang’s (of IDG Ventures) new blog, “Seeing both sides.” He’s off to a great start!
Attention.xml
Steve Gilmor muses about the history of the Attention.xml spec in his blog. Steve thought up Atttention. xml as way to capture what feeds and items people do and ...
Read more →Web Radio is not the same as Podcasting
Here’s a really interesting article by Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe about Web Radio, reminding us that there’s a whole other world out there that is related to but quite different from Po...
Read more →Remix Remixed
[I wrote this in response to this post, which had generated a lot of commentary. I liked what I wrote so much I decided to post it here too :-)] I can’t count the ways when someone looked at some great new product and said something like, “I did s...
Read more →Interesting blog survey
Blogads has conducted a survey of people who read blogs. The results are quite interesting. One thing that stood out to me was that 72% don’t use RSS (i.e. an aggregator) to read blogs. This is consistent with another finding, which is that people who read blogs typically read about 10 of them every day. When reading “only” 10, using a web browser is more than fine. Check it out, there are lots of other interesting tidbits!
[ETECH] Taxonomy of Folksonomies
There’s been a lot of talk about tags, folksonomies, taxonomies, etc. Trying to make sense out of this can be confusing. At the recent ETech conference there was more than one presentation on the topic, each of which helped me understand the subtleties a little better, and organize them in my mind. ...
Read more →Busybodies and Crybabies
height=”250″ width=”200″ align=”right” hspace=”20″ />I caught on Dan Gilmor’s blog apointer to an article by...
Blogging and journalism … again?
If you are a blog aficionado then you’ve followed this debate, ad something. I don’t have any pearls of wisdom to add, but did come across this quite good article discussing the issues (via MacNetJournal) > “Or in Walsh’s words, in trying to tell if a blog is serious journalism or the rant of a pajama-clad windbag, “It’s kind of like art. You know it when you see it.” Hmm. I thought that was pornography 🙂