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There was some buzz here at ETECH about Yahoo Research’s announcement of the Buzz Game. It’s one of those online, simulated markets, ostensibly to extract “the wisdom of crowds” about Technology trends. It looks like a relatively complete immitation of...
Read more →On a lark, I used my frequent flyer miles to fly First Class on American Airlines today, heading out to the O’Reily ETech Conference. I hadn’t done it in quite a while. It felt so ‘eighties’ to me – faux luxury dining in a tin can at 40,000 feet: > *“Mr. Salas, would you like a drink before take-...
Read more →A memorable quote (from George Bernard Shaw) > “The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself… All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Jeff Bezos talked about a new feature of A9 which allows the basic A9 Search Page to be extended by anyone, using what I am calling “Searchlets.” Here’s an explanation… If you’ve looked at A9 you’ve seen the various “vertical” result regions that you can ask for – there are a handful built ...
Read more →Another sign that “something big” is going on here. It seems like not a day passes but that there’s another article in either the Boston Globe or the New York Times about some aspect of blogging. Latest example, Need Some New Luster? Try Rosie O’Donnell’s Method: Create It by the Blogful. > “Ms. O’Donnell’s Web log, “formerlyrosie,” began appearing late last month and is described as at the top of the page as “The unedited rantings of a fat 42-year-old menopausal ex-talk show host married mother of four.” Not that I am a fan one way or another, but, who would have thunk!
Scoble (and everyone else) comments: > “We bought Groove and made Ray Ozzie our CTO.” Except, according to the New York Times: > “Mr. Ozzie will join Microsoft’s two other chief technical officers, David Vaskevitch and Craig Mundie” Interesting definition of “Chief”. I wonder whether the New York Times got it wrong?
For those who are following this narrative, this is a continuing narrative of my experiences after having switched from Windows XP to Mac OS X. One of my big concerns before switching to Mac was that it was going to be sloooooow. Of course this is an unfair comparison, between: a 2GHz Penti...
Read more →There are two very brief audio-visual overviews of ‘cool’ BlogBridge features. BlogStarz feature:in this brief screencast I introduce and explain a handy way to rate which feeds you find most useful, and at the same time benefit from the experie...
Read more →I thought this was an interesting article even though I don’t agree with it: > “There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren’t so tragic.”
Dave Winer points to Kevin Shofield’s defenseof an “unfair, infamous post saying that Microsoft can’t ship software ...
Read more →Do you know Dowbrigade? An almost always interesting blog, intellectually stimulating and thought provoking. Check it out! Wait, read more closely. There’s good stuff there: > “This story has almost everything w...
Read more →In case you’ve come across the flaming debate about how the Google Toolbar is evil, you will appreciate this post: **“I’m a bit wary about throwing myself in the middle of the whole Google Toolbar AutoLink business (Dan Gillmor has a good summar...
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I am quickly becoming a Flickr fan. What took me so long, you ask? Well f...
There’s already so much written about Demo 2005, it seems like there’s not much to add. First off, let me recommend Conferenza Premium Reports. It’s a very reasonably priced subscription service that provides first hand reports of all the major and not so major confere...
Read more →From News.com, about Kaboodle BrightAds RSS **On Monday, the company introduced a self-service system that lets online publishers pair advertising with their RSS feeds. Called BrightAds RSS (after the techno...
Read more →A neat little quote from a good, yet not well known movie, “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans’s famous 1994 autobiography.) It’s an idea that I’ve heard expressed in many different ways, but this one is new to me, and good: ### “Luck doesn’t just happen, it’s when opportunity meets preparation.”
There are two TV shows that it seems no one knows about, and yet, I think, are the very best on TV today. Better than West Wing. Better than CSI:xyz. Without further editorializing: MI-5 – A british show about spies. Brilliant. 24 – A US show that covers a single 24 hour period over the whole season. Each of 24 episodes covers 1 hour in 1 hour. **Outstanding. ** ‘Nuf said.
Just a quick note that we’ve updated the weekly build to 0.11. Given that we are wrapping things up for our 1.0 Release, which is imminent, changes are going to be mostly on internals – bug fixes and performance. Still there are a few goodies here for you: Right clicking on an Article offers a “Cop...
Read more →As I mentioned a few days ago, I went to see “The Gates” – Environmental art by Christo. My reaction: much better and cooler than I thought it would be. Not that there were any surprises – it’s exactly what it was said to be: a whole bunch of orange (oo...
Read more →Jon Udell coins a term, screencasting: creating little informal movies from screen captures plus audio, used particularly for [demonst...
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