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Dear users, ex-users, and future users of BlogBridge, As we are approaching our 1.0 release, we are starting to plan what comes next! It is a good time to take the pulse of people using BlogBridge regularly and tap into your collective wisdom! Before getting into that, there are a few preliminaries…...
Read more →If you haven’t heard about Podcasting (what, are you living under a rock?) the New York Times has a good introduction: > “Their show, mostly ad-libbed, is a podcast, a kind of recording that, thanks to a technology barely six months old, anyone can make on a computer and then post to a Web site, where it can be downloaded to an iPod or any MP3 player to be played at the listener’s leisure.” Link to New York Times.
We’re going to see the “The Gates” installation in Central Park, New York. Want to see an amazing satellite picture of it? Click here. It’s a really huge file though. The image on the right is a little extract.
Unless you have been living under a rock (or have better things to do with your time) you will have seen Google Maps. Well, I only just tonight looked at them for the first time. Stunning! A spectacular web application. Highly usable and useful. And easy on the eyes! Here’s a really good quick introduction to Google Maps from Peter Merholz’s blog.. You’ll find some screenshots illustrating key features, and some user interface commentary. And here’s a link to google maps themselves. Check it out!
The demos at this year’s DEMO are quite good. One interesting thing I noticed is that there are several productsconnected to keeping companies out of legal trouble due to problematic i...
Read more →If you are interested in blogging you certainly have come across Robert Scoble’s blog, the most prominent blog written by a Microsoft employee. Recently [The Economist wrote a story about Robert Scoble at Microsoft. Nice article.](http://www.economist.com/people/displa...
Read more →This is a topic of continuing interest to people who hear that I switched. Here are some general comments: To a first order approximation what allowed me to switch at all was that I wasn’t working on primarily Microsoft (C#, .NET, etc.) software, but rather open sourc-y, java-y, unix-y stuff which ...
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Here are two practical examples of how mainstream media (“MSM”) sometimes overlooks really interesting or engagi...
We just put up a new weekly build of BlogBridge with many new features. Here are some of the more interesting ones: Community Fields. Right click on a Feed, and choose Feed Properties. Click on the community tab, where you will see our initial pair of fields, Country and Tags. What’s interestin...
Read more →An interesting article in News.Com: > As the number of blogs, news services and other syndicated sources of online information balloons, a new crop of start-ups has emerged promising to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Very relevant to BlogBridge, of course.
Dave Winer says that there’s a bit of buzz about social networks and RSS aggregators. I haven’t seen it myself, but I am glad to see it brought up, because it’s one of the things that’s evolving nicely in [BlogBridge](http://www.blogbridge.co...
Read more →Dave Winer makes a point which I totally agree with: it is important to learn from what has come before – or more more provocatively – to steal good ideas wherever you can find them. And secondly that the only way to do th...
Read more →In the continuing saga of the switch from Windows XP to Mac OS X, here is where we find our hero…. I have more or less gotten all the applications I use over onto the Mac. Almost all of them. I will be forced to leave behind Microsoft Money, X1 and Plaxo. Of all the stuff I ran on the PC, those ...
Read more →This may be a first! Get your cool BlogBridge t-shirts here! 
Quite a bit has been written about this, so I won’t repeat except to relate my experience in setting up a breakfast with a friend of mine. Here is the link I sent him (so now you know where, but you don’t know when!)! Amusing to see the photo and the map of the place, isn’t it?
I used to have comments enabled on this blog until I got overrun by link spam. With comments my readers could post responses to my Blog musings. I’ve since turned of commenting on this site. What is link spam? Suddenly one day you realize that some of your Blog articles have a very long list of random comments attached to them, each including a link to some random site. Who does this? Link Spammers. Why do they do it? To drive up the page rank of PPR Sites. (PPR? Pills, Porn and Casinos). Here is one link spammers story.
It’s one thing to be interested in blogs so you can read and learn and become aware of new ideas. But when it comes to joining into the discussions, watch out! No it’s more than the well known problem of following discus...
Read more →It is of course impossible to keep up with the avalanche of discussion about the topic of tags, folksonomies, tagonomies. David Weinberger points to a (beautifully designed: love those pictures!) essay on the topic from [burningbird](h...
Read more →It seems to me that all text and other Mac OS X user interface elements are a little bit bigger than their counterparts on the PC. Why is that? It seems like the same size screen fits less stuff when attached to a Mac OS X system than to a Win XP system. It’s annoying – it makes you feel less productive. I am hunting for some tweak software to adjust this but I am starting to think it doesn’t exist. Why?
(If you are not a BlogBridge you will not find this very interesting) We notice many of you have requested a BlogBridge account but not activated it. Here’s the thing: once you ask for the account, you will receive an email with a link in it that you have to click. Until you click, your account will not be ready to us. (Our instructions need to be improved!) Why activate? Because until you do, the wonderful benefits of the BlogBridge service will not be available to you!
