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A really great article in The Atlantic about Wikipedia. Very relevant during this Wikimania weekend. “Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. ” (from “The Hive“) Check it out here! Technorati Tags: wikimania, wikipedia
The Web-2.0, No-Bull-Shiitake Marketing Test by Seth Godin A good set of ideas about getting your (my) ideas to spread (tags: ideas sethgodin marketing soflow) Pito’s Blog: Atlantic Magazine on Wikipedia (tags: wikimania wikipedia)
BlogBridge: Wikipedia Topic Guide If you are going to Wikimania you might be interested in this collection of Wikipedia related blogs and feeds. (tags: wikipedia wikimania guide)
Photoshop CS2 HDR A really wonderful photography site describes a technique for making digital photos really pop. (tags: hdr digital photography) Cricket Explained (An American Viewpoint) Is cricket not just baseball backwards? Or is that backwards? Useful resource for those of us who live in the uncivilized english world (tags: cricket soflow sport) Top 10 sites for students – CNET.com Says it all. Best for Students (tags: soflow students)
Quite interesting analysis (at least to us Geeks) showing that the notion of a ‘WIndows XP’ standard or native UI is actually a myth. Read it here: Prashant Deva’s blog: How many of your Windows apps use the native Windows UI?
This is Mac specific, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people with more primitive computers could do something analogous. Basically we create a Mail rule that matches image spam messages: “The rule is based off of Bill’s observation that these spam emails always come from a different address, and the content type header (as you might now assume) begins with multipart/related'” Read more: A Mail.app rule for catching image spam – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
This article: The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web is a very interesting survey of RSS and issues that folks in the Science community have to be aware of.
FlightStats – Worldwide flight status / tracker with historical performance data Comprehensive airport and flight information: delays, actual times, estimated times, scores etc. (tags: travel flight airtravel) â__We Are Who We Believe Ourselves to Beâ__: Curaçao Jazz and the Expression of Identity by Nanette de Jong Interesting article about Curacaoan identity (tags: curacao identity)
Look closely at this screen grab off the New York Times site. It was published on August 6, 2006. Look at the calendar on the wall. It’s only August 2, at least here in Boston. Maybe time moves quicker in New York? 
Technorati Tags: funny, newyorktimes
My Brain Doesn’t Work That Way An interesting bit of ‘UI’ in MySpace for those of you who are interested in following this kind of stuff! (tags: myspace customization soflow) Rich Internet to Soon Replace Static Pages Forecasting the future of Ajax on the web (tags: soflow interesting ajax ...
Read more →Yeah this is extraordinarily weird. As Yakov Smirnov says: “America, What a country!” It’s from EBay. Anyone want to bid? 
Technorati Tags: weird
Just announced over on the BlogBridge site, BlogBridge 3.0. Check it out! I think you’ll like it. It has lots of new goodies, too many to mention here, but see the announcement for the juicy details!
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Why we all sell code with bugs Fun article about why there’s always bugs in software. If that’s a surprise to you, well… read this article! (tags: software development bugs) Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software Another article on the question of developing ‘bug free code’… (tags: software development bug)
If you read my blog chances are you’ll really enjoy John Batelle’s book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
YouTube – Jethro Tull at The Rolling Stones Circus (tags: jethrotull cool old)
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=blogbridge-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1591840562&IS1=1&nou=1&fc1=000000<1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=ffffff&bg1=ffffff&f=ifrGuy is one of my heroes and his blog is one of my favorites. A post today on the ‘Art of Firing’ is a good summary: “I’ve fired people a few times in my career, and I hated everything about the process. I’m not sure I did it well when I did it, but I’ve thought a lot about how it should be done. Here is my best...
Read more →I knew about this site but recently came across a link to another quite interesting article, “Why We Can be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter of a Century”. Yes, Kurzweil’s books are too long and repetitive, and he does hold some unusual views, but the guy’s a total genius and always fun to read. I don’t think the article delivers on the subtitle: “The advent of strong AI (exceeding human intelligence) is the most important transformation this century will see, and it will happen within 25 years, says Ray Kurzweil […]” (from ...
Read more →Object Technology Jeff Sutherland (tags: feed agile scrum xp process) Agile Project Planning (tags: feed agile scrum xp process) Agile Advice (tags: feed ...
Read more →Ok, oh wise listeners out there. Here’s what’s happened to me twice now in the last week. Basically I receive a large number of email bounce messages which were sent ‘from’ xxx@blogbridge.com, where I never heard of xxx. And there are a ton of different xxx’s. When I say a large number, it’s around 100 of them. None of them actually exist. So what are the theories? someone is sending out spam using email addresses that simply textually look like accounts on blogbridge.com. Is that even possible? I can’t think of any reason why one couldn’t gen up fake return addresses, and when emails bounce, that’s where they bounce to. somehow my email (SMTP) server is hijacked or compromised? But why would the return addresses appear to be blogbridge.com? somehow my server has been fooled into sending out a bunch of emails? I don’t understand how. So, what do I do? Any advice/explanations/hints would be appreciated! Technorati Tags: spam
Yes the meetups keep on coming fast and furious. Check out the “Boston Web Innovators Group” meeting, which is happening July 24th (yes that’s this coming Monday.) I’ll be there! Technorati Tags: geekdinner