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10/25 Pop!Tech Memes — Pop!Tech 2005 was a great conference, again. I made notes only when something struck me as interesting or memorable or quotable, so this list of memes is very quirky just based on my in-the-moment reactions! - “Barcode of Life” – [Robert Hanner.](http://coriell.umdnj...
10/24 It’s not all love and kisses — We all love Wikipedia – I know I do. I’ve sung it’s praises to lots of people and have personally often looked stuff up in it and been satisfied. Still I can’t help but be impressed with an article I came across written by Robert McHenry former Editor in Chief of the Enc...
10/23 Apple Video iPod Strategy — For you Apple and iPod afficionados, here’s an interesting articleabout what Apple might be up to, tying together various tantalizing hints into a good story: > “Apple’s a shrewd operator. First, its spreads misinformation from the top – like how Steve Jobs famously slagged off media centre PCs in a conference call with financial analysts last year. “We might as well make it a toaster too,” he said. “I want it to brown my bagels when I’m listening to my music,” he said at the time. “And we’re toying with refrigeration, too.” (from APCMag)
10/18 I am my own PR agency — Over the last week or so I’ve been working around the clock preparing for BlogBridge’sappearance at the BlogOn 2005 conference in New York City. Contemplating this at the end of the first day, I have to say it’s been a blast although quite different from what I’ve d...
10/04 How long should a Treo 600 last? How about an IPod? — A confluence of five events: - My two year old Treo 600 stopped working: Despite my best efforts to revive it. Reboots, hard resets, new software – it was dropping calls all the time and had finally become unusable. Took it to the Sprint Store where their tech played with it for 1/2 hour and ca...
10/04 Scoble’s conundrum — His conundrum is that he loves both Web services (browser based applications) and Windows applications and can’t seem to pick a one-size-fits-all preference. Apparently some of his readers noticed that and are calling him to task on it. > “Some see my condundrum as being one brought upon by where I...
10/02 A big laugh — Help me with my Instant Messaging shorthand… Is it :-)) or 😀 for a big laugh? And, anyway, is it 🙂 or 🙂
09/30 [GEEKY] Why, oh, Why, Mr. Macintosh? — This is one of those handy dandy tips that you wish were not hidden, buried and kept secret: “Hold down the option and control keys while launching iPhoto and you will be treated to a very nice set of options for trying to recover your photos that have mysteriously disappeared.” I write this to save the next person a few hours of blind allies. Technorati Tags: iphoto
09/29 Web 2.0 – what is it? — Web 2.0 is one of those phrases that gets used and used and then people go nuts because they realize that they are all talking about something different. It becomes a heroic figh...
09/26 Microsoft blogging: “What do managers do…” — I often cite Microsoft as an example of corporate blogging that seems to really works: If you work with, for, against Microsoft (and who in the computer industry doesn’t do one of those?) Microsoft Bloggers will give you a view ...
09/26 Gibberish? — Interesting and amusing little article from ACM Queue:  > “One of the students, Jeremy Stribling, explains how they had developed a computer program to generate random sequences of technobabble in order to confirm their suspicions that papers of dubious academicity were bypassing serious, or indeed, any scrutiny. In fact, the students claim ulterior, financial motives behind this lack of proper peer review.” (from Call That Gibberish?) Technorati Tags: funny, interesting