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I recently had to buy a new cell phone, and learning how to use it reminded me again about how complicated these things are. How many out there have not bothered to learn something as simple even as programming in some commonly called numbers? I know I probably use only 30% of the features. A b...
Read more →The street filled with tomatoes, midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets. In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen, it enters at lunchtime, takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars. It...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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)
Continuing my iPod thoughts, today I read that a lawsuit has been broughtagainst Apple on the iPod nano screen scratching situation. So maybe there really is something going on. On my (...
Read more →Pop!Tech is my favorite conference, and it starts tonight, in Camden Maine. I’ve been 4 or 5 times and have always thoroughly enjoyed it. It is being webcast live here, if you care to listen in. Technorati Tags: conference
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...
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Stewart Alsop (the III’d I think), according to his own one-line bio is “venture capitalist and former journalist/pundit” and who I never before saw wearing a cowboy hat, is now blogging. I asked his permission to point my throng of readers to his blog, and it’s ok with him! Stewart is one of those guys that knows what’s happening in the technology world, so let’s give him a huge audience 🙂 Technorati Tags: blog, stewartalsop
File this one under stupid flash tricks. Neat. Technorati Tags: interesting
After my rant a few days ago about the quality of new-fangled electronic gizmos I got various emails. Most interesting was this link to Walt Mossberg’s comments about the scratching of the iPod nano’s, wher...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →Help me with my Instant Messaging shorthand… Is it :-)) or 😀 for a big laugh? And, anyway, is it 🙂 or 🙂
This is a perenial debate with lots of sides. Here’ s just some fodder for those of you who are pondering the ...
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
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...
Read more →Here’s a survey being conducted by BlogOn, where I am on the [advisory board](http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon20...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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