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I came across this a little while ago in Wired about War Blogs. Pretty amazing stuff: > “Strong opinions throughout the military ranks in and out of wartime are nothing new. But online technology in the combat zone has suddenly given those o...
Read more →I’ve read several accounts relating to Microsoft’s recently ‘leaked’ documents about the new strategy, for example, Cringely says: > “While ostensibly written solely for internal discussion, the documents from Bill Gates and new Microsoft CT...
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This little gem really works! A **Sta...
So can you learn anything useful from a blog? I’ve often spoken admiringly to friends about Microsoft blogging. I’ve said that, it’s not so much that people are giving away any trade secrets. You learn stuff that are not secret, but you probably would only fin...
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Peter Moldave, a friend of mine who has helped me immensely with BlogBridge has (gulp) [started blogging](...
This one has made the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet. Whether or not you are expecting a baby, have a child, or just love cool visualizations, you’ve gotta check out “The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager“. Incredibly cool! Technorati Tags: babyboomers
“The sword passes within millimetres of the heart, aorta, and other vitals but, surprisingly, few deaths related to sword swallowing have been described. A Canadian sword swallower did die, but that was after swallowing an umbrella.” (from BMJ.com, the General Medical Journal, online, via MetaFilter.) You do learn the darndest things on the web, don’t you? Technorati Tags: funny
I assume you know about Wikis and the Wikipedia. If not, click on the links to the left and you’ll both find out and experience it, in one fell swoop. On [BlogBridge](http://www.blogbridge.co...
Read more →From How Stuff Works: > “There is no question that the last few years of world history have seen a fair share of chaos and disorder. With so much global unrest, governments worldwide are struggling to devise new methods to maintain order. The Galactic Empire’s s...
Read more →I really like this idea that Dave Winer has put forward: “Let’s make the Google API an open standard”, where he says, among other things: > “We’ve asked for a plug-in architecture for search engines, and if we can’t have that, a solid easy-to-program API is a **...
Read more →I just came across Dave Winer’s new, beta, OPML Validator, which is a welcome development. While there is an OPML spec, having a validator too is a great, pragmatic, concrete way to give a big thum...
Read more →Here’s another cute one I came across, at BlogOn 2005: “Trojan Mouse Strategy” – when you try to develop grass roots adoption of your software, bypassing IT. Technorati Tags: meme
Inquisitor is a really cool program that augments the search box in Safari (which for you heathens out there is the default Mac OS X web browser.) It’s kind of hard to explain just what it does – it’s kind of a magical word completion thingie that guesse...
Read more →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