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For a while now I’ve been fascinated with my Flickr SmartFeed of the Maldives. The pictures are one more beautiful than the next. Maybe this betrays my Caribbean heritage, but this one just blows me away. 
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Scoble has been really picking on Technorati recently, and I can’t figure out why. Given the megaphone that Robert has it has got to be really hurting Technorati. There has been a lot of detailed commentary about this, some of it qu...
Read more →Scripting News: 7/15/2005: Dave points to the New York Times article by Rich Meslin, Blogs 101. It’s a very nice collection of Blogs of general interest as a good introduction to the wor...
Read more →I encounter more and more organizations or people who are collecting lists of feeds or blogs for one purpose or another. With BlogBridge we have the BlogBridge Topic Experts. Global Voices have their collection of international blogs (very cool!) And of course, anyone using a feed reader or aggregat...
Read more →I just updated this site a little to have some more up to date information about my consulting business. Yes, you know about this blog, and you know about BlogBridge, but perhaps if you ever clicked on the links on the right of this you will have noticed that they were old and decrepit. Well, they are new and much nicer now. Still nothing profound, but at least informative if you are looking for me to do work for you! Technorati Tags: Consulting
In the continuing efforts to rid my house of junk, we are donating a whole bunch of nice Tchotchke briefcases. For the heck of it, and to expand recent innovat...
This is not about patents, it’s about technology. In Google’s recent patent application they reveal some interesting and possibly surprising tidbits of how they rank your web site. (via [Sadagopan’s weblog on Emergin...
Read more →All software has bugs, no doubt. So pulling out one story to make a point isn’t really fair. (Especially recalling the story about stones and glass houses.) But if I looked I know I could find story after story, including some that I could write from first hand experience, about the **...
Read more →If you, like me, are a space buff, you will find these pieces about space-shuttle safety very interesting (and follow the links too.) So check these out: > “They’re going to kill more astronauts” (from Terrestrial Musings) and “Nobody’s Perfect” (from Tech Central Station.)
Another excellent Peggy Noonan column: > “How exactly does it work? How does legitimate self-confidence become wildly inflated self-regard? How does self respect become unblinking conceit? How exactly does one’s character become destabilized in Washington? …” “…What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No. 1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them? “ (from Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal) I always love her stuff!
This is commonly accepted wisdom: When I download and install an application on my computer (any platform) it is a accepted wisdom that if the application is signed with a recognized and valid certificate, I am practicing safe download and my computer isn’t going to be damaged. This belief is s...
Read more →Aren’t you glad, since every other blogger is blah-blah-blah’ing about it? But here is a linkwith some really insightful posts about it.
You can do your blogging by typing into a web browser form provided by the Movable Type service. But boy is that clumsy and awful. So for a while now I’ve used so-called “blogging clients” which provide a nice rich interface to write and edit the posts, and then use the server’s APIs to actual...
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What a difference this conference is from the ones I usually go to. Ten thousand or so fairly hard-core Java programmers, more or less around th...
About 3 months ago I subscribed to Atlantic Magazine, which I really like, by the way. On a lark, I gave my name as “Pito Atlantic Salas” because, well, it amused me. It’s taken about 3 months and I’ve received my first bit of Atlantic generated junk mail today: [ Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine has an [interesting view](http://www.buzzmachine.co...
Read more →I came across a good story about ModestNeeds.org from Deborah Finn’s blog, where she says: > “In other words, although philanthropy no longer looks like it did in the time when most people ...
Read more →I wrote a few days ago about the coming LA Times initiative to create something they are calling “Wikitorials.” Well they’ve done it, and the results are quite interesting: Someone going by the name Han...
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