03/03 Google Toolbar: Where’s the fire? — In case you’ve come across the flaming debate about how the Google Toolbar is evil, you will appreciate this post: **“I’m a bit wary about throwing myself in the middle of the whole Google Toolbar AutoLink business (Dan Gillmor has a good summar...

03/02 Is this picture classified? — I am quickly becoming a Flickr fan. What took me so long, you ask? Well f...

03/01 [DEMO 2005] Top Demos — There’s already so much written about Demo 2005, it seems like there’s not much to add. First off, let me recommend Conferenza Premium Reports. It’s a very reasonably priced subscription service that provides first hand reports of all the major and not so major confere...

03/01 RSS Feed Advertising — From News.com, about Kaboodle BrightAds RSS **On Monday, the company introduced a self-service system that lets online publishers pair advertising with their RSS feeds. Called BrightAds RSS (after the techno...

02/27 Luck — A neat little quote from a good, yet not well known movie, “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans (the film shares the same name as Evans’s famous 1994 autobiography.) It’s an idea that I’ve heard expressed in many different ways, but this one is new to me, and good: ### “Luck doesn’t just happen, it’s when opportunity meets preparation.”

02/26 Two Best TV shows that no one has heard about — There are two TV shows that it seems no one knows about, and yet, I think, are the very best on TV today. Better than West Wing. Better than CSI:xyz. Without further editorializing: MI-5 – A british show about spies. Brilliant. 24 – A US show that covers a single 24 hour period over the whole season. Each of 24 episodes covers 1 hour in 1 hour. **Outstanding. ** ‘Nuf said.

02/25 [BlogBridge] New Weekly Release – 0.11 — Just a quick note that we’ve updated the weekly build to 0.11. Given that we are wrapping things up for our 1.0 Release, which is imminent, changes are going to be mostly on internals – bug fixes and performance. Still there are a few goodies here for you: Right clicking on an Article offers a “Cop...

02/24 The Gates: What’s the point of taking pictures? — As I mentioned a few days ago, I went to see “The Gates” – Environmental art by Christo. My reaction: much better and cooler than I thought it would be. Not that there were any surprises – it’s exactly what it was said to be: a whole bunch of orange (oo...

02/23 screencasting – Screen + Voice = demo — Jon Udell coins a term, screencasting: creating little informal movies from screen captures plus audio, used particularly for [demonst...

02/20 Letter to all BlogBridge users — Dear users, ex-users, and future users of BlogBridge, As we are approaching our 1.0 release, we are starting to plan what comes next! It is a good time to take the pulse of people using BlogBridge regularly and tap into your collective wisdom! Before getting into that, there are a few preliminaries…...

02/19 Article about Podcasting in the New York Times — If you haven’t heard about Podcasting (what, are you living under a rock?) the New York Times has a good introduction: > “Their show, mostly ad-libbed, is a podcast, a kind of recording that, thanks to a technology barely six months old, anyone can make on a computer and then post to a Web site, where it can be downloaded to an iPod or any MP3 player to be played at the listener’s leisure.” Link to New York Times.

02/18 We’re going to see “The Gates” in New York — We’re going to see the “The Gates” installation in Central Park, New York. Want to see an amazing satellite picture of it? Click here. It’s a really huge file though. The image on the right is a little extract.

02/17 Have you seen Google Maps? — Unless you have been living under a rock (or have better things to do with your time) you will have seen Google Maps. Well, I only just tonight looked at them for the first time. Stunning! A spectacular web application. Highly usable and useful. And easy on the eyes! Here’s a really good quick introduction to Google Maps from Peter Merholz’s blog.. You’ll find some screenshots illustrating key features, and some user interface commentary. And here’s a link to google maps themselves. Check it out!

02/14 [Demo 2005] The Enron Corpus — The demos at this year’s DEMO are quite good. One interesting thing I noticed is that there are several productsconnected to keeping companies out of legal trouble due to problematic i...

02/12 Modesty isn’t dead — If you are interested in blogging you certainly have come across Robert Scoble’s blog, the most prominent blog written by a Microsoft employee. Recently [The Economist wrote a story about Robert Scoble at Microsoft. Nice article.](http://www.economist.com/people/displa...

02/12 Switcher’s Log, Part 4: So what software DO I use on Mac? — This is a topic of continuing interest to people who hear that I switched. Here are some general comments: To a first order approximation what allowed me to switch at all was that I wasn’t working on primarily Microsoft (C#, .NET, etc.) software, but rather open sourc-y, java-y, unix-y stuff which ...

02/09 Two really interesting bits missed by MSM — Here are two practical examples of how mainstream media (“MSM”) sometimes overlooks really interesting or engagi...

02/08 [BlogBridge Tip] New Weekly Build Available — We just put up a new weekly build of BlogBridge with many new features. Here are some of the more interesting ones: Community Fields. Right click on a Feed, and choose Feed Properties. Click on the community tab, where you will see our initial pair of fields, Country and Tags. What’s interestin...

02/05 VCs and Aggregators — An interesting article in News.Com: > As the number of blogs, news services and other syndicated sources of online information balloons, a new crop of start-ups has emerged promising to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Very relevant to BlogBridge, of course.

02/03 Social Networks and RSS Aggregators — Dave Winer says that there’s a bit of buzz about social networks and RSS aggregators. I haven’t seen it myself, but I am glad to see it brought up, because it’s one of the things that’s evolving nicely in [BlogBridge](http://www.blogbridge.co...