Archive for June, 2005

Unkown (But Knowable…)

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

BoingBoing shows a list from Science of the top 25 questions science does NOT have answers for, but which should (might?) be answered within the next 25 years.

Fred Wilson on Blogging 2.0

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Fred Wilson, a very readable venture capitalist (who goes by A VC), posted this insightful screed about Blogging 2.0. Fascinating stuff.

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Other Trees in the New Media Forest

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

“…there are other trees in the new media forest still to evolve.” Robert Scoble, at Gnomedex. It’s a great article. Quit wasting your time here, go read it now!

Canter’s Homage to Dave Winer

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Marc Canter (a peice of work himself) gives uncle Dave Winer a big wet kiss.

Take Back Our Media

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Comparing today’s podcast revolution to the Woodstock event, Adam Curry says:

This time the world is listening, not just a couple of million.”

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Rob Curley: Hyper Local

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Go listen to this fascinating podcast by Rob Curely, the online dude at The Lawrence Journal-World.

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OurMedia

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

I need to hear from you folks. Have you taken time to experiment with OurMedia?

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Extraction of Self

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

The New York Times, June 26, 2005 carried an interesting article by Henry Fountain, entitled: Worry. But Don’t Stress Out.

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Mobile Phone and PDA Part 1

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Those who know me reasonably well understand that one of my (many) character flaws is an unhealthy lust for gadgets. So right now I’m trying to wrap my mind around the set of tradeoffs as I sort through a buying decision for my dream PDA/mobile phone combo.

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Do NOT Roll the Black SUVs

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

While “reading the Internet” a week or two ago, I stumbled across what seemed like an odd combination of offers. One could request a free Holy Bible, or, from a different source, a Koran, the Muslim holy scripture. Since I was raised as a Christian, there are several Bibles in my home, all in “like new” condition, since I’ve not read the Bible since I was a teenager.

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Earth to Google “Thank you!”

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Words fail me. This is nothing less than a TOTAL mind blowing example of web services. (Yes, there is a client program you must download. GET OVER IT, will ya?)

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Yahoo 360

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Yahoo 360 is now generally available. Unles you are already using (and happy with) a competing service such as MSN Spaces (MSN Spaces is very popular, and is really a great service, even though it’s from Microsoft) go check out Yahoo 360.