Archive for July, 2005

Your Lost (Blog Reading) Weekend

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Here’s some help from the NY Times if you have no plans for your weekend. It’s a good medium length list of blogs, organized by category.

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ShortHand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding

Friday, July 15th, 2005

SHARK is the invention of Dr. Shumin Zhai who works at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA.

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So Many Blogs, So Little Time

Friday, July 15th, 2005

According to Dave Sifry (Technorati) there are now 13.3 Million blogs, growing at the rate of 80,000 new blogs per DAY.

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A VC on Feed Challenges

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Don’t you hate it when you discover somebody else has secretly sucked ideas out of your head and written them down?

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Gaim Geekery

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

I am an enthusiastic instant messaging evangelist, starting with AOL Instant messenger (AIM) about five years ago, where I’m known as RonJeffriesAIM. As new sales and marketing folks joined the start-up where I work, I’ve generally been able to convince them to sign up with AIM.

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Sproutliner, a Cloudy Service

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I’m delighted by Cloud Services such as this cool outliner created using Javascript, CSS and DHTML.

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Magical Linkage

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I just pointed you to Brain Dancing, a funny, fresh new site. Before my wife accuses me of exploring match.com or eHarmony.com, I will document for YOU, my trusted readers, how Internet way leads on to Internet way, and we never turn back. (Apologies to Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”. He deserves better.)

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Brain Dancing

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

The tease for this fairly new blog:
Brain dancing: surfing for love, constantly searching, rarely clicking.

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Broadband Internet Arms Race

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Long time friend James Carroll writes ConvergeDigest, a high-quality daily newsletter that summarizes the news about broadband networking. For a free 30 day trial click here.

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CBS, The Blog

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

CBSNews.com is adding a blog to its mix. Quoted in the New York Times, Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News says:
“The beauty of the Internet is we are not singing the linear blues in a nonlinear age. We don’t want to make someone wait through 45 minutes of the Scott McClellan briefing if they want to see footage of the mudslide.”

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Tag, I’m all FOR it. It’s del.icio.us

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Like a gazillion other people who “Live in the Internet” ™ I’m an avid fan of del.ico.us

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Dark Side of WiFi in the Sky

Monday, July 11th, 2005

I’ll bet you are looking forward to your first experience with in-flight WiFi. Checking your email, reading the Internet, maybe some instant messaging, all while flying from point A to Point B. It’s all good, right?

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