Cloudy Thinking

The Ministry of Reshelving will appeal to those among us who have read George Orwell’s 1984. And if you have not read it, why are you wasting your time reading this blog?

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Green Batteries offers great deals on rechargeable batteries, as well as several battery related accessories.

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If you have not registered for The New York Times, go forth and do so. Then you can read this excellent summary of the world of comics in the Cloud.

Here’s an overview of (many) bookmark managers. I use del.icio.us and (mainly) like it (but it’s been a little slow lately.)

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If you are confused about the potential for Internet TV, check out YouTube. This is what I have been calling New Content — non-professional (by and large) video and audio (e.g. podcasting) that will enrich your life. It’s very cool stuff.

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I am not a gamer, but last week I ordered the World of Warcraft (WoW) game (created by Blizzard Entertainment). I bought a thick third-party “Strategy Guide” about WoW, installed the WoW program (all four CDs worth…) on my home PC, and signed up for a three-month WoW subscription, at $13.95 per month.

Cloudy Thinking is about Living in the Internet, so I need to understand massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).

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Here are a couple of tagging resources:
Technorati top tags.

Tagsonomy

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I’ve struggled with how to maintain the focus of Cloudy Thinking on Living in the Internet, yet still be able to express opinions on “off topic” areas of a political or cultural nature.

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Cloudy Thinking does not aim to be political or to cover the Iraq war. But now and then I allow myself an off-topic post, You are reading such an entry now.

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Business Week Online talks about Research In Motion (the Blackberry outfit) vs. the rest of the mobile device world. Good reading.

Fried Geek (a Macintosh guy) wrote this note about Yahoo buying Konfabulator, and how Apple missed a bet.

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Mark Cuban has written this interesting piece on Broadcast TV, early multicast and what he calls the “N+1 problem” relative to IPTV:

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