November 2007
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Nothing happening here. Move on.
Mike Arrington writes about Google’s new patent. Specifically, The solution, Google says, is to give users the ability to search and browse their own content, and receive an electronic or hard copy version of the final product. And that final product will include advertisements highly relevant to the user. First, I think Google is… Continue reading
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Art in the wild
So here’s the idea: a Net-native service that provides homes and offices with good art (choose your definition) that can be be replaced from time to time so it doesn’t get stale. The purpose is to promote good art and artists and find homes for the former, rather than just to make money servicing interior… Continue reading
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Building vs. Buzz
Dave on non-centralization: …But the blogs, who aren’t trying to climb the top 100 lists, are doing something else. We’re just trying to share information with each other so we can learn, so we can use stuff better, make better choices, improve the products, and eventually create new products. Permalink to this paragraph … Continue reading
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How far we’ve crawled.
Two links. EveryOSsucks, by the DeadTrolls. And The World is a Better Place Now, by Antonio Rodriguez. No agreement, yet both are right. Continue reading
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Human flying squirrels
I don’t know any other way to describe this. Wow. How long before that shows up in a James Bond movie? [Later…] That’s a wingsuit they’re wearing. Perhaps this is the next step. Continue reading
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Chumby love
Still don’t have a Chumby here, but Dave has one, which is seriously cool, because fun hacking is bound to happen on it. (As some has already.) I covered the Chumby before it came out, here in the September Linux Journal. Now that I know it’s out in the world, I’ve invited LJ readers to… Continue reading
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Knowing the answer is good. Building it is better.
The Economist asks, Will Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites transform advertising? Third paragraph in, there is this: Messrs Lazarsfeld and Katz, of course, assumed that most of these conversations and their implicit marketing messages would remain inaudible. That firms might be able to eavesdrop on this chatter first became conceivable in the 1990s,… Continue reading
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Overheard
I was interviewed by Aaron Strout yesterday, about many things. The podcast is up. Continue reading
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Question du jour
Can VRM fix DRM? I’ve visited this before, in A Public Market for Public Music. Continue reading
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Gang up
The latest Gillmor Gang is up at Facebook. Not sure if I was in that one. Still, if you can get into the Faceo, it’s there. Continue reading
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Sailing the relation ship
Over in the ProjectVRM blog, CRM gets personal. Before reading The Ajatus Manifesto, and visiting the Ajatus project site (thanks to pointage by Zak Greant) I hadn’t thought that was possible, or even worth considering, because CRM seems to be such a corporate thing. But why should it be? Bonus linkage: manifestos back manifestos. Continue reading
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Figures
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything. The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything” by Lisi, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego. Continue reading
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Blueland
I just uploaded some more shots from last week’s flight over Greenland, en route from London to Denver. The last series, of peaks drowning in ice, was shot with the sun below the horizon, behind clouds, or both. Couldn’t tell from my side of the plane. As we flew straight west, however, the sun began… Continue reading
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Bullshit 2.0
I figured there had to be a “Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator”, and sure nuff, there is. On the fourth click, this came up: Thus an old cure becomes a new symptom. Continue reading
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Buried Alps Out the Wazoo
Eastern Greenland blows my mind every time I fly over it. This last trip was no exception. Imagine Alps, Rockies, Himilayas, buried up to their nostrils in snow and ice across an expanse of Saharan dimensions, all of it moving, less an ice cap than a great spreading mound of blue and white, all of… Continue reading
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Flying blinders
Just got into Chicago, and now I’m sitting in seat 4F, at the window, camera at my side, while the rest of the passengeriat boards the 737. Beautiful view of Toronto, Hamilton, Southern Ontario, Lake Huron and Central Michigan after clearing the clouds in Central New York. Got some pix I’ll put up later. Can’t… Continue reading
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Looking back on tomorrow
Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, looks back from 2500. A sample: One outcome of this- — the greatest psychological survey in the whole of history- — was to demonstrate conclusively that the chief danger to civilization was not merely religious extremism but religions themselves. This was summed up in a… Continue reading
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A bloody blogger
Just paid one of my too-infrequent visits to Steve Urquhart’s blog, and found that the dude used to be a boxer. A sample: After the 3 rounds, the judges scored the fight 2-1 for Broadhead. One of the judges put me up for the night. He told me, “You know, I had one round… Continue reading
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From wurst to best
Last year the Boston Celtics were so bad they lost 18 games in a row at one point. Now they’re On a pace to go 82-0. Which they won’t (they’re still just 5-0), but it’s a fun fantasy. What’s weird for me is that I grew up as a Knicks fan. The Knicks-Celtics rivalry was… Continue reading
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Customers arise! Throw off your chain stores!
Heard Malcolm Matson of Oplan speak the other day. While his whole speech was memorable, two one-liners were so memorable I didn’t even need to write them down. (Which I did anyway.) One was Dare to to the right thing first. The other was The customer owns the customer. The latter comment called to mind… Continue reading