Archives for April, 2005
Myhrvold’s Insane Troll Logic
Thursday, April 28th, 2005
I should learn that sitting down to check my feeds just doesn’t work as a strategy to get a few relaxing minutes away from a stressful and irritating day. Not when I have a feed that’s searching the web for information on patents and the USPTO, anyway. From an interview with Nathan Myhrvold running on [...]
What Color are Google’s Helicopters?
Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Being some additional space for me to vent on the topic of… …a discussion related to Google’s recently added “search history” that started on Dave Farber’s IP list and eventually made its way over to Declan McCullagh’s Politech list. (Note that some fair portion of the discussion happened off list, so you get only some [...]
Ads via RSS: Weblogs, Inc./Google and Slashdot/Feedster
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I noticed earlier today that Slashdot has very tentatively started putting ads in its RSS feed, apparently powered by Feedster. Since the FeedsterMedia site wasn’t as locked down as it probably should have been, I also learned that ads have been (or shortly will be) running in some of the Freshmeat and Sourceforge feeds, as [...]
Character Blogs are a Complete Waste of Time?
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
An interesting little firefight broke out a few days ago over on Micro Persuasion, around Rubel’s Character Blogs are a Complete Waste of Time post. [Go read the post and comments.] Speaking as someone who created a pretty successful “character” corporation/Web site a number of years ago, I fall strongly into the “there’s absolutely nothing [...]
Wists: “Visual Bookmarking”
Monday, April 18th, 2005
Just got pointed to Wists — a “visual bookmarks” tool. Think del.icio.us with an image associated with each tagged link. My 60 second feedback is: – Wists offers a couple of features that del.icio.us users currnetly lack, but want…the ability to designate your items as public or private is compelling (good). – Wists offers some [...]
Bad Ideas, but Boundless Optimism
Friday, April 15th, 2005
You have to admire the fortitude that it takes to embrace an idea that has failed time and time again, and still present it as an “innovation:” Billboard PostPlay gushes that Walmart’s On-Demand Music Kiosks [are] A Potential Hit. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the music world and — off the top [...]
The Fishtank and the Habitrail
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
A Cautionary Tale Once upon a time — I think it was 1998 or early ’99 — there was a company. In the offices of this company there was a gigantic fishtank, filled with delicate aquatic plants, dramatic structures built from rocks and coral, and beautiful, brightly colored fish from oceans around the world. This [...]
No one ever got fired for blogging…
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
…but when it comes to leaking news of a really cool deal before the actual date scheduled for the announcement of that deal? Well, I’ll play it safe and leave that sort of thing to Matt. Oh, yeah — and Brad. And Fred, too. So the deal is that we (Return Path) have acquired the [...]
More on Podcasting{Social Phenomenon}
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
When you take the much reported but apparently questionable Pew statistics on Podcast usage, and then mix in Paris Hilton’s decision to podcast, I sense a great disturbance in the Force.
