Archives for August, 2007
Social Software, Venture Capitalists, Optical Isomers
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Yesterday at about 6PM Fred Wilson posted that an open social network for the Web “sounds awesome,” and that he’s wanted that for a while now. Yesterday at about 9PM Brad Feld posted about the process of manually integrating his Outlook contacts with Facebook, ending the post with the note that “Plaxo is up [...]
I sense a great disturbance in the force…
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Below you will find a picture of the Belkin iPhone headphone adapter connected to an iPhone. The tagline on the packaging is “extend, play, listen.” No kidding.
Admin: Quick links, ISP issues
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
If any of you happen to be hitting the actual Web site, you’ll notice that the “quick links” aren’t rendering and that you’re getting hit with a couple of authentication requests. Ignore both, if you will—one of my ISPs apparently doing some work, and all content on that server (including the includes for [...]
This seems oddly familiar, somehow…
Friday, August 10th, 2007
My prognostications on major labels giving up DRM haven’t been great thus far—damn you EMI, doing the smart thing only a few years too late—so perhaps you should take this with a grain of salt.
Still, Universal’s decision to run a six month test of DRM-free downloads (just check Techmeme or Technorati, I can’t decide which [...]
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: episode “interpret that, Freud!”
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
My two and a half year old daughter reported this morning that she “dreamed that mommy gave me an invisible rhinoceros doughnut.” She further reported that the doughnut in question had too much lemon and therefore wasn’t yummy.
Blogfodder Dump: 20070807
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Back from a week in California…
Why Do We Suck? and Other Questions Political Journalists Asked Themselves at YearlyKos
Jay Rosen says: “I’ve been reviewing the press coverage, blogging and video from the Yearly Kos conference in Chicago and trying to make some sense of what happened between the press and the liberal blogosphere at this event. [...]
