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May 21, 2006
Borogoves and Mome Raths 2.0
Paul Bissex has released Jabberwocky 2.0. Of course it’s still in beta (unlike Flickr, which has recently upgraded to gamma)....(See full entry.)
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April 5, 2006
Get RealER
In the world of web design, especially among those developing community sites or sites for collaboration, 37 Signals’ Get Real philosophy is all the rage, but frankly those guys are too timid. They come close to a breakthrough but then...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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March 12, 2006
Yes, we were hacked
I’ve nearly recovered or recreated all the pages and templates that were damaged by the nasty little scriptkiddy who hacked our server. I’d rather not go into detail about how it happened, at least until I’m sure we’ve locked the...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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September 28, 2005
First the LA Times, now the US Government
The Onion, America's Finest News Source, reports: Congress Abandons WikiConstitution: WASHINGTON, DC - Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. "The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Wednesday, September 28, 2005
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July 21, 2005
Last week's Onion
Picked up a print copy of the Onion in a coffee bar yesterday and saw they had taken the piss out of online social networks (The Onion | 13 July 2005 | Infograph). Because the link will rot eventually, I...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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May 11, 2005
'Darknet' book party in SF Friday
Quoting from Lucky Friday This Week: There's a gathering of grassroots-media types and celebration of JD Lasica's new book, Darknet, at the Varnish Gallery in San Francisco Friday evening, 6-9 p.m. Address: 77 Natoma street between 1st and 2nd St....(See full entry.)
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by xian
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April 18, 2005
Happy Birthday Micro Persuasion!
Steve Rubel celebrates his blog's first anniversary (Happy Birthday Micro Persuasion!). He's accomplished a tremendous amount in one year, and in that time has become my first go-to source for blog news and information. Here's his summary of the year:...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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March 13, 2005
Misconceptions about net censorship in China
Quoting from Eyebeam reBlog - SXSW Report: Ben Walker on 'Net Censorship in China Weblog: Eyebeam reBlog Source: SXSW Report: Ben Walker on 'Net Censorship in China Link Yesterday at SXSW: a presentation on blogging and censorship, with Hossain Derakhshan,...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Sunday, March 13, 2005
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sxsw: leveraging solipsism (Liz Lawley)
Quoting from sxsw: leveraging solipsism (Liz Lawley, who once again took much better notes than I did) Unfortunately, two of the original three speakers for this panel—Stewart Butterfield and Peter Merholz —couldn’t make it today. Jeff Veen is moderating, and...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Sunday, March 13, 2005
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February 22, 2005
A blogger's fund drive
Almost posted about this here first but instead filed it over at Radio Free Blogistan: Kottke at the mercy of his readers. Interesting test of the "power of many" to support the blogging work of one....(See full entry.)
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January 24, 2005
Google not doing VoIP
Om Malik quickly tamps down a virally spreading rumor: Why Google Is Not Doing VoIP...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Monday, January 24, 2005
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Blogs get press
Newspaper mentions of blogs this weekend: AP story on tired blog/journalism/ethics intersection. At least it bothers to quote Jerome Armstrong, Rebecca Blood, and Pew. Knight-Ridder story on Super Bowl blog contest. Notable for clearly un-hip experts: "The Internet is becoming...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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December 18, 2004
Joi finds the edge of Orkut
Joi Ito fills up his Orkut dance card, wonders what happens after "game over" (The edge of Orkut): I just got the following message on Orkut.Limit reached for number of friends You have 1024 friends. You can only have up...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Saturday, December 18, 2004
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September 27, 2004
Electronic whiteboards (wikis) in the news
A Syracuse paper which published an article that was skeptical about the how authoritative an online collaborative encyclopedia could be has now published a front-page article that is much more positive about wikis (Syracuse.com: NewsFlash - 'Wikis' offer knowledge-sharing online)....(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Monday, September 27, 2004
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September 24, 2004
All it needs is a new name
Leuschke's links pointed me to TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook, a very cool implementation of the wiki concept with an entirely fresh way of presenting the reader's path. Visit the site and start clicking some links to...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Friday, September 24, 2004
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on Friday, September 24, 2004
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September 21, 2004
Current Amazon.com rankings
#2 in Computers & Internet > Digital Business & Culture > Culture (right behind Joe Trippi's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) #18 in Computers & Internet > Networking > Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications > Internet Publishing #176 in...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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by pete
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on Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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September 20, 2004
hochan.NET reading list
I'm seeing some traffic coming in from an blog entry at hochan.NET that also lists Gillmor's We the Media, The New Media Reader, A Pattern Language, The Great Good Place, Trippi's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, and The Healing...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Monday, September 20, 2004
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July 26, 2004
"The new phone book is here!"
Advanced binding copies of the book arrived at Sybex today. xian, if you don't get one at your hotel, call me....(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Monday, July 26, 2004
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July 8, 2004
BlogOn 2004 Blog resources page
Now this is one useful colophon. By the way, a huge supreme thanks to Pete Gaughan, who has been blogging the heck out of this space while I've been going through the throes of finishing the book (it's at the...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Thursday, July 8, 2004
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on Thursday, July 8, 2004
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July 2, 2004
Blog research collection
The University of Minnesota has posted an anthology on blog research, Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs: This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Friday, July 2, 2004
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June 21, 2004
LA Times profiles Craig Newmark
The craigslist phenomenon...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Monday, June 21, 2004
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on Monday, June 21, 2004
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June 8, 2004
BlogOn social media conf at Berkeley July 23 connects social networks and business
Susan Mernit and Mary Hodder have unveiled the BlogOn 2004 conference, scheduled for July 22 and 23 at Berkeley, bringing together business, media, and technical people interested in blogging, social media, social networks, syndication, and related topics (you know, all...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Tuesday, June 8, 2004
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June 3, 2004
WirelessUnleashed blog
WirelessUnleashed is a new group blog (Kevin Werbach, Andrew Odlyzko, David Isenberg, Clay Shirky), funded by Microsoft, that "advocates freeing up low-frequency spectrum globally for wireless broadband and unlicensed applications."...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Thursday, June 3, 2004
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June 2, 2004
How many people use the Internet?
Sites that provide statistics on worldwide Internet access and use (many sites and sources are listed on dmoz): World population is 6.45 billion today according to World Gazetteer; it was 6.3 billion in 2002 according to the UN. Global Reach...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
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May 26, 2004
Gates now only about two years behind
Yet another article that has to define "blog": Reuters says Microsoft's Gates touts blogging as business tool at Microsoft's annual CEO Summit: The growth in the number of blogs, and those who read them, however, is attracting greater attention from...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Wednesday, May 26, 2004
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May 25, 2004
Broadcast flag for radio
JD Lasica has published a report on how the RIAA has gotten the FCC to consider adding an "audio broadcast flag" on digital radio, to limit or prevent listeners from copying or distributing copies of radio broadcasts. (Lasica also summarizes...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Tuesday, May 25, 2004
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on Tuesday, May 25, 2004
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May 21, 2004
Seth Godin: Imagine the future
Seth's Blog: Five years from now...: Assume that: Hard drive space is free Wifi like connections are everywhere Connections speeds are 10 to 100 times faster Everyone has a digital camera Everyone carries a device that is sort of like...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Friday, May 21, 2004
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May 17, 2004
NextFest was boring
Robert Scoble has seen the future, and it left him "uncomfortable": First, there's tons of reports on the blogosphere about NextFest (read them here on Feedster.com). What was wrong? 1) Not much practical value. More on that in a second....(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Monday, May 17, 2004
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May 10, 2004
Unmediated re-blog
A group blog named unmediated "tracks the tools, processes, and ideas being used to decentralize media production and distribution." (They used the verb "reblogged by", which makes me start to wonder about terms for this kind of site, which PoM...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Monday, May 10, 2004
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May 3, 2004
The mind that moves the world
This great line by David Weinberger (commenting on an idea for a self-forming, mesh-based Wi-Fi network) can apply to so many realms of human experience that it reaches the level of Truth: The old paradigm of top-down network provisioning is...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Monday, May 3, 2004
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Hodder on Cal conferences
Mary Hodder has blogged her notes from the Cal panels on "living with the genie" (Thurs. eve with Kurzweil and Rheingold), virtual communities (Fri. morning with Newmark, Mernit, Kos, and Pincus), big/little journalism, and so forth throughout the "China's Digital...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Monday, May 3, 2004
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April 29, 2004
New Lessig book downloadable
Lawrence Lessig is well known for making the argument that looser copyright laws allow for a huge amount of derived creativity, and that this, in turn, earns more money and fame for the original works. He has once again put...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Thursday, April 29, 2004
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April 5, 2004
Practical geekfest?
Last Saturday at the Univ. of San Francisco, the Computer Science dept. tried to establish the biggest-ever ad hoc supercomputer... flash mob computing: FlashMob I was very successful and a lot of fun. Over 700 computers came into the gym...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Monday, April 5, 2004
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March 30, 2004
Knights of the living web
What a week this is already turning out to be in the metaworld: Mitch Ratcliffe posted another essay from the O'Reilly book last night. Jon Lebkowski writes, 'About technology for SNs I keep thinking "The map is not the territory,...(See full entry.)
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by pete
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on Tuesday, March 30, 2004
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March 25, 2004
To paraphrase George Orwell
All people are googled, but some are more googled than others. Tangent: Speak truth to interfaces. The tyranny of the nerds is ended. The time of the helpful loving nerds is dawning. The new category I made to catch these...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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on Thursday, March 25, 2004
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on Thursday, March 25, 2004
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