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View Article  Well sown

Dan Bricklinhas releasedListGarden, an RSS feed generator. Looks like an ideal way to extend easy RSS generation ...   more »

View Article  AOL Wins Patent for IM TV...

AOL Wins Patent for IM TV

"A potentially powerful application. Although AOL won't go into details, the patent describes the ...   more »

View Article  MySpace Music

Networking website offers marketing opportunities for musicians.



The networking website trend, while not exactly new anymore, is still thriving. While ...   more »

View Article  Civicspace

Howard Rheingold on CivicSpace....



I was thrilled to meet a young man by the name of Zack Rosen at SXSW...   more »

View Article  OpenReviews - here we come!
An excellent survey of developments in broadcatching compiled by Ernest Miller: Broadcatching Roundup. High points: more RSS+Bittorrent software in ...   more »
View Article  Copyright and the death of Public Enemy's sound


Stay Free Magazine has a great interview with Chuck D and Hank Shocklee from Public Enemy. In it, they ...   more »

View Article  FreeCache: ridiculously easy free content mirroring
The Internet Archive's FreeCache
(beta) is "a system of
cooperating caches to move
large files of
free content
closer to ...   more »
View Article  Viva La Revolution

There is a revolution going on in Brazil.



"Opting for free software doesn't just take into account costs. It's ...   more »
View Article  An Architect in the City of Bits
"The trial separation of bits and atoms is now over, says William J. Mitchell, head of Media Arts and Sciences ...   more »
View Article  Broadcatching

Lots of heavy things in this....(see my comments below.)

Broadcatching, the Future of Television News and the Death of Chattering ...   more »

View Article  The Humdinga
Gibbs Amphibious vehicle

We’re still waiting on delivery of our Aquada amphibious sports car, but Gibbs Technologies is already pushing forward with the ...   more »

View Article  The Day After Tomorrow Profiles

I wonder why none of the social networking bloggers picked up on this?

The hit movie "The Day After Tomorrow" ...   more »

View Article  Travel Centers of America Goes Wi-FI Nationwide
It's not a truck stop, it's a travel center, and its 150-plus locations will be wireless by July: Travel Centers ...   more »
View Article  "Send highlighted text to del.icio.us" bookmarklet
If you're a user of the fantastic del.icio.us linklogging system, drag this del.icio.us
bookmarklet to your links bar, then ...   more »
View Article  MeNowDocument - presence in FOAF

Though I'm not credited on the web page, I did have something to do with coming up with this new ...   more »

View Article  It's the work, stupid

Doc chimes back.....

Digital codestyle aggregation
Two datapoints, perhaps historical.
First, Sunapparently decides that the revenue model to beat ...   more »
View Article  A few weblog research papers

I'm going to have to study these a bit further, but here are a few peer-reviewed papers on weblogs that ...   more »

View Article  Blogware's Statistics Package

One feature that puts Blogware far ahead of other blogging tools is its statistics package. If you have a Blogware-powered weblog, you can see more than just how many people are reading your weblog: you can also see how they're reading it, in all kinds of ways.

The Stats area of Blogware is located in the Dashboard. To get to its main page, click on the Dashboard tab of the Navigation Bar, then click on the Web Stats item in the Dashboard tab's menu:


Click the image to see it at full size.

You'll be taken to the Web Stats main page, which provides you with a quick overview of the number of pageviews your site has received.

   more »
View Article  Musicians get it
Over at the Creative Commons weblog, Matt Haughey cites encouraging statistics from a recent Pew report :
83% [of musicians] have provided free samples of their work online and significant numbers say free downloading has helped them sell CDs and increase the crowds at concerts.
[Seb's Open Research]   more »
View Article  They make my head hurt.
Impossible Objects
via del.icio.us [MetaFilter]   more »
View Article  IFTF: A New Literacy for Cooperation (Ross Mayfield)

This week I participated in a mind-bending IFTF event shaped by Howard Rheingold on A New Literacy of Cooperation. They ...   more »

View Article  CD Baby
Music: La Semana
Mood: amused

Also, OL, I found this picture around online...where is it from? http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/o/t/ottmar.jpg - Adam Solomon ...   more »
View Article  Onion Skinned Drop Shadows
Animators use onion skinning to render a snapshot of motion across time. Now, web designers can use this technique to ...   more »
View Article  Drop Shadows

Maki has expressed some bemusement at the proliferation of drop shadows on every site that gets released nowadays. JZ pointed ...   more »

View Article  Tables, easier?
Patrick Griffiths points out a few flaws with those thinking that tables are easier for layout than Cascading Style Sheets... ...   more »
View Article  Brain tricks
Red and green dots have never been so interesting. At least to a geek like me.

I love it when ...   more »
View Article  Implantable RFIDs for nightclub VIPs
Club kids who want VIP status at the popular Baja Beach Club in Barcelona can now get implanted with a ...   more »
View Article  Yahoo Maps shows WiFi hotspots...
Yahoo Maps shows WiFi hotspots now. Quite useful! [Scripting News]   more »
View Article  Here we go! Approaching 50% penetration

Web Connection Speed Trends Apr. 2004 - U.S. home users

Andy King sent me the latest report from his WebSiteOptimization site.

I'm enthused. Do you know how long I've been ...   more »

View Article  Bill Gates on Blogging

From the Microsoft CEO Summit, Bill Gates gets internal blogging...



"This (weblogs and RSS) is a very interesting thing, ...   more »
View Article  Activity based computing

This is actually pretty important. It's a major DLA kind of activity. Now imagine this as just one of 50....   more »

View Article  Collaboratively created album released on Magnatune
Victor Stone has released a new album on Magnatune that was produced from tracks he received from other Magnatune artists, ...   more »
View Article  Guitar notes
A couple of guitar-reated notes:

Amplitube Live is a very cool
amp simulation app, absolitely worth trying and with an ...   more »
View Article  Community and Networks - a primer

Jonas posts some interesting stuff. You may THINK Jonas is a coder - but he's really a social scientist. He ...   more »

View Article  This is totally coolio
Political Friendster.

Political Friendster applies Friendster's approach to current politics, mostly with an American focus. It treats companies...   more »

View Article  Digital Photos Go Peer-to-peer
CNET News have an intersting article about the use of peer-to-peer technology (think Napster) for sharing digital photos. OurPictures is ...   more »
View Article  Best Buy not your best buying experience
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Sometimes buying from Best Buy isn’t the best, as one of our readers (who goes by the name “Arsonist”)
relates:...   more »

View Article  pt's "How-To" Tuesday...How to play purchased music on other systems


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So you’ve got an iPod, you go and buy music but then your machines dies, or have many many computers ...   more »

View Article  Plogs

Michael Schrage has a great article in CIO on the Virtues of Chitchat, or using a blog for informal ...   more »

View Article  An Open Letter to Blog Sceptic

There are always challenges ahead...Dear Blog Sceptic;

You raise some great points and they haven't gone unnoticed over here. I wanted to respond with ...   more »

View Article  The US Army's rifle of the future?
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It’s almost scary how high-tech the military is getting these days, and Heckler & Koch are working on a
futuristic ...   more »

View Article  OpenRadio

Robot Radio: "RobotRadio.net - automated streaming web (and satellite radio) talk show, with synthesized voices (bot jocks) reading the ...   more »

View Article  Eye-contact-sensing goggles


Connor Dickie, a student at Queen's University's Human Media Lab, has developed these video-shooting glasses with an eye-contact sensor, and ...   more »
View Article  VoxBlog

I'm testing out the new audioblog.com service. It truly kicks ass.

It works with Blogware out of the box and ...   more »

View Article  Dave Pollard on Knowledge Management

Dave Pollard is bang on in my opinion on why Knowledge Management has received such a bad rap. How KM ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking Services Dominate Top Eleven Web Destinations

From the social networking weblog:

Posted May 11, 2004, 10:47 PM ET by Judith Meskill

Among the top 11 Web ...   more »

View Article  The W3C wants Atom . I'm linking...
The W3C wants Atom. I'm linking to this because an informed person would want to be aware of this. ...   more »
View Article  Link-addressable streams, revisited


Peter van Dijck wrote to tell me about his tool for converting the URL of a Real stream, plus start/stop ...   more »

View Article  personal tv networks
I've been talking to a couple of folks in the past few weeks about using rss and bittorrent to flow ...   more »
View Article  Adobe Designer 6.0 preview



A more descriptive name for Adobe Designer 6.0 might be "InfoPath for PDF." The concept is brilliant: exploit Microsoft's failure ...   more »

View Article  MLDonkey and BitTorrent


I was looking through MLDonkey wiki when
I ran into this technical yet compact explanation of how BitTorrent protocol
works. ...   more »

View Article  papaRaSSi
Now this is exciting! lulop.com is the 'Marketplace for Video News". You can sell your own home videos of newsworthy ...   more »
View Article  Social network software frenzy
Social Networking Services Meta List.

I have marked all new updates to this list, since 01 May 2004, with ...   more »

View Article  800 topics bouncing around
Visualizing social networks.
Increasing the capacity of people and communities to visualize their
(online) social networks is essential to ...   more »
View Article  How to get started on building your weblog

Many of the business associates that I have clearly see the benefit of weblogs for themselves and their business but ...   more »

View Article  Flickr Notes (Ross Mayfield)

Flickr released two things that proves they are going meta on us. Flickr Notes allows annotation of photos for telling ...   more »

View Article  Bloger ID page

So I've been poking around the new Blogger (quite nice) and its new features. I enabled my profile for kicks ...   more »

View Article  Petaboxes starting to ship
The Petabox: A Million Gigabytes of Storage.

In a phone call yesterday, Brewster Kahle mentioned that the wonderful Internet ...   more »

View Article  Reuters TV

I share the enthusiastic thumbs up support and right on to Reuters. Now we're talking.

This will be a benchmark ...   more »

View Article  Flickr annotated photos
Flickr adds image annotation.

Flickr -- the fantastic social image-sharing Web app from Ludicorp -- has added image annotation; ...   more »

View Article  SocialGrid: Crazy and live (Clay Shirky)

So the deeply crazy attempt to solve dating is now live in a service called SocialGrid, a service that ...   more »

View Article  Vizster: beautiful YASNS visualizations (danah boyd)



For his visualization class final project, Jeff Heer created Vizster, a visualization tool for online social networks. The tool ...   more »

View Article  Are You Getting Too Popular?

They are turning down the volume at LinkedIn



Dear Ross,



As more professionals are actively adopting LinkedIn, you may have ...   more »

View Article  Virtual Audio Cables & Skype
Following links from Stuart about running multiple Skype instances I came across the Skype Forums
where people are talking abut ...   more »
View Article  VigoBox

This looks really coolio.

The VigoBox: a digital set top box that records up to 5 shows at once. ...   more »

View Article  A Compendium of Online Community Deviant Behavior (Seb Paquet)

I just followed a link from Sunir Shah’s page to John Suler’s “The Bad Boys of Cyberspace”, an extremely ...   more »

View Article  Lisped Java
On the subject of dynamic languages for Java I wondered whether anyone had created embeddable Common Lisp. Turns out ...   more »
View Article  BlogBox project - editing objects for your blog's gutter

Over a year ago I started working with Laszlo Systems to make sure that they'd be successful. We had spent ...   more »

View Article  DRUMS

I still haven't found the time to properly grok DRUMS - but here's a start....

DRUMS: Scott Mathews Proposes a ...   more »

View Article  300 images from 1800 sites highlights the...
300 images from 1800 sites highlights the design of the web's least noticed elements: icons. [Memepool]   more »
View Article  CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows
Picking up where Part I left off, in Part II designer Sergio Villarreal takes his standards-compliant drop-shadow to the next ...   more »
View Article  The FileMaker 7 AppleScript Reference
The FileMaker 7 AppleScript Reference document provides a quick reference guide to commonly used FileMaker 7 AppleScript commands. This document ...   more »
View Article  Your Mac can record HDTV


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In the US, all of the new HDTV cable boxes are required to have a
Firewire port on them. And ...   more »

View Article  MaxPac Class X 3-Panel LCD Computer in a Case
Although it's always dubious when a product only has mockup pictures, and not a final photograph, I think in this ...   more »
View Article  Panasonic's CG-P1 "ToughPDA"
This magnesium-clad Panasonic CF-P1 is the PocketPC analog to their "Toughbook" series of notebook computers, with an operating temperature range ...   more »
View Article  Magnatune summary for April 2004
Music Licensing was fairly good this month. Most exciting was a
license of an entire album (various songs from his ...   more »
View Article  PayPal Announces ''PayPal Web Services''
Read the press release. Then go check it out: http://developer.paypal.com... [PayPal Developer Network Blog]   more »
View Article  A few of my favorite visionaries
Some are diamonds in the rough, their signal often mistaken for noise;
others are so unassuming that people hardly notice ...   more »
View Article  MyFriendSite

Cool one more place to check out.

My, My, My.. myfriendsite

MyFriendsite.com…

Latest and greatest friendship based YASNS — The ...   more »

View Article  Spike and Howl: Less is more, and zeroconf is a lot more (Clay Shirky)

Anyone who’s been to an O’Reilly conference has seen the shared-note-taking wonder that is Hydra SubEthaEdit (most sucktastic renaming EVAR....   more »

View Article  Getting Wiki
Wikis described in Plain English.
Lee LeFever has made an excellent effort to describe wikis in plain
terms. To ...   more »
View Article  FOAFnet specs
Re: ETA?. Posted by: Randy

How is that possible? Let's say user A has friends B and C on ...   more »

View Article  New Flickr features
Flickr, the image-sharing social software app, has rolled out a bunch of new features, including this one, which does very ...   more »
View Article  Lua 5


If you need a small yet fast embeddable scripting language engine, check
out Lua. Lua 5 now has a ...   more »

View Article  “Streaming Document Format” Enters, Stage Right

“I am absolutely obsessed with the potential for XML news feeds causing an “informational awakening” on the Internet. However, unless ...   more »

View Article  Xfire and Persistent Presence (Ross Mayfield)

Mike Pusateri posts about Xfire, an IM app that transcends gaming worlds. IM within games is commonplace and users ...   more »

View Article  "CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows"
[Daypop Top 40]   more »
View Article  Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City and Software Architecture

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City

I've put Popper aside for a while to read a book I received in the mail the other day, Kevin ...   more »

View Article  Here comes Moxi!

Spare change for Google shares?. Google taps underwriters; The Pew Internet and American Life Project states the obvious; IBM, ...   more »

View Article  eBay has improved

It’s been almost two years since I sold something on eBay — and more than six years since my first ...   more »

View Article  Convert that E-mail Inbox into an RSS Feed

MailFeed is a PHP script that checks a POP3, IMAP, or NNTP mailbox on demand and returns an RSS feed ...   more »

View Article  Motivation

As I’m heading off to bed, this post by Mark Cuban put a smile on my face.



I’m going to ...   more »

View Article  Primer on Value Billing

Ronald J. Baker is an absolutely amazing visionary. He is the accountancy profession's guru of "value billing" and is the ...   more »

View Article  Getting around the FCC

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Could TiVo and other digital video recorders connected to the Internet be the way to
skirt around the new puritanism ...   more »

View Article  Trackir: Best Flight Sim Accessory Since the Refrigerator Box
I want to smash the Trackir tracking system for being a superfluous, dork-oriented gaming appendage, and it totally is, but ...   more »
View Article  Michael Crawford: Links to Tens of...
Michael Crawford: Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads.
[Seb's Open Research]   more »
View Article  The Arbitrage Opportunity of Outsourcing to India is OVER

Morrow's Blog: Now that the world has embraced outsourcing to India, it has, in effect, killed the golden goose. ...   more »

View Article  Record sales up, shows Soundscan, RIAA playing with stats?

Moses Avalon's email newsletter of music industry news today has a

fascinating insight into the "fact" that record industry sales ...   more »

View Article  Major new developer services!!
We are extremely excited to announce the launch of some major new developer services: + PayPal Web Services - SOAP-based ...   more »
View Article  Musique libre et blogs
Jean-Luc Raymond has a pithy (if hypish in parts) summary of what
musiclogging is about that I felt deserved a ...   more »
View Article  Sony Studio in-a-box
Sony's mobile TV studio-in-a-box.

This is definitely not your mother's tablet or notebook. With great products and ideas ...   more »