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View Article  1 Million Free Songs for Download

In my experience, most of the RIAA-hating nerds who swear they'll never to buy another album again continue to download ...   more »

View Article  Every app (and service) should have a 'Save to Blog' button

All in favor - say "Aye!"



In fact - it should probably say "Publish" or "Publish and Share".



We're having ...   more »

View Article  How to fall in love with your iSight all over again
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We did it, went out, got the iSight, used it for 2 days with our 10 pals who did the ...   more »

View Article  Switching costs fall

Everyone hates the leveling treadmill, but the business strategy makes sense: Once people spend 800 hours to get to the ...   more »

View Article  The New Musical Functionality (Clay Shirky)

Tom Coates has the first of what looks like a fantastic series of posts on the new musical functionality, ...   more »

View Article  Personal servers - via Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare

Man oh man I sure wish MT had WYSIWYG editing. I wanted to post this a coupel of days ago ...   more »

View Article  Hailstorm training wheels

Jon Udell raps it out.....



Many folks wouldn't want to be reminded how easy it is to convert sparse input ...   more »
View Article  XML databases move to the middle



It's true that you can use native XML databases to manage the growing number of business documents created by the ...   more »
View Article  Drupal is our CMS of choice

I've been doing my own survey of the 'platforms' out there - and we're working with Drupal. Looks like ...   more »

View Article  FOAF coming into focus

It seems that the past year hasn't been wasted - as FOAF is coming into focus on many people's radars....   more »

View Article  BitTorrent search engine
Bitoogle is a front-end for Google that finds BitTorrent files.

Link

(via Red Ferret Journal) [Boing Boing...   more »
View Article  Personal TV Networks

The video aggregator writeup, mentioned yesterday, is embedded in a new page that lets you add video file URLs to ...   more »

View Article  MySpace pushes it all forward

MySpace.jpg

Just got this in my mail - and it's 2AM - so I guess Judith must be asleep - or ...   more »

View Article  Moblogging from Flickr

I think from now on - whenever there's a hot new technology or service that I KNOW Seb is gonna ...   more »

View Article  OpenHow-Tos

Kevin Kelly asks:


What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've

ever seen? I don't care ...   more »
View Article  artistShare
artistShare

At ArtistShare we firmly believe that the true value is found in artists and their creativity. The creative process ...   more »
View Article  I found it!
Increase your Google-Fu. I've been a user of everyone's favorite search engine since it was in beta, but still failed ...   more »
View Article  VoIP to plain old phone system is available on Skype
Cool, I just got a Vonage, I would stop my subscription if only they could launch their Mac version of ...   more »
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.

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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 »