January 2004

Why digital cameras = better photographers

Being an avid photographer myself, I thought the article by Jonathan Duffy @ BBC News Online about Why digital cameras = better photographers was quite interesting. It also echoes a lot of the thoughts I have had myself. Especially being able to waste a number of pictures to get that ONE good shot is nice. I sure would never have been able to afford shooting 350 rolls of film to produce 10 pictures (Jonathan mentions that is what the photographers at National Geographics average when shooting a story). Oh, given

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How to optimize your Movable Type blog for search engines

Nice article with many good tips from fellow norwegian blogger Anders Jacobsen: Optimizing Movable Type – Keyword links While it will be interesting to see if the keywords will help making the search engines find blog entries, his tip will help you make content in your blog be more accessible to your users via MTs own search. He also lists a lot of other good tips for making MT blogs more accessible, and of course – more visible in search engines.

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How (some of) the world view USA

Interesting rant from Canadian “blogger” Mark Prince. It echoes a lot of peoples sentiments about the United States: Big Brother Cometh Personally I have noted that a lot of people seem to become more and more negative to Americans in general. Something I don’t think is fair, after all – there is good and bad people in America as in any other country. But the US of A does have a image problem. One which can’t be fixed by anything other than a change in attitude toward the rest of

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Refining searches

Interesting article by Brian Berstein about Tools that refine web searches. Brian writes about Vivisimo that groups searches from Google in a more intuitive way. Seems to work OK for English, but not so good for other languages. While Brian writes extensively about Vivisimo, he also touches on some other interesting search refinement tools, such as Grokker, Touchgraph and a few search engines that rival Google.

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The new iPod Mini

Today Apple announced its new iPod mini – a mini version of its blockbusterselling iPod. The player comes with 4 GB hardrive, and the rechargeable battery lasts for 8 hours. The player will retail for $249 and will be available in stores from next month. (April in Europe). As some of you might know, several companies have come forth that offers to paint the dull iPods in various colours. And it seems Apple has kept its ears to the ground and picked up on that trend, because iPod Mini will

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