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Web design time management
Google Sitemaps and Movable Type
Gmail invite spooler
Jon Udells screencast of the life of a Wikipedia article
World on fire
Why do everyone want a GMail account?
Gmail invitation
Ghost town
Harvard study of Gator
Automated Denial-of-Service Attack Using the U.S. Post Office

Web design time management
Here is the truth about how web designers and web developers spend their time creating sites: Web design time management Funny as hell, but oh so true.... (0 comment(s))

Google Sitemaps and Movable Type
Google Sitemaps is a new project from Google that aims to allow content creators to update the Google bots with information about site structure and update frequencies, among others. Google has made available a tool called Sitemap generator. Its written... (0 comment(s))

Gmail invite spooler
Looking to get yourself a Gmail account? The easiest way is to use the isnoop.net gmail invite spooler. At present time it has over 1.5 million(!) invitations to give away. [Via Google Weblog]... (5 comment(s))

Jon Udells screencast of the life of a Wikipedia article
This one seems to be going the rounds on the blogs I read: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie Its very interesting to see the evolution of this article through 2 years. To me it shows the power of Wikipedia as... (3 comment(s))

World on fire
Sarah McLachlan just scored herself a new fan. Instead of using 150,000 dollars on her video (not uncommon) she decided to give it all to various chareties. (According to the video, a total of $15 was used to make the... (1 comment(s))

Why do everyone want a GMail account?
Seems like Userfriendly has the answer BTW: Still giving out invitations, but only to people that I have "met" in one form or another. (Sorry everyone else, you will have to wait for the beta period to end, or get... (0 comment(s))

Gmail invitation
Seems like all the bloggers I know have invitations to give away. Well, they are not alone. Although it took a while before I got my first invite, I am now reciving a lot of them from Google Mail. Because... (54 comment(s))

Ghost town
Although not a work of art or design, Elana aka "Kid of speed" from Kiev has made a very thought provoking website called Ghost town Its about Chernobyl and how it is to travel through the very radio active city... (0 comment(s))

Harvard study of Gator
An interesting on-going study of Gator by Ben Edelman at Harvard has gathered much interest lately. Today it appears that the pop-up ads provider Gator is fighting against the study of its software and advertisement placement. On the Greplaw blog... (0 comment(s))

Automated Denial-of-Service Attack Using the U.S. Post Office
Interesting way of fighting spam, spans real world "Denial-of-postal-Service-attack" (From Crypto-Gram Newsletter) In December 2002, the notorious "spam king" Alan Ralsky gave an interview. Aside from his usual comments that antagonized spam-hating e-mail users, he mentioned his new home in... (3 comment(s))

Interview with Sergey Brin, Google co-founder
Jeremy Allaire is blogging from teh PC Forum, and has a nice excerpt of an interview/session with Esther Dyson interviewing Sergey Brin about Google. Many a question answered, and a lot of new questions formed when reading this interview.... (1 comment(s))

Share the love, ehh.. books
This is a very cool initiative: BookCrossing.Com - the concept is when you've read your books, you label them with a bookcrossing-label and release them; either by leaving them at a café; giving them to a fellow traveler/friend/colleague/etc or... (2 comment(s))

Less is chic again
It is truely nice for a usability/programmer/none designer as me to see the major search engines going away from being overfilled portals to being user-centered and ridding themselves of all the flutt they used to have. Now I am just... (0 comment(s))

I now have the right to know who YOU are
At least if you live in the USA. Using the DMCA subpoena provision, RIAA managed to convince a Washington D.C. Judge that they should be allowed access to information about a Kazaa user identity from the users ISP Verizon Internet... (2 comment(s))

Tim O'Reilly about copyright and new technology
Anyone interested in copyright vs new uses of technology should read Tim's Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution, it really shifts the point of view from the big media corporations somewhat paranoid view... (0 comment(s))

How Google REALLY works
Google has put together a really good FAQ named Google Information for Webmasters, it answeres all the questions many people have had about Google and how it works. Its nice to see put into word the good thoughts that is... (3 comment(s))

Private and public
Photography is one of my favorite hobbies, and besides from finding my inspiration out in the nature, I sometimes find sites with great photography on the net. Private and Public is one such site, made by a fellow scandinavian, the... (0 comment(s))

Distributed computing moving from search for aliens to searching the Internet
Grub is a cool new project that relies on you and me taking part in keeping the search engines updated. The project is based on open source software, and is in early beta - with clients available for a few... (0 comment(s))

Netscape 1997-2002
Scott Andrew has made a nice little "tribute" to Netscape Netscape 4.0 - 1997 - 2002 Lets put Netscape 4.0 to rest. I agree with Scott when he says:Netscape 4.0 is five years old today. That's like 236 in Web... (0 comment(s))

WoW - Website of the week
Every week Megan Stevens picks a site for its design and execution. Website of the Week is a site to check out weekly if you want to get some good inspiration from great design.... (0 comment(s))

Want to play with Google?
Google has made available a virtual play house for those that like to play with search engines - labs.google.com - Google Demos Quote from The Register: "These are experiments, we want people to play with them," Google's Nathan Tyler told... (0 comment(s))

What not to do when you want support
John Dowdell, one of the forum surfers and participators at Macromedia writes: Thread titles I skipped over today: "Can this be done?", "Help please", "URGENT - going crazy!!", "Test this?", "This is all absorbing", "Here is a strange one", "printing",... (0 comment(s))

Been fooled yet?
Been fooled yet? I have been looking out for april fools stories this morning, and haven't really found any yet. Know of a good media/web april fools that has been unraveled today? Let me know... April Fools' Day Around the... (1 comment(s))

A little visual fun on a friday night
Some interesting visual fun to be had over at rc6.org (Remco's place) Puzzles... (0 comment(s))

Celery, panties and art
Art can be a lot of fun :-) (0 comment(s))

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Anders Jacobsen - Fellow norwegian blogging in English from France. Anders blogs about "Noteworthy URLs, science, software, news, life, the universe, everything"
Doc Searls - one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto. He is frequently blogging live from interesting technology events, and is a very good writer
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