Daily Show on the power of Blogs
Funny story on The Daily Show about blogs and their power against the media.
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Three years of blogging and not giving up
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my English blog. In three years I have been able to post 668 entries. Thats a little more than 1/2 an entry every day. In other words, all in all it hasn’t been the most active blog in the blogsphere. But it still has been able to function in many ways. Both as a voice in the Flash community while I was working in that field, as a voice for my own very strong opinions in politics as well as place for me
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Ann Elisabeth – Norwegian spam huntress
Just thought I would let you know about a cool blog (if you are a sysadmin or webhead, such as myself) Ann Elisabeth’s blog contains a lot of information about various referrer, trackback and comment spammers. She has gotten really good at digging them out from their hiding places and finding all the sneaky ways they go about their business. If you are a sysadmin you will really love her blog. Go read it now.
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Gmail invites swept away
Either the figure of 1.5 million invites was exaggerated or isnoop has parted with almost 1.4 million invites in 24 hours! Because now the available Gmail spool is down to about 160.000. isnoop.net gmail invite spooler [Update 7th of june 2005] – Googles Gmail product manager did not like the Gmail invite spooler and pressed to shut the service down. As of yesterday it no longer exists. Way to go Google :(
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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]
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iPod Shuffle RAID
This is creative. Probably not the most effective and fast RAID ever created but its probably one of the smallest. Wright This Way: iPod Shuffle RAID iPod Shuffle RAID So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course!
Google Mail cranking up the invites
Google Mail changed their interface for invitations some time ago, and now its apparent why: Most, if not every, Google Mail user now has 50 invites to give away! The question now is if this is a prelude to opening Google Mail up for anyone to register. It might be that Google will continue only allowing new users by invite, there are some obvious advantages to being able to control just how many new users enter the system, and the trail back to who invited them. The trail could possibly
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Google testing user specified ads
This is cool news. Google is testing a new ad format that allows the user to spesify what kind of ads he/she wants to see. I bet this will give the Google Adwords advertisers better click-throughs, more exposure and even better targeting. And the benifits for the user is also self evident. This is one of those kind of ideas that when you see it happen, you say “oh, of course – thats obivous”. You can see it in action right now over here. [Via InsideGoogle]
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Freeware Flash tool: Wink
This is a nice little program: Wink Wink is a freeware tool for Windows for creating tutorials on how to use software, websites etc. Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users.
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Blairs doodles turns out to be Gates doodles
This is an entertaining story. The english tablois have been covering the story of the doodles left behind after a press meeting with Bill Gates, Bono and Tony Blair. Trust the english “newspapers” to analyze the doodles and come up with a psyche-profile. Descriptions such as “megalomaniac” has been used. Times Online wrote: From a few idle doodles, the experts were able to offer a thorough assessment of Mr Blair as an aggressive, unstable man under enormous pressure, struggling to keep his irritability under control Funny thing is: Turns out
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