Teenage blogs

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Interesting research of how blogs are used by teenagers. BBC News: Teenagers reach out via weblogs Teenage boys and girls are using blogs, easily publishable online diaries, in many more similar ways than has been predicted, according to a study. Previous studies on gender and the net have suggested girls communicate better, and more often, than boys. But US researcher David Huffaker’s study of 70 blogs contradicts this. He found the gender split in blog use was 50-50. But worryingly, teens tended to reveal more personal details on blogs than […]

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Fighting spam with insults?

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One of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while. Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a week to try to track down the perpetrators. It has resulted in numerous bounces from addresses that doesn’t work, vacation messages etc. While most spammers don’t use real e-mail addresses anymore, but instead resort to “steal” other peoples domains to use as sender addresses, I would not recommend doing what this girl did today. It could possibly confirm your e-mail address to the spammers. And

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MP3 blogs

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Forget file sharing, MP3 blogs are all the rage […]we have unashamed folks who are not afraid to provide you with a daily song that has been gracing their ears. Good stuff, big bands, and totally the definition of fair use I don’t know about fair use if the MP3s are rip’s of commercial songs, but it seems to me like it could be a good way for up and coming independent artists to get known across the net without the pimps of the record industry getting their 99%. [Via

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Compact Flash card or a Honda Civic car?

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Interesting choice to have to make. (Not that its a choice I have to make). A car or a Compact Flash card? Pretecs 12GB CompactFlash card costs more than a new Honda Civic – Engadget – www.engadget.com 12 GB is impressive for such a small card. Never mind I probably couldn’t use it with any of the gadgets that I have that use CF-cards. (Cameras and PDAs). But when it sells for ~15.000 dollars I just have to wonder who can afford it and what they might use it for.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

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New York Times article about Michael Moore award winning movie Fahrenheit 9/11: Frank Rich (NY Times): Michael Moore’s Candid Camera. Of course, Mr. Moore is being selective in what he chooses to include in his movie; he’s a polemicist, not a journalist. But he implicitly raises the issue that much of what we’ve seen elsewhere during this war, often under the label of “news,” has been just as subjectively edited. Perhaps the most damning sequence in “Fahrenheit 9/11” is the one showing American troops as they ridicule hooded detainees in

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MMUG London with Grant Skinner and Mike Chambers

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Flashmagazine – MMUG UK May 2004 The London Macromedia User Group has an enviable track record of attracting world class speakers. In the last year alone Lucas and Aral have managed to present Ben Forta, Tim O’Reilly and FlashMagazine columnists Steve and Ali from iteration:two. This trend continued last night with a formidable double bill of Grant Skinner from Canada and Mike Chambers, Macromedia’s Technical Product Manager for Flash. Nice article by Flashmagazine’s John Dalziel. Read it and you will know what Macromedia wants you to know about the future

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A wicked way to read newsgroups

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Do you remember Usenet? Have you taken a fancy to Google Groups 2? (It really kicks ass. Fusing Usenet newsgroups, several corporate newsgroups and newsnets, mailinglists etc). Then you’ll love to hear that Google Groups 2 Beta now also features Atom feeds! Nick Bradbury: Google Groups 2: Usenet Atom Feeds Hey, just noticed that the Google Groups 2 BETA offers Atom feeds for each group. To see feeds for a specific group, use this format: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/NAME-OF-GROUP/feeds Well, now I am off to add some of my favorite mailinglists and newsgroups

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The official Google blog

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Its been interesting to follow the Google Blog since its birth the 10th of may. Its still early days and just a few posts out. But when a large company like Google releases an official blog, its bound to be reactions. Today Doug Edwards addresses some of the feedback this way: Well, we managed to break rules with our very first couple of posts here. We started our blog with a post about recruiting and didn’t sign it. Then we changed it once it was up. You just don’t do

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I will not be shut up

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It seems like telling the truth and speaking your mind will get you in trouble wherever you are. At the very least it will get you some interesting e-mails threatening you with lawyers. That was exactly what happened again, today. I received another e-mail threatening me with lawyers. Maybe I should start a new category of the blog dedicated to being threatened with lawyers? What would a good name for such a category be, anyone? Well, lets cut to the case. This time there is no direct referral to juridical

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