Wired has an interesting article in their latest issue, about 6 machines that changed the music world. Its all about how technology made to do one thing, ends up doing something completely different and at the same time makes a small revolution. Almost like some other technologies I am involved with.. Wired 10.05: Six Machines That Changed The Music World
James D. Miller writes about weblogs and their future. In many ways he talks in the same way about weblogging and indepentent writers as other have before him about free and/or open source software, claming there is no economics in weblogs. I tend to disagree, still beliving in the economics of attention, best described by Michael H. Goldhaber in Attention Shoppers! in Wired’s decemeber issue 1997. James also makes the mistake of arguing that multimedia will be the killer of weblogs, since the flashier video/sound sites will take the attention
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John Dowdell has picked me up on his radar, and found some of my comments about the FlashForward conference and the lack of wireless connectivity, he also linked to a very interesting article I should have mentioned here, by Esther Dyson regarding the use of Wi-Fi/Wlan at PC Forum and what it led to. (See one of my past blogs) I really think that conferences can gain a lot from adding Wireless internet access in getting a new dynamic to them, and actually using the brain-capital available. I have a
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This is great news, Samuel Wan, one of the great Flash developers that adds so much value to the Flash community has put up his own weblog. Looks like he has been at it for a little while, but he has passed by my radar screen. And now it turns out he has his weblog up and running, and not only that, he is using Moveable Type and he has made a Flash MX interface (source here) for his weblog! (Its still a prototype, so you might want to wait
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Thanks to RC6 for this great link. I knew work was a dangerous place… When office supplies attack
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Wired has put together a list of top 5 bloggs based on the MIT’s Blogdex Power Bloggers
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This is great news for people wanting to hook into the most powerful search engine on the web. Google has released its API (basically an interface towards its huge database of websites) Google Web APIs With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 2 billion web documents directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment – such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET. Dave Winer of Userland provides some
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I guess its time to say that Weblogs has gone mainstream. Since January Userland and The New York Times have been working on making available the New York Times Newsfeed to the weblog community. DaveNet : New York Times, UserLand and Weblogs
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BBC writes about Morrison and Foerster in San Francisco that is going after one of the big spam companies. The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo, is one of the first outfits in the United States to take on spammers who send out unsolicited commercial e-mail. Why one spam could cost $50 The law firm has recived a lot of support for its suit against the spam company Etracks, one writes: “I hate spam as much as the next guy. Take these jerks for everything