Monday, August 9, 2004
Tom Clifton: This morning I had a long conversation with a paranoid, computer-savy PC user. His email has been down since he upgraded Explorer on his primary PC. He said that he is still using win98, because most viruses target win2000 and beyond. And while he knows that win2000+ is a more stable operating system, it has too vulnerable to attack from the internet. I tell him get a Mac. He tells me they cost too much...[Fluid Flow] 3:22:04 PM Link Google It!
Cory Doctorow: Flickr "tags" are user-created keywords that describe their photos. If two or more users hit on (or agree upon) the same tags, all photos with a common tag are grouped together. That's pretty cool -- a kind of Wiki-style serindipitous metadata thing. What's cooler is that every tag automatically gets an RSS feed, so that you can watch all the photos tagged with "cuba" or "outdoor" or "red" in your RSS reader, getting alerts every time a new one comes along. (Disclosure: I'm an advisor to Ludicorp, the company that makes Flickr). Update: Joshua notes, "the tagging system in flickr was inherited from del.icio.us"[Boing Boing] 2:49:58 PM Link Google It!
Olga Kharif: Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of server maker Sun Microsystems, first suspected that his blog was a success when his salespeople began reporting that customers were reading his posts and sealing deals faster. Then, the blog started getting a surge of traffic from users with e-mail addresses ending in "ibm.com" and "dell.com" -- folks who work for Sun's rivals. Schwartz saw that as irrefutable proof that his, started on June 28, was a gold mine. Some six weeks later, he's a firm believer that a blog -- which generally consists of diary-like entries that are posted to the Web -- is a must-have tool for every executive. "It'll be no more mandatory that they have blogs than that they have a phone and an e-mail account," Schwartz says. "If they don't, they're going to look foolish." [Scott Shuda's Radio Weblog] 2:26:57 PM Link Google It!
Dan Gillmor: The remixing of the book is taking interesting new forms, all permitted because it's published under a kind of Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial use, so long as the work is credited and is made available under the same license. Examples of the remixes:
- A Chinese translation project is under way.
- The Internet Archive has posted a text-to-speech (machine speech) version.
- An audioblogged version is in the works.
- Soren Howard pulled all the individual-chapter PDFs into this single file (1.1 megabytes).
[Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 1:11:56 PM Link Google It!
Farhad Manjoo: Mena and Ben Trott thrilled the world of bloggers with their Movable Type software. Then their company, Six Apart, received venture financing and they decided it was time to get serious.[Salon.com] 1:09:55 PM Link Google It!
Cory Doctorow: This is wild. ZiffDavis/EWeek sent a threatening letter to pocketpctools.com for quoting one of their articles with a link back to the EWeek site. About two hours later, on a Sunday night, a ZD/EW rep had managed to get the entire action abandoned and written a letter of retraction that Slashdot published. That's pretty amazing: I think that even the highest-priced attorney in the land would be hard pressed to get that kind of action in that timeframe.[Boing Boing] 3:55:15 AM Link Google It!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius.
Nothing is said now that was not said before.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius.
Nothing is said now that was not said before.
