Wednesday, August 25, 2004

> Douglas Bowman: Seen the Microsoft home page recently? Some remnants of the previous design are still visible, but a large portion of the design changed significantly. The most pleasing thing to see is actually what's under the hood though.
[Stopdesign]   11:09:33 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Jonathan Schwartz: Does constantly being within reach of the network cause your work to follow you home - or allow you to take your personal life to work? Either way you answer, I'd argue the latter phenomena is one of the most important trends in the technology industry. And has been for more than twenty years. In that period, the technology in your personal life has had a massive impact on enterprise infrastructure - and there's no sign it's abating. The most interesting trend is that it's moving to an even younger generation than the one likely reading this blog. And that's been my thesis for a while: true power in the IT industry is moving out of the enterprise, and into the hands of ever younger consumers...
[Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog]   11:02:53 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Dan Gillmor: In this review of We the Media, Chris Schroeder, vice president for strategy at the Washington Post Company and former CEO of WashingtonPost.com, has some amazingly flattering words. I blush...
[Dan Gillmor's eJournal]   10:59:49 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Xeni Jardin: A number of Iranian weblogs are reporting that on August 15, 16-year-old girl Atefe Rajabi was executed in the Iranian town Neka. According to reports, she was hanged in the street for having engaged "in acts incompatible with chastity." An Amnesty International statement condemning the reported execution is here. Persian bloggers are lamenting the fact that conventional media appears to be ignoring the story entirely. Snip from an English translation of a Farsi-language report, from an Iranian activist message board...
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> Mike Pinkerton: We released Camino 0.8.1 tonight. Since the 0.8 release, we have added the following: fixes for four possible security vulnerabilities in Gecko, upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.2 Gecko engine, disabled prebinding on MacOS X 10.3.x, several fixes to improve localization.
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> Denise M. Howell: I've been blogging over at at The Industry Standard this week, including a post about my grandmother's burgeoning career as a tech industry advertising guru. My Dad, who says I don't blog enough about him any more, was inspired by PhotoStamps in a slightly different yet creative way: the Little River Inn is going to offer Inn stamps for those who just can't get enough of its vistas.
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> Diego Doval: Before I start, there's been a good number of atomflow-related entries in the last day. To mention a few: Matt has explained further many of his ideas, as has Ben. Michael has more thoughts on it as well as links to other related tools. Matthew and Frank also added to the conversation, as did Danny and Grant....
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> Aaron Swartz: Wired Magazine: Undergraduate Overachiever author: Cyrus Farivar photgrapher: Anna Knott (Anna Knott photo gallery) (flashback)...
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