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Sunday, September 19, 2004
Arrr, Matey!. Today is "Talk Like a Pirate Day" (at least in the blogosphere). Here a link to the iPatch. [ Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects [Slashdot:]
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Scoble: How your blog will get discovered. [Scripting News]
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Moblogging Re(de)fined. Dave Winer (after talking with Robert Scoble) writes a posting that deconstructs moblogging. This helps clarify the genre for me.
Crucially, he points out that this isn't just about pictures. It's about mobility, and on-the-fly posting from whatever location strikes you as useful.
It also requires hardware designed for the purpose. I have a terrific RSS reader for my mobile phone/PDA. Now I want something that lets me post as easily, and haven't found anything to match my needs. The software is improving, though.
When I think about reader contributions to tomorrow's journalism, one of the most important roles will be presence. That is, when average folks are at a scene where the professional journalists are not, they can capture -- through observation, audio recordings, photos and video -- the elemental data of the situation. Moblogging is an essential part of this. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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Study seems to confirm that offshoring jobs is gutting the tech sector.
The study authors spin the story a different way, saying the 400,000
jobs lost have little impact on the overall U.S. job market ("Study finds offshoring not big hit to U.S. jobs market").
Which of course is a silly comparision when offshoring is
predominantly occuring in a small number of job sectors. The number of
lost jobs coincidently equals the number of jobs estimated to have been
lost in the IT sector.
[Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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CubeSats. Tiny spacecraft. Inspired by Amateur Radio's microsats.
[Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Hurricane Watch Net.
Whether you are an amateur radio operator, or a shortwave listener, the
HWN was an excellent source of informtion as recent hurricanes blew
through various island territories. 14.325 Mhz USB, when in operation.
Provides real-time, on-the-ground situation reports to the National
Hurricane Center, and other messages, as required.
[Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Kyoto is Dead - Long Live Pragmatism. There's troubling news (FT subscription reqd, alternate copy here) coming from Japan, where the Kyoto protocol on Greenhouse Emissions was born in 1997. It seems that the Japanese aren't going to be able to meet their emissions targets specified in the agreement in time. Indeed, unless they buy a "large quantity" of emissions credits from other countries, they're not going to be able to meet their commitment at all. Taishi Sugiyama, a climate expert at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, said emissions were rising 1 per cent a year due to a larger-than-expected impact from vehicles and households. That made it impossible to cut real domestic emissions by the required 16 per cent within a few years, he said. Is this the last nail in the coffin for the Kyoto protocol? And if so, which way do we go when it's buried? Was GWB right to pull out, and where would John Kerry take us, in either case? [kuro5hin.org]
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1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days [Slashdot:]
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