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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY
Duckling Rescue Service. On the way to work on Wednesday I stopped to help rescue several ducklings who had fallen into a sewer grate, and got my shirt very dirty. The mother duck was walking on the curb, and the ducklings were... [Caveat Lector]
6:07:07 PM 
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SOME EXCELLENT OUT-OF-THE-RAT-RACE THINKING
I only wish this was a weblog so I could get updates via the news aggregator!
John Hagel launched his new site recently. He's a smart guy and I've been enjoying the chance to work with him. When I first read his and Mark Singer's article "Unbundling the Corporation" a couple years ago, I thought to myself, "gosh, I'd like to have big thoughts like that..." John's currently working on business management issues related to web services and has been doing some good writing on the topic. [Brent Sleeper's Web Journal]
5:58:41 PM
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I'M GETTING IN
Thanks, Joe, for moving the effort along!
Thanks for helping spread the word Brian! I think jenett.radio.randomizer has great potential as a flow-builder if more of you Radio bloggers would join. If you're reading, Dave or Adam, we'd love to have you join (the button is tiny) - that would really help a bunch of less-frequented Radio blogs in the community get a little more ongoing traffic... [jenett.radio]
5:53:56 PM
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A CHESS GAME IN 5K!
5K Chess. Yes, it can be done and it has been done. Hear from the creative person behind the game: Douglas Bagnall on 5K Chess from WebReference Update. [meryl's notes]
5:40:39 PM
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BLOGGING WILL GET EASIER, TOO
Nice to-the-point blogging piece from The Economist. "Blogging has taken off thanks to the development of online tools, such as Blogger and UserLand, which make it simple and cheap to update personal web content instantly." [Scripting News]
5:28:29 PM
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AN APPROACH TO MICROSOFT
Dave Winer may have them scoped out better than any analyst I've read!
I should write a FAQ about arguing with Microsoft and how not to fall into their trap, as Mitch Wagner does here. Here's the first question that would be in the FAQ. Why is it pointless to argue with Microsoft people? Answer: because they hold you to a higher moral standard than they themselves support. When discussing their transgressions, they argue that they have the right to do that. When that doesn't work, they question your objectivity or qualifications, or resort to veiled ad hominems (a quick subject-change). It's very disgusting. I used to fall for it all the time, arguing with them as if they were willing to be convinced, when they want nothing of the sort. They want to confuse you and tire you out until you give up. So I don't argue with them anymore, I just form my opinion, state it, and don't worry if I'm being terribly fair to them, because they clearly don't worry about being fair to anyone else, including me (and you). [Scripting News]
5:22:31 PM
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READ MORE ABOUT MICROSOFT AT ROBERT'S SITE
But, when you get their product managers off in a personal conversation over beers, they admit "it's cause our corporate clients don't want their employees to be off in newsgroups while they are at work." Tons of things about Microsoft's software have been put there (or kept out) by big corporate clients of Microsoft's. To understand Microsoft's behavior, you must look at the pressures being put on Microsoft's board of directors. It no longer is about building a cool computer for end users or geeks like it was back in the 1980s. [Scobleizer Radio Weblog]
5:16:46 PM
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FOR THE RADIO USERLAND WISH LIST
I have the impression that a significant number of Radio sites came into existence in the first three months of this year. Dave and the team at Userland know when they have seen spikes in the licensing of Radio. At the Scripting News web site Dave's calendar has "On This Day In" followed by links to the past 5 years.
Wouldn't it be great if on the anniversary date of a weblog, those links "magically" appeared beneath the calendar? I'm sure there's a script or a macro or one of those sets of HTML code that could pull this off, but I'm clueless as to where to put it and how.
12:00:15 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Steve Pilgrim.
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