Cool. Rip CD's to MP3 and store them in the car stereo. Kind pricey, though. I'd like to see the auto-stereo manufacturers also include a 1/8" input jack in the front so you can feed the headphone out of your portable MP3 player into your car. Somebody notify the engineers for me, okay?
2:58:20 PM
Increasing hits from Google by misspelling
Scoble writes: "Heh, search for "Pledge of Allegience" on Google and I'm on the first page. All it takes is a couple of people linking to a particular page on a particular topic to get a decent rating on Google." [Scobleizer Radio Weblog]
Yeah, well the thing is he misspelled "allegiance." I'm not criticizing 'cause I did that too. I misspelled Joseph Nacchio's name awhile back (I only used one "c") and now I show up high on the Google search for his name when it's misspelled. Oh, well. As they say in Baseball, a hit's a hit. (and speaking of hits and Baseball, I'm sad to hear that this guy passed away)
2:48:28 PM
Dave Winer's thoughts on deep linking decision from Denmark
"In Denmark today, a judge rules against a search engine that respects the robots.txt convention, and stops it from "deep linking" into sites run by the Danish newspaper association. All these court cases are as stupid as dirt. Several good technical preventatives exist...[so] save the lawyer's fees. ... We know for sure that when a company goes to court for "deep linking" that they aren't talking to, or listening to, their technical people. BTW, deep linking is an oxymoron. There's only one kind of linking on the Web. Why would you ever point to the home page of a news oriented site." via [Scripting News]
Amen Brother! The law shouldn't help those who don't want to help themselves. Of course, the site operators may not know about the technical solution. One thing's for sure: most lawyers have zero incentive to figure it out on the client's behalf because it deprives them of the opportunity to file a lawsuit that, while not frivolous, won't win any Academy Awards either. But lawyers file suits to make money, not to collect awards.
2:29:39 PM
Adam to Stand Trial? - Adam Ant, that is.
10:58:20 AM
Yeah, he's doing that and he's added a feature that identifies what category a post belongs to (if you aren't a hard core Radio user just ignore this discussion; it won't mean anything to you).
Rick is definitely a tech-blogger (as opposed to a war-blogger). But, here's the thing. He is interested in how to make Radio, and blogging in general, work better. I don't think that Rick gets enough credit for this effort (which, granted, is motivated by his insane curiousity to know how things work, and is informed by stuff but gets from people, but for which he always gives credit!). Shame that the Userland guys aren't awash in cash, because if they were, and were looking for a good guy to market their product, Rick would be the guy I would hire (oh, and of course, you know, rehire Scoble too. That goes without saying).
Anyway, I'm just a blogging backpacker, walking around in the tame, beautiful meadows of blogland. Rick up there at Base Camp 3 climbing to pick up tidbits from people like Roland Tanglao, or Mark Barrot and bringing it down to earth where he plugs it in to his site and then explains to us mortals how to use it. I think that the Userland guys should have monthly awards for non-employee of the month, and this month I nominate Rick.
9:43:25 AM
The Trees fight Back
Nice blogging piece from The Economist, says Dave Winer. The article quotes Glenn Reynolds: "the threat to Big Media is not to its pocketbook but to its self-importance."
Yeah, it's a nice and but it's what we in the blogoshpere already know. Old story. I'm looking for a new story. Here are some possibilities:
Is blogging for more than just KM, opinionated speech, and general information? For example, is there any reason why small businesses (like a sandwhich shop) couldn't use a blog to post the daily specials, and post an E-mail address to take orders?
Why do some people catch the blog wave and others don't? I have told many people about blogging, and even set one or two up with a blog. But they don't seem to take to it. I did. Is it something that you have to discover for yourself? Does having someone "guide" you make it harder? Don't many of you find that it is difficult to get people into blogging, or is it just me?
What is going to be the The Tipping Point for blogging? I haven't seen anyone write about this. Maybe it's useless. As for me, I wish more small businesses would find out about, and use, weblogs. I think that would add a lot of fuel to the fire.
9:12:09 AM
I've seen the movie and I liked it (but not anywhere near as much as The Matrix). The free-will vs determinism argument is the philosophical underpinning, which is obvious. I didn't find that the movie made me think about this much (unlike The Matrix, which does make you think about things not being what they seem to be). So, I really liked a lot of things about Minority Report (the pace, the plot twists, the action etc), but I don't think it is the crowning achievement that some people seem to think it is.
On the other hand, I think it is unfair to nit-pick the plot holes and inconsistencies (almost every movie with a complex plot is going to have inconsistencies, and the more complex the plot the greater the likelihood of some inconsistencies). That said, I still enjoyed the movie review by the folks at Digital Identity World, which points up inconsistencies by the barrelful, because the inconsistencies that they point out are mostly based on examining how certain technology that we have now apparently didn't make it to the year 2054. I am more intrigued by that than the movie's free-will/determinism angle.
8:34:35 AM
Thought for the Day
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." Isaac Asimov.
