Thursday, January 30, 2003

AOL loses Ted Turner and $99 billion. Troubled media company AOL Time Warner reports a net loss of nearly $100 billion for 2002 and says Vice Chairman Ted Turner is resigning. By Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] I heard on squak box thismorning that the AOL loss here is bigger than the size of some entire industries like the steel industry. The biggest loss ever for an American company. [Blogging Alone] That really is a staggering number. I'm not mathy, but doesn't $100 billion a year = $274 million per day? [Jeff Beckham's Radio Weblog] Has anybody seen my steel industry? I seem to have misplaced it. 7:52:43 PM    comment []

Found this interesting, A Brief History of GUI 3:52:14 PM    comment []

On this page there is a post about Socially constructed Interface 3:34:30 PM    comment []

"RSS creates a level playing field. that's open to all," Dave says. "Amateurs and pros, young and old, rich and poor, the homeless, the uninsured and people with AIDS, you name it -- they all can slug it out for readers in the same venue." Yeah, but isn't that what just the web does? RSS m [evhead] The web kind of does that. RSS and the blogging infrastructure offloads much of the complexity of running a site thus reducing the cost of participation. Otherwise why didn't front page or bbedit for that matter work to spawn a blogging category? There is more to it than just that but at the core is anytime you can offload complexity good things can happen. Can you imagine trying to learn long division with roman numerals. I sure would have hated to teach it that way. 9:43:13 AM    comment []

AOL loses Ted Turner and $99 billion. Troubled media company AOL Time Warner reports a net loss of nearly $100 billion for 2002 and says Vice Chairman Ted Turner is resigning. By Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] I heard on squak box thismorning that the AOL loss here is bigger than the size of some entire industries like the steel industry. The biggest loss ever for an American company. 9:31:30 AM    comment []