Saturday, March 15, 2003

Jeff Jarvis, highest paid blogger on Earth. Jeff Jarvis, the creator of Entertainment Weekly, and the president and creative director of Advance.net (Conde Nast's Internet division), has come to the realization that he is being paid to blog, and is likely to be the highest paid blogger on Earth. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 10:25:56 AM    comment []

Google gains visual searches. Anacubis integrates data viewer into Google Web APIs service [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:23:20 AM    comment []

McDonald's Wi-Fi signals beginning of the end: Erick Schonfeld of Business 2.0 finds signs of the infopacalypse in McDonald's offering Wi-Fi service. He points out that although the folks who sell wireless equipment are seeing terrific revenue, the hot spot business hasn't proven itself at all. [80211b News] 10:21:59 AM    comment []

Just how crazy is Kim Jong-Il?. Just how crazy is Kim Jong-Il? The North Korean dictator is also an uncompromising movie producer whose casting tactics make Bowfinger look tame. In In 1978, the North Korean dictator kidnapped his favorite director from South Korea, and forced him to make a terrible, Communist-themed monster movie called "Pulgasari." Keep in mind, the Bush administration considers this guy saner and more level-headed than Saddam Hussein.(registration req'd) [MetaFilter] 10:19:54 AM    comment []

CTHEORY, the international journal of theory, technology, and culture. CTHEORY the international journal of theory, technology, and culture. Recent articles: The Ambiguous Panopticon: Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace Posterchild for the Future: Living with Michael Jackson The Post-Cyborg Path to Deconism [MetaFilter] 10:17:44 AM    comment []

Congress: File-sharing and piracy linked to terrorism?. What do "warez" groups, counterfeit designer bags, organized crime, and P2P file-sharing have to do with terrorism? On Thursday a Congressional subcommittee invited the US Department of Justice, Microsoft, and the MPAA to come help answer exactly that question. [kuro5hin.org] 10:16:13 AM    comment []

Books-On-Tape is worth it. I "read" two trash novels while driving so far, two mysteries, one by Rex Stout and the other by Susan Isaacs. Both were silly, but compelling. And they took a satisfyingly long time. The Isaacs book took me all the way from western Colorado to the middle of Ohio (with NPR and music interspersed).  [Scripting News] 10:14:47 AM    comment []

Q&A: Sun's Neil Knox weighs in on blades, Linux and strategy. The executive vice president for Sun's volume systems product group talks about his company's diverse product mix and its effort to provide the right architecture at the right price. [Computerworld News] 10:11:38 AM    comment []

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 Released : The updated version includes several crashing bug fixes, and improves the news reader so that it is more forgiving of RSS feeds with errors. (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 10:10:29 AM    comment []

Starbuck's isn't everywhere, but McDonald's is. If they went for WiFi access in every store, instead of just those in big cities, they'd have a new business model, and their coffee isn't that bad either. [Scripting News] 10:09:37 AM    comment []