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Book Reviews

Thursday, March 6, 2003

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Doc Searls writes: "Mike Sanders has been exploring habits of highly effective blogging. The series starts here." [t e c h n o c u l t u r e]

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Aggregator reviews: "If you use [...] rss feeds then you will need an aggregator service. There are more than you would suspect. Once and Future has done some research and shares his discoveries with various aggregators available, both as desktop versions and web browsers." [Private Ink]

Do you blog? -- Comment()
Marc Andreesson answers the question: "No. I have a day job. I don't have the time or ego need." [The Scobleizer Weblog]

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Zooming in on the nanoscale: "Researchers have created the highest resolution optical image ever, revealing structures as small as just tens of billionths of a metre across." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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iRights writes: "The next generation of News Aggregators should use Bayesian-style filtering to allow a user to indicate what kind of stories they like. Possibly even sorting them out by categories, because you may not be able to capture my preferences in a single filter. [...] This is not a new idea any more then Bayesian email filtering is, but perhaps the focus it has received in the email filtering role will encourage people to recognize its power in other applications as well."

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Doomsday beckons... in 22 billion years: "The bad news is that the universe will end in a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies and planets will be torn apart and individual atoms of human flesh will be ripped asunder in the tiniest fraction of a second." [Google Technology News]

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The Future Supercomputer: Colossus or Cluster? "When the newest, much-anticipated list of Top 500 Supercomputer Sites, the benchmark of supercomputing power, was released last week, clustered computers -- a series of smaller computers strung together to take advantage of their combined CPU power -- comprised fully 16 percent of the rankings" [osOpinion]

The 2000 postings milestone -- Comment()
I just realized I have reached the 2000 postings milestone on this weblog. The actual Radio Userland item count is 2012, but that includes a dozen reposted items. (Radio started acting up, and I lost a few postings, which I managed to recover from a cached RSS/XML file.) By the way, the 1000 postings milestone was on Thursday, November 14, 2002.

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Keynote Takes On PowerPoint: "For a new kid on the block, Keynote has a lot to offer. That it has a little catching up to do with PowerPoint should not be a surprise; the next version almost will certainly make up a lot of that ground. But for now, Keynote offers Mac users an easy, inexpensive means to make professional, PowerPoint-compatible presentations that look better than those made in PowerPoint itself." (Baltimore Sun via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Think Spring: "By encouraging us to create usable XML representations of people, places, and things, Spring can help lay a foundation for improving the classic modes of search and navigation." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Maurice Sendak: "There must be more to life than having everything." [Quotes of the Day]

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The Great Deceiver: "I am by now convinced that even if Saddam Hussein committed suicide and his body were handed over to the USA, Donald Rumsfeld would still either say it's a fake or he'd claim Saddam just did it to deceive the UN; at any rate, it'd be a reason to attack Iraq. From the BBC today: Rumsfeld denies Iraq is disarming." [The Aardvark Speaks]

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Blending in: "And here's yet another 'Europeans Are Evil American Haters' article, this time from USA Today. Apparently Europeans are now spitting on people just for being American. Sheesh. Do Americans really believe we have no other problems than to hate them? [...] I smell a huge dose of Anti-Europeanism being created by the American media. It seems George W. needs a new enemy to divert some attention from his poor performance." [via Boing Boing Blog > The Aardvark Speaks]