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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
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SARS Gene Sequence Unveiled: "Scientists have uncovered the genome sequence for severe acute respiratory syndrome, which may help develop better diagnostics. But researchers say a vaccine is still a long time coming." [Wired News]
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Human Genome Map Complete: "Scientists say the final draft of the human genome sequence is finished. The new draft comes less than three years after the initial draft of the three billion letters that comprise human DNA was completed, and two years earlier than expected." [Wired News]
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Safari With Tabs, Wierd Tablet Rumors: "Apple released a new Safari public beta today. With tabs and speed improvements. The tabs are a bit slicker than they were in the leaked beta versions, so go and get it already. [...] Mark Pilgrim has all of the CSS info on the new Safari release." [Matt Croydon::postneo]
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Receiving feedback about your writing -- Comment()
When writing a weblog, you can get a lot of feedback from the comments, referrals and quotations your entries generate. When writing for the mainstream media, you get a lot less feedback, and usually not immediately after the writing. Yesterday I received several e-mail comments about my columns for the MikroPC magazine. One of these e-mails was a typical emotional response when confronted with an idea which threatens the reader's worldview. This e-mail contained also a lot of spelling mistakes to confirm the "hasty emotional reponse" interpretation. I had written (in Finnish) about mobile phones with a camera. Perhaps this is a topic where Finns have a lot of emotions involved, thanks to Nokia. One of the other e-mails congratulated about the same column. This reader had generated some novel ideas of his own based on the column. There was also a comment about an earlier column. This reader had not realized that the column was satirical, and revolted against the idea of the text. Perhaps this was a typical "a moment too soon" e-mail and the reader realized the meaning of the text a moment after pressing "Send". In any case I'm satisfied of having generated some activity in the reader's brains.
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