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Monday, February 24, 2003

Blogs vs. journalism is a moot question -- Comment()
Jake's Radio 'Blog points to Scoble: 'I think the whole "are blogs journalism" question is silly. I'm not trying to replace the professionals here (although occassionally I'll scoop the professionals because I hang around interesting people doing interesting things). [...] For me, blogs are more about conversation than about "reporting." Newspapers are almost never about conversation (except in the letters-to-the-editors page, or maybe Ann Landers kind of things)."'

Updated experiences of Keynote -- Comment()
I have included additional hints and a new screen shot to my notes about Apple Keynote 1.0. Thanks for the help on typesetting equations! I hope someone can answer the question of using Mac OS X fonts in LaTeX, though.

An electric toothbrush with an USB connector -- Comment()
Here is something for that second USB connection on your computer: an electric toothbrush with an USB connector. And I was wondering why the PowerBook has more than one USB connection...

-- Comment()
The Shifted Librarian writes about mobile phones with cameras: "I need to purchase a cell phone with an embedded camera, not one that comes as an accessory like the T68i. Then I could have sent the picture directly to my blog. [...] Of course, that brings up a host of new issues. Does the driver in front of me have a reasonable expectation of privacy so I shouldn't post a picture of his vehicle? (One of the issues I note in next month's Product Pipeline column in Library Journal's netConnect is that librarians need to think about how to handle the use of cell phone/camera hybrids by patrons in the library.) "

Google remembers -- Comment()
Sam Ruby quotes Dorothea Salo (These are not memoirs; they are sand castles, waiting for high tide.) and writes: "The reality is that google has a long memory. Here are some recent queries that ended up at my site."

Typesetting equations for Keynote -- Comment()
I asked for help on typesetting equations for Keynote in my notes about Keynote. I got a suggestion to try Equation Service from the developer, Doug Rowland. He writes: "... you can type snippets of LaTeX, press a button, and then just drag a bit of PDF into the presentation. It saves having to make a new file for each equation." The current version available for download is 0.1, and the development version is 0.5B. However, if you have used the 0.1 version, you have to remove certain files before starting up the 0.5B version. Doug sent me version 0.7B of the application, and I'll check it up. Equation Service seems to be a nice tool. I hope Keynote will support a wide range of such tools in the future.