Sunday, December 29, 2002

Deli Meat When you come to Denver, we'll meet at Zaidys I'm meeting Scoble at the 2nd Avenue Deli at 4PM Eastern. Want to join us? Please do. [Scripting News] 9:10:12 AM    comment []

Now if we'd just have some snow here in the city, rather than having to drive a couple of hours to the high country for snow we'd be all set. Doug Larson. "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." [Quotes of the Day] 8:44:20 AM    comment []

New Amazon Patents on Content Personalization [Slashdot] 8:42:50 AM    comment []

Joe Martin. "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little." [Quotes of the Day] 8:41:24 AM    comment []

Jay Leno. "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver." [Quotes of the Day] 8:40:49 AM    comment []

Powerbook Ti PowerBook Titanium Breaks Gigahertz Barrier : While nobody will call a PowerBook inexpensive, the new top-of-the-line model is a much better value than its predecessor. (Houston Chronicle via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 8:30:04 AM    comment []

Congratulations Adam The morning after. Goodmorning from Belgium, I was up early to check the overnight ratings and commens on the weblog. I'm no ratings expert, but I think a 25% marketshare in the 20-34 demographic ain't bad for a first episode. More importantly, comments on the weblog are positive and lots of anticipation for the series, which kicks off in February. I expected harsher criticism on the blog. Perhaps the 'home-video' style reminded a lot of folks about their own video projects? All those DV-cams and video editing apps out there, someone's gotta be doing some 'Family' editing of their own :) Next step, figure out how to add the show [in mpeg] to a bittorrent tracker. send me an email if you can help me out on this one. I wanna share! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 8:08:31 AM    comment []

Wireless Privacy? E-Commerce News: Should Mobile Safety Trump Privacy? While the safety advantages of being able to pinpoint a mobile user's location are positive, the availability of wireless location tech is bound to result in invasions of consumer privacy. [Privacy Digest] 8:07:11 AM    comment []

From the -"Yeaah Right." Department PCWorld.com -(December 11, 2002) Will the Feds Protect Your Privacy? The new "Department of Homeland Security" says that it will make its data available to government officials in a more user-friendly format, while also protecting your civil liberties. [Privacy Digest] 8:05:56 AM    comment []

Privacy Japan Today Japan News - Personal data on residents of entire town stolen. FUKUSHIMA -- Digital tapes recording personal information of all 9,600 residents in the town of Iwashiro, Fukushima Prefecture, have been stolen, police said Saturday. The theft occurred at around 6:20 p.m. Thursday after a company employee received the tapes at a local government building and briefly left a suitcase containing them in a locked car while en route to deposit them, the police said, adding the window of the car, owned by a computer company in Koriyama in the prefecture, was broken. Town officials said the stolen tapes were backups for the controversial national resident registry network and contained six types of information used in the registry -- a resident's name, address, date of birth, sex, resident registry code and the record of changes of the information. [Privacy Digest] 8:02:37 AM    comment []

Colorado Business Vail Has Big Bets Riding Off the Beaten Slopes. Adam M. Aron, the chief executive of Vail Resorts, has stepped up a campaign to diversify the company far beyond its roots in Colorado. By Alex Markels. [New York Times: Business] 7:51:38 AM    comment []

ISP and other Providers One more reason to be your own ISP. In the ultimate world of ends (which the end-to-end Net continues fundamentally to be), ISPs become nothing more than storage and pipes. Stupid things, as David Isenberg correctly says. Because if they're not stupid, they get all smart like Verio and start shutting down whole sites and communities. Thanks to Rhizome for the link. And to the Reverse Cowgirl for turning us on to Rhizome. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 7:49:07 AM    comment []

School District Smarts Cali School District uses Apple technology [The Macintosh News Network] 7:32:52 AM    comment []

Segway San Francisco bans Segways on sidewalks, bike paths.. The Register: San Francisco bans Segways on sidewalks, bike paths. [Hack the Planet] 7:23:45 AM    comment []