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Thursday, February 3, 2005 |
Subscription growth in tech blogs: January wrapup. My earlier analysis of tech-blog subscription trends suggested that accelerating growth might have tailed off. But with final numbers for January now in, it appears that the foot is on the accelerator again. Plenty of caveats apply, of course. I'm assuming that Bloglines public subscribers are a reasonable proxy for all Bloglines subscribers, that Bloglines is a reasonable proxy for the whole blogosphere, and that the small sample of blogs I'm looking at is representative. On that basis, though, here's how it looks.
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Ubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" Live: Beta be good. The community's new candidate for the poster child distribution, Ubuntu, recently unveiled the Live CD of its second version code-named "Hoary Hedgehog". Meant for people who like to be on the bleeding edge (and can live with the few odd bugs), Hoary might not be the distro for the virgin Linux user. But that's just one argument against a dozen which shout "Grandma use Hoary", says the review. Elsewhere, Guadalinex will use Ubuntu as its base for version 2005. [OSNews]
3:24:06 PM
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Clueless about cookies or spyware?. Spyware-removal tools are a fairly new commodity from Internet service providers, but some of the software may confuse people as much as it protects them, critics say. [OSNews]
1:09:46 PM
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Six Operating systems tested. Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP were easier to use than any of the Linux distributions tested - but not by much, says the report. [OSNews]
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© Copyright 2005 Patrick Mikulak.
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