Digital living takes off in Asia. Countries like Taiwan and Korea are leading the way for countries embracing the digital lifestyle. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Test driving a cityscape. The world's cities are growing all the time and in France, some are being modelled by computer for the purposes of urban redevelopment. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Six New World-Changing Trends. A green economy and next-generation web sound exciting, but where exactly can they take us? Wired magazine parses the trajectory of the brightest stars in the zeitgeist. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

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A Geek's Guide to Fireworks. Take the perfect fireworks photo, build your own electronic detonator, and learn how specialized software ups the "wow" factor on July 4th. Your comprehensive roundup of pyrotechnic hypertext. In Monkey Bites.  [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

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from Scripting News:

My talk this morning.

I'm going to try to explain how I think about communication, technology, creativity and making money. There are a couple of very very simple ideas that are behind everything I do, RSS, blogging, OPML, outlining, podcasting, unconferences, everything.

The two ideas are outlined in two DaveNet pieces:

1. How to Make Money on the Internet, v2.0 and

2. Monoculture, An artifact of the 20th century?

Imho, these two ideas explain everything.

Last night I was talking with Dave Luebbert, my dear friend, who I met when he was a Microsoft engineer in the mid-80s. We talked about Jeff Harbers, a Microsoft guy we both knew (he did due diligence on a company I wanted to sell to MS in 1987). And where Microsoft is at today, and why Bill Gates quit now and what it means. (That's #1, users design technology, which is why Google is ascending now as Microsoft is declining.)

If you want to understand why the music industry is going where it's going, that's both #1 and #2. There's still a bit more money to be made off the music of the 20th century, but there's no time to waste, soon that opportunity will go away, and what remains of the centralized music industry will wither and die, not to be replaced (it's as obsolete as the buggy whip industry was during the ascendence of the automobile).

They also answer the questions asked by Senator Edwards yesterday, you can't follow the algorithm inadvertently pioneered stumbled on by Howard Dean, that's too simplistic. Maybe we will have one or two more elections in the 20th century mode, and then our political leaders are going to be users of democracy, whatever that means. (It's basically up to all of us to figure that out.)

We live in the age that Emerson predicted, self-reliance. Make your own music and your own products. Everyone gets to be creative. The brains are in what we used to call the audience. No more looking up to the ivory tower for all fulfillment. Thank god we don't all have to be as beautiful as Farah Fawcett and Christopher Reeve. Everyone gets to sing. Users and developers party together.

[Scripting News]

 

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Software Pirate Pleads Guilty (PR Newswire).

One of U.S.' Largest Commercial Online Distributors of Pirated Software Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy and Copyright Infringement

From: PR Newswire
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

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Code Quality.

An open source perspective

Book review With his first book, Code Reading, Diomidis Spinellis broke new ground. Here was a major book on the oft-neglected but important skill of reading source code.…

[The Register]

 

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Nokia N70 3G phone.

Nokia's best smart phone yet?

Review Ask Nokia and it will tell you its N series handsets are the acme of mobile phones. So much so that we're not even supposed to think of them as telephony devices but as "multimedia computers" that are "the next leap forward in personal computing"...…

[The Register]

 

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Nigerian Scammers Scammed. sbinning writes "At least one Nigerian scammer has had the tables turned. A website admin retaliates against the fraudsters, with hilarious results." From The Age article: "When he found a willing victim, his anti-scam unfolded in much the same way as a typical 419 scam, promising payment only after a substantial investment had been laid down — in this case the receipt of a series of commissioned wooden carvings from a local artist. With some creative photo editing, Shiver Metimbers was able to string along his quarry with claims that the two carvings sent had mysteriously been damaged enroute, the first through a mysterious shrinking process, and the second by a rogue African hamster." [Slashdot]

 

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