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Montag, 28. Juli 2003 |
| RadioExpress spotted on Phil Ringnalda's blog, looks very cool. It's a toolbar bookmarklet that lets you post directly from the browser to your Radio blog... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley] 8:34:08 PM  comment [] |
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| Lone Genius Blogger circa 13th century Mechthild of Magdeburg was a beguine mystic who kept a vernacular diary of her spiritual revelations that was widely circulated by copying out in longhand. She was a blogger in a time before printing and postal service, much less electronic networks, existed.
She journaled her experience including visionary insight into spirituality, love songs and responses to critics who reacted inamicably to the notion of a woman writing about anything, much less faith. She wrote from her 30s until the time of her death.
Her writing is collected in the book 'Flowing light of the Godhead', which contains 267 passages ('posts') from a few lines to a few pages long. What we call blogging is actually a very old form... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley] |
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| Scary referrers I have known Hmm.... in my referrer logs I see a number of people coming to me via iaea.org which I was a little surprised to find was the International Atomic Energy Agency! What have I gotten myself into... [Curiouser and curiouser!] 8:17:07 PM comment [] |
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Weblogs and political discourse. Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. [via Der Schockwellenreiter] Interesting to see how opinion leaders in the weblog community push towards political relevance of the weblog discourse. Well... seems the whole weblog community wants to be opinion leading somehow... By owrede@khm.de (Oliver Wrede). [owrede_log] |
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Wir Blogger, reich und berühmt. Irgendjemand (ich war's nicht!) hat den Schockwellenreiter in die B.Pages, Kategorie Weblog, den Katalog für Berlins beste Webseiten, aufgenommen. Also rankt mich, was das Zeug hält... [Der Schockwellenreiter] 8:13:57 PM comment [] |
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How to use a Linux box as an iTunes server. via MacOSXHints: How to use a Linux machine as an iTunes music server... [Mac Net Journal] 8:12:55 PM comment [] |
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Alias announces Maya Personal Learning Edition 5. Silicon Graphics Inc. subsidiary Alias Systems announced on Monday the release of Maya Personal Learning Edition 5, a new version of the 3D graphics and animation software that's free for non-commercial use. Based on the most recent version of Maya Complete, Maya Personal Learning Edition 5 touts a new hardware rendering option that uses the latest graphics card technology, a unified rendering workflow, animation enhancements to constraints, forward/inverse kinematics and ghosting, Maya Paint Effects polygon conversion and more. Maya Personal Learning Edition 5 is compatible with Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. [MacCentral] 8:12:47 PM comment [] |
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No Empire?. From the guy that predicted back in 1976 the demise of the Soviet Union: There will be no an American Empire. Emmanuel Todd (scroll down for another Todd interview) is the author of After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American System". His arguments? economic weakness (debt, massive trade imbalance, internal deficit), and emphasis on military power are signs that US power is in decline. [MetaFilter] 8:12:07 PM comment [] |
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Safari global usage share more than doubles since Feb.. Web analytics research firm OneStat.com revealed on Monday global usage statistics for leading Web browsers. Apple saw the global usage share of its Safari browser more than double since February, according to the report. OneStat.com indicated that Safari increased its global usage share from 0.11 percent to 0.25 percent since February 2003. Based on KHTML from KDE's Konqueror open source project, Apple's Safari browser was released in January as a public beta test version. The software was downloaded more than five million times during its beta test, according to Apple. Apple released Safari 1.0 in June, along with a software development kit (SDK) that enables Mac OS X developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine in their own software. [MacCentral] 8:10:33 PM comment [] |
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 Apple's G4 Cube is alive and selling according to Wired News. Our original (other than a RAM upgrade) 450 MHz Cube's been on and online since we bought it almost exactly 3 years ago. Running OS X 10.2.6, it currently handles DNS, the blog content management system, a Web cam and is the Mac we use when another family member is on the big-screen G4.
Cubes can still fetch $1000 on eBay (try that with a 3-year-old PC) and a number of companies sell them with upgraded processors, RAM and video cards. One German cube-owner has wedged in 2 1GHz G4s, complete with water-colling system. Check out the blog for cube-ownsers... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley] |
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The G4 Cube Blog is a good example of how markets can self-assemble around products. The trick for merchandisers is to figure out how to use blogs. One easy method would be to advertise on the blog - I'm surprised that Cube upgrade makers PowerLogix, Sonnet et al don't seem to be advertising directly on CubeOwner.com (though a reseller is), the way used Mac resellers advertise on Low-End Mac, a Mac site that includes a blog and forums.
Another way for vendors to go would be to start their own blogs - product blogs run by product managers or other knowledgeable people. It would require somebody who 'got it' about blogs, but these could link out to, and be linked back from, the afficianado sites if they did a good job and provided useful and interesting stuff (not just product pitches, though those would be OK). This might be a cheaper, and more effective medium.
Macromedia's Flash MX technologies have a blog, Safari has a blog and OS X once had a developer's blog - all of which are (or were) well-read and much linked to. The key to using blogs for marketing is having a good product, writing and maintaining a decent, useful blog and identifying a few enthusiastic users who also have blogs... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley] |
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