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Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
In my return to work, here are some things I did not miss while away from the office:
- my stuffy office
- my drive down Interstate 95
Now, my return to work has not been that bad. it is not that busy
yet on campus, as this is the winter term, and the usual number of
students is not at its height. There are some other good things,
though:
- no longer dealing with the abortive NetMail project
- a 1GB Lexar JumpDrive Sport was waiting for me (imagine what I can do with this)
- more planning on interesting projects
Looks like work should be interesting so far.
2:41:10 PM  
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I have heard and read about the existence of flame wars within the
blogosphere. I am used to observing them in the newsgroup/NNTP
space, but I have not seen many in the blogosphere. Part of that,
though, comes from the small number of comments I read. That's
what I get for being addicted to FeedDemon.
That said, I observed the following brouhaha resulting from this post made yesterday by my boy, DaBrettman.
I would admit that it would make perfect sense for the offended blogger
to flame DaB. Of course, the blogger in question decided that
flaming DaB would not be good enough, so the highly learned
blogger--Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred--decided that it would be much more
appropriate to level a shotgun blast at Baltimore and its school
system. I, naturally, took exception to that and left a rather
extensive comment over at DaB's place.
The bottom line is this: the Internet and the blogosphere are merely
places where folks get a really cheap source to make their views
known. In most cases, very few people will read a large number of
these blogs, regardless of what the recent Pew Internet & American Life survey states.
Getting an internet domain is cheap, hence access to this forum is relatively inexpensive. Dave Winer said as much.
Thus, any kook can get their opinion aired. It takes much more
for this opinion to be respected and possibly heeded.
10:56:44 AM  
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Over my vacation, I enjoyed my discovery of mashups. The following post
on BoingBoing pointed out a Beatles and Beastie Boys mashup. I
need to find a place to place it for downloading goodness,
though. For now, you can find them here. I got a couple of more interesting ones that I found:
More Cowbell
Eminem Polka (Disturbing, but pretty darn funny. )
I continue to be a proselytizer for podcasts to any that listen to the
crap that I talk about. Of course, that implies people listen to
me. In all seriousness, I have some links on the linkroll to the
left of my posts. Check it out if you have an iPod or other
non-Apple-branded MP3 player. Podcasts are quite similar to
blogs, just in a
tidy downloadable format that can be taken with you and listened to at
the gym or in the car. Unlike other forms of streaming audio, you
are
not tethered to your desk. The medium is still new, though, and
there is plenty of stuff that is uninteresting.
They are interesting to listen to at the gym, and in some sense they
allow me to time shift my listening of things when it is
convenient. There are some public radio broadcasts that have
embraced this, and I hope more of them do. For example, I would
love it if WYPR would create a podcast of the Marc Steiner
show. Yesterday, I missed the broadcast of the show discussing
the medical malpractice reform bill generated in last week's special
session in Annapolis. I missed it because I was going to the
gym. Now, if it were available as a podcast, I could have heard
the show while working out, feeling good and smarter at the same
time. Or at the very least, sweaty and confused.
9:58:43 AM  
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