Month: February 2004
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Morning thought
Questions are fun, but answers make money. Just thought I’d share that phrase I just IMed someone. Seems relevant before 6:30am PT. We’ll see if it is later in the day.
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Book: 10 Lb. Penalty
Needed to turn the brain off for a bit last night, so I spent two hours with a quick re-read of the Dick Francis novel 10 Lb. Penalty. As usual, this did the trick. I wish there was a Francis I had not read yet. Since this is his 36th novel (and this isn’t his…
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Cleaning up
Spent 30 minutes or so cleaning up the CNET News.com listings on Syndic8. Not sure it matters, but I was bothered by the duplication and the scraped feeds listed right next to the official feeds.
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Chicken or egg?
Mary Hodder shared, in her report from day two of the Digital Media Summit, this tiny tidbit. I chatted with Craig Calder of NYT Digital, who told me that their archives generate around $1 million a year in revenue, but it’s declining. He said mostly what’s accessed is less than 90 days old, but the…
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FOAF: maybe next time
Friend of a friend (FOAF) is for representing your social network in an XML file. Some people are doing interesting things with this, but for now, I’ll just save a link to a FOAF generator. Maybe in the future, as the social networking craze turns into something useful, rather than simply like collecting baseball cards.…
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“The click heard around the…
That is Jeff Jarvis‘s phrase from his commentary on Nisenholtz’s speech at SIIA. Jarvis is saying that citizen’s media is the Pong for digital media. Blogs are just the first step, but — despite Nisenholtz’s cautiousness — the future is here. I wrote my thoughts on the speech on the same day. I found it…
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Almost like being there…
Well, not really, but Doc Searls is providing some pointers from Demo. I’m sure there are lots of other Demo blogs out there. I’m curious to see which items are more than a flash in the pan. Update: Technorati method for following the buzz about Demo.
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Does writing make you more…
That’s my hope. Napsterization.org thinks it does. Just added this feed to NNW.
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The questions you answer without…
We all commit this crime every day of our lives: answering a question without knowing, for sure, the answer. I don’t mean knowing in any existential sense. I simply mean that, given time, a good library and/or search engine, you could find a citable reference for answering with the information you provide, or a close…
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How many domains do you…
I really only do anything, to date, with pencoyd.com, but I own three others, and I’ve let a previous one or two go. Back in the boom days (1999), I was actively working on iventing.com… a one-time business idea much akin to what planetfeedback.com was doing, before they were bought by Intelliseek. I ask the…