Year: 2004
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DRM e-mail: figures, but who knew?
Scoble is thrilled with his Outlook ‘magic folder’ blogging tool. It’s so easy, though, that he worries about making a mistake. I imagine a day when I accidentally drop something in there that I wasn’t supposed to. I wonder how it’d treat DRM’d email? Hmmm, we should try that out! (Execs here often send around…
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Card Sorting
Card sorting is a development technique I’ve never tried, but maybe I’ll have a need someday. [via InfoDesign, which is often a good source for links]
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YARR (yet another RSS reader)
NewsYouCanUse is a menu-bar RSS reader for MacOS X. I downloaded it, installed it, found it slow, and quit it. I can’t write software, so I don’t mean to be dismissive, but even for free, there are better choices.
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Movie: Phone Booth
Not a great film, Phone Booth races through a small plot and never slows down. I appreciated that, at least. Kiefer Sutherland as the sniper on the phone is the star of the movie, although he’s on screen for about 90 seconds. The movie runs about 80 minutes, and it honestly felt a lot like…
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Brevity: it speaks volumes
Another “RSS in 10 words or less,” this time from iCite: Email, but you only get messages your computer asks for (turns out there are many of these attempts) I think RSS is better than email, and I like a separate application because I treat them differently, but I wonder if most people care. NewsGator…
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The Register moves to standards, too
Last fall, CNET News.com moved to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It wasn’t smooth, it wasn’t easy, and the site still doesn’t validate (in part because of our ad server, a common problem in these migrations). Looks like The Register made the move, too. Good for them. That’s a bit of incentive for us to…
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Web pushes print to new heights (depths?)
Reason magazine will customize every single one of its 40,000 issues with a satellite photograph of the subscriber’s house on the cover. The web continues to offer personalization at various levels, and print is pushing the boundaries of custom publishing to do the same. If the technology works — and is economical, which is probably…
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Who needs graphics?
Zork and other classic text games are still alive and available for play via any AIM compatible client. Some might ask why you want to play text-only games in a visual world… we are in the 21st century, after all. But what games these days have a sense of humor? Here’s what you find on…
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Too many print subscriptions?
I’ve been slow getting through my current book. It’s not a great book, as I’ll explain when I finish it. But the real delay is that I started getting the Wall Street Journal in print form. Why? I traded in some airline miles on an airline I never fly anymore, so no cash cost for…
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Bay to Breakers
I just signed up for my eighth consecutive Bay to Breakers (the 12K race across San Fancisco). By entering with a qualifying time, you get to start at the front of the pack, which means you can run the race, instead of weaving through tens of thousands of people. I prefer racing every time. But…