Year: 2004
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Price I pay for letting…
I opened up NNW this evening with over 240 headlines to scan. Boiled the list down to a score or so, and I have some work I want to do, so better to just bake in the links now, and hope I can find time to get to them later (much later?). Marketers (and publishers)…
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Book: Pattern Recognition
I had a short plane ride all to myself this weekend, so I put down my non-fiction and bought William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. According to the early pages of this paperback, this is Gibson’s eighth book. I’ve read them all, although I’ll admit that — other than Neuromancer — I don’t remember them separately by…
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Lioness woofing
This morning, at the Phoenix Zoo, I heard a lioness woofing. Maybe that’s the wrong word, because it certainly was nothing like a dog barking. But she repeated this deep, piercing ‘wooofff’ several times, almost as if she were coughing. It seemed too intentional to be coughing though. I wonder what had her riled up,…
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No commentary, but appreciate the…
Rajesh Jain brings together three commentaries on information markets in one post. He adds only one line of context, explaining who is commenting on whom and what. Ross Mayfield comments on Jeff Jarvis’s commentary on Eli Noam’s article in the FT on the market failure in the information economy. That one line, plus the three…
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Two more Macintouch reports about…
Yesterday and today, Macintouch ran more details about the Mail.app crashes which are more clearly connected to Junk Mail filtering. I haven’t had the problem for quite some time, since I — like many of these people — realized through personal experience and similar accounts that certain emails seem to corrupt the Junk Mail preference…
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Blogs love TiVo
Seriously, I’d love to get actual numbers correlating TiVo ownership with those who blog. Sure, it’s not a majority, but seems to be a significant minority. I’ll bet the NYTimes got more traffic to this story about designing the TiVo remote than anything about Kerry, Edwards, and the rest of the important news of the…
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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…