Year: 2004
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Vestigial appendix
So I’m reading the NYTimes Q&A with Barry Diller and I get to the end of the piece, online, and here’s what I see: An extended version of this interview is online: nytimes.com/yourmoney. I think, well, I’m reading this online, but not quite at that URL, so maybe, just maybe, there is more to read.…
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Stating the Obvious
With apologies to Michael Sippey, I had to use that title. What could be more obvious than the stats on DVR viewing habits? DVR = digital video recorder, and it’s the name of the category that TiVo has otherwise defined like Kleenex defined facial tissues. The Center for Media Research summarizes a Forrester Research report…
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Marking time
Last night was the sixth straight Corporate Challenge road race I’ve run in San Francisco. In that time, the sponsor morphed from Chase to JPMorganChase. In that time, two kids entered the family. In that time, I moved from NBC Internet (now defunct) to CNET Networks, so I’ve gotten to wear a few different logos.…
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Follow the money (what money?)
Jeremy Zawodny finds Flickr to be “one of the best examples of next generation web services.” I left a comment there, of which the main point is… how does Flickr intend to earn money to keep the service live and evolving? I set up an account a few weeks ago when I saw that the…
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Jealousy
I wish I had the time and talent (are they connected?) to write like Paul Graham. His latest essay, on — of all things — the “The Age of the Essay,” collects historical tidbits, personal vignettes, meta-moments about writing, and a few otherwise unrelated threads into a meditation on how to share your thinking. I…
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Some possible books for the future
I’ve been saving a clipping from the WSJ for a few weeks, mostly to keep some possible book ideas around. Better to put them here, where I can get at them from elsewhere (and throw away the clipping). All recommended by Jim Fusilli, formerly book reviewer of mysteries and crime fiction for the Boston Globe.…
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Welcome, Eliot
I’ve been remiss in not welcoming Eliot to the circle of bloggers I know. I look forward to reading him regularly, and I hope he finds the practice personally interesting, if nothing more. Cheers!
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Movie: Matrix Revolutions
I watched the finale of the Matrix trilogy last night, The Matrix Revolutions. Don’t see it. No matter how brilliant the first one was. I had low expectations after the disappointment of the second one, and I had to struggle to stay awake for this one. Argh. I’ve seen the first one at least three…
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Movie: Collateral
Thoughtful violence. I use that seeming oxymoron to describe the movie Collateral. This was a compelling film. Yes, it’s violent, and the violence isn’t necessarily thoughtful, but the film doesn’t get caught up the action. Instead, the explosions of bullets that occasionally erupt punctuate the film, and change the pace. The beginning of this movie…
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Book: The Unknown Shore
Patrick O’Brian clearly enjoyed writing The Golden Ocean. Three years later, in The Unknown Shore, he used the same source material. The true story of a 1740 Royal Navy squadron sent to the Pacific to take a Spanish galleon becomes the platform from which O’Brian creates a separate story. One of the vessels, the Wager,…