Month: February 2005
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Game on: Newsburst is available
Long day. Good day. Woke up this morning to realize that Newsburst, the free web-based reader from CNET News.com had been found. We developed the service out in the open to a large degree, and it’s surprising in some ways that it remained quiet this long. Still, we were not quite ready to start showing…
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Book: Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow of the Hegemon is another in the Ender series, though Ender is nowhere in the book. Instead, this grouping of books focuses on Bean, who I find a more compelling character all around. Not much to say right now, but I flipped through this quickly, and I’m looking forward to the eighth and final…
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Movie: Million Dollar Baby
I saw Million Dollar Baby ten days ago. You should see it if you haven’t. I wasn’t prepared to enjoy it, but I did, and I appreciated the surprise. I’m not much of an Oscar fan, but I won’t be disappointed if this wins some of the awards for which it’s been nominated. I do…
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Let the music start… who’s got a chair in the RSS game?
So Ask Jeeves picks up Bloglines. (Enough people have commented on this since Mary Hodder posted it that I certainly hope it’s true… otherwise many blogs will have to do another round of corrections.) Ask made almost as much money ($260MM) as CNET Networks ($291MM) in 2004. I didn’t know that. 2005 revenue is forecasted…
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5K is the right distance for now
I started my Super Bowl Sunday as I’ve done for the last several years, with a road race. Pamakid organizes a half-marathon and a 5K on the morning of the de-facto American holiday, and it gets a big crowd eager for fitness before denting the couch for 4+ hours. As I did last year, I…
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A9 Local primes the pump for a “localpedia” (but all on Amazon)
Wouldn’t you think a “localpedia” (a Wiki tied to a community) is a good idea? The domain is taken, or I would have registered it, but I wonder if Wikipedia will extend to this domain of locale, with the model of building a better yellow pages. In all honestly, that makes more sense than the…
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Book: Sharpe’s Prey
Sharpe’s Prey jumps Richard Sharpe forward a couple of years from Trafalgar, to 1807, with the British invasion of Copenhagan. I never knew about this event. The Brits didn’t think the Danes were an enemy. Yet the Danish naval fleet was the only one left in Europe, and England had to deny the fleet to…
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Sometimes life feels this way
From my friend Karl: If you don’t think life is a competition, you must be losing. I think he was kidding… but only partly.
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So glad to not make this list
Via Seth Godin, the The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004 from Vincent Flanders. I was pleased to not find any of the sites I’m affiliated with presented as examples of what can go wrong.
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More details on the radioShark
Via Slashdot, I found this Ars Technica review of the radioShark. Solid details over four pages, with ample illustrations. I didn’t learn much, to be honest, but I read the whole thing hoping that maybe there was a workaround for the main issue: no guide. There doesn’t appear to be, although in the Slashdot thread,…