Year: 2005
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Escaped faster than I hoped
The weather was perfect, and the race — especially after the swim — went well. Official time of 2:52:45, so faster than I hoped, putting me in 181st place (among the amateurs). Accenture was the title sponsor of Escape from Alcatraz for 2005. As a result, the Accenture website has some extra features. First, a…
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Getting ready to escape (from Alcatraz)
Escape from Alcatraz is less than 48 hours away. Glad the race is nearly here… all I can do now is stretch and look forward to leaving the water. Figuring I can finish the swim in ~50 minutes, do the “warm-up” run to the bike in 5-7 minutes (1/2 mile? 1 mile?), bike the 18…
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Three minutes for three links
Three minutes of your life will be well spent with the following trio of links. Vin Crosbie reports a great one-liner from New Orleans. David Pogue reminds readers that you must spend time to save time. Life’s a b***ch that way. Tim Bray dances to the same tune as this blog’s slogan… but reminds us…
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Turn off the mobile devices?
Via Jeremy, I found Chris DiBona’s post about why WiFi should be turned off at conferences. Maybe it should be taken one step further on an every day basis, and all communal workplaces (read: conference rooms) should have a bin at the door where everyone can turn in their Treos, Blackberries, and other mobile devices…
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Congrats to Slate
Obviously, I hoped that News.com would bring home the Eppy for Best Internet News Service over 1 million, but that went to Slate Magazine this year. CNET News.com and Boston.com were the other finalists in that category. Overall, the folks at NYT Digital must be pleased, with Martin Nisenholtz honored as Outstanding Individual Achievement and…
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Stretching the brain for a week
I’ve been quiet for a few days, even if news in the Mac world has not. Since Sunday morning, I’ve been stretching my brain with a class on accounting and finance. One week, Sunday to Thursday, cramming in lots of information about the language of business. Coming in, I knew the vocabulary of accounting and…
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Apple to move Macs to Intel chips
The rumors flew around a short while ago (link to WSJ, behind pay-wall), but my editorial colleagues at CNET News.com got the story this afternoon: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips. I can see from the burgeoning TalkBack thread (50 comments and counting) that people still aren’t sure whether to believe the news.…
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TV.com is live
Nice to have another site that requires little explanation: TV.com. Went live officially this morning, and WSJ used the launch as a reason to survey what’s going on at CNET Networks. I like getting outside perspectives. You might enjoy a bit of history… the domain cost, well, not a lot, relatively when it was purchased…
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Tag me addicted (to e-mail)
AOL knows how, occasionally, to make some waves in the press. Pointing out that Americans are hooked on email, with some statistics, got picked up all over the place. Addicted to e-mail? You’re not alone is the News.com summary of the survey results. I come down on the “need e-mail” portion of each one of…
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You own your own tags… maybe
I’m still a big fan of owning your own words, one of the oldest ideas in electronic forums. So I’m not sure why lowering the final friction point in tagging — that of identity — is truly an advance. I agee that volume is necessary to help the more useful properties of tags emerge, but…