Year: 2005
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Book: Sharpe’s Company
Time to jump back into some fun reading, so I polished off Sharpe’s Company in a couple of days. These Sharpe novels from Bernard Cornwell are so straightforward, with few surprises, but I still enjoy them. I turn pages almost as fast as I would with a Dick Francis novel (the gold standard, in many…
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Book: Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer‘s Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith sat on the to-read pile for quite some time. Then, once started, it lingered a while as I tried (in vain) to keep up with the daily flow of blogs and newspapers as well as the weekly/monthly flow of magazines. (Yes, for all…
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Maybe I’ll read Salon more now
Nothing against Salon, but I haven’t been there in a while. Maybe their link-up with Technorati for showing what’s being blogged about will remind me to visit more often. [Via Rich] I think this blog roundup page works well, taking a single-site page like The Pulse (most talked about stories on-site at News.com), and using…
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First the WSJ, then the NYT… Ajax is getting all sorts of virtual ink
Jim Fallows, writing in the New York Times article “Finally, Sisyphus, There’s Help for Those Internet Forms,” explains why real people should be interested in Ajax, or whatever Microsoft, Macromedia (Adobe?), or any other company wants to call the combination of technologies which is making the web more like desktop applications. For those in the…
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Thomas Friedman column link changes from specific article to home page
Today’s Thomas Friedman column, “Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?,” continues on his globalization theme, and reinforces that America is falling behind in many ways. He quotes a sentence from this CNET News.com article U.S. slips lower in coding contest. On April 7, CNET News.com reported the following: “The University of Illinois tied for 17th…
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BBC officially takes the plunge
Ten days ago, I noted that the BBC was going to pour petrol on their RSS efforts. Today, the official announcement came out. The license terms are reasonable, if still a bit long. I wonder if Creative Commons has an appropriate license which fits the desired needs here? I’ve often wondered why CC doesn’t expand…
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Hype builds, backlash sets in… all before podcasts gain any mass traction
So Charlie Cooper reacts (negatively) to the podcast hype, welcomes a tip, and exchanges views with Dan Bricklin. Then I get home and see that Vin Crosbie offers a new business model for podcasting, tongue firmly in cheek. I know the news cycle is accelerating, but now we have the backlash almost before the phenomenon…
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Wish I were in Japan
Talk about your high-end geekery… I’m listening to an audio recording of Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google Inc, from his WWW2005 talk “News in the Age of the Web.” The recording is courtesy of Kathy Gill from the University of Washington. Her blog is WiredPen. Audio really isn’t enough… low-fi, and a mild accent.…
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Post early and often
Traffic patterns verify the benefit of posting early and often again and again, but interesting to see how Nick Denton quantifies it for his Gawker employees in the course of this NYTimes story where Denton once again tries to de-bunk the hype circle he’s earned (created?). Each editor is under contract to post 12 times…
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Seth Godin is drinking the Kool-Aid
Seth Godin identifies a new digital divide, between the digerati and those who follow. Based on his criteria I qualify… should I be proud? More important question: are the digerati as influential as those of us in the echochamber all like to imagine? As a result, your most-connected, most influential customers are part of the…