Read Cameron’s report on Bill of Rights for Web Services, Panel, with Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Jeff Barr, Amazon.com (didn’t know he had left his consulting gig to go to work for Amazon full-time), and Jeffrey McManus, eBay. I’ll have to look around for other news from the OSCON conference.

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Convert an image into HTML or ASCII text. Fun stuff. Of course, I don’t have a logo or other iconic images to translate, but I’ll find something.

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Small Initiatives perked my interest in Word HTML Cleaner. I’ll have to try it sometime, since it’s sometimes useful to write in Word, but the HTML is godawful ugly.

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CNN story “Geniuses, criminals do best work in their 30s” forces me to ask… does this count double for criminal geniuses? Sorry, had to go there. 😉

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Unlike Tim Bray, I’m not surprised that default placement in (some) news aggregators is for sale. I was amused to see that Adam Curry blew $10,000 about 18 months ago for default placement in Userland’s aggregators. It’s the land grab mentality, and it’s been around forever. In some businesses, it even works. I don’t believe…

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Yes, I’m trying the BlogShares thing. No pain… and probably no gain (in audience/attention). Very smart viral marketing plan of theirs… strong incentive for the blog to include the graphic on its home page. Sure, I buried it like everyone else, but it’s there. Maybe this market will measure time as a currency, eventually. Right…

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Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber has a long column explaining why he’s adding advertisements to his site. He makes several interesting points along the way (jabbing at Business Week specifically, and the “corporate” media in general), and I enjoyed reading most of the essay, but I was surprised by his mild defensiveness about his…

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Long night leading up to first day back at work. Manageable day, but oh boy I need some sleep. Random other thoughts: (1) I finally want to take the plunge for digital cable. Tour de France coverage is the reason, on OLN. (2) What’s going on with Userland? John Robb leaving, Dave Winer hinting at…

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During an early dinner on July 4th, I took several family snapshots. I threw in this landscape shot just because, and to see how it would turn out. 4 megapixels isn’t enough to replace film, but it’s getting there. Taken near Hyde and Chestnut in San Francisco. WARNING: The full picture is about 1MB, and…

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This New York Times story “The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive?” feels like an old story. Technology lets us stay ‘always on’ and all of us, especially business folks, are taking advantage of the opportunity… perhaps without any true productivity benefit. If you’ve read James Gleick’s Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, written…

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