Thanks to Jeff Veen for catching the most outrageous line of tonight’s Online News Association meeting. I could barely believe my ears. Just how much wine was consumed prior to this one? Separately, Jeff voiced a telling comparison: Orkut and LinkedIn are like high-school yearbooks. You get everyone to sign it, and then you put…

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I use a boring cellphone. That’s OK, but I am interested in a few features of more modern phones, specifically a camera and a web browser. My biggest fear, though, is the service plan which will be required to keep the data charges economical: it’s almost certain to be out of whack with what I…

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Or not. But this free favicon generator seems like the real deal. I’ve played around with a pixel-level graphics program in attempt to create a clock favicon, but then I needed a converter. Hmmm… Anyway, found this tool via MpP Favicon Gallery, which was linked to by Dan as a QuickBit. Thanks! I have a…

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Always nice to see that continued effort is being noticed. CNET News.com Extra was mentioned by Dan Gillmor on Saturday on his blog. Quiet words, but that’s high praise from someone who gets it. Always more to do, of course, and a few interesting comments that I had to respond to, as well. What’s your…

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Via The Map Room, a link for old maps from the University of New Hampshire library. My favorite? Northeast corner of the St. Regis quadrangle (warning: 1.8MB image)

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Yesterday I noted a print legacy in the online times. It was fixed today, thanks to Eliot.

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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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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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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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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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