Dare Obasanjo defending Microsoft employee blogging, in response to Joel Spolsky: I do agree that like most things there are high quality blogs from Microsoft employees and others that aren’t as useful. But that’s life, 99% of everything is crap. Words to live by?

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From Sunday’s SF Chronicle, a column decrying the dumbing of America. Nothing new here except the specific examples, which are funny and sad at the same time. One short clip: Only nine out of 31 know who John Kerry is. A couple of students think he is an actor, and one thinks he is a…

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From the Safari windows I left open last night because I wanted to read/skim: Quoteblogs vs. Linkblogs (Inluminent) – Some probing questions (no answers) on the legality of some blogging styles and aggregators… think copyright. National Geographic MapMachine – Mix of street, satellite, population, topographic, and more more. Doc on Disclosures and the blogosphere as…

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Two weeks ago, I noted with mild surprise that Microsoft offers a way to control the distribution of individual emails (digital rights management, DRM). Earlier this week, News.com dove deep on these technologies in “Software makers ready desktop lockdown.”

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The girl, at 10 months, climbed the stairs on her own twice today. First time she’s gone all the way up. Of course, she doesn’t know how to come down, but so far, she hasn’t tried much, which is probably a good thing. She’s also standing on her own a lot now, for 20-30 seconds…

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Not quite Office Space, but workplace humor all the same. All hail the mighty PPT. I read about ClickToAddTitle.com from Anil Dash, who’s more fixated on Excel’s opportunities. Too bad the PPT stakes stopped after three rounds. Maybe the new attention will renew the competition? (My favorite remains the Gettysburg Address.)

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Salon has a wide-ranging interview with author Neal Stephenson. The emphasis is on his most recent work, The Baroque Cycle. I’m reading The Confusion, the second volume in the trilogy (my notes on Quicksilver, the first volume). A few quotes from the interview. On the 17th century version of establishing authorship in the science realm:…

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So, new RSS reader called PulpFiction is coming soon (May 15). And that post prompted Brent to detail some of what’s coming in the next release of NetNewsWire. No date promised yet, but sounds imminent. I love that the developer of Shrook posted in the comments of the PulpFiction post. Lots of talk… it’s early…

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Unlike the previous book, Free Flight, by Jim Fallows, is a joy to read. Instead of two months of staggered, sporadic efforts, I started and finished this book about the possibilities for general aviaton in a day. As a partial coincidence, I had enough time to read this book yesterday because I was flying home…

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