December 2007
@Warlach Is there any details anywhere stating exactly what the state would be apologizing for? Detailing the charges as it were?
@Warlach people involved. I do not acknowledge the actions of my parents as my own
@Warlach Fair point. I just really don’t see ‘the state’ as an entity in it’s own right, mearly the accumulated politics of the current
listening to: Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Zoot Suit Riot: http://tinyurl.com/2y2ont
@Warlach Absolutely, but can we as a people express anything other than regret? Can fault be applied at any point here?
@Warlach But is the State not mearly a collection of individuals? It would be the current politicians regreting what their predecessors did
And long devision just doesn’t matter ‘cause we’re all in this together
listening to: Ben Lee – Love Me Like The World Is Ending: http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Lee
“Modern urban life has become a part of all of us in Ghana. We urbanites try our...”
– De Roy Kwesi Andrew, Escaping Nature: The Reality of Subsistence Life
Gah! Fatality at North Sydney, therw out the whole western / northern train lines
Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea →
I’ve been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I’ve been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here’s a first attempt at defining that. It’s not as clear as I’d like it to be. But perhaps you’ll find it useful. Tractability
Question: How difficult will it be to launch a worthwhile version 1.0? ...
On The Meaning of "Coding Horror" →
In a recent web search, I found the following comment in a programming.reddit.com thread from eight months ago, completely by accident:
I think prog.reddit will continue to move in phases… a couple of days ago, someone complained about a drop-off in Haskell articles, today there were 4 or 5 … next time Django or Rails does something worth noting, there’ll be a plethora of...
The Immersive Conversation →
Thinking ahead of the game.
Scoble is leaving PodTech. Doing something else from mid-January 2008.
In his post he talked about live streaming/twittering and the conversation that results from immediate connectivity to an audience.
From Scoble’s post:
Another thing that opened my eyes? The Google Open Social press conference where I had the only video, thanks to Kyte.tv and my cell phone (they...
@haacked ++ for TMBG
It’s your business →
Yesterday, while I was on a panel discussion at LeWeb3 talking about the future of video something happened that discussed my future. I was driving the computer during the panel discussion, demonstrating bleeding edge video technologies like Seesmic and Kyte on stage when someone wrote in my Kyte.tv channel’s chat room that I should check out TechCrunch. So, in front of everyone I pulled up the...
Facebook's about-face on applications →
Google’s social networking initiative could be dead in the water after Facebook announced it was opening up its platform of plug-in applications to its competitors.
Zero Punctuation: Guitar Hero III →
This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee gaily shreds Guitar Hero III.
Tweeterboard doesn’t like me :( http://tweeterboard.com/user/dalziel
Movable Type is Open Source →
Movable Type Open Source: I’d never thought I’d see this day in the five years I’ve been using MT. As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose.
The Angst in Twitterdom →
First of I just want to say how all this angst over the value of what is nothing more than a 140 character way of showing a very small part of cyberspace that you still have a pulse and that your fingers can still work a keyboard is humorous at the least but also indicative of how absorbed we can be in our own self-importance that we think we need to be friends with everyone; and that they need...
Microsoft Acquires MultiMap →
Microsoft today announced that it had acquired MultiMap, “one of the United Kingdom’s top 100 technology companies and one of the leading online mapping services in the world.” The acquisition gives Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services, MSN and the aQuantive advertising...
Facebook API to open up to other social networks →
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
And the open developer platform war has just become a little more interesting. OK, that’s a lie. It still isn’t all that interesting, but it has now become a tad more complex. Just hours after social networking site Bebo announced that their Open Application Developer Platform (which goes live tonight) would be “100...
Study Finds 90 to 95 Percent of All Email in 2007... →
The study, based on an analysis of more than one billion daily email messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide, found a staggering percentage of all email sent in 2007 was spam, increasing from an estimated 85 to 90 percent of email in 2006. From the report: “This growing proportion is even more significant when compared to 2004, when the federal CAN-SPAM Act, which set...
““Those child protection practices that have sought to place Aboriginal...”
– Noel Pearson on the pack rape in Cape York
Green activists demand toxic... →
Nature Biotechnology reports an astonishing tale of GM hypocrisy - European activists blocking new health standards in foods because “safe” organic food would be deemed unfit for human consumption, while “dangerous” new GM crops would pass under test results that were at first suppressed:
Productivity benefits aside, (genetically modified) MON810 corn also outperformed conventional corn in...
Sam Sethi Shuts Down Blognation →
Blacklists Don't Work →
Jon Galloway and I got into a heated debate a few weeks ago about the efficacy of anti-virus software. My position is that anti-virus software sucks, and worst of all, it doesn’t work anyway. That’s what I’ve been saying all along, and it’s exactly what I told Jon, too:
The performance cost of virus scanning (lose 50% of disk performance, plus some percent of CPU speed)...
FeedDemon 2.6 Release Candidate 4 available http://tinyurl.com/2mtf36
listening to: Newsboys – Adoration: http://www.last.fm/music/Newsboys
Nerd Sniping →
File this one under too much time & money on their hands: http://mdewtree.com/
Biblical satellite images http://tinyurl.com/36scn5
Cool: http://tinyurl.com/2gzedm
News: Political Games? →
I’m not sure what to make of this, but see here if you want to get some revenge on those bloody whale hunters. As a whale. http://www.whalesrevenge.com/ I’m still trying to grasp, though, how some…
Gotta get my secret santa present tonight, need it for tomorrow!
Why I Stopped Using Twitter →
There’s a lot of Twitter hype in the blogosphere today, and I’ve contributed plenty of my own Twitter hype in the past. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived from my own experience using Twitter — an explanation of why I STOPPED using Twitter.
For a period last summer, I was a Twitter addict — addict really is the right word. I found Twitter to be...
The Next Social Network: WordPress [GigaOM] →
Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He’s started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to “build a social network with its skin inside out.” DiSo will first look to WordPress as its foundation. This could be the next step towards the unified social graph...
WordPress.com: Gravatars Everywhere →
So Automattic had bought Gravatar a little while back, a service that is well known in the blogosphere for providing a way to easily display profile images, and now they have added the service to WordPress.com.
What’s that mean? When you have a WordPress.com account you can have an avatar by your comment, but now if someone isn’t logged in or registered but they have a Gravatar attached to their...
Report on Best and Worst Anti-Phishing Domain... →
The performance of registrars in decommissioning domain names connected to fraud scams is all over the map. A “brandjacking” report released last month by MarkMonitor is the first to include a list of the top 10 best and worst lists of registrar performance in revoking domain names connected to phishing scams. More…
Earth From Above →
Posted by Rebecca Moore, Manager, Google Earth Outreach French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s beautiful images of the planet have become a coffee table favorite across the world. Today we are excited to present a new Google Earth layer of nearly 500 of his images, many taken from hot air balloons and all taken from above the earth. Each image is paired with thought-provoking statistics...
Enjoy the holidays with new Street View cities and... →
Posted by Andrew Lookingbill, Software Engineer Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of 8 new cities with Street View. Check out full spherical views of Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence. Do some sightseeing, and check out views of places like the Zakim bridge in Boston. We’re also happy to announce the launch of embeddable...
Enterprise Software *Should* be Sexy →
The recent ScobleMeme™ about why enterprise software isn’t sexy spawned an interesting conversation, but much of that conversation focused on the differences between consumer and enterprise software and failed to address the question, “should enterprise software be sexy?” The answer, of course, is yes. While it’s true that many enterprise applications are decided upon and...
Are You a Doer or a Talker? →
Today’s lesson comes from your local Department of Transportation:
The Utah DOT is spending $6 million on a feasibility study for a bridge across a lake. Meanwhile, the DOT doesn’t have enough money to put up traveler information video cameras at dangerous mountain passes and canyons to help motorists make safe driving choices. That $6 million could have easily paid for the...
“Mr. Gore clearly understands the game he’s playing, judging by his resort...”
– OpinionJournal - It’s Your Money
Terry McCrann: Sucked in by the promise of wind... →
“The report, in The Australian, says the girl was in foster care because she had...”
– System failed 10yo rape victim, Bligh admits
“Newly awarded Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to...”
– Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh