6/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
Philippe Janvier : RSS Traits - Un module RSS 2.0 pour définir les valeurs de différentes taxonomies qui pourraient rendre nos agrégateurs plus intelligents. [via] #
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6/02/2005 @ 22:57 GMT
jimray : Everything you Need to Know About Writing Sucessfully: in Ten Minutes - Stephen King parses how to be a good writer
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6/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
plasticbag : Are cut-scenes in video games trying to make them too much like movies? - " As I'm sitting there, waiting to start mashing buttons again, I can't help but think that this is kind of lazy design. Isn't there a better way to do this inside the game itself? Why ask the player to stop playing?"
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6/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
plasticbag : Boing Boing talk up ETech, earlybird registration (I think this has passed) and set some pretty high expectations for our talk... - And ha! Biddulph and Hammond don't get nicknames. Suck on that!
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6/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
plasticbag : Top 10 Web Companies to Work For - It's a shame that the BBC isn't on that list, but I'm not sure it's an enormous surprise...
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6/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
plasticbag : Push to Talk - I watched a show about Push to Talk on the BBC the other day. I'd never heard of it before, but apparently it's huge in the states. Is this true?
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6/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : Nominees for the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards - "The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives"
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6/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : I went to see Ocean's Twelve at the weekend (and this is Metacritic's page for it) - Jesus that's a strange meta-film / celebrity circle-jerk. Can't figure out what I think about it. Lots of front, lots of charm, not terribly good...
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6/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
plasticbag : jbum's Flickr photostream is full of interesting Flickr visualisations and exciting meta-uses of Flickr-sourced imagery - Fascinating and beautiful stuff found via the glorious Fiona Romeo's weblog
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6/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
jimray : NY Times killed a story about the mystery "bulge" in Bush's back - I have a hard time believing that this would have affected the outcome of the election, though
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6/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Channel Z becomes Kiwi | New Zealand Music Online (via Joe Lindsay) - No not Dave Winer's editing software, this is New Zealand's first 100% Kiwi music network. Great news for kiwis!
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6/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Flashpoint on Yahoo! stock markets deal - "...is Yahoo going to become the Amazon of Financial Data while Reuters continues to charge a premium for access to a relatively closed network of proprietary information?"
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6/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Jeff Jarvis on Jay Rosen's book deal - "Let's also give kudos to the agent to the bloggers, Kate Lee at ICM, who made the deal."
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6/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Commentary links my recent rants on refactoring weblogs to Marc Canter's concept of a digital lifestyle aggregator - Interesting piece - I'm trying to work out how much of what I do here is about me talking in public and how much of it is about me organising myself in public
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6/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Thoughts on the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator - Lots of conversations around creating some kind of monolithic internal lifestyle admin interface, which I'm both interested and slightly horrified by...
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6/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
plasticbag : Marc Canter's original post on Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - I wonder if we could pursue a componentised vision by creating mediating interfaces that completely circumvent the individual weblog / flickr / whatever interfaces...
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6/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Googley-Eyed - Googley-Eyed: Believers vs. Doubters
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6/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Essential 50 games - Nice list from 1up (via Joystiq)
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6/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : First Contact tours take people into the West Papua jungle to meet tribes that have never seen outsiders before - "There are a handful of places in West Papua that are untouched -- still Stone Age tribes, still cannibals. It's just that a lot of people are too scared to go look for them."
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6/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : In recent years, selling the idea of skateboarding has been easier than actually selling skateboards
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6/02/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
plasticbag : People discuss my emotional state at dinner parties - Which is a little strange. I wonder what conclusions they came to?
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6/02/2005 @ 12:01 GMT
ricmac : Jay Rosen has a book deal - congrats! - "There's no doubt PressThink got the publisher interested in the possibilities for this book. In my case, the blog was like a "live" proposal, where there is activity day and night."
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6/02/2005 @ 11:58 GMT
ricmac : Feedster and New Zealand search company Eurekster team up (via Susan Mernit) - Eurekster did a deal with Friendster in Dec I think. Good to see a kiwi company making it in the Valley!
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6/02/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle's Searchblog: First Draft, Complete - "I'm pleased to say that at about 5.30 today I marked the final check on my wall of 3x5 cards. While weeks of revisions, corrections, and possibly rewrites await me, the fact is, I have completed the first draft of this f*cking book."
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6/02/2005 @ 09:58 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : LEVITATION - Daily Movie Freeze Frame (a photolog) - LEVITATION - Daily Movie Freeze Frame (a photolog) [via] [via]
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6/02/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Isofarro : Spamhaus accuses MCI of hosting spam gangs - 'One of the world's largest Internet providers is hosting illegal spam operations and making an estimated $5 million a year to keep those operations running'
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6/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Total Immersions D'Fusion's augmented reality demo - amazing video; I expect to see applications of this tech in retail gaming soon [via] [via]
Wayne Burkett : Gear Live | Total Immersions D'Fusion Technology - Oh, wow! Amazing augmented reality video. #
Simon Willison : Total Immersions D'Fusion Technology - Awesomely impressive augmented reality video (Windows Media, unfortunately). (via) [via]
bmilleare : Total Immersions D'Fusion Technology
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6/02/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Mark Fletcher's cat - I know how he feels (via ...)
ricmac : Mark Fletcher breaks his silence about Bloglines sale... - ...with some fantastic cat photos. His felines Babe and Einstein are shown lolling about, but my question is: where's Jeeves?
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6/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
deusx : AND THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON-PAGE 1 - Emergent behavior amongst household appliances.
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6/02/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : Guardian releases branded RSS reader - Windows XP only, which (IMNSHO) is still in need of a good feed reader
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6/02/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : XMLHttpRequest, REST and the Rich User Experience : Paul James
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6/02/2005 @ 01:58 GMT
Jason Shellen : List of words (or phrases) to hate - Words I have encountered that are either annoying, misused, overused, or painful. #
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6/02/2005 @ 01:57 GMT
ricmac : Loic Le Meur Blog: Serious Money - "$25 000 a month for blog sponsoring and between 20 to 30 000 $ [per month according to Marc Canter] at Boing Boing John said in Davos"
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6/02/2005 @ 01:57 GMT
Simon Willison : Subversion on Windows quick start - Subversion cheat sheet. (via) [via]
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6/02/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Redesign Watch - Eric Meyer's ongoing list of sites that have chosen web standards. There's an RSS feed, too. #
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