18/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kellan : 43 Folders: Because buying new running shoes is more fun than actually running - My new running shoes are still sitting in the box. #
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18/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The secret Downing Street memo - SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
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18/05/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
kayodeok : Google My Search History Spam: Planting My Search History Entries via a hidden iframe - If you have the Google My Search History activated, check if you find an entry today for the search query "Google Blogoscoped sneaked in through the backdoor."
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18/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Josh Hallett: Please Publish Full RSS Feeds - "...my time is valuable as well. By not publishing a full feed you are not providing me what I want, the content."
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18/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Interesting thoughts from Scoble on full-text RSS feeds - "Overall, though, this will make new kinds of RSS content possible, so Google deserves credit for doing this."
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18/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Keith Robinson: Multiple Site Integration - "It would be my ultimate goal to have as many ways to pull my content down as there are ways people want to access it."
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18/05/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
ricmac : Jon Udell's "Aha" Moment (via Corante) - "...the open research model changes the way that researchers/writers work at a profound level."
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plasticbag : A fascinating graph shows the relative daily traffic of two major international websites - Dear God are Flickr doing well. That looks like exponential growth. Or logarithmic growth. wow.
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18/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive - Audio and Podcasting - "You've asked for it -- so we're going to give it a try. Introducing a podcast of Science Friday..."
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18/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : WRt54G SD card reader mod - WRt54G SD card reader mod: awesome
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18/05/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Launches AdSense for Feeds w/ Startling Conditions - Google Launches AdSense for Feeds w/ Startling Conditions: that'll make you think twice
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18/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : The All-Time Top 100 Voices in the Movies - "Sometimes a movie is only worth watching for its stars - and sometimes a star is only memorable for his or her voice"
jkottke : The top 100 movies voices - Peter Sellers should really be higher on the list.
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18/05/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kayodeok : Opera and Firefox: A side-by-side review
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18/05/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Andy Baio : E3: Gameboy Micro hands-on - still looks too small to be useful, but it is sexy
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18/05/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Bundling With DVD Software - Google Bundling With DVD Software: a very smart move that I forgot to note back when it happened
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18/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : Civ IV details - E3 is overwhelming, but here's a good one
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18/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : NYTimes.com goes the subscription route - $50 a year for archives, columns; free to home delivery users
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18/05/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
kayodeok : The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN
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18/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
kayodeok : Anonymity complete GUIDE - Guide to anonymity on the Web. To read.
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18/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : Nintendo's Game Boy Micro Projects Dynamic New Image - "Now Nintendo takes aim at the pocket of your tightest jeans with the tiny Game Boy Micro system, quite simply the smallest and sleekest Game Boy product that Nintendo has ever created." Take that, Game & Watch.
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18/05/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
deusx : New Technique Could Make 300-Carat Diamonds - Yahoo! News - "Researchers have developed a new technique for making very large diamonds of high quality that could soon boost optics technology and gaudily adorn fingers of the wealthy with sparkling rocks up to an inch wide."
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Anne van Kesteren : xforms-wiki.com - For people who like Wikis and XForms. #
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18/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Bodum Santos Stovetop Vacuum Coffeemaker Kit - "Bodum?s Santos coffeemaker evolved from founder Peter Bodum?s relentless attempts to replicate and improve upon a French vacuum coffeemaker he had acquired in the 1950s."
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18/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Bodum Santos Vacuum Coffeemaker - "As beautiful as sculpture, as fascinating as chemistry, and as entertaining as theater, this coffeemaker from Switzerland converts the ordinary process of brewing coffee into an artful performance."
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18/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Namco developing Katamari for cellphones - like most cellphone games, this probably won't port well
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18/05/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Clive fills us in on Greg Gillespie's belt buckle knife - Don't miss the video...it's pretty damn funny.
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18/05/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Web Dev Bookmarks - A surprisingly exhaustive collection of links and pointers to the articles and resources we've all been linking to over the past couple years, grouped and categorized, by Vitaly Friedman.
Richard Rutter : Web-Dev-Bookmarks - More bookmarks than you can shake a stick at.
Eric Meyer : Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers - That's a lotta links. [via Doug] [via]
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18/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : How to fake a fingerprint
jimray : How to fake fingerprints? - Or, just chop the poor guy's thumb off...
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18/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Merriam-Webster has compiled a list of words that aren't yet in the dictionary, but are in widespread use anyway - "cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway".
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18/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : A guide on how to speak gansta - "I give yous props for dat phat ride man" means "I give you thanks for the good ride my friend". And don't miss the step-by-step instructions for high fiving someone.
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18/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Cringely on the future plans of Microsoft, Apple, and Google - MS is shipping their own PC, Apple is pushing into video on demand, and Google is building a massive supercomputer with the help of their customers.
plasticbag : I, Cringely on the Inflection Point - "So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to take control of, well, everything." - Interesting article - but I wonder about Microsoft and Apple directly competing in the home entertainment appliance market. It still seems plausible to me that might happen.
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18/05/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : A condensed history of the world, from the Big Bang to the present (and a little of the future)
Wayne Burkett : A Condensed History Of Everything - Vastly entertaining. #
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18/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth - America's entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe's biggest broadcasters - the BBC - is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it
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18/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : SecurityDocs: Computer Security Basics - Computer Security Primer
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18/05/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
kayodeok : Know your Enemy: Phishing - Behind the Scenes of Phishing Attacks
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18/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Xbox Backwards Compatibility - "Now that it's been announced at E3, I can finally reveal that the Xbox 360 feature I work on is... Xbox backwards compatibility!"
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18/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : The NY Times wants less links - megnut.com - "By charging for its online content, the Times reduces its number of linkable sources, and thus its reach in the online world. It's their first step towards ensuring they will play a smaller role in it going forward."
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18/05/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : Bunny #257: Jackalope - "It was like an adorable mobile coat-rack..."
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18/05/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Live redesign, step 1 - Fun! With comments! #
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18/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Washington State Outlaws Spyware - "Spyware is broadly defined... Prevent, through intentionally deceptive means, an owner or operator's reasonable efforts to block the installation or execution of, or to disable, computer software by causing the software that the owner or operator has pro
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18/05/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Malicious Bots Hide Using Rootkit Code - Computer viruses and remote control programs called bots are adopting features from stealthy programs called rootkits to avoid detection, according to researchers at Finnish anti-virus software company F-Secure
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18/05/2005 @ 07:57 GMT
ricmac : Dick Costolo interview on RSS Advertising - Feedburner testing "found readers psychologically associated an ad with the individual post in which it appeared. On a site, the ad is usually considered part of the site as a whole."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:57 GMT
ricmac : Russell Beattie Notebook - W3C's Mobile Web Initiative: Will It Work? - "Though I feel that having "one web" is an admirable goal, I don't know if you can actually do it in the real world."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : Web 2.0: Does Presentation Matter Anymore? - KathyMarks.com - "...we need to be cautious about putting too much emphasis on the "wonders" of new technologies. In the end we are still designing for people, and we always will be."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : Extreme Democracy: Thoughts on extreme democracy - "What some are calling "web 2.0," the social web, converged with the explosive political environment of the 21st century, and new voices are emerging. Many new voices."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : del.icio.us pioneers - As of this writing, I'm one of them. Just luck I think, stumbling across new links. I should really be blogging them, but don't have the time to do any analysis. Oh well. (via waxy, again - a *real* links pioneer!)
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : Bloglines adds Weather Forecasts - Mark Fletcher: "As part of our ongoing Universal Inbox strategy, we launched weather forecasts in Bloglines this evening."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : Susan Mernit: RSS tracking - Right on, Nooked - "RSS feeds need to have metrics and access controls attached to work optimally for publishers skilled with newsletter and email models."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent: Rollup Plays in RSS World - "...what is increasingly becoming important is how do metrics get reported, how does optimization happen on the backend, how well do you inter-operate with other newsreaders in the universe, etc."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:56 GMT
ricmac : A VC: Rolling up RSS - "It appears that Brad's convinced the team at Newsgator to do a venture rollup. Its a smart play because the big guys have figured out how important RSS is and are coming after the early entrants."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Search blog: Announcing Media RSS 1.0 - "...one of the big drivers for online video hosting are sites like Ourmedia."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Marc Canter: mRSS - "mRSS also lays the groundwork for Yahoo becoming a player in the open standards areana."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : The evolution of PDAs - One for the geek history buffs. Lots of detail here, so I'm saving it for a rainy day.
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18/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Moonwatcher Tools: Vigilante Feed Burning - "What both of these feeds need is a caching proxy service that cleans up and speeds up their feeds, which is what FeedBurner is. So I've burned two new feeds for my own personal use."
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18/05/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : PaidContent.org: Microsoft media DRM paying off - "Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo Music Unlimited are all using Microsoft's Plays For Sure/Janus codec DRM, giving them nearly a dozen compatible portable devices right off the bat."
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18/05/2005 @ 06:56 GMT
cobra libre : find cheap gas with google maps - i hate cars! [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : find the cheapest gas in your area on Google Maps
Andy Baio : Cheap Gas, mashup of Google Maps and Gasbuddy - find cheapest gas prices in Los Angeles, for example [via] [via]
gleuschk : Cheap Gas - hack that google maps! hack it!
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18/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
ricmac : O'Reilly Radar uses the Backpack API - "...we're rolling out our new Books page, built on the backs of Amazon Web Services and the Backpack API."
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18/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : How to Create an Image Map Using CSS - How to Create an Image Map Using CSS: a longer tutorial
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18/05/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
jkottke : In an *amazing* coincidence, David finds the $100 bill I lost earlier today!
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18/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : PRWeb Adopts mRSS As New Standard for RSS Distribution - "PRWeb?s mRSS adoption of mRSS allows users to syndicate multimedia files with press releases."
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18/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Google launches Adsense for RSS feeds - the best practices recommend only using ads in full-text feeds [via] [via]
ricmac : Google goes live with Adsense for RSS - Announced at the Syndicate Conference. This Google blog post has pointers to Support and Best Practise
jimray : Adsense for feeds - This actually took a lot longer to implement than I would've figured - also: dammit
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18/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Stuffola: AdSense for Feeds Interview - This site has an interview with Google peeps, pre Syndicate conf.
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18/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : So what's Syndicate! like then? - "WiFi is FREE and the word ?monetize? has been used at least a couple thousand times."
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18/05/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : Napsterization's view on ads in RSS - "I say.. guys, you're in the matrix. You need to take the red pill, and get off the consumer rant."
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18/05/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us pioneers - spotting the Del.icio.us trend makers [via] [via]
kayodeok : del.icio.us pioneers - An experiment to track del.icio.us' most popular posts, to ascertain who are the most frequent deliciously popular people. In other words: Who keeps posting the most popular links?
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18/05/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Webmonkey Says, Let Adobe Be - Good perspective from Michael: "The success of the merger relies on how quickly Adobe can get all of the applications now under its umbrella talking to one another and working together."
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18/05/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Browser Elitism Part 2 - Bookmarking this discussion, mainly because it's interesting. Several topics being debated at once, and either side not really seeing the other.
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18/05/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Forums and Tables - Scrivs brings up the tricky debate: what's appropriate use for a table? Forums seem to blur the line, so it's a good one.
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Douglas Bowman : Apartment views, top-down - "... each piece documents the entirety of an apartment, including its occupants, from a normally unavailable perspective - from above" (via 37Signals)
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18/05/2005 @ 03:57 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Apple sued over Tiger name - Tiger Direct is complaining about getting knocked out of top search results, and is seeking an injuntion to halt rollout of the new Mac OS. Interesting to see if this turns into anything significant. Puma, The Black Panthers, and Jaguar Cars surely didn't
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18/05/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Remove Forebrain and Serve: Tag Clouds II - Zeldman serves up a thoughtful analysis on tag clouds.
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18/05/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Ajax Foundry Co - From this morning, on my way to the office. How many times do gutter drains grab my attention?
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18/05/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Calq - Nifty little calculator app for both OS X *and* Windows that runs in the background, and is invoked in a fashion similar to Quicksilver. Much faster than the Calculator application, and an alternative to the Dashboard widget calculator especially for thos
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18/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
deusx : Microsoft Rewrites the History of Tabbed Browsing : Joe Grossberg - "No mention of Firefox. Or Opera. Or Safari. Or Mozilla. Or OmniWeb. Or any non-Microsoft products at all. It's as if they have been erased from history."
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18/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google's famed chef leaving - Google's famed chef leaving: oh, no!
jkottke : Google's famous chef is leaving the company - It must be hard to cook free lunches when you're so filthy, stinking rich.
Nelson Minar : Goodbye, Chef Charlie - He's an amazing chef, both culinary and logistic.
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18/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Belief in sex-mad demon tests nerves - Belief in sex-mad demon tests nerves: you don't say...
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18/05/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Venice drawn with Microsoft Paint - also: two early versions of the 500 hour pixel drawing [via]
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18/05/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Cattown pays a tribute to the late, great Jerry Orbach - HE HAD THE SUN IN THE MORNING AND THE MOON AT NIGHT, THAT'S FOR SURE
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18/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Simon Willison : Mac OS X 10.4: "Erase data on device" is the default first sync option in iSync 2.0 - This bug wiped my phone's address book. Thankfully it's fixed in 10.4.1. (via) [via]
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18/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Backpack API - Backpack API: well done
Andy Baio : Backpack API - Backpack just got more interesting [via] [via]
erikbenson : Web Service API for Backpack - Using Ruby on Rails, they got to mostly reuse controllers and models and only really change the views.
ricmac : Backpack API: Roll your own - via waxy
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18/05/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : John Battelle has some interesting thoughts on the NYTimes' move to charge for some of its content - "The Times stated reason for doing this is to diversify its revenue mix, and I buy that logic. It's scary to be totally leveraged over advertising."
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18/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Dave Winer: 1, NYT: 0 - ?I can't believe how dumb the NYT is being about this.? #
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18/05/2005 @ 00:56 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : More About Custom DTDs - Nit: RFC 1766 has been obsoleted. Another nit: DTDs are overrated; certainly for the web. #
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18/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Prints of Japan - A huge informational treasure trove -- hundreds of pages. (via citrusmoon)
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18/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : Inventing Our Evolution - The Washington Post on memory-enhancing drugs, cyber-prosthetics, and metabolic enhancements.
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18/05/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Steve Cook : The Education of David Stockman, Cont'd - I saw the news about Collins and Aikman today and started looking for the hagiographic profile of Stockman and Heartland that ran in the Times a few years ago.
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