16/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
jimray : Time Warner, Google in exclusive AOL talks - $1 billion for a 5% stake? That means someone thinks AOL is worth $20 billion? Huh?
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16/12/2005 @ 23:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Tim Berners-Lee starts a blog - first post!
plasticbag : Tim Berners-Lee has started a weblog - He doesn't sound enormously thrilled about it, I have to say. Probably it's a bit of a disappointment after all these years of inventing things.
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16/12/2005 @ 22:10 GMT
Linkorama : Creating a Wiki with kwiki - Debian has packaged several different Wiki systems and here we'll look at installing just one of them: KWiki.
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16/12/2005 @ 22:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : Happy Birthday to XFN! - Geez, it HAS been two years. That's just bizarre.
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16/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
jimray : TypePad blog service suffers major outage - Oh man, that's funny, if you know the backstory
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16/12/2005 @ 22:09 GMT
kayodeok : New York Institute of Photography - How to Take Great Photos of Holiday Lights - How to Take Great Photos of Holiday Lights
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16/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
deusx : JavaScriptStrftime - "Date.strftime(formatString, dateObject);"
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16/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
gleuschk : Weird Words: Zenzizenzizenzic - I hereby vow to use this in a paper someday
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16/12/2005 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : Top 10 nitpicked movies of all time - Top 10 nitpicked movies of all time. Titanic and Jurassic Park top the list.
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16/12/2005 @ 21:09 GMT
jimray : Top editor appointed for MSNBC.com - Jennifer's been a fantastic editor so far, this is going to be good. Now if we could only dump cable...
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16/12/2005 @ 21:08 GMT
jimray : ‘Crossfire’ host Robert Novak leaving CNN for FOX - Fox is pretty well ghettoized now as something that can be ignored and avoided entirely
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16/12/2005 @ 20:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : CD ripping services - Wow, this isn't so expensive. (via Slashdot)
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16/12/2005 @ 20:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Bush authorized NSA to eavesdrop without warrants in U.S. - NYT exclusive finds the administration breaking federal law; also, no more Patriot Act!
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16/12/2005 @ 19:08 GMT
erikbenson : Lewin's force diagram - Most things are in balance, that point where the driving forces are a match for the restraining forces. Changing things is as much about helping the forces that are with you as weakening the forces that are against you.
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16/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Linkorama : Searching for a fresher taste - On social search and that crack team of cracker heads they are forming at Yahoo!
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16/12/2005 @ 18:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Bush authorized NSA to eavesdrop without warrants in U.S. - NYT exclusive finds the administration breaking federal law
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16/12/2005 @ 15:08 GMT
jkottke : The Transport Workers Union has called for a partial strike in NYC - Subways and buses are still running in NYC, but the Transport Workers Union has called for a partial strike that will start on private bus lines and if no agreement has been reached, will spread elsewhere.
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16/12/2005 @ 13:08 GMT
ricmac : The Ian Bell Weblog: 10 Online Advertising Predictions For 2006 - Well Duh
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16/12/2005 @ 12:08 GMT
ricmac : David Card crunches the numbers on 'The MySpace Generation' Businessweek article - very nicely done.
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16/12/2005 @ 09:09 GMT
Linkorama : a shel of intranet - gotta respond to this stuff
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16/12/2005 @ 08:08 GMT
Linkorama : Comparing Wikipedia and Britannica - A key outstanding question is whether or not Wikipedia can ever surpass Britannica in quality. Since it evidently already does in some subjects, I think the answer is yes, but we will have to wait and see. Frankly, I still can't get over the fact that it
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16/12/2005 @ 08:08 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : RedHanded, sneaking Ruby through the system
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Jeremy Zawodny : amusing telemarketing call - amusing telemarketing call: guy gets call from mbna for a visa card and spends a long, long time arguing with the caller
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16/12/2005 @ 07:09 GMT
Linkorama : apophenia: Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler - Hopefully people will start learning what Wikipedia is not, IMHO
deusx : apophenia: Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler - "We should be teaching our students how to interpret the materials they get on the web, not banning them from it. We should be correcting inaccuracies that we find rather than protesting the system."
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16/12/2005 @ 07:08 GMT
Linkorama : There is no truth - I like this twist to the argument: it's not whether Wikipedia can get to Britannica's standard of quality; it's that we've been overestimating Britannica's quality all along.
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16/12/2005 @ 06:08 GMT
ricmac : Year in review: New media takes center stage | CNET News.com
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16/12/2005 @ 05:09 GMT
Eric Meyer : CSS 'based-on' proposal - Jon Meyer (no relation) starts to formalize his proposal for including one CSS rule's declaration block in another's. Check it out, make suggestions, point out weak spots.
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16/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : JUPITERRESEARCH FORECASTS ONLINE ADVERTISING MARKET TO REACH $18.9 BILLION BY 2010; SEARCH ADVERTISING REVENUE TO SURPASS DISPLAY
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16/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : MediaPost Publications - Jupiter Research: Internet Ad Spend To Reach $18.9 Billion By 2010 - 08/09/2005
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16/12/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
ricmac : Om Malik on Broadband : » Feedster’s Scott Johnson Leaves - interesting comments too
Linkorama : Feedster’s Scott Johnson Leaves - Ah, foundership
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kellan : Forthcoming 2nd ed. of "The Ruby Way" - Sweet! I asked Hal about this 6mos ago, and there were no plans at that time. Glad to see the energy is bringing back this excellent, impossible to find book. #
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16/12/2005 @ 04:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : Domestic NSA - NYT breaks story that Bush decided to let NSA spy on Americans in the US
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16/12/2005 @ 02:10 GMT
merlinmann : Macworld: Feature: Top productivity boosters - Wow. I *really* wish I'd had a crack at helping contribute to this list. It's, um, a pretty mixed bag, to say the least. [via LifeHacker]
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16/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
ricmac : Admedia: definition of 'media planning' - “Media planning†is the process of selecting time and space in various media for advertising in order to accomplish marketing objectives.
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16/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Rubyless Ruby - sh + curl + awk + tryruby.hobix.com
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16/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It’s still orange - MS are adapting the Mozilla RSS/Atom icon. Excellent.
Jon Hicks : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It's still orange - I’ve only just caught this news: Microsoft have decided to use the Firefox symbol for RSS feeds. This is such excellent news. Not only is it a great icon, but this has effectively created a standard.
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16/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services - No more cross-domain script access problems. [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services - Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services: Many of the Yahoo! Web Services provide JSON as an alternate output format to XML. This page describes The Yahoo! Web Services JSON output, and how to use it in your own programs.
jimray : Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services - Yahoo's got a pretty good handle on JSON
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16/12/2005 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Vanity search with JSON results - This could be really, really useful.
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Rod Begbie : Cute Overload - Cute animal photo-aggregator blog. Hopefully this isn't just an elaborate set-up for a goatse-style troll! [via] #
jimray : Cute Overload! ;) - Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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16/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
kayodeok : Gmail: Help Center - How do I create a Contact Group? - Gmail lets you organize your contacts into Groups so you can easily send messages to a number of people at once. Here's how to create Contact Groups:
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16/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
kayodeok : Gmail: Help Center - How do I set up an automatic vacation response? - Going on vacation? No access to the Internet? No problem! Use Gmail's vacation responder to let people know you won't be able to get back to them right away
Philippe Janvier : Gmail vacation autoresponder ! - "...Gmail's vacation responder to let people know you won't be able to get back to them right away." [via] #
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16/12/2005 @ 01:09 GMT
kayodeok : Two Things That Bother Me About Google's New Firefox Extension - What information does the extension send to Google? To find out, I intercepted the traffic between my Firefox browser and google.com. For every request you make, the extension invokes /safebrowsing/lookup on http://www.google.com. So, if you were to goto
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16/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
kayodeok : The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG - The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group's approach to improving HTML
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16/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : A Google Nightmare - A Google Nightmare: "We were concerned about the way people are starting to change their writing styles and subjects to comply with search engine preferences."
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16/12/2005 @ 01:08 GMT
jkottke : The Dayton Daily "News" has a full-page advertisement for King Kong right on the front page of the paper - The Dayton Daily "News" has a full-page advertisement for King Kong right on the front page of the paper. That's why they call it a journalism business, I guess.
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16/12/2005 @ 00:10 GMT
Cameron Moll : Guide to Starting Your Business - Particletree: A Guide to Starting Your Business. Loads of resources here.
kayodeok : Particletree: A Guide to Starting Your Business - A Guide to Starting Your Business
jimray : Particletree · A Guide to Starting Your Business
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16/12/2005 @ 00:10 GMT
Jason Shellen : Why should text have all the fun? - We added a photo template feature to Google Reader for photo feeds. #
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16/12/2005 @ 00:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Safarilicious - Export your Safari Bookmarks To del.icio.us - Does what it says on the tin! A lot of people have been looking for a tool like this!
joshua : Safarilicious - Export your Safari Bookmarks To del.icio.us - must get import working. augh
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16/12/2005 @ 00:08 GMT
kayodeok : Yahoo! NotePad - Access your notes from home, work, or anywhere, anytime. Write down thoughts to follow up on later. Save your ideas in one central place.
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16/12/2005 @ 00:08 GMT
jkottke : Audio interview with John Lasseter (basically creative director at Pixar) and Ron Magliozzi - Audio interview with John Lasseter (basically creative director at Pixar) and Ron Magliozzi, who helped curate the just-opened show at MoMA on 20 years of Pixar.
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