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• Are You the Croncast’s 300th Newest Listener? If so, there’s a 30GB video iPod waiting for you. Croncast 300 by 300th iPod contest
• Kris Takes the Un out of Unconference As much as I like Kris, I disagree with his How to save your unconference post. It’s #2 that gives it away: “Awesome hallway conversations” If you’re having awesome hallway conversations, it’s not an unconference. It’s a regular conference. Sorry. A good unconference has the awesome conversations within the sessions. Otherwise - why bother with the sessions?
• Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:34:08 PM “You don’t create new business models on providing the customer less value. You create new business models by providing them more value. The ‘new business models’ don’t exist, because they’re fundamentally blocked by the concept of DRM. ” - Mike @ Techdirt
• Maps of Parallel Americas: Republik van Nieuw Nederland If you’ve ever wondered what New York would be like if it remained a Dutch colony until the late 1700s? I’m thankful we finally have an answer. “New Netherland achieved independence in 1798, after the ‘old’ Netherlands were overrun by the French. Philip Schuyler, the last Director-General of the colony, became the first Prime Minister of the
• Lineage Darrin points to the MIT SIMILE project. The lifeline/timeline visualization is similar to something I’ve been working on for the Genealogy Namespace for OPML project. While it’s cool to see a single person’s timeline, far more interesting to me in the intersection and relationship between multiple people (a marriage isn’t just one-sided, a birth has at