“Like many of my geek compatriots, I rarely read a newspaper anymore. Paradoxically, when I do, it’s usually for the ads…..The news part of the newspaper was unread and discarded, a big waste of paper in my case.” – Brian Benz
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Computers and Cars – Both Need to Be More Efficient
Rex pointed me to the NYTimes article on Google’s energy efficiency proposals. I’ve been reading so much Jonathan Schwartz (“Value of Being Green“)lately that I’m happy to see another big player talk about improving the energy efficiency of computers. The energy efficiency issue made sense to me when explained it this way: “But you know …
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Sending Static to the Satellite
“It’s only a matter of time until this content is free, FCC-filtered, and ad-supported.” – Mark Ramsey Ramsey’s talking about Sirius’ new Internet Radio offering. While I’m not a big fan of the satellite model, the strength of satellite is that it’s an alternative to the AM and FM dials. Admittedly, I’m coming at this …
Second FeedSeeder Dev Screencast Up
Check it out at FeedSeeder.com, 10 minutes, 65mb.
Put a Hold on Your Real Estate Agent License
“The National Association of Realtors report on existing home sales showed that the median home price in August was $225,000, down 1.7 percent from a year earlier.” “It was the first year-over-year decline in median prices since April 1995, when that measure slipped only 0.1 percent. And it was the biggest year-over-year drop since the …
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Amazing Race Season 10 – Episode 2
Outer Mongolia. It’s a threat in my mind. Somehow worse than Siberia. A place where you “get sent”. A bit of romance there if only for the seemingly still nomadic lifestyle. Until the rain storm, seemed like a nice, quiet vacation spot. Like northern Wisconsin in autumn. Remote. If only I had a hand-cranked Russian …
Welcome Another Doodledee to the World
“her name is claire and she is totally awesome” – Dave. Totally. Congrats.
Don’t Click Here, Part 2
“That it uses RSS is cool and modern and all; but hey, it’s still advertising. It’s still a media game that works entirely on the supply side. And it’s still ineffecient. However appropriate it may be, most of its messages are still wasted.” – Doc Searls
WiFi and Complementary Kid’s Meals are the Same Thing.
Back a few months ago, the family Smith and family Van Buren dined at a Claim Jumpers Restaurant. I’m still impressed, that by default, they came out with a complementary kid’s plate (cheese sticks, tortilla, deli turkey slice). If you have kids, you understand how brilliant this is. It shows the restaurant actually acknowledges parents …
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Digg Dumb Deep Down
“That means that, if Digg were actually based on the Wisdom of Crowds principle, you’d never see how many people had dugg an article before you choose to digg it yourself. Additionally, you’d only ever vote on a random selection of articles.” – J Wynia I think the transparency allowed by internet technologies make true …