About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
“Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” – Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from …
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Check out this one line in ZDNet’s coverage of TechCrunch’s Arrington web winners/losers list: Winners (got acquired) Now, I don’t know if that’s Arrington’s perspective (I suspect so) or ZDNet’s (also likely), either way the sentiment is disturbing. If this is the mentality of the Valley, then I celebrate every project on the “Very Good …
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Chuck posted a comment (and his response) on a MNStories video he posted. I’ve had my share of baffling comments and well, I generally keep them from you. The most baffling ones are usually drive-bys – without a real url, real name, or real email. Add in a comment that isn’t co-hesive and well, it …
David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the …
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J paid his $5 and ran for mayor of Brooklyn Center. Yesterday, after the polls closed, he had 2.9% of the vote without campaigning at all. Seems like a pretty good return considering. Congrats J. Update: J’s post-primary write-up
Jen and I talked about Baby Tivo recently. It’s a paltry 40gig, single-tuner. But, sans-cable, it serves us well. Today, Apple announced their iTV, shipping sometime next year. Priced at $300, plays HD video, HDMI ports, wifi, Front Row (or something like it), everything you’d expect (maybe a DVD drive?). Then later today, I received …
Last year’s Katrina disaster in New Orleans is a far more important event in our nation’s history than today’s date. Katrina told us we’re unprepared for predictable, frequent, and common events. That’s bad. Nothing wrong with being unprepared for rare and spectacular events. “In many ways, the success of 9/11 was an anomaly; there were …
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2 From the ‘So What?’ Department: LonelyGirl15 isn’t a ‘real’ person, just an entertaining video project James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces not a ‘real’ memoir, get your money back To me, both of these are non-stories and stories with illiterate audiences. There’s no reason for readers or viewers to feel cheated if they were …
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Dave Winer‘s NYTimesRiver.com vs. the official Mobile.NYTimes.com
It started with the Diaper Champ. After forgetting to replace the plastic garbage bag liner, dropping in a fresh, full diaper, and hearing a empty thud as it splats against the bottom of the bucket. After the third or fourth time of kicking myself for not replacing the bag, I put a few empty garbage …
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