Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
OK, I think I botched my first attempt. Pithy, I’m not. Competion for the last mile Shot Term: Cable companies will rollout VoIP big time in the year next, but Local Telephone Companies will be much more low key about Continue reading Trends for 2005
Evelyn Rodriguez grapples with becoming an accidental media star of the tsunami.
Via adot’s notblog*: get acrobat reader 7. Adot’s right : acrobat reader loads pdf’s from the web very very fast, which is good ’cause it used to take forever just loading to the browser, regardless of the size of the Continue reading Acrobat Reader 7, sucks less slowly
IFTF’s Future Now makes a point about one problem with “folksonomies”, bottom-up taxonomies that people create on there own : None of the current implementations have synonym control (e.g. “selfportrait” and “me” are distinct Flickr tags, as are “mac” and Continue reading Tag’s, folksonomies, and Google Suggest
Jerry Orbach, Lennie Briscoe of Law and Order, has died at the age of 69. The Gothamist has a great obituary, and Joey links to a collection of some Lennie Briscoe snappy remarks.
Via John Battelle’s Searchblog , A New Idea for Publishing in Technology Review magazine.