Archive for July, 2004
« Previous EntriesWe the Media
Friday, July 30th, 2004In We the Media, business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news. The book’s Introduction is available free online.This guy gets it. He talks about how the business model for news is destroying the [...]
How to write news
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004Inverted Pyramid/Summary Leads
The inverted pyramid – this refers to putting the most important or newsworthy facts at the top of your story. Use this method of organization on BREAKING news stories.
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IceTV – Aus TiVo
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004CNET.com.au is reporting that a TiVo-like service will be available in November this year. Dubbed ICE (“Intelligent Content Engine”) and developed by Peter Vogel, the technology will be built into set top boxes and personal video recorders to skip ads or lower the volume, view electronic program guides, etc. The article states that the service [...]
HHGTTG new radio Series
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004I’m a traditionalist – so I’m looking forward to the new Radio 4 series in September for which you can hear an mp3 preview.”
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Windows Messenger Spam
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004ITS: Windows Messenger Spam and What to Do About It
There are two very different types of “Messenger” in Windows. One is a Messenger service that runs on all flavors of Windows. It is Network-based and allows you send a quick message to logged on users or computers using the “net send” command. Various security [...]
DRM begins to work its magic
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004Analysis of Motorola licensing iTunes for the phone:
My first reaction is the amazing the level of trust bertween the parties involved… Conversations with equipment manufacturers and carriers both support the optimistic view of DRM explained by former Geffen CTO Jim Griffin earlier this year. “When I was 14, I told girls I loved them [...]
XHTML Validaton via RSS
Sunday, July 25th, 2004Consider this a public mental note to self to check out Ben Hammersley’s XHTML Validator to RSS tomorrow. Validation in a feed — but of course has some other interesting RSS tools, and his own OReilly Book.
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BugMeNot.com
Sunday, July 25th, 2004And for all your registration needs, visit BugMeNot.com, where you can enter the name of the newspaper you would like to check out and immediately get back an active login combination.
There’s also this bookmarklet,
and a firefox extension.
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Playing DVDs on your PDA
Sunday, July 25th, 2004The latest isssue of Computing Unplugged has a how-to article for playing DVDs on your PDA, either Palm or Windows. It requires the use of an application called Pocket-DVD Studio from PQDVD.com.
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Squawking heads – National – www.smh.com.au
Saturday, July 24th, 2004Germaine Greer & Australia: “To Denton, she was merely fodder for another hour of his talk show. His questions about beautiful boys and falling in love might have made good television, but the most intriguing question remained unasked: ‘Germaine, why is it you can’t live in Australia?’”Denton’s view:“I don’t know why she feels the need [...]
Time Management for System Administrators
Friday, July 23rd, 2004O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2004: “Time Management for System Administrators: Getting It All Done and Not Going (More) Crazy!”Tutorial from O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2004
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The Brand You 50, by Tom Peters
Friday, July 23rd, 2004The Brand You 50, by Tom Peters
The dotcoms have come and gone, and we’re no longer the golden chidlren, able to waltz in and command the salaries and positions we like. Brilliant programmers are a commodity. Business has stopped being about spending 20 years on the payroll. Projects and entire companies coalesce, do a job, [...]
