23 May 2002

Thu, 23 May 2002

O'Reilly provides free download of blogging book preview (PDF)

Here's a free download of the upcoming O'Reilly blogging book and also there's a link to send blogging contributions to the book.

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Radio, Movable Type, and Email subscriptions

There is no spoon makes a good point that I agree with wholeheartedly:



(Unrelated, but also covered by Watson, is Bloglet a service that allows your readers to subscribe to email notifications of updates to your site. This is something that Moveable Type automates, but Radio seems as if it's not important (asfaik). Kind of surprising, since Radio bills itself as a content management tool rather than a simple blogging tool, while MT seems primarily interested in blog creation and maintenance.) [there is no spoon]

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Dave Winer blogs Paul Andrews on weblogs

Paul Andrews: News by the People, for the People.  [Scripting News]


This is a neat article that reveals some interesting numbers regarding traditional media and the growth of weblogs. In particular, the decline in newspaper sales and the sheer volume of page views that some bloggers get is staggering.

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BSCS - Bachelor of Science in Common Sense

If you're like me, you may have an undergraduate degree, but not in computer science (CS). Alternatively, you may not have an undergraduate degree but that doesn't change the fact that you are a gifted individual contributor on programming projects. People like this get a bad rap in the current psychotic interviewing climate. I'm not saying that companies shouldn't hire the brightest people possible, I'm just saying that sometimes a lot of really phenomenal people don't even get to the interview because they don't have 4 letters on their resumes - BSCS (Bachelor of Science in Computer Science). If you count yourself in this group of people, try this:


The next time someone asks you whether you have a BSCS, lie. Say, "why yes, I do have a BSCS, that's a Bachelor of Science in Common Sense." If half the people in this business had a little more of that, they'd need a lot less of this.

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Laptop blogging at conferences - one of the best

Dave Winer says:



After talking with Doc this morning, I want a comparative review of laptops for blogging conferences. What's the ideal computer for real-time weblogs? I found the Sony Vaio wasn't really the right laptop. Short-lived battery. Doc says the Apple TiBook is wide, and that makes a big difference. Lots of screen real estate, it spreads out on the lap more easily than a smaller computer. The 802.11b support is dreamy, says Doc, when it comes on it latches on to the strongest signal. No control panels to fuss with?  [Scripting News]


My vote goes to the IBM Workpad z50. It's cheap, small, light, goes 6-8 hours on one lithium ion battery, runs Windows CE and several unix variants. It can even handle Netscape on X Windows via a wireless card so talking to Radio is no problem! Did I leave anything out? Oh yeah, it handles the IBM Microdrive Compact Flash (CF) card and PCMCIA cards too.


If I were lucky enough to go to a conference that's what I'd be taking.

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Teacher displays porn during exam

Where were these teachers when I was in school? ;-> BBC News | EDUCATION | Teacher displays porn during exam (5.5 points). [( blogdex : recent )]

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Netflix IPO yields $82.5 million

Offering of Netflix Brings in $82.5 Million. Netflix sold 5.5 million shares of stock Wednesday at an initial offering price of $15 a share, the high end of a target range of $13 to $15, to gross $82.5 million. By The New York Times. [New York Times: Business]


Let's hope they survive.

Posted at: 05:31 | permalink

Netscape 7.0 Preview Release 1

After ignoring most of what's gone on with Netscape since 4.7, I may actually have to take a look at this: Netscape 7.0 [( blogdex : recent )]

Posted at: 05:22 | permalink

Unabomber's manifesto deconstructed

I think a fair bit of what Chris Wenham's referring to here with regard to the unabomber can be summed up by reading Thomas Szasz. Once again, a well-written article by Chris that makes some curious new points about the manifesto.


 

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