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December 20 to 31, 2005
A collection of tsunami videos: http://jlgolson.
blog
spot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.htm...
The sorry state of wasteful corporate packaging - the most over-packed item in history: http://www.hyperorg.com/
blog
ger/mtarchive/003508.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
How smart mobs are fueling revolution around the world: http://futurewire.
blog
spot.com/2005/04/smart-mobs-rock-developing-world.htm...
The beautiful long-lost music of Red Hash, circa 1973: http://
blog
.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/04/red_hash_revisi.htm...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Use two microphones with your Mac with this cheap $16 gadget: http://www.theapple
blog
.com/2005/04/21/usb-microphone-converter...
Did you know that half of all schoolchildren in France are
blog
gers (
blog
uers)? Score one for "vocal civic discourse"...
April 4 to 10, 2005
And the Google sightseeing
blog
was born...
A profile on one of the first real 21st century superstars, journalist,
blog
ger, polyglot, and hot babe Xeni Jardin...
President Bush's approval rating is the lowest ever for a 2nd-term president. J-Walk provides a nice graph: http://j-walk
blog
.com/index.php?/we
blog
/bush_approval_chart...
622 music videos: http://granfaro.
blog
spot.com/2005/04/622-music-videos-various-from-perfect.htm...
March 21 to 27, 2005
A
blog
ged picture of a procession in Spain demonstrates the rising use of cell phone cameras to capture major events...
"Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo's Brain": http://www.amptoons.com/
blog
/archives/2005/03/20/regarding-the-cat-scan-of-terri-schiavos-brain...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Power to the people? For the first time a
blog
ger is given access to a White House press briefing...
Drawn! A new groovy
blog
about "illustration, art, cartooning and drawing"...
The
blog
osphere's raving about 27 year-old Maya Arulpragasam, daughter of a Sri Lankan revolutionary, who's mixing terrorist themes with pop art and music and causing an stir among critics as well a...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
What a cell phone bomb trigger looks like: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/we
blog
/?entry=14925&only=ye...
HIV/AIDS' impact on life expectancy in Africa - the big picture: http://web.acsalaska.net/~benmuse/
blog
/2005_02_01_archive.html#11093136429414417...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://www.tametheweb.com/ttw
blog
/archives/000977.htm...
"Declaration of Revocation" http://stephaniemillershow.
blog
spot.com/2005/02/declaration-of-revocation.htm...
February 14 to 20, 2005
New groovy stuff from the DEMO 2005 conference! Here's Bubbler, an app that allows you to make your own multimedia
blog
s, from Five Across...
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal ponders the state and future of
blog
ging...
Central Park's Gates - here are QuickTime VR panoramas: http://www.jimisweet.com/
blog
/archives/2005/02/the_gates.tp...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
Monkeys are willing to "pay" more to see pictures of alpha males and females, and to ignore subordinates: http://ridingsun.
blog
spot.com/2005/02/did-they-include-swimsuit-issue.htm...
More on the copyrighting of public space. Note that the city of Chicago is enforcing this: http://newurbanist.
blog
spot.com/2005/01/copyrighting-of-public-space.htm...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Everybody learned that you no longer have the right to publish photos of the Eiffel Tower at night: http://
blog
.fastcompany.com/archives/2005/02/02/eiffel_tower_repossessed.htm...
blog
s! Need more
blog
s? Here's a
blog
about
blog
s...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Tag graphing allows people to see relationships between topically-sorted content on the Web: http://hu
blog
.hubmed.org/archives/001049.htm...
This was the week of world-wide coincidences that could only happen thanks to the wonder of the Internet. Now that so many are sharing photos online, people are beginning to find interestin...
Here's how to make your own Life Poster with iPhoto: http://www.mikematas.com/
blog
/2005/01/how-to-make-life-poster.htm...
January 1 to 9, 2005
By the way, that $350 million the U.S. pledged for the tsunami effort equals 42.27 hours of the war in Iraq: http://www.boosman.com/
blog
/archives/2005/01/when_does_350_m.htm...
More on Michelin's air-less tire, which lasts two to three times longer than conventional tires: http://www.eyebeam.org/re
blog
/archives/2005/01/michelins_tweel_combination_airl_1.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of experimental features to the
blog
which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
New clear, flexible transistors may lead to clear, flexible gadgets: http://www.eyebeam.org/re
blog
/archives/2004/11/researchers_invent_clear_flexibl.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Today a new
blog
is created every 5.8 seconds - here's the latest statistics on the state of the
blog
osphere. Over 90% of
blog
gers are 13 to 29 years old...
Meanwhile, here's an article on the democratic effects of the "
blog
revolution" in China. "...the information flow in the
blog
osphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast...
Brilliant!
blog
Torrent, written in PHP, enables one to serve large files from their servers using BitTorrent...
Build your own gramophone with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on CDs and plastic cups and play them back: http://www.kempa.com/
blog
/archives/000716.htm...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Fallujah in Pictures: http://fallujapictures.
blog
spot.com...
November 8 to 14, 2004
The world's smallest PC/keyboard/mouse net connection combo: http://jkontherun.
blog
s.com/jkontherun/2004/11/complete_deskto.htm...
So maybe that "who voted by IQ" article last week was a little bogus. But here's a verifiable list of the most charitable states versus how they voted...
November 1 to 7, 2004
The above international news item was originally discovered by
blog
ger Jonas Luster...
A cool new music video made with 1972 video synthesizer tech: http://www.eyebeam.org/re
blog
/archives/2004/11/this_boy_in_static.htm...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The First Networked Open Source Community? http://bytemarks.
blog
spot.com/2004/10/traditional-technology.htm...
Will the Internet give birth to the "creative generation"? http://foe.typepad.com/
blog
/2004/10/creative_genera.htm...
This was all over the
blog
osphere, but pretty funny...
Publish your Creative Commons-licensed audio or video with this app and have it hosted automatically by the Internet Archive, which has massive amounts of bandwidth...
October 18 to 24, 2004
"If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers..." http://twasink.net/
blog
/archives/2004/10/if_architects_h.htm...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Nice stats on the "state of the
blog
osphere", Oct 2004...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The first half of 2004 saw 5,000 new Windows viruses: http://wired
blog
s.tripod.com/sterling/index.
blog
?entry_id=45452...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A visual history of spam and virus email: http://we
blog
s.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.asp...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Bush vs. Jesus http://atrios.
blog
spot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.htm...
Pictures and personal accounts of arrests and the detention area at the Republican National Convention: http://www.eddie.com/
blog
/archives/000012.htm...
Topical picture of the week: http://www.we
blog
sinc.com/common/images/1905781702491981.GIF?0.707218251789258...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Our wonderful Presidential candidates: http://j-walk
blog
.com/
blog
/images2/bushcorn2.jp...
This was popular last week - beautiful aerial photography: http://
blog
.naver.com/post/postView.jsp?
blog
Id=haruma95&logNo=8000464151...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Casio develops the world's first transparent ceramic lens, enabling smaller, thinner cameras: http://www.photography
blog
.com/comments.php?id=3305_0_1_0_...
"...the information superhighway... will collapse" http://www.lessig.org/
blog
/archives/002065.shtml#00206...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone seems to have a
blog
these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I see the rise of
blog
s as a symptom of people learning how t...
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://www.lessig.org/
blog
/archives/002052.shtm...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Google, circa 1960: http://fury.com/images/we
blog
/google_circa_1960.jp...
The fascinating story of East Germany's most embarrassing defection - an intelligence officer, a 16 year-old, and his mother. Here's a taste of what it's like to grow up in an atmosphere of povert...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Have you read about the children at Abu Ghraib? http://www.thismodernworld.com/we
blog
/mtarchives/week_2004_07_04.html#00163...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Facetop", a method of videoconferencing that's actually about 35 years old but may one day be popular: http://radio.we
blog
s.com/0105910/2004/07/01.html#a89...
June 14 to 20, 2004
blog
ging goes mainstream with a big article in Time Magazine...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Some of the hippest mp3
blog
s out there. Mash-ups are really popular these days. The mp3 format actually got popular because of
blog
s like "Blex's Page of Good Mp3", seven years ago. I used to visi...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Ben & Jerry's is installing new freezers in their stores that use sound waves instead of chemicals refrigerants for cooling. Commercial (domestic) use of such technology is still 5 to 10 years away...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Trixie, the baby with the most comprehensive Web site in the world. With real-time sleep, bottle, and diaper telemetrics, a
blog
, gallery, forum, archives, and voting topic...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Ozone Depletion Three Times Worse Than Predicted: http://radio.we
blog
s.com/0105910/2004/03/03.html#a76...
February 23 to 29, 2004
"Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of
blog
space...
January 5 to 11, 2004
"Counterpoint: Downloading Isn’t Stealing" http://www.aaronsw.com/we
blog
/00111...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Nature always wins. So far: http://www2.sheninja.com:8000/
blog
/noparkingtree.jp...
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and light show using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 22, 2003
Howard Levy, harmonica player extrordinaire: http://www.hyperorg.com/
blog
ger/misc/amazinggrace_HowardLevy.mp...