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December 20 to 31, 2005
iPod Stuff http://
online
.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB110373871528907298,00.html?mod=todays_free_featur...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
The HD wildlife reel is stunning and played beautifully on my PowerBook G4 and should run fine on iMac G5s. The H.264 codec crushes the best codecs being used in movies distributed over file sharin...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Suspended animation gets one step closer to reality: http://www.times
online
.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1579497,00.htm...
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700 million for abusing its near-monopoly in the software industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
April 11 to 17, 2005
"Half of U.S. taxpayers filing
online
"...
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song
online
. Let's se...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
BTW there are plenty of
online
resources today for anti-SUV bumper stickers...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of
online
recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
Here's twenty ways to say "no". Sadly, there are probably fewer ways to say "yes": http://www.
online
organizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=1...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and
online
personality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an
online
presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
Andrew Sullivan observes how the iPod is isolating society. Well, how about allowing others to listen to your iPod wirelessly, Apple? Unite the world with music...
A study found that most Americans would cut defense spending and spend more on education and job training: http://www.pipa.org/
online
Reports/budget/030705/html/more_03_07_05.html#...
Listen to Dr. Demento shows
online
...
For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live content
online
- 2.6GB worth...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Meanwhile, a man convicted of copying Oscar films
online
died in prison...
The
online
rerelease of the acclaimed animated short "Balance"...
One of the better
online
color scheme generators I've seen...
Smithsonian Global Sound, their new
online
music store offering the Smithsonian's world music collection...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In a panel at a Web conference in 1995 I talked about the inevitable rise of instant stardom and its perils, once the Web got popular. Here are some of the latest subjects - a very funny
online
vide...
A great article about NASA's programmers and the culture and systems that encourage software development as if engineering mattered. Their code is 99.9% bug-free. Their lessons can be applied t...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poetry slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poetry slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
online
creative guy zefrank made a nice movie of his Valentine's Day thoughts...
You can now order pizza directly from the
online
multiplayer game Everquest, which has over 400,000 global subscribers...
The Weekly Gloom and Doom http://www.times
online
.co.uk/article/0,,3-1489955,00.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are
online
, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
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...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in
online
multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for social systems...
December 6 to 12, 2004
The Supreme Court will hear the case on whether P2P service providers are liable for content on their systems! This popular item is worth repeating and may change how you experience, purchase, an...
"US Army plagued by desertion and plunging morale": http://www.times
online
.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1397131-3,00.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
New technology helps people from having their pictures taken by unwanted photographers: http://www.times
online
.co.uk/article/0,,2-1353482,00.htm...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Internet Security Key safeguards your kids from
online
porn...
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922
online
...
The former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his thoughts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based
online
encyclopedia that passed 401,000 articles recently...
The coolest fractal art I've seen
online
...
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album
online
, they've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening interview...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
An interesting interview with a man that has collected over 900,000 mp3 files
online
, for posterity's sake...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Best Buy opens
online
photo processing labs...
"Technology used to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the workplace"...
The rock band Marillion asked
online
fans to contribute money towards new albums - and has raised almost $1 million so far...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"McDonald's Losing Revenue in World-Wide Market" http://www.thehilltop
online
.com/news/2003/04/11/NationWorld/Mcdonalds.Losing.Revenue.In.WorldWide.Market-415308.shtm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i Business Express", which allows one to start a business easily
online
via all the relevant departments. Unfortunately, ending a business is still ...
Finally, a startup uses BitTorrent-like tech for
online
movies...
A UK photo exhibit shows real people next to their
online
virtual 3D character...
September 20 to 26, 2004
In response to
online
classifieds, newspapers are holding their own local auctions...
September 13 to 19, 2004
XM radio offers
online
streaming music...
September 5 to 12, 2004
You can read the whole thing
online
...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A great business model for
online
publishing - "fast turnaround e-books"...
E-commerce turns 10. Don't believe the hype-the first secure
online
Web-based shopping transaction was done via Randy Adams' Internet Shopping Network, which I developed the interface for in 1994...
About the new
online
TV-show swapping culture...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of
online
album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they starting to get a clue...
August 2 to 8, 2004
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect): http://www.post.ch/Site
online
/EN/Accueil/1,1727,18202,00.htm...
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 blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get
online
anywhere in the U.S....
The dark side of the obesity epidemic - parents struggle to keep their large kids from being locked up by authorities: http://www.spiked-
online
.com/Articles/0000000CA5E7.ht...
July 12 to 18, 2004
eMachineShop - design and machine custom mechanical parts
online
...
June 21 to 27, 2004
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and puts them
online
for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
This is almost a non-news item - I got a pristine bootleg
online
the other day...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it
online
...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Two teen poetry students give a public anti-Iraq/Bush reading. Their teacher is fired and the poetry club shut down...
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod every week. Now
online
groceries are coming back...
The entire Grateful Dead live music vaults are now
online
at the Internet Archive...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Read the 2004 Hugo nominees
online
. My favorites - Vernor Vinge, Michael Swanwick, and Catherine Asara...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Over ten years since the first Web survey mentioned women, marketers still have misconceptions about what women want
online
...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A review of the first electronic paper- based reading device and its implications for libraries, books, and traditional reading habits: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
online
/story/0,3605,1197495,00.htm...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Some independent music stores are finding that "file sharing can help create a buzz
online
that can lead to more sales"...
March 8 to 14, 2004
But I always enjoy the European take on these news items - "Fat of the land is killing more Americans than cigarettes": http://www.times
online
.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1034026,00.htm...
A new sonic "construction set" has been released freely
online
which contains clips art and samples and breaks from the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. This allows people to create their own albums based o...
George Michael will offer his songs freely
online
from now on, a music industry first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Wireless technology is helping native Americans in California go
online
and learn computing skills...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Congratulations! You may be a content provider! "Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of materia...
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
An HP study of the transmission of ideas via blogs (
online
journals), with visuals. For future research: How is the spreading of ideas like the transmission of virii? Can one reliably predict the mos...
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the fact that the correc...
February 2 to 8, 2004
"A New Kind of Science", a 900-page book on how complex systems can rise from the most basic rules, now can be browsed
online
for free...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"The average age of people who buy fitness equipment is 31," Mr Martinez told BBC News
online
, "and the average age of gamers is 29....
January 5 to 11, 2004
The New York Times refused to run this article - the journalist posted it himself
online
instead. Here's a good idea to help offset
online
"sharing" - a $60 per year charge for broadband users...
A behind-the-scenes article on illegal
online
movie-swapping teams...
December 22 to 28, 2003
63 percent of Americans are now
online
...
December 8 to 14, 2003
"Motorist gets vehicle registered
online
during traffic stop...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Why frivolous software patents suck - here's all the patents you're violating now by setting up an
online
store...
The "
online
citizen movement" MoveOn is getting stronger.....
November 24 to 30, 2003
Abercromie & Fitch got in hot, steamy water last week for their R- and X- rated clothing catalog. Their first sweater doesn't show up until page 122. The people in their catalog aren't wearin...
October 27, 2003
Like facts? The 2002 State of Hawaii Fact Book is now
online
...
August 12, 2003
Potential Date Alerts http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=7&u=/nm/20030807/wr_nm/tech_t
online
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