Actions speak louder than words…and rumors. According to a tip sent to Brighthand, palmOne’s latest sales guide for spring 2004 includes an accessories chart that shows this wireless networking card. Unfortunately, details on this are very sketchy. The price isn’t given, nor is there a release date. [Brighthand]
Wireless broadband vendor TowerStream said Wednesday that has added an antenna to the Empire State Building in New York City and is nearing complete coverage for its service in that metropolitan area. [Mobile Pipeline]
This should be very interesting to watch and track differences in what you (well Steve anyway) know, and with what context… Next week, as an experiment, I am going on a “news diet.” This information junkie is going to attempt to go cold turkey on most news produced by the pros for seven consecutive days … Read moreBlog Only News Diet
I thought I’d give it another try today and left Mail.app off so I could really give it a full go. I even started with a fresh set of user prrefs from my earlier run, which had imported all my mail from Mail.app. After configured my filters, mailing lists and prefs I got comfortable… Though … Read moreOne more try with Entourage
Reading this article (below) from Rolling Stone really just pisses me off and makes me want to find other more direct ways to support artists I like rather than going through the main commerical channels. Somehow, Clear Channel’s moves are not considered anti-competitive or under any anti-trust scrutiny, but this move is clearly a way … Read moreWe need to Open Source the Music Industry
Fred at A VC wonders… The killer app for cable operators is a Rhapsody like service delivered over cable like Music Choice is. Why doesn’t that exist? I am not sure exactly how this would work…but have some ideas of where it might go. Are you proposing an additional rental fee beyond access to the … Read moreCable’s Killer App?
If you are connecting through Comcast running Windows, you might want to “batten the hatches…” Comcast’s high-speed Internet subscribers have long been rumored to be an unusually persistent source of junk e-mail. Now someone from Comcast is confirming it. “We’re the biggest spammer on the Internet,” network engineer Sean Lutner said at a meeting of … Read moreAttack of Comcast’s Internet zombies
Curbed, a new weblog that’s based on the idea that everything in New York City comes back to real estate, rent and the neighborhoods we live in. [Curbed]
just checking something…
The WSJ finally covers RSS… makes it seem like something it’s readers would want ( 😉 ) .. but leaves you wondering where the heck their feeds are!! With RSS, you don’t have to go out and find information on the Web. It finds you. [WSJ.com]
Gotta love this! Looking forward to what is coming in NNW 2.0 as Brent has mentioned his own editor will be undergoing a huge change to compete more evenly with existing stand-alone editors. A few days ago I got email from Adriaan asking if there are any ways we could work together. I replied with … Read moreNetNewsWire and External Weblog Editors
Looks good! Wish there was something like this for WordPress PhotoToTypePad is an iPhoto plugin that enables posting of photos directly to TypePad photo albums. [daikini software]
Not getting full feeds… do you unsubscribe or stick it out? I keep them only because I want to know about updates, but find it very annoying and rely much less on the sources than those who provide the full article. I guess JD is right. Making your RSS feed only have headlines does reduce … Read moreAbstract Feeds Reducing Bandwidth
Ecto has been updated with features designed to better interoperate with NetNewsWire… ecto 1.1.5A new version of ecto is out. There are a couple of new features that need some explanation. [chaotic intransient prose bursts]
Good pointer from Micro Persuasion… Alex Barnett, an Online Customer Experience Manager with Microsoft UK, has posted a matrix that compares the use of email and RSS for marketing. The chart links to many related articles and blog postings. [Micro Persuasion: Email v. RSS in the Marketing Mix]
Just reading ongoing and Tim Bray’s experience with Vonage…. sounds good even with a hiccup or two. I am still considering VOIP — keep thinking Vonage is the way to go and perhaps I won’t have the hook-up issue he had with DSL with my cable connection…. It occurs to me that when someone on … Read moreTim Bray Gets VoIP
I do have a solution for the FCC for the transition to HD and getting back the TV broadcast spectrum that is cheaper, far simpler, and would accelerate the give back faster then anything so far proposed, and I’m sure no one has thought of it. [Blog Maverick]
Documentation has been acknowledged as a weak point for WordPress, even though the defaults are pretty easy to deal with. Quite a bit has been worked on for the release of 1.2 — here’s an overview of the template tags.
WordPress 1.2 Mingus! Bing!! The WordPress Development Blog has more detail…
Craig over at Gearbits continues to get pummeled by comment spam… Craig have you tried MT-Blacklist? unless you upgrade to MT3 and use Typekey or just turn comments off and go with trackbacks and Technorati, this is going to continue… damn spammers! I’ve been very successful at blocking spam comments in WordPress, btw. It’s not … Read moreoverwhelmed by comment spam?