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MailBucket: an email-to-RSS gateway: Today he wrote to announce something completely different: an email-to-RSS gateway called MailBucket. It couldn’t be simpler to use. Moments ago I sent an email to clever@mailbucket.org. Almost immediately, I was able to subscribe to http://www.mailbucket.org/clever.xml, which is also rendered here. [Nifty!]*
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CNET’s Brian Cooley talks with Joni Blecher about the Handspring Treo 600, and they discuss the pros and cons of converged devices in general and the 600 in particular. Watch the video here. My goodness, that thing is small! [GearBits]
Must … get … Treo …

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[I found this: http://www.bloogz.com/ in my referer list. A new search engine?]*
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I caught that last night in mine as well and have noticed that they visit after each post I’ve made since they started tracking me.

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All right here

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I can’t believe this is just launching… but now you can finally decide which Administrative or Technical contacts you want to appear in the public WHOIS database

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A story in today’s Journal should bring tears to the eyes of online marketers and publishers. Nielsen Media is going to - woo hoo - double the size of its People Meter panel to, hold on, 10,000 households. It’s allegedly going to spend $70M to upgrade its services, including giving people portable meters so [...]

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A new AOL 9 ad shows Sting spamming random instant message users, foisting on them pieces of his new video. [MarketingWonk]
As noted at the MW site, it seems as though AOL and Sting clearly authorize random and bulk spamming of AOL users for promotional purposes. Sting gleefully zaps out his latest video to a [...]

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I’ve been getting noticeably less spam since my main work accounts switched over to new domains, but I do still get a fair number of annoying messages daily on my personal accounts. I’ve looked for proxy options to handle IMAP but have been unable for one reason or another to deal with them effectively [...]

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Adding a free ‘blogs I read’ search box to your own weblog provides your readers with an easy way to use Google to search the web, your site or just the blogs you read. [Search Engine Watch]
An excellent tip and something I just added to the sidebar. You can now search the web, the [...]

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The youthful ignorance and self-destructive behavior that centers the film “The Boys of 2nd Street Park” reflects the reality of an entire generation. [New York Times: Opinion]

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Adobe Systems announced Monday new versions of Photoshop and other key publishing and graphics products, but some of the biggest changes won’t be in the applications.
The software maker’s new product combines Photoshop, the InDesign page layout application and the Illustrator graphics application into the Adobe Creative Suite, a package that includes integrated tools intended to [...]

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Tags equipped with microchips and tiny antennas should make it cheaper and more efficient to track goods. Now come the privacy issues. [New York Times: Business]

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I’ve got a short book coming out next week in the UK called Open Source Democracy. It’s being released as a free publication, by a UK thinktank-network called Demos.
You can download the PDF version of the book, here. Please feel free to repost it anywhere you like, or to make an html version - [...]

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A great Michael Lewis piece in the NYT Magazine on the California Recall (Thanks for the pointer JD)

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I’ve been wondering whether or not to renew my .Mac membership, and I have to say that Apple seems to be working on making it worth the $99/year. The latest new benefits: free VersionTracker Plus subscription, free iBlog software, and $30 off a FireWire drive. And that’s in addition to the free StickyBrain 2, Solitare, [...]

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Stand Alone software today announced the release of Handheld Headlines/RSS, a dedicated news and RSS reader for the Palm OS of devices. [PalmInfocenter]
I just downloaded and installed and it reflects the usual and expected high quality of Stand Alone Palm apps. Seems to be very well thought out - minus one critical oversight… [...]

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Chip helps reunite cat with Calif. man after 10-year separation: Score one for scary, invasive, all-knowing, Big Brother-like, Biblical End Times-ish technology.

“Call it Ted’s excellent adventure, with a high-tech twist: A cat with an ID microchip implanted under his skin was returned to his owner 10 years after he jumped out a window and vanished.” [...]

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The relaunch of Napster, which reinvented the music business, may come too late for the company to take part in the party it started. [RED HERRING]

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A broadly worded ban on unsolicited commercial e-mail could prove vulnerable to challenges on interstate commerce and First Amendment grounds, legal experts say. [CNET News.com]

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The just announced 7600 is one of the coolest and most original phones I’ve ever seen. It’s a tiny and beautiful fashion phone that manages to house any feature you could possibly want. It’s coming in Q4…wonder if the US will support it.
One note is how well they thought out even [...]

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