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Xeni's SNS article on MSNBC

Xeni's SNS article on MSNBC 07/29/2004 05:18 PM

Xeni interviewed a bunch of us for an article on social networking services and it's now online on MSNBC. The focus is whether these services are useful for business networking.

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Xeni's out goofing off on her birthday

Xeni's out goofing off on her birthday 08/05/2004 01:44 AM
In precisely 21 minutes, I enter birthday flakeout mode and abandon this weblog for a few days. When all the chocolate sprinkles and frosting smudges have been cleaned from this keyboard, I'll be back.

Guatemala -- Xeni's snapshots

Guatemala -- Xeni's snapshots 05/19/2004 11:58 AM
I've uploaded some of the snapshots I took during a recent trip through indigenous communities in Guatemala. Here they are, come have a look.
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Xeni's MSNBC story on socnets

Xeni's MSNBC story on socnets 07/29/2004 05:11 PM
maybe someday they'll be used for more than helping kids hook up

Zero G: Xeni's Wired News and NPR
reports

Zero G: Xeni's Wired News and NPR
reports 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: In today's Wired News, a report I filed on my experience in zero gravity earlier this week. Also, on today's edition of the NPR show "Day to Day," I speak with host Noah Adams and share sounds from the weightless joyride. In space, no one can hear you squeal.

Image: floating with other passengers, including Dr. Buzz Aldrin and Zero G Corporation founder Dr. Peter Diamandis, on board G-Force One. Shot by Jim Campbell.

Link to Wired News story.

Link to archives for today's edition of NPR Day to Day, audio and images online after 12pm PT.

Link to previous BoingBoing posts -- "Xeni flies zero-g."

SRL show in LA: video, and Xeni's
phonecam snapshots

SRL show in LA: video, and Xeni's
phonecam snapshots 04/03/2005 01:24 PM
Xeni Jardin: I snapped some quick photos with my Treo while the SRL folks were setting up all the machines for last night's show in Los Angeles. I'm still coughing up orange smoke particles, and some metal sparks got in my hair -- but a fine time was had by all. It was a great show.
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Mack Reed of LAVoice sez:

Here's an early, detailed report (2:38 a.m. last night) complete with plenty of pix and silent video shot with a clear view from the roof. Sad that the audio on my Olympus usually-still digicam malfunctioned, but the clips are crisp and slender (max 5kb) adn they do have a sort of dreamlike quality.

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I recorded audio, and interviewed cast and robot crew. Stay tuned for a report!

Xeni's tech report from "Erotica LA"
adult trade show

Xeni's tech report from "Erotica LA"
adult trade show 06/22/2004 06:48 PM
The editor of Fleshbot dragged me to the Erotica Los Angeles convention this weekend to see if any geek news was hiding beneath the piles of neoprene genitalia and Paris Hilton DVDs. I met v14gr*a-spammers and gubernatorial porn stars. Took a bunch of snapshots, spotted a herd of Realdolls (shown at left) -- and I filed t his report for Fleshbot. Link to full-size image at left. I'll be posting more snapshots from "the other Hollywood" soon.

Readers respond to Xeni's "iPod Beemer"
post with in-car digital audio tips

Readers respond to Xeni's "iPod Beemer"
post with in-car digital audio tips 09/10/2004 12:02 AM
Xeni Jardin: Following up on yesterday's post ( Link) about my week-long test drive of BMW's new iPod-integrated 330ci convertible, more in-car audio tech pointers from BoingBoing readers. Meanwhile, I'm still mopping up drool around the office. That iPod Beemer was nerd-o-licious.

Michael Morgan says, "One of the better approaches I have seen relies on using the CD changer inputs that many car stereos have. The simpler products, such as the one I have, provide RCA audio jacks. Better ones allow iPod control through the CD changer controls. The sound quality is better than FM or cassette tape adapters although the integration of iPod display and control is either poor or absent." Link

Nik Clayton says, "You should try out Dension's IceLink 1.1. This provides a cradle/dock that you can mount on the dash (damage free). Just drop the iPod in the dock, and the audio's taken from iPod's dock connector (far better quality than the headphone socket) and routed to the stereo, in place of the CD-multichanger. So the steering wheel controls work for changing tracks, and so on. And, of course, your iPod's there on the dash, so you can see all the information it displays. It also works in cars other than BMWs." Link BoingBoing reader Chris says, "There are two other common solutions; some car radios now have a front panel auxiliary input. Just get a 'stereo plug to stereo plug' cable, and away you go. The other option is one of the FM modulators that plugs into the antenna lead. See the Farenheit EFM-01 or the JVC KS-IF200 - likely found many places but they re listed at Crutchfield. They are a little trickier to install, but as long as your car FM radio has an antenna (!) they should work. Link."

Neil replies to a comment submitted to BoingBoing by reader Becky ( Link). He says, "To follow-up on Becky's problem with iPod installations in cars without cassette adapters there is actually another solution. Blitzsafe makes adapters that plug into the CD changer port that lives in most cars, and converts it to an AUX input for your car stereo. Then you can run a regular stereo cable to the front of the car to plug in any device you like (such as an iPod). I used one to install XM Satellite radio in my BMW. Sadly, it doesn't look like they have any for Saturn cars yet :( -- Link to Blitzsafe."

Tom Karches says, "A company called Soundgate (Link) makes a number of devices that allow iPods to be attached to factory or aftermarket stereos. Their auxillary input adapters attach to the cd changer plug on cd changer ready stereos and pass the audio through the changer input. If you have a changer already, they have a model that plugs in between the stereo and the changer and provides a switch to select the changer or the ipod. This does not provide ipod control, unfortunately. Perhaps something like this would help: Link. I'll probably put the Soundgate adapter in my minivan. If I decide to equip the honda similarly, I'll probably go with an inline RF modulator like this or this."

Anthony Hall says, "Although BMW claims they are the first car manufacturer with integrated iPod support I actually saw ads for Smart cars shipping with iPod cradles several months ago... I dunno, perhaps it's considered third party but Smart was plugging it in the own ads in the UK. Looks liker a much simpler proposition to me. I agree with you that having the iPod just rolling around loose in the glove compartment is nuts." Link

(Thanks to other readers who sent in great tips, including Wes, Adrian, Josiah, and Brian King!)

Primer

Primer 08/01/2004 06:12 PM

Froogle Primer

Froogle Primer 01/07/2004 02:50 PM

A Primer on Stagflation

A Primer on Stagflation 08/23/2004 02:34 PM
Take a look at a worst-case scenario for the markets.

Wi-Fi hacking, a primer

Wi-Fi hacking, a primer 08/13/2004 09:18 AM

A Taxonomy Primer

A Taxonomy Primer 10/21/2002 06:18 AM

SQL Injection Primer

SQL Injection Primer 01/22/2004 02:27 AM

Basic PHP Security[SQL INJECTION]: A quick look at the hack du jour: SQL injection attacks. A simple enough thing to defend against.

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a primer on how not to do journalism

a primer on how not to do journalism 05/31/2004 02:30 AM
scathing self-rebuke .. Editor & Publisher .. this E&P piece .. credibility

editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vn u_content_id=1000518753
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Subsumption Primer

Subsumption Primer 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Chris Schur has posted an updated version of his Primer on Subsumption Architecture. The document provides an easy to understand introduction to Brooke's theory. Diagrams of subsumptive and conventional architecure are given for comparison and the document also explains the use of Finite State Machines in subsumption architecture.

A Brief Primer On Ice Hockey

A Brief Primer On Ice Hockey 05/24/2004 06:50 PM
The sport of hockey has been the long neglected stepchild of North American team competition. While many have watched the Red Wings on TV, or possibly been to one or two games, hockey is still relatively unknown to most people south of the Canadian border. This is unfortunate , as hockey could be considered the most fast paced and intelligent sports played today.

A BPEL primer

A BPEL primer 07/20/2004 01:11 PM

Rich Seidner explains to us what BPEL is and why it matters......

A BPEL Primer

BPEL has successfully established itself as the de facto Web services orchestration language standard.

By Rich Seidner

[WebServicesPipeline]

Geolocation Primer

Geolocation Primer 07/12/2004 02:11 PM

Geolocation tech slices, dices Web: A good, summary article on the next killer app of the Web: geolocation.

Type "dentist" into Google from New York, and you'll get ads for dentists in the city. Try watching a Cubs baseball game from a computer in Chicago, and you'll be stymied. Pre-existing local TV rights block the webcast.

The same technology is also being used by a British casino to keep out the Dutch and by online movie distributors to limit viewing to where it's permitted by license, namely the United States. [...]

As so-called geolocation technology improves, Web sites are increasingly blocking groups of visitors and carving the Web into smaller chunks — in some cases, down to a ZIP code or employer.

Thank God they're keeping out the Dutch...

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A Primer on Duration

A Primer on Duration 07/02/2004 01:21 PM
Skip the textbook for our definition of this bond portfolio concept.

PHP Strings Primer

PHP Strings Primer 10/29/2003 02:22 AM
In order to accomplish almost any programming task with PHP you'll be dealing with strings. To get the best out of PHP you must thoroughly understand the basic string functions available. In this tutorial we will lay down the foundations needed for a solid understanding of strings.

Dreamweaver Primer

Dreamweaver Primer 01/14/2003 02:16 AM
Boxes and Arrows Jan 14 2003 1:52AM ET

PCI Express Primer

PCI Express Primer 04/08/2005 12:59 PM

Windows CE primer

Windows CE primer 07/23/2002 11:42 PM
CNET Jul 23 2002 10:48PM ET

Primer día de la WSIS

Primer día de la WSIS 12/11/2003 09:46 AM

DHCP Primer

DHCP Primer 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Primer Festival GNU/Linux UTP

Primer Festival GNU/Linux UTP 03/30/2005 06:13 PM

Tiger Primer: Dashboard

Tiger Primer: Dashboard 07/06/2004 05:12 AM
It's safe to assume that once Tiger arrives we'll be seeing a flood of homegrown Dashboard applications. By Jason Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

C# Primer- A Practical Approach

C# Primer- A Practical Approach 06/29/2004 12:24 PM

Tiger Primer: Automator

Tiger Primer: Automator 07/08/2004 07:09 PM
You may not know a lot about it yet, but trust me -- Tiger's new AUtomator feature will save you a lot of time. By Jason Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

A Papal Succession Primer

A Papal Succession Primer 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
The Papacy .. assemble

time.com/time/daily/special/papacy/how.html
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Community and Networks - a primer

Community and Networks - a primer 05/19/2004 01:21 AM

Jonas posts some interesting stuff.  You may THINK Jonas is a coder - but he's really a social scientist. He just plays a coder in a soap opera called life.

Slideshow Bob!.

I’ve uploaded the slides for this week’s “Social Capital and Community Awareness” talk. The talk itself was a primer on Social Networks and Social Capital to decision makers in the industry and kindly hosted at the Monterey CIO Summit and Forum. I really appreciated the chance to chime in on the whole “Social” debate, and tried to bring a few points home before the participants broke up into smaller groups.

All in all, I was very pleased, and rather surprised, by the turnout. A few very good questions were asked (and hopefully answered sufficiently) during the Q&A part, with almost thirty attendees and a handful of reporters around, I feel I’ve addressed a somewhat neglected field – the simple question what “we talk about, when we talk about this”.

If you are interested, download the PDF version of the slides above (click on the thumbnail). I know, that slides alone don’t do such an event justice, but it’s a start.

[a preponderance of evidence - What Willis Wuz' Talkin' 'Bout]

PHP Date + Time Primer

PHP Date + Time Primer 06/26/2002 01:02 PM
PHP incorporates powerful and fast date and time functionality. In this article Ryan gives us the low down on PHP's various functions to manipulate the time and date with ease. 5 Free Bonuses!!! "Attention All Web Developers" Now includes 5 FREE eBooks to help you promote your ConMan website! "This is one of the best pieces of software that we have ever used. It's quick, streamlined, and allowed us to have a fully working site packed with articles in just 3 hours" Ever wanted to run your own content driven web site? Well now you can with ConMan: the fast, flexible and secure web site + admin suite. Try it for free!Click here. Get notified when we post new content: New Forum Threads 1. Article Discussion: Database Design Principles With MySQL 2. winsock-Connection forcibly rejected 3. Article Discussion: C++ Tricks of the Trade: Friend Functions 4. PHP Poll Isn't Working 5. Multiple file upload with php! 6. Cms 7. 2 datagrids problem 8. Timer count. 9. Reg/Login - Datagrid filtering 10. read a variable More Forum Threads... Other Recent Articles New Technologies and What They Mean To You: Part 1 // by Jeremy Wright - 18th Jun 2002

A primer on the Dems and technology

A primer on the Dems and technology 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
CNET is running a story on the IT industry's monitoring of the Iowa democratic caucus.

PalmOS reset primer

PalmOS reset primer 01/18/2004 05:56 AM
Here's a HOW-TO describing the different flavors of reset available in various PalmOS devices.

The reason it takes a while to get the general preference screen after a soft reset is that the OS notifies every app on your device that a soft reset has occurred. That allows each program to reinitialize. There are two cases where you don't want that to happen. One is if you want to delete a system file or other file that's normally open in the OS and won't let you delete it as a result. Since that app won't be initialized, it won't be active after the reset and you can freely delete it. The second is if some app is crashing your system in an endless chain of soft resets. This reset will keep all apps inactive until you manually start them after the reset is complete. This way, you can work your way through the apps and see which one is causing the problem. It could be as simple as a corrupt preference database for an app. This takes some patience in troubleshooting, but always start with what you did last and work your way back through your last changes in reverse order.

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File-Sharing Primer

File-Sharing Primer 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Tweaking MySQL (4.x) Primer

Tweaking MySQL (4.x) Primer 01/19/2004 01:42 AM
Your database driven website was doing well when only Uncle Ted and the guy down the street were viewing it, but now thanks to a brilliant piece of viral marketing your website is being pounded. Before shelling out money for a more powerful server, it would benefit you to see if you could optimize to increase performance. In this article I'll share a few tips I've picked up over the last week or so dealing with optimizing your MySQL 4.x database server. Some are nifty little apps that help you understand what's going on, while others are ways to improve your SQL for better performance. I'm running FreeBSD 4.x personally, so YMMV for some of this if you're using a different OS.

Updated Cloaking Primer

Updated Cloaking Primer 06/16/2004 04:41 PM
"The CGI script can then selectively serve different content based on the identity of the requestor. If the requestor is human, it can serve the home page of the domain, or some other web page..."

Open Source Primer

Open Source Primer 03/24/2005 05:27 AM
Open Source Primer - NonProfit Open Source Initiative (NOSI)
http://www.nosi.net/taxonomy/term/3?PHPSESSID=fd1e7498 8f8ad719c702419dbddc9fce

NOSI’s acclaimed primer describes what open source software is and what impact this type of software may have on the nonprofit sector. The primer includes: 1) case-studies of nonprofits of various sizes that are using open source software, 2) a process for evaluating whether or not open source is right for an organization, and 3) useful resources and information. Written primarily in non-technical language, the Primer is accessible to a wide audience, including nonprofit managers with little hands-on technical expertise. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
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