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AP Exclusive: While governor, Dean
accepted speaking fees, gifts from
special interests

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AP: While governor, Dean accepted speaking fees, gifts from special interests .. The latest on Dean

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Gifts I gave, Gifts I got

Gifts I gave, Gifts I got 12/31/2003 10:54 AM
This holiday edition of Wardriver Wednesday looks at the mobile technology that was found under my Christmas tree this year—both for me and from me. Maybe it will give you some ideas on how to spend any Christmas money you received or gift return cash you acquired.

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Last-Minute Gifts for Dad

Last-Minute Gifts for Dad 06/16/2004 10:02 AM
It's never too late to buy a present when you have the Internet at the ready.

Affordable Gifts

Affordable Gifts 12/17/2004 06:32 PM
In a round-up of affordable holiday gifts, Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, “The iTunes cards, in $15 and $25 denominations, are good for the purchase and download of individual tracks. Get the cards at local Apple retail stores and at Target, Best Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA stores, or snag them online at store.apple.com or Amazon.com. The online Apple store offers paper or electronic gift certificates good for iTunes purchases, too.” [Dec 14]

Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)

Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K) 03/14/2005 04:24 PM

Well, we're a week and a half into the three-week "fund drive" (if you're just tuning in, start here) and it's time for a shout-out to the kind people and companies who have contributed gifts for some lucky kottke.org micropatrons (contribute $30+ and you have a chance). If you haven't looked at the list in awhile, you'll notice some additions.

I chose the gift contributors fairly carefully. With one or two exceptions, most of the list is comprised of either friends/acquaintances of mine who are supportive of what I'm doing, companies that have an interest in blogs and blogging, products I've used, or people who have gone or are going out on a limb to do something entreprenurial in their lives (selling photography, software, soap, books, etc...labors of love and commerce). I have a special place in my heart for the latter group because they're in a boat similar to mine and it makes me happy than I can help get the word out about their projects.

Recent additions to the list:

• Copies of Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. What's there left to say about Gladwell?
• Gift certificate to Threadless. My near-exclusive supplier of tshirts.
• Signed copies of Spacebloom: A Field Guide to Cosmic Xflora. This looks fantastic...and published in the year 2267?
• Signed first edition hardcover of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom from Cory Doctorow. Cory co-edits BoingBoing and somehow manages to write award-winning novels in the meantime.
• One handmade Italian journal from Eastgate Systems. These look beautiful.
• Gift certificate for handmade jewelry from I Like Beads. I like Alison.
• One VIP Rip gift certificate from Ripshark. Ship 'em your CDs and they'll convert 'em all to MP3.
• One 12" x 18" signed print by Marshall Sokoloff. Love Marshall's photography.
• T-shirts from Diesel Sweeties. Note the sweet use of Silkscreen.
• Gift sets of bath and beauty products from Petal My favorite is the Oatmeal & Honey soap.

Solid gold platinum executive class founder gifts:

• Photo prints from Eliot Shepard. Great photography.
• Print of an explodingdog drawing from Sam Brown.
• Copy of "Thinking of You" by Sam Brown. Various works from explodingdog collected into a book.
• Copies of PulpFiction from Fresh Squeezed Software. Mail.app-like newsreader for OS X.
• Subscriptions to Heather Champ's Print Club 2005. One print a month for a whole year!
• Flickr Pro accounts from Ludicorp. Everyone loves Flickr.
• Basecamp accounts. Web-based project management made easy.
• Copies of NetNewsWire and MarsEdit. Award winning newsreader and blog editor for OS X.
• Copy of TopStyle from Bradbury Software. An XHTML/CSS editor for Windows from the creator of HomeSite.
• Copies of FeedDemon from Bradbury Software. Feature-packed newsreader for Windows.
• Movie-sized jewel cases from Jewelboxing. High quality jewel cases for your DVD projects.
• Pixiesdiscs. Audio CDs of each of the Pixies stops on their recent tour.
• 2006 SXSW Interactive Festival registration. The conference of choice for bloggers everywhere.
• Copy of Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional from Macromedia. Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks for Windows or OS X.
• Signed hardcover copies of Emergence from Steven Johnson. One of my favorites from the past few years.
• A coveted spot in TextDrive's "webhosting for life" offer. They will host your site until you or the company dies.
• Personal license for Movable Type or a lifetime discount on Typepad from Six Apart. Choose from two popular blogging systems.
• Signed copies of The Wisdom of Crowds from James Surowiecki. He writes the excellent financial column for the New Yorker.

Again, here's the detailed list and here's how you become a micropatron for a shot at one of the above.

"Shopping & Gifts"

"Shopping & Gifts" 06/03/2004 05:04 AM

Birthday gifts

Birthday gifts 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
On birthdays I like to give a gift. If I had a new beta of NetNewsWire to post, I would, but it’s not quite there yet. Instead I’ll just tell you a little about it.

After doing an upgrade just about every month last year, we needed to take a little longer to do a bigger upgrade, to add a bunch of new features.

I’m not going to tell you about all the new features today, but I will talk about two of them. (There are many more... this just scratches the surface.)

Browsing in place

This is perhaps the most-requested feature, the ability to view pages directly in NetNewsWire.

Some notes about this feature...

1. NetNewsWire already uses Web Kit (the Safari HTML renderer) to render item descriptions—in the current version, there is extra code to prevent browsing-in-place from working. So the first step in making this work was to remove code, which is not what you’d normally expect when adding a new feature.

2. NetNewsWire, like many newsreaders, is a hybrid of email/Usenet apps and browsers. This feature is at the very intersection of these two types of applications, which makes it quite a user interface challenge.

3. Even though this feature is requested so often, and even though it’s demonstrably useful, a number of NetNewsWire testers were against having it appear at all. They’re in the camp that says, “Each app should do just one thing and do it well.” I’m in the same camp, by the way—the disagreement comes in when you try to define what “just one thing” is. In the case of newsreaders, it’s increasingly obvious that browsing is part of that “one thing” that a newsreader does. But, just so you know, this feature is an option.

Weblog editor overhaul

The new weblog editor is a 99% re-do. The user interface has been completely redesigned, and most of the under-the-hood code has been rewritten.

There are several goals:

1. Make the weblog editor easier to use and, at the same time, more powerful, with a more intuitive and more aesthetic interface.

2. Fix bugs (things like categories not always showing up).

3. Support more of the special features of various weblog systems (things like image uploading, support for Movable Type and TypePad keywords, etc.).

4. Make the text editor itself more powerful.

5. Add some other new features which I’m going to leave as a surprise for now.

Anyway...

There are lots of other new features to talk about...

But for now I’m just going to get back to work.

Speaking of CES …

Speaking of CES … 01/07/2004 06:04 PM
Don't forget to check out PCMag.com's CES Center site for the latest product and technology news from Vegas all week.

speaking Right

speaking Right 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
The Wall Street Journal ran a review of Free Culture Friday. (I can't show you a link because on the Journal's theory of the web, it doesn't make sense to even allow searches on your website without paying first.) Great review, with an interestingly critical twist. The thrust of Stewart Baker's criticism is that my argument should be directed to the Right: That copyright law is "asbestos litigation for the Internet age." "Big Copyright," he continues, "is one special interest that Republican strategists should love attacking." And he ends by mapping copyright as a wedge issue:

What's to fear, that Hollywood will end its generous suppo rt of Republican candidates? And talk about wedge issues. Voters under 40 are already more Republican than any other generation. What if the administration stood with them on this issue, proposing a cap on the damages that the industry can extract from college students for downloading music? Say, $1 a song, or even $10, instead of $150,000. Karl Rove could put that on the table, sit back and let John Kerry choose between his contributors and our kids. If that happens, Mr. Lessig could end up next to Ralph Nader in the pantheon of liberals that the Republican Party has learned to love.

Of course not a result I'm eager to see (though after my sniping about Nader, perhaps one I deserve), and of course, I am, as Baker suggests, a liberal. But Baker is exactly right that this issue should play to the Right as well as to the Left. And as you'll see in this video from the Progress and Freedom Foundation debate with Jim DeLong (recorded the day before Baker's review), it is a point I've been making as well.

Christmas Gifts for Geeks

Christmas Gifts for Geeks 12/15/2003 11:43 AM
scottfi writes "The shopping season is just about over and I'm always on the lookout for the cool geek gadget to get friends and family (or myself). What cool ...

IRS to Eye Intellectual Property Gifts

IRS to Eye Intellectual Property Gifts 12/22/2003 05:24 PM
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IRS to eye intellectual property gifts

IRS to eye intellectual property gifts 12/22/2003 07:40 PM
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Dec 22 2003 5:44PM ET

Finding tech gifts for less than $50

Finding tech gifts for less than $50 12/23/2003 02:40 AM
Washington Times Dec 23 2003 1:44AM ET

Last Minute Gifts for the Holidays

Last Minute Gifts for the Holidays 07/25/2004 12:54 PM
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Widgets to Consider for Holiday Gifts

Widgets to Consider for Holiday Gifts 12/08/2003 04:47 PM
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Help With High-Tech Gifts

Help With High-Tech Gifts 12/29/2003 04:07 PM
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Holiday Gifts for .Mac Members

Holiday Gifts for .Mac Members 12/02/2003 01:36 AM
Apple has announced new benefits for .Mac members, just in time to help you create fantastic Holiday movies. Going Digital with iMovie and iDVD Learn how to create movies with this new training course produced by Apple. It covers everything you need to know including shooting your movie, editing it, getting it online, and sharing it with friends and family. Free Sound Effects from Skywalker Sound These sound effects will spice up any movie, and they're available exclusively to .Mac members via the new Members Only folder of your iDisk. Free Soundtracks from Freeplay Now you can add professional music to your movies with these soundtracks. Encoded in AAC format, and available in your Members Only folder. For more details, visit the .Mac homepage.

Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts

Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts 12/25/2004 11:28 PM

Speaking SearchSpeak

Speaking SearchSpeak 07/15/2004 08:43 PM
Are we being trained by search engines to speak without "stop words"? More at Many2Many......

Churches speaking out against BNP

Churches speaking out against BNP 04/28/2004 02:53 AM
West Yorkshire church leaders are due to sign a declaration attacking the right-wing British National Party.

And Speaking Of Wondering...

And Speaking Of Wondering... 04/19/2004 07:04 PM
Anyone want to fork out $200 for a Gucci iPod case?

Speaking of the environment...

Speaking of the environment... 06/10/2004 11:08 AM

I was on a road trip last weekend thru the rolling hills between Somerset, PA and Cumberland, MD, where I noticed scattered windmill technology producing clean energy. I posted my appreciation and a picture on my personal YardBoy Blog that provoked a valuable reader comment. I learned that my Rochester, NY electric utility offers a billing option that guarantees production of wind power at anyone's request. It's called [Catch the Wind] and I signed up to have my average useage "blown" into the power grid for an extra $5 per month. For $60 a year, I will reduce carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to planting 146 trees or not driving 2,338 miles. If I was a zealot, I could have purchased extra. In fact, one can support wind energy regardless of who supplies your electricity. You will receive a certificate that verifies your purchase.

Speaking at Gnomedex

Speaking at Gnomedex 06/23/2004 09:22 AM

When I attended Gnomedex last year, I have to confess that I went with muted expectations. As it turned out, though, I had a great time, and rank it among the best conferences I've visited.

This year, not only am I attending the conference but I'm scheduled to speak on one of the panels. Along with blogging gurus Robert Scoble, Henry Copeland and Ross Rader, I'll be discussing how to maximize your blogging strategies. I'm glad I have a couple of months to figure out what to say, because I'm not an experienced public speaker :)

Among the other confirmed speakers are Steve Wozniak, Wil Wheaton and Dan Gillmor.

The conference isn't until September 30 so I'll talk more about it closer to the time, but if you want to attend I recommend registering now. Unlike last year's Iowa-based Gnomedex, this year it's being held in Lake Tahoe - so I expect even more people to be there.

Speaking in Montreal

Speaking in Montreal 03/21/2003 11:26 AM
Lots of interesting things happening at the PHPQuebec Conference in Montreal. I gave my little "build a successful OSS business" speech yesterday, and it seems to have been well received.Seveal "well known" PHP folks were also there--from Rasmus Lerdorf to Zeev Suraski--with a good number of things to say and ...

Speaking of inexperience

Speaking of inexperience 07/06/2004 01:45 PM

Speaking of Crones

Speaking of Crones 01/02/2004 07:08 AM
Kalilily Time

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Speaking machines!

Speaking machines! 01/04/2004 01:14 PM
A brief history of speech synthesis : an interesting read, with photos and sound samples!

Speaking naturally

Speaking naturally 01/28/2004 01:12 AM
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Speaking of contests...

Speaking of contests... 12/10/2003 11:24 PM

The Creative Commons Moving Images Contest deadline is three weeks from today, and there are lots of great prizes. You can use Flash or video to illustrate how Creative Commons works (here's a sample of how we describe it to musicians), no more than two minutes in length.

To be honest, we haven't had a ton of entries yet, so get cracking creative types!

Speaking about Blogs....

Speaking about Blogs.... 06/17/2005 07:17 PM

Yesterday, Larry Sloma, who (along with Troy Swanson) helped Moraine Valley Community College get all bloggy and RSSified, sent me an email noting that he’s running a pilot project on his new library’s web site. Check out the Highland Park Public Library’s blog, which you can now have read to you.

“Inspired by Gary Price's recent post about Speakwire, we thought we'd try to add a voice to our pilot blog. Works like a charm!

Look for the button labeled ‘Want this blog to read to you?’ near the bottom of the right hand column at http://lishost.org/~hpplblog/ .”

That wasn’t enough for Larry, though. Today, I got an email from Troy, saying that Larry had also helped MVCC set this up for their blogs, too. Check out the “Click to Listen” link on the right-hand side of their Library News blog!

Here’s the weird, spooky, serendipitous part. I’m reading my work email tonight (yeah, I’m that overwhelmed at work that I’m doing email from home these days), when the following message from David Mattison appears on the WEB4LIB mailing list:

“I spotted a Google Adsense ad on my blog for a new service called Talkr.com (http://www.talkr.com) that offers conversion of text-only blogs into podcasts. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like (pardon the pun) there's a library application in there somewhere. The company has a revenue sharing program if they select your blog as one of their podcasts. Jenny Levine's The Shifted Librarian blog is one of the blogs already available as a podcast.”

That’s news to me! But, I guess if you’d rather listen to my posts than read them, here’s your chance.

Speaking of WiFi

Speaking of WiFi 09/06/2004 01:26 AM
Everybody's been talking about Pennsylvania thinking about going to an all-state, WiFi, so I thought I'd mention a press release at Michigan's Web site. Michigan has deployed WiFi at two...

Hypothetically Speaking...

Hypothetically Speaking... 03/11/2003 09:44 AM

... if there were a Safari v62, and it did happen to leak to the public, and someone did happen to run it, and that person did happen to discover a bug with text-decoration, well then I would hypothetically be most grateful, and would in fact fix such a bug with the utmost expedience. In fact, it might even be fixed already, assuming of course there were such a build, and it did in fact have this problem.

Speaking in San Jose

Speaking in San Jose 09/20/2004 10:40 AM
Calendar note for Silicon Valley folks: On the evening of Oct. 4, I'm giving a talk in San Jose, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club and San Jose State University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. The topic will be "The Emergence of Grassroots Journalism," and given current events there's plenty to discuss. Details here. I'm also scheduled, on Nov. 6, to be at the Barnes & Noble store on Stevens Creek Blvd. in San Jose. Details to come.

Gifts.com launches as shopping portal

Gifts.com launches as shopping portal 03/23/2005 12:43 AM
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Police: Man Burns Down Home Over No
Gifts (AP)

Police: Man Burns Down Home Over No
Gifts (AP) 12/28/2004 05:07 PM
AP - A man angry that he got no presents for Christmas burned down his parents' house early the next morning, police said.

Geek Books as Holiday Gifts

Geek Books as Holiday Gifts 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 19 2004 2:05AM GMT

Christmas Gifts, Food, Arrive at ISS

Christmas Gifts, Food, Arrive at ISS 12/27/2004 05:42 PM
Sci-Tech Today Dec 27 2004 9:05PM GMT

Flickr Gives Gifts to Pro Account
Holders

Flickr Gives Gifts to Pro Account
Holders 04/19/2005 08:47 AM

Remember when Flickr said they'd reward the people who had bought pro accounts after they were bought by Yahoo? I got an email last night with details:

1. Double what you paid for! Your original 1 year pro account has been doubled to 2 years, and your new expiry date is Nov 22, 2006.

2. More capacity! Now you can upload 2 GB per month.

3. 2 free Pro Accounts to give away to your friends! This won't be activated for a day or two, but when it is, you'll see a note on your home page telling you what to do.

Thanks, Flickr!

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Gifts for the Gay Heavy Equipment
Operator

Gifts for the Gay Heavy Equipment
Operator 04/19/2004 04:19 AM

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