The telecom carrier partners with set-top box maker 2Wire to deliver a
new home-entertainment service by mid-2005 that includes connections
into Yahoo content.
Links to interviews with Rich Siegel and John Calhoun, BBEdit 7.1.4
release notes, and an excellent story from Andy Hertzfeld on the
development of Switcher.
AT&T Plans to Raise Its Rates for Residential Calling Plans
AValon RF to Present Helicopter Newsgathering links, digital video links for Video Signage, COFDM True diversity Receivers and Transmitters and Diversity Analog receivers for stationary and mobile Newsgathering applications at IBC2004
One of your links...01/04/2004 02:42 AM I was showing a co-worker the war chalking symbols and tried to access
one of the pictures, the jpg one, and it took me to this site:
http://main.netster.com/Index.asp?Site=c2NyZWFtY2QuY29t NOT the one
that is referenced. Also, upon closing that browser, I was prompted
for two things, one "Do you want to make nester.com your homepage?"
The other, do I want to install and run (some) program? Spyware, I'm
sure.) To which I couldn't respond NO fast enough. I just thought
you'd like to know that your links might be more than people are
bargaining for. Don't know what your thoughts are on it, but I
wouldn't want to subject my vistors to those things, no matter the
cost. Thanks for listening.
Links with Value
Links with Value03/14/2003 01:08 PM Kevin Marks proposed to the emergent democracy list yesterday a way to
flag that just because we're linking to something doesn't mean we
agree with it. Among the benefits, this would give Google and other
apps that count links a way to judge whether the link should count as
a recommendation. After we kicked it around for a while —
wondering, for example, whether it should take a binary value or a
range and whether we should call it "whuffie" — Kevin formulated
the proposal. We're calling it "vote links" (not my favorite since
voting is just one application) and...
Flu Links12/10/2003 07:48 PM It's barely December and already the flu in the United States has
reached unhappy proportions. If you haven't gotten your flu shot
already, you may have some trouble finding any place that has the
vaccine. Here are a few resources...
The thing I love about RSS, and by extension web services, is that
they allow people to take publically available data and combine it in
ways never thought of by the originator of the feed. The internet is
awash with examples of this, from useful services such as Feedster to useless amusements
like I despise you and
your so-called taste, the most insulting extension of the Amazon
API I've
seen to date.
Hot Links is the
neatest new serice of this kind I've seen in quite a while, spotted a
few weeks ago thanks to a vanity PubSub subscription. Hot Links
subscribes to a bunch of RSS feeds for link logs (or blogmarks or
whatever you want to call them) and watches them for newly linked
sites. When it spots one, it grabs a thumbnail sized screenshot using
khtml2png and
posts it along with the description cribbed from the link log. Sites
linked to from more than one link roll are promoted, allowing Hot
Links visitors to restrict their "level" and view only sites with a
certain minimum number of citations.
Syndicating link logs like this is a smart idea, and the people
behind Hot Links have pulled it off in a stylish manner with great
attention to detail. I particularly like the ability to view links from just my
blogmarks as it provides a neat visual reminder of the sites I've
recently recorded.
Here's the sign of a true geek: even neck surgery didn't prevent me
from keeping up with my favorite blogs (via FeedDemon, of course).
Here are a few nice CSS articles that were posted during my "down
time":
More UI links06/05/2005 11:38 PM I’m not writing about Apple’s user interface anymore (at
least not for a while)—but I do keep seeing interesting posts by
other folks.
Helliferocious writes about an interesting new button/menu thing in the print
dialog: “A buttnu?”
Quentin at Rogue Amoeba writes,
“Apple’s real usability expertise comes in designing
end-to-end solutions like iTunes/iPod integration, or technology like
Bonjour.”
Update: here’s Jack Shedd
on UI. His post reminds me how subjective this all is, and how much
talking about it is a matter of emphasis.
News and Links
News and Links12/11/2003 02:27 PM It's that time of year again. The holiday season must mean that
WestCiv is offering its online CSS course for free, and what do you
know, they sure are. The introduction is available for another few
days, so if...
"It's about capturing moments -
things your eyes have got caught on - and doing what you'd do to a
friend if they happened to be on the street with you, saying 'check
that out, isn't that awesome'.."
"Then me and Craig were like
boyfriends for a whole week, but then I got bored of him and dumped
him because he was too clingy and I needed like SPACE and FREEDOM to
BE MYSELF."
"The BBC has announced more job
losses in its programme-making divisions, bringing the total to 2,050
over three years, as it seeks to save £355m a year to reinvest in
programmes."
Being an episodic and not entirely
functional film for children, whose unexpectedly dark, macabre,
mournful and witty elements are easily worth the price of
admission...
"You create these books in a bubble
so when I heard from Sam Jackson's wife that he loves Ultimates or
Affleck says he collects Marvel Knights Spider-Man or something I
always feel like I'm getting Punk'd."
"Snow, who confesses to being
hopeless in the kitchen, will also learn how to cook roast partridge
under the tutelage of chef Tom Norrington-Davies, and will ask why
women spend so long in the bathroom and run up such large phone
bills."
"If there is a more muted mood
blowing through the BBC corridors, someone has forgotten to tell the
ebullient director of new media, Ashley Highfield."
"The Semantic Web is just the
application of weblike design to data; it will be many more decades
before we will be able to say we have really implemented the Web idea
in the full, if ever we can."
So here we go - some bloke on a
website decides to give me a hard time for mentioning that I'm gay on
a mock-up of a business card. As usual the crime is forcing my
sexuality down his throat. Get. A. Job.
This naturally begs the question of,
"why would a gay man suggest a place like Hooters?" Well you can ask
him yourself if you like, but my guess is that he wanted to see if the
world would explode when we stepped foot through the door.
Another blast-from-the-past with the
Exquisite Corpse project where people submitted slice-like sections of
imagery to produce composite beautiful art projects...
I think the name should reflect name
and function, ideally. 'peralpha' would be a bit of a bastardisation
of 'surrounding an a', but I prefer diangle or diasper which should be
something related to the greek verb 'to circulate'...
"Dressed as a British pensioner,
over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and
attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque
and explanation."
"POSM (The Project for Open Source
Media) is an independent research and development entity for the
development and deployment of a standardized Open Media
Platform."
Links from Day 3 of ETech03/19/2005 02:33 AM This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks
during the third day at Etech. Newest at top.
An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Matt Webb says this is one of his favorite books from 2004.
If you're willing to help,
email julia.rooke@bbc.co.uk and tell her what your favourite radio
show is, why you're so obsessed about it or radio in general, what the
show means to you, and your phone number in case they want to get back
to you.
"The world's most dysfunctional
family deliver a counterpoint to the Queen's traditional broadcast,
with Marge Simpson and the rest of the clan giving their view of the
year. Lisa takes the opportunity to make a protest on behalf of
Cornish liberation."
A new comics-related weblog by the
gorgeous and charming Sparky of Ultrasparky.org - replete with
nostalgia, full of cool old ads from comic books and dosed up on homo
juice. Awesome...
So the department in which I work
have relaunched the website for 6music and - along with the Radio 3
site that I helped out on - it's one of the most true-to-the-medium
sites that the BBC's done to date. Very nice.
"The new home secretary, Charles
Clarke, today rejected calls to reconsider plans for ID cards after
Labour backbenchers suggested the departure of David Blunkett
yesterday should prompt a rethink."
"A naked iPod? Girlfriend,
youâve got to cover that thing - and we have a super solution! C.
Ronsonâs iPod hoodie has all the features of its life-sized
original yet scaled down to keep yr MP3 player
or phone lookin' spiffy!!! Blue or pink."
