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dave sifry on CNN covering the DNC

dave sifry on CNN covering the DNC 07/21/2004 07:56 PM
technorati's got some interesting positioning as a monitor of blog coverage

Special Warriors Have Growing Ranks and
Growing Pains in Taking Key Antiterror
Role

Special Warriors Have Growing Ranks and
Growing Pains in Taking Key Antiterror
Role 08/02/2004 08:32 AM
The military's Special Operations Forces are grappling with proposals to give them an expanded mission in the global campaign against terrorism.

RSS Growing Pains

RSS Growing Pains 07/20/2004 09:24 PM
InfoWorld needs to work on their plumbing

Growing pains for next Net

Growing pains for next Net 07/02/2004 05:51 PM

Growing Pains

Growing Pains 03/22/2005 04:40 PM

« If only he could operate the remote control.... »

Take a teething puppy, keep his activity minimal [meaning no playing with friends in the puppy park] and reduce his daily ration of food and I can guarantee that even the most angelic puppy will turn into a petulant monster. We tried to take Otava to a nearby island on Sunday, where most of the area is a dog park, but not long after we got off the bus he started limping again, only on the other front leg. His limp became rather severe and once we got home I gave him some aspirin to help ease the discomfort a bit while I started hunting around the net for some information on what might be the problem.

I am unwilling to believe that it could be a joint abnormality and he has had no trauma or undue stress to his legs. I found something known as "panosteitis". I've known and had my own giant breed puppies for two decades and have never heard about this affliction. But, essentially, it's a result of him growing too fast. Large breed dog owners don't feed vitamin supplements and switch to adult food around four months of age to avoid the dangers of this happening. Somehow, in spite of doing everything right, he is still growing like a weed.

Panosteitis (commonly called "growing pains," "wandering lameness," or simply "pano") is associated with large breed dogs and usually occurs in dogs 5 to 12 months of age, although it has been found in dogs as old as 5 years. It most commonly affects males by a ratio of 4:1. Females are most often affected around their first heat. It is possible that the condition is partially genetic since so many German Shepherd Dogs are prone to it. However, many other factors have been associated with pano: diet, viral diseases, autoimmune problems, hyperestrogen, and vascular problems. In other words, no one knows what causes the disease. It is characterised by excessive bone production on the long bones and is an inflammation of the membrane covering the bone. Dogs will generally grow out of the problem, but it is a painful condition.

Symptoms: Favoring of legs, limping, being subdued. Pano is also called "shifting leg lameness" as it can show up in any leg and may come and go without warning. If the limping goes from leg to leg (for example, one day the dog limps on the right rear leg, and the next day, it limps on the left front), it is very likely the dog has pano.

Diagnosis: If the dog is x-rayed during a bout of pano, lesions on the area above the growth plates will be visible.

Treatment: Enforced rest is usually prescribed. Painkillers are controversial since the pup will play more without pain, and may exacerbate the condition. Some vets recommend a reduced-protein (usually an adult formula) diet.

The pathology of the disease matches the description of his symptoms almost perfectly. I've changed his food to a Nutro's low protein adult formula and started giving him 500mg of vitamin C. There's a lot of con flicting advice on the net, but the food, limited use of aspirin for the pain and reduced exercise make a lot of sense. The vitamin C hasn't been confirmed as helping, but the vitamin has a lot to do with calcium metabolism in the body so it won't do any harm at least. We'll keep our fingers crossed that it is just growing pains and that he'll grow out of it soon so we can enjoy the summertime.

On the lighter side, our new offices are very nice and my southern exposure window is terribly luxurious after years of dark cubes, although the drawback is that it is rather soporific in the late afternoon. For some reason there aren't any rubbish bins to be found anywhere in the building which is both mysterious and inconvenient.

It's Dr. Fun's Peeps Week again. I miss marshmallow peeps. :)

The photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth From the Air series will be in Helsinki from the 17th of June through the 18th of September according to today's HS. I've seen the exhibit in London and will be happy to see it again as the enlarged photos are quite amazing. This summer, the London exhibit will be getting textured photos so that the blind may enjoy them as well.

Growing pains at U.S. Genomics

Growing pains at U.S. Genomics 08/30/2004 03:11 AM
Boston Globe Aug 30 2004 7:16AM GMT

BEA's growing pains

BEA's growing pains 05/28/2004 06:27 AM

Wi-Fi's Growing Pains

Wi-Fi's Growing Pains 02/17/2004 11:53 PM
Business Week Feb 18 2004 4:03AM GMT

Technorati Growing Pains

Technorati Growing Pains 11/17/2003 07:48 PM
star dietro al fenomeno .. Statistics .. Feedster

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The Growing Pains of Search

The Growing Pains of Search 08/31/2004 01:16 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - The little search marketing companies are unfurling their new wings and trying to peer over the edge of the nest. Suddenly, VC firms are looking at search marketing technology with stars in their eyes. It's...

Netflix's Growing Pains

Netflix's Growing Pains 07/16/2004 11:48 AM
The leading online movie rental service is aggressively acquiring subscribers.

90nm Growing Pains

90nm Growing Pains 04/21/2004 02:12 PM
IDG News details the challenges IBM has faced in ramping up 90nm processor production in their East Fishkill plant. The poor yields were cited by App...

Fixing InfoWorld's RSS Growing Pains

Fixing InfoWorld's RSS Growing Pains 08/03/2004 06:01 PM

Kevin Railsback reports that Info World has implemented some changes to fix the RSS growing pains that Chad Dickerson complained about.

iTunes Producer and Indies - Growing
Pains?

iTunes Producer and Indies - Growing
Pains? 12/08/2003 04:34 AM
According to reports, Apple finally released their "iTunes Producer" tool to independent record labels back in Mid-November. This Apple tool was re...

Paid search feels growing pains

Paid search feels growing pains 07/08/2004 01:48 PM
As the euphoria fades, the industry may be starting to experience a slowdown. Get ready for the summer doldrums.

"Sifry's Alerts: Technorati Growing
Pains"

"Sifry's Alerts: Technorati Growing
Pains" 11/18/2003 08:58 PM

Reporters Notebook: Growing pains at
CeBIT America

Reporters Notebook: Growing pains at
CeBIT America 05/28/2004 12:20 AM
Organizers of this week's CeBIT America enterprise IT show in New York acknowledged that having the "biggest, most important IT vendors" at the event is often easier said than done.

Free Trade Accord at Age 10: The Growing
Pains Are Clear

Free Trade Accord at Age 10: The Growing
Pains Are Clear 12/27/2003 06:39 AM

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Growing Pains: Top Ten Wholesale
Announces New Upgrades and Improvements
to Website to Meet Impressive Demand -
TopTenWholesale.com

Growing Pains: Top Ten Wholesale
Announces New Upgrades and Improvements
to Website to Meet Impressive Demand -
TopTenWholesale.com 06/24/2005 03:15 PM
Top Ten Wholesale (http://www.TopTenWholesale.com), a wholesale resource site for retailers and eBay PowerSellers announces that unprecedented demand for services has required an upgrade to their search and delivery systems as well as a more robust user account system. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]

Wham bam. Dave Winer shuts down hosting
at webl0gs.com. No warning. 'And no
whining', he says

Wham bam. Dave Winer shuts down hosting
at webl0gs.com. No warning. 'And no
whining', he says 06/18/2004 03:18 AM
13

old.weblogs.com/2004/06/13
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Another ’honor’ victim:
Daughter, raped by brothers, killed by
mother

Another ’honor’ victim:
Daughter, raped by brothers, killed by
mother 11/18/2003 10:21 AM
practical approach to the 'family honor" business .. should read this horrifying story

azcentral.com/news/articles/1114HonorKilling14-ON.html
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What’s in Howard Dean’s
Secret Vermont Files?

What’s in Howard Dean’s
Secret Vermont Files? 12/02/2003 01:54 AM
Dr. Dean in High Gear .. unlikely admirer: .. MSNBC Reports: .. great lengths .. (*)

msnbc.com/news/999347.asp
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’The War Has Started’ --
Allied troops in firefight in/near Basra

’The War Has Started’ --
Allied troops in firefight in/near Basra 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
article at This Is London, .. has already begun .. Evening Standard .. More Shots Fired .. It Starts .. First

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Sifry request

Sifry request 02/10/2004 02:54 PM

http://technorati.co m/cosmos/products.html

 

we're timing his service.

Technorati update from Sifry

Technorati update from Sifry 08/02/2004 10:52 PM

Dave has posted an update on the situation at Technorati. Quick summary: Fixed a bunch of things to get the CNN thing done on time, but broke some other things in the process. We're very sorry. Apologies also for being unresponsive. Thank you very much for your feedback and patience and we'll try harder to address the issues.

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Technorati's Sifry to report campaign
bl0gosphere buzz for CNN

Technorati's Sifry to report campaign
bl0gosphere buzz for CNN 07/21/2004 08:01 PM
CNN just announced that Technorati founder Dave "total mensch" Sifry will provide real-time analysis of the political blogosphere at next week's Democratic National Convention. More details on Joi's blog -- seems like a pretty significant moment in the steadily increasing integration of conventional media with blogs. Link

Net-Detective.com - in Addition to Just
Added Neighborhood "Red Alerts" on
Sexual Predators, Net Detective has
Added the Genealogy Detective Program

Net-Detective.com - in Addition to Just
Added Neighborhood "Red Alerts" on
Sexual Predators, Net Detective has
Added the Genealogy Detective Program 04/06/2005 03:14 AM
Net-Detective.com is already one of the most extensive online database resources with information on over 211,400,000 U.S. residents, or 90% of all U.S. residents. In addition to its new After just adding the Sexual Offender neighborhood 'Red Alert' program to Net-Detective.com's online offerings, Net-detective.com has ehanced its family of products to included Genealogy Detective. Add to this the internet search program's ability to perform online 'real time' background checks, criminal records checks, asset searches, investigate your own credit report, locate military, hospital, birth and adoption records - and one can see why hundreds of thousands of individuals, companies and private investigators themselves from all across the country, use http://net-detective.com in their daily investigations. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Juice Boost Scam Keeps Growing And
Growing...

Juice Boost Scam Keeps Growing And
Growing... 08/17/2004 05:02 PM
A couple weeks ago we had the story about the not really free, not really broadband, free broadband scam from a company named Juice Boost. Broadband Reports has an update today about how the scam/joke/pyrami d scheme/something is taking on an incredible life of its own. The scam, of course, involves some sort of non-existent accelerator software and claims that even the most non-tech-savvy individual should realize are completely made up (free broadband connections over telephone lines and a regular modem that never go down and they'll pay you if you receive a spam message or if the connection drops among other, equally ridiculous claims). Looking for any kind of details on the company turn up nothing but more affiliates (some of whom have even sent out press releases or promises of bars of silver if you sign up). The problem, of course, is that they're promising affiliates lots of cash for signing up more people (limited to the first... oh, 80 million) so the affiliate spammers are coming out of the woodwork taking the ridiculous promises of Juice and "boosting" them even higher. Hopefully, this is all just a demonstration of how ridiculous most affiliate programs are, but that seems unlikely.

3G teething pains continue

3G teething pains continue 12/02/2003 12:37 AM
Personal Computer World Dec 1 2003 5:26PM ET

Wal-Mart Avoids Gas Pains

Wal-Mart Avoids Gas Pains 06/03/2004 03:26 PM
Retail's 800-pound gorilla shrugs off its own predictions.

CEO gives Microsoft 'Window' pains

CEO gives Microsoft 'Window' pains 11/13/2003 01:42 PM
To hear Michael Robertson tell it, he's got Microsoft over a barrel. The man made a fortune when he sold his earlier company, MP3.com, after taking on the major record labels. Now, with Lindows.com, he's gunning for the strongest, richest tech company of all. Says Robertson: "I think God put me on this world to challenge big companies."

Fast Forward: This CEO Gives Microsoft
'Window' Pains

Fast Forward: This CEO Gives Microsoft
'Window' Pains 11/13/2003 08:50 AM
Fortune Nov 13 2003 8:36AM ET

Clinton Suffers Pains in Chest; Surgery
Is Set

Clinton Suffers Pains in Chest; Surgery
Is Set 09/03/2004 09:36 PM
Former President Bill Clinton checked into a Manhattan hospital for heart bypass surgery after X-rays revealed significant blockages in three or four coronary arteries.

Clinton Hospitalized With Chest Pains
and Will Face Surgery

Clinton Hospitalized With Chest Pains
and Will Face Surgery 09/03/2004 02:27 PM
Former President Bill Clinton today checked himself into New York Presbyterian Hospital where he will undergo heart bypass surgery, possibly on Saturday, after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains, his office said.

Cat on a Mac, we’ve got snow

Cat on a Mac, we’ve got snow 01/07/2004 03:11 PM
Sheila posted some pictures: Papa finds a new place to sleep; il neige.

Welcome to the ‘new’ Web,
same as the ‘old’ Web

Welcome to the ‘new’ Web,
same as the ‘old’ Web 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
CNN on newsreaders: “Hang on to your hats boys and girls, because your experience of the World Wide Web is about to change, possibly for the first time since Mosaic...”

I don’t care how you

I don’t care how you 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
I don’t care how you read my content; I just want you to read my content. If you want to read on the web, fine. If you want to read it through email, fine. If you want to read it through RSS, fine. It doesn't matter! I'm not here to sell a delivery vehicle; I'm just here to tell people, “Hey, this is what’s going on in the world.” When syndication just so happens to be one of those ways, a stronger way, a better way, of getting information out there, then, yeah, I’m going to have to proselytize because no one else is really doing it. They’re getting caught up in the politics or they’re just talking about RSS as kind of, like, you know “Oh, well, we’re doing this,” but they’re not really evangelizing it, and there are very few RSS evangelists out there....

But I can tell that it’s about the
same thing

But I can tell that it’s about the
same thing 03/14/2005 04:38 PM
One of the common feature requests we get for NetNewsWire is to handle this situation:

Say you’re subscribed to several Mac news feeds. Then one day Microsoft updates Office for Macintosh, and each feed includes a news item about it, so you have several news items about it.

You only need to read that particular piece of news once. So why not make it so NetNewsWire detects that these are all about the same thing, and mark them as read automatically once you read the first one?

Here’s why:

Consider these two news items, ripped from today’s headlines...

MacMinute

Title: Microsoft Office 2004 update released
Description: Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) has posted Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1, which includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, increased PowerPoint and Word 2004 stability, additional support for device drivers and enhanced appearance of imported graphics...
Link: http://www.macminute.com/2005/03/07/office-2004/

MacCentral

Title: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac updated to 11.1.1
Description: Microsoft Corp.'s Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) on Monday announced the release of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1. The update includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, improves stability for PowerPoint and Word, adds support for new device drivers and improves the appearance of imported graphics.
Link: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/07/office/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-03 05

They’re about the same thing

Both items are obviously about the same thing. You can tell by looking, instantly, no thought required.

But computers aren’t that smart. How does a piece of software know that these two are about the same thing?

The titles, descriptions, and links are different.

There are many of the same words—but you really don’t want your aggregator to start making guesses here. Imagine two completely different stories, but each one has “Apple iTunes” in the title. “Songs on Apple iTunes Music Store now free” and “Apple iTunes sold to SixApart” are not the same piece of news.

What’s the solution?

Artificial intelligence would be helpful here. But we don’t have that.

One possibility would be a new kind of link element—an external link element that is meant to identify the source of the story. For instance, if you go to the full version of the above example news items, both of the stories include a link to the same page on the Microsoft site, a page about this update to Office.

Were that link to be included in the feed, with that item, as a special link-to-the-source link, then an aggregator could know that the news items were really about the same thing.

One nice thing about this is that it’s likely that the folks at MacMinute and MacCentral would pick the same link. They wouldn’t have to coordinate, it would just work. (At least in this example. It wouldn’t always be so clear-cut.)

The bad thing about this idea is the potential for abuse—or just plain laziness. What if people make the link-to-the-source link just a link to http://apple.com/ for any story about Apple—you’d end up with stories that are not about the same thing being marked as read. Nuts.

Another problem is that you still might miss something interesting. Say MacX posted a basic news report, but MacY posted a lengthy piece with interviews and and all kinds of goodies. You wouldn’t want to miss MacY’s report—but you would, since it was marked as read when you read MacX’s news item.

In other words, I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s worth thinking about.

What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7

What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7 12/23/2003 04:58 AM
NetNewsWire

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