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Help, I've Been Kidnapped. And Here's
Where I Am.

Help, I've Been Kidnapped. And Here's
Where I Am. 04/28/2004 07:02 PM
Laptop theft is a nagging worry for business travelers and those who compute on the go. While the computer can in theory be replaced, confidential and personal data stored on it may be priceless. So the nTracker by SyNet Electronics aims to protect both your hardware and your software.

Circuits Discovers USB

Circuits Discovers USB 06/10/2004 11:38 AM

Reading The Times' Circuits section invariably causes a single metallic tear to vent from my society-integration hardware, wetting my dome. Sometimes it's from the cognitive trauma of trying to parse whether or not they're even talking about technology anymore or just repurposing old articles from the Steamer Tramp Watch column or something, but sometimes -- rare, precious times -- I get misty as I watch them discover something for the first time, as a retarded child waking from a coma would marvel at a flower, or toilet paper, fawning over and cuddling and gleefully showing the new technology to us. This week's blissful bursting into awareness? Motherfucking USB. Awwww. (Thanks to the Circuits team's case worker, Jeff.)
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What to do if your Mom discovers your
bl0g

What to do if your Mom discovers your
bl0g 11/14/2003 06:59 AM
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XM Discovers The Internet

XM Discovers The Internet 09/15/2004 01:39 PM
Well, it took them quite a while, but it appears that the folks at XM Radio have finally realized that internet radio might be a bit of competition for them, and have decided to start offering an internet radio service themselves. They offer discounts to those who also subscribe to their satellite radio service, but you have to wonder if someone at XM Radio is slapping his or her head realizing here was a way to offer radio without having to spend so much initially on launching satellites, ensuring that the company won't make money for many, many years. In the meantime, it's worth noting that this is the same XM Radio that just pulled a receiver off the market because (gasp!) they realized people could record their stations to computers, and they were afraid that the RIAA would sue them. Apparently, the folks at XM Radio haven't heard of stream ripping for online radio stations. Update: As a few people have pointed out, this new service, more than fear over ripping, may explain why XM pulled the service that let people move the satellite service to their PCs. Again, though, this seems short-sighted. Why not give your customers as many options as possible?

Who kidnapped Monty?

Who kidnapped Monty? 09/07/2004 02:27 PM
Is it just me, or is MySQL getting a little too corporate these days? They recently posted an "interview" with Monty titled Catching up with Monty that seems a lot more like a marketing piece than something Monty would actually say or write: But then again, what do I know? I've only spoken with him a few times a year for the last few years (in person and via e-mail). This is the first time he ever sounded like...

Esther discovers Mobl0gging

Esther discovers Mobl0gging 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Now let's see if we can connect the dots:

Esther Dyson<->blogging/personal publishing<->photo objects/ease of authoring,->digital lifestyle aggregation.

new! improved! now with pictures!.

There's nothing like getting tech support from the head of the company....so while I was talking with Elliot Noss of Tucows about the small-business market that he serves, I also asked him how I could put pictures into my blog. Without hesitation, he recommended that I read the ... manual! which, lo and behold, shows it's quite easy!

 What's with all the "photo albums" and select categories and so on. It should be as easy as instantiating a link!Hey Elliot... it's *not* that easy...! but I finally got it to work...)

 herewith a picture of the Tower of London

  

 a place made more meaningful by being featured in Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, which I am in the middle of reading. (There will be a lot more of it in the third volume of the Baroque cycle, "the System of the world," he assures me.) that was earlier this week.

 On Thursday and Friday, I was visiting notable buildings of Washington. Here's some of the Capitol Building's underground railway....

 

It runs from one side of the Capitol to another, and contains, so I hear, components manufactured in each of the 50 states (which is why it took many years and more than $10 million to build). It's amazingly clean, and probably the only subway most of its senior passengers ever ride. On the other hand, working stiffs get to use it too!

And here's my friend Manus Cooney, a lawyer and lobbyist who's explaining these underground passageways to me; he's talking to Paul Martino, a lawyer for the Senate Commerce Committee.

Why was I there? One - talking with the Washingon wizards about the Accountable Net. And two - trying to find out the differences in tech policy between the two parties... stay posted.

[EDventure]

Wait a minute!  I thought Paul Martino was the CTO of Tribe.net?  :-)

I've been working with Paul recently - and so his name jumped out at me.

Paul got Tribe to support FOAF, RSS and Jabber.

Right on to Paul.  And right on to Esther to discovering the power of Personal MEDIA Publishing!

Circuits Discovers Shuffle

Circuits Discovers Shuffle 08/27/2004 01:48 PM

Holy shit.

I can only imagine the scene at the New York Times a few days ago, as a team of Circuits section editors gathered around a table in a room lit by only a single lamp, shining down at the stupefying gadget known as... iPod.

Beads of sweat gathered on the brows and backfat of each one as they gazed unflinchingly at the white devil, unable to unlock its hermetic secrets; a group of men and women - elevated masters of the occult tradition of tech journalism - their minds broken and laid bare on the tiny aluminum altar that Apple had raised in their midst.

An intern slammed open the door, his silhouette framed by the light from the rest of the Gray Lady's offices, pushing a wave of nauseating synchronicity with the iPod's famous ad campaign into the room.

"Sirs, I've got dozens of great leads about technology being used during the upcoming Republican National..." He was silenced by an upturned palm from the Arch-Editor.

"You fool," gasped the AE, as he fell to one knee, black fluid running from his ears, "Have you not heard? This iPod can play music... at random."

Read - Tunes, a Hard Drive and (Just Maybe) a Brain [NYTimes]

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Circuits Discovers USB [Gizmodo]
Circuits Discovers MusicPad [Gizmodo]
Circuits Discovers Dodgeball [Gizmodo]

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NYT' Exposes The Elusive iPod [Gawker]

Zoë Discovers Life in Chile

Zoë Discovers Life in Chile 03/19/2005 02:54 AM
We reported last August that Zoë, the CMU prototype planetary rover, was being sent to the barren Atacama Desert in Chile for testing. According to articles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Nature, testing has resulted in Zoë accurately "discovering" life using onboard sensors. During simulated missions, the robot was able to discovered and identify two forms of life: some visible lichens and some bacteria. The robot senses fluorescence from cells that contain chlorophyll and is also able to spray special dyes that bind to and identify DNA, protein, lipids or carbohydrates. The technologies being tested will likely find their way into future NASA planetary exploration robots.

Circuits Discovers MusicPad

Circuits Discovers MusicPad 05/19/2004 08:43 PM
The Times' Circuits section has a information-light profile of the "iPod for Sheet Music", the MusicPad Pro Plus. Not a whole lot of new poop if you've read about it before, but they do mention a couple of competing systems, including one developed by Harry Connick Jr. (that doesn't appear...

NY Times Discovers IRC, Freaks Out

NY Times Discovers IRC, Freaks Out 05/06/2004 10:03 AM

The New York Times, in a story today entitled "The Internet's Wilder Side," gives comfort to those in law enforcement and other nannyish places who will want to regulate Internet Relay Chat. The story luridly touts IRC's evils with almost no recognition of its manifest benefits. Oh, there's the deep-in-the-story quote from someone pointing out the free-speech part of this, and a note that there are completely legitimate uses, but the overwhelming tone of the piece is anti-IRC. A shame.

Circuits Discovers Dodgeball

Circuits Discovers Dodgeball 05/13/2004 11:08 AM
The Times' Circuits section brings you the hottest news of last month with this write up of the mobile social service, Dodgeball. We'll forgive them this time, though, because Dodgeball is very cool (if I had any friends, I would definitely use it), and because I understand that the lead...

FBI Discovers Bill of Rights

FBI Discovers Bill of Rights 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
FBI Discovers Bill of Rights after 138 years. No word on whether they will sell it or use it.

RIAA discovers Internet2

RIAA discovers Internet2 04/13/2005 04:06 AM
And guess what? People are sharing stuff on it

UK journalist kidnapped in Basra

UK journalist kidnapped in Basra 08/13/2004 03:54 AM
Iraqi militants threaten to kill a British journalist kidnapped in Basra unless US forces pull out of Najaf.

Kidnapped UK journalist released

Kidnapped UK journalist released 08/13/2004 10:45 AM
The British reporter kidnapped by gunmen from a Basra hotel is released.

U.S. Contractor Kidnapped in Iraq (AP)

U.S. Contractor Kidnapped in Iraq (AP) 04/11/2005 08:37 PM
AP - A U.S. contractor was kidnapped Monday in the Baghdad area, the latest in a string of abductions that have forced many foreigners to work here under armed guard. A pickup truck also exploded near a U.S. convoy as it patrolled a crowded market in the troubled city of Samarra, killing at least three people and injuring more than 20 others.

Another Palestinian Official Kidnapped
(AP)

Another Palestinian Official Kidnapped
(AP) 07/16/2004 01:46 PM
AP - Militants ambushed a car carrying the Palestinian chief of police and held him for several hours Friday, deepening the sense of chaos enveloping the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned withdrawal by Israel.

General kidnapped in Baghdad

General kidnapped in Baghdad 04/05/2005 02:30 AM
Attackers seize an Iraqi general from his car in Baghdad shortly after a bombing in the city.

A-list bl0gger discovers Still Life

A-list bl0gger discovers Still Life 08/07/2004 10:17 PM

David Weinberger is slowing down enough to smell the roses - or at least to see a still life.

[Joho the Blog]

Nigeria discovers 50 possible cult
victims

Nigeria discovers 50 possible cult
victims 08/05/2004 04:04 PM

* N Korea discovers the wonders of the
computer

* N Korea discovers the wonders of the
computer 12/26/2003 03:03 AM
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NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC

NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC 05/06/2004 11:39 AM

Newsweek Discovers Smartphones, Confuses
Them With PCs

Newsweek Discovers Smartphones, Confuses
Them With PCs 06/02/2004 01:38 PM

Although it took them three writers to do it, Newsweek takes a look at the smartphone trend, trying to pose the seemingly deep question "Will Phones Replace PCs?" while blissfully ignoring the fact that the only possible answer is, you know, 'maybe.' That's some thought-provocation right there. Still, there's some good stuff in the article, like a stop-smoking program that sends encouraging messages to Japanese students, and (hypothetical?) examples of two single people hooking up in a bar using Symbian Dater.

Which reminds me, I've been meaning to ask if any of you have been hooking up via these social mobile applications like Symbian Dater or Dodgeball. And I don't just mean 'hooking up with your friends.' I mean, 'hooking your interface meats up to anonymous or recently met humans.' If you send me something put [MobiHump] or something in the subject so my spam filter doesn't eat it.
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NYT discovers the "Plam Pilot"
phenomenon

NYT discovers the "Plam Pilot"
phenomenon 01/28/2004 02:34 PM
In August, 2001, I wrote Metacrap, an essay about the problems with user-generated, explicit metadata, where I said,

Take eBay: every seller there has a damned good reason for double-checking their listings for typos and misspellings. Try searching for "plam" on eBay. Right now, that turns up nine typoed listings for "Plam Pilots." Misspelled listings don't show up in correctly-spelled searches and hence garner fewer bids and lower sale-prices. You can almost always get a bargain on a Plam Pilot at eBay.

A couple years later, the NYT has twigged to this, reporting on bargain hunters who search eBay listings for typos.

Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless -- and sometimes just careless -- sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires.

They do get bidders, but rarely very many. Often the buyers are those who troll for spelling slip-ups, buying items on the cheap and selling them all over again on eBay, but with the right spelling and for the right price. John H. Green, a jeweler in Central Florida, is one of them.

Lin k (Thanks, Clive!)

Judith discovers Tribe Cast

Judith discovers Tribe Cast 07/07/2004 12:55 PM

I got to see Judith Meskill again at Supernova. She's one of the smartest cookies in the social networking scene - giving the 'Many-to-Many' folks a run for the money - literally.

Here's Judith's post of Tribe Cast (which is turning Tribe into a web service.)

Ross Mayfield’s weblog tipped me a while back to Tribecaster.

Looks great in the right hand column Ross.

How many folks still ‘read’ weblogs by visiting them? How many ‘read’ via RSS sans all of the cool thingies in the left and right hand columns of nicely laid out weblogs such as Ross Mayfield’s?

Has anyone else been utilizing this feature of Tribe?

Comments?

Coincidentally, as I clicked through to Ross Mayfield’s weblog today, my ‘image’ appeared at the top of the list of ‘Friends’. I never really expanded my group of so-called friends on Tribe, Ryze, LinkedIn, etc.

My largest group of ‘friends’ is on Orkut—where I am enamoured of the ‘baseball trading cards’ effect of a few full pages of snapshots of those I have met and/or collaborate with online.

[SocialSoftwareWeblog]

Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets

Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets 07/02/2004 11:29 AM
Slashdot Jul 2 2004 3:17PM GMT

Verizon Discovers Unified Messaging

Verizon Discovers Unified Messaging 08/09/2004 06:09 AM
Apparently, the telcos are being forced to innovate again, and they're doing so by looking back at what people have talked about for ages. The idea of "unified messaging" or "unified communications" isn't particularly new, so it's not entirely clear why Wired News seems to think it's absolutely amazing that Verizon has just figured out how to offer such services. A lot of the big telcos have been slow to offer these kinds of features, even if smaller, nimbler companies (especially in the VoIP space) have been messing around with them for years. In this case, Verizon is giving some users the ability to manage voicemails, emails and text messages via their computer or their phone, including the ability to transfer calls to the most appropriate phone based on time of day or to automatically transfer certain calls to voicemail. These are all things many VoIP providers have been offering for a while, so if anything, this is just Verizon trying to catch up.

SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle

SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle 06/18/2004 04:13 PM

Whiskey Bar: Davos Discovers the Blogs

Whiskey Bar: Davos Discovers the Blogs 01/26/2004 01:47 PM
Billmon's report on the Davos blogging session ..

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Qualcomm discovers sense of Iridigm

Qualcomm discovers sense of Iridigm 09/09/2004 03:00 PM
Snaps up next-gen display company

A Computer Is Also a Screen, Wil Wheaton
Discovers

A Computer Is Also a Screen, Wil Wheaton
Discovers 03/14/2005 06:16 PM
Wil Wheaton, once a wildly successful child actor, has transformed himself into a quirky star of the blogosphere.

North Korea discovers the internet

North Korea discovers the internet 12/29/2003 03:30 AM
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Eric Rice discovers that HP is doing
DLAs

Eric Rice discovers that HP is doing
DLAs 12/30/2004 08:02 PM

Eric Rice wrote.....

It's like Flickr, location-based moblogging with audio annotation, and a mobile-phone based operating system shell that reminds me of those guys that tried to make an OS that was history-based and stacked:

Keyword(s): digital media; photo sharing; multimodal; camera phones; storytelling

Abstract: The convergence of communication and imaging capabilities in a single device, the camera phone, is changing the way people take, share and communicate around pictures. In this paper, we describe and discuss three complementary research prototypes - MemoryNet Viewer, Plog and StoryMail - that we built to explore how media can be used as part of everyday storytelling activities. Each system focuses on informal, casual and lightweight solutions for multimedia storytelling and conversation. We conducted small preliminary pilot studies that revealed interesting patterns of use of the media within social networks, which we plan on investigating further.

Tech Report: HPL-2004-180: Enabling Informal Communication of DIgital Stories

[ eric rice]

New Site Discovers America's Best
Bakeries

New Site Discovers America's Best
Bakeries 12/17/2004 06:36 PM
1-800-Bakery.com has launched the Web's first ever site now offering anyone in the country the opportunity to find online, in one location, the most extensive variety of unique baked goods selected from numerous small town (Main St. USA) bakeries and larger specialty bakers.

Soccer Star's Mom Kidnapped (Reuters)

Soccer Star's Mom Kidnapped (Reuters) 03/22/2005 04:51 PM
Reuters - SAO PAULO, Brazil from Sao Paulo.

Kidnapped Teen Finds Self On The
Internet

Kidnapped Teen Finds Self On The
Internet 02/16/2004 02:51 PM
A 17-year-old who had been kidnapped from his father (who had full custody) by his mother at the age of 3, was shocked to find his own picture online and discover that he was a missing kid. It's unclear how he recognized his own picture, though, my only guess is that the picture was a baby picture which his mother had a copy of as well. The mother has now been arrested, and the teen is trying to figure out what this all means. That has got to be quite a shock to the system.

Kidnapped Colombian senator freed

Kidnapped Colombian senator freed 06/30/2004 09:07 PM
Former Colombian senator, Jose Gnecco, is freed by the paramilitaries who had kidnapped him and his family.

Briton kidnapped in Iraq is named

Briton kidnapped in Iraq is named 09/17/2004 12:29 PM
A British man who was abducted from his Baghdad house, along with two Americans, by gunmen is named as Kenneth Bigley.

2 Kidnapped in Iraq; 30 Killed in
Fallujah (AP)

2 Kidnapped in Iraq; 30 Killed in
Fallujah (AP) 09/17/2004 12:44 AM
AP - A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday — a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.
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