March 2008
198 posts
How do you manage your tasks? | Paul Jacobson →
I could use some help managing my tasks. What are your thoughts? While you are taking a look at this post, why not subscribe to my feed? This is the (hopefully) final resting place of my personal blog and it is looking a bit like a Western cowboy town with tumbleweed at the moment.
Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills - Kenneth... →
This can’t be good news for Clinton …
The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore - New York Times →
A strip club that is animal friendly …
“The conduct of TSA was cruel and unnecessary,” Allred said. “The...”
– cbs5.com - TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings For Flight This is a new level of insanity for US Transportation Security officials. Is this State sanctioned cruelty?
Bulletproof "anti-terrorist" bed with... →
Okaaay …
“The Wilkins ice shelf of Antarctica is very close to collapsing into the ocean,...”
– Wilkins Ice Shelf - Mahalo
WatchKevin Rose shows off Digg HQ
“Apple Inc. is mulling a plan to upend its iTunes business by giving people...”
– Apple considering free access to iTunes - CNN.com
“Scientists at the University of Kansas believe gamma ray bursts were responsible...”
– Universe’s most powerful blast ever seen witnessed this week - Boing Boing
This is an awesome track released by His Boy...
“Christmas, also known as Christmas Day or Christmastide, is an annual holiday on...”
– I was chatting to my wife’s grandfather about how Easter’s dates shift from year to year depending on the solstice and full moon. My wife asked a good question: why is Christmas fixed as the 25th of December (for a large number of Christians) whereas Easter tends to float a bit? I...
Commenting for microblogs | chilibean →
I just threw a couple thoughts I had about commenting on microblog posts using lifestreaming services …
“iPhone… the final frontier. According to sources working close to Star Trek...”
– Ok, this could get me on the path to an iPod Touch if this happens, regardless of my concerns about limited storage space relative to the iPod Classic. Truemors :: Star Trek 2009 Using iPhone As New Communicator Device
“We will look back to 2008 and think it archaic and quaint that we had to go to a...”
– Open vs. Walled Garden: A Topic Taken Up by the Economist « The Real McCrea
“The mobile phone High Tech Computer (HTC) has been developing to run on the...”
– HTC makes some pretty impressive devices. I am looking forward to seeing an HTC Android phone. Macworld | HTC names Google phone ‘Dream’
WatchThese videos are really hokey! Was this just a decade ago? Wow, feels like decades ago!
“Today, more than 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is not just a fact...”
– Change.org - News & Discussions
the-a-list / Blogger A-List →
Its official! I am an A-list blogger. I SO told you! Ok, back to my rock …
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WatchAnother session at SXSW was an interview by Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users fame with Gary Vaynerchuk about wine tasting tips. I think I heard a little about this guy on an episode of This Week in Tech. He apparently makes wine so exciting/appealing just by talking about it. Maybe Graham and Chris should chat to this guy about promoting the local operation? Hugh MacLeod seems to be...
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WatchThe Sarah Lacy interview of Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW 2008.
Watch- Tech Guy 433 Open - Uploaded by chieftwit I get a kick out of this video. I am a big fan of Leo and his many shows as well as many of the people who join him on his shows. This video is fantastic because it gives a great insight into what Leo works with when he does a show. I don’t know which apps he uses but try viewing the video in full screen mode to get a better look. The full...
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One for business and one for pleasure
Okey dokey, gonna be using Viddler for business videos and Vimeo for personal. YouTube is great but I want to try something different.
Watch Vimeo, the company on Vimeo More from my Vimeo exploration … this is the Vimeo team working and doing their thing …
Watch little guitar on Vimeo (via Vimeo) I was exploring Vimeo and came across this quirky little video. There is some really funky content out there …
“A team at the Polytechnic Institute has created an AI program that has the same...”
– Aritificial Intellegence in Second Life, in the Body of a 4 Year-Old
Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things -... →
“A really awesome day won’t start getting awesome until you put away the...”
– An excellent Mannerism … very zen and really appeals to me. Twitter / Merlin Mann: A really awesome day won’t …
Going overboard?
Nic messaged me and asked about what this blog has become. My thinking with this blog is to use it to showcase the stuff I find interesting without publishing longer form blog posts. The way I have set this up is I add items as I go using a bookmarklet and I also add items I clip in NetNewsWire by running my clippings feed into this blog too. It is a bit like a glorified del.icio.us feed in my...
The 'car' of the future - we want one now →
With petrol and Jim Beam competing for the same price point, the need for new forms of personal transportation and the business opportunities that come with that are going to be huge…
World’s publishers face-off against Google: It’s... →
I had a feeling this would be the end result. At first there was co-operation and pleasantries exchanged between the media publishers and Google, and then it all went sour.
Today, online…
BrandsEye Online Reputation Management for Big... →
Twitter is a terrible thing. I was about to leave work when I entered in to a debate with Zoopedup, ChristopherM, Unodewaal, adii and SimoneBiz. And that was me. Writing another blog…
Free Ticket To The 2nd Annual New Media Marketing... →
[Update, the ticket has been taken already]
Mike Stopforth had a great idea today and I am going to follow his lead - I have a ticket worth R9k for a Joburg-based photoblogger [or someone who…
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Google's Secret Sauce →
A new Googler has offered a rare glimpse into the process by which the search giant turns ideas into products.
Naveen Viswanatha, lead sales engineer for Google Enterprise
(Credit:…
Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs →
The music industry is seriously proposing that ISPs levy a copyright surcharge to compensate artists for tunes traded online. The idea isn’t new, but it is finally gaining traction. Consultant Jim…
YouTube's Could Be the Best New Platform Yet →
The video uploading platform announced by YouTube last night may not have been what many pundits expected but it could mark a major turning point for both YouTube and thousands of other sites…
Lawmaker Seeks Ban on Anonymous Internet Posts... →
By Stephenie Steitzer, Staff Writer, Louisville Courier-Journal An Eastern Kentucky lawmaker wants to ban Kentuckians from anonymously posting information on the Internet. State Rep. Tim Couch (R.,…
Yahoo Plans to Join OpenSocial Alliance? →
NYtimes reports that Yahoo is considering Google’s OpenSocial alliance, which would be another huge boost for this initiative that will enable creation of tools and service which work across…
Get your hands on Firefox 3 beta 4 →
Claiming a massive number of fixes, Mozilla has released Firefox 3 beta 4 (download for Windows and Mac). This version is more stable than previous FF3 betas, but it also showcases…
Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #1 →
This is a new feature here at the Lifestream Blog. As the Lifestreaming concept proliferates across the web, I am seeing more people using scripts, plugins, and other code to create some unique…
Run Firefox betas without losing your cool →
One of the more useful tools that came with Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 was a toolbar button that easily switched between the beta and the previous stable iteration of the program, IE7. Nobody…
Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs →
Having failed to stop piracy by suing internet users, the music industry is for the first time seriously considering a file sharing surcharge that internet service providers would collect from…
Movable Type Gets Yahoo Fire Eagle... →
Movable Type, SixApart’s installable publishing platform for the Web, has been in the news lately, particularly for a stirring blog entry posted by the company’s vice president and…
Destination: Soviet Africa →
Follow the logic here:
The government will table draft legislation intended to regulate the private health sector, including private hospitals, within two months, Health Minister Manto…