LISNews has a year in review post summarizing 2006. All I can say is that a lot happened and the post is worth at least a skim.
Check our Stephen Abram’s quote under item 6 about people who feel like they don’t have to learn new technology because they’re retiring soon. That’s a rough situation. What […]
The weblog that tracks journalism errors, Regret the Error, has posted what they consider to be the best errors of the year, which receive their awards, the Crunks.
heard on Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!
Just Wednesday evening, I was conversing with someone about how to find patents. What timing for Garrett to mention Google Patent Search in his weekly newsletter.
Thanks!
The BBC reports Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer’s prediction that blogs will level off in 2007 at a number of 100 million.
Considering the world’s population, I’m not so sure I believe this number. But I’m not going to start counting. What do you think?
Thanks for sending me the article, RJPB.
(PS–Don’t worry. I’m fine. Wednesday, I was […]
Over on PressThink, the weblog of New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, Lisa Williams, whom I know through blog group, shares some really exciting news: 96 news sites owned by GateHouse Media are now sharing content via Creative Commons licenses. Not only is this news really exciting for copyright law, but it should have […]
So, yeah, so a lot of us collide with the end of the year like it’s a brick wall of all the things we meant to do this year and find ourselves pushing into the next year. So we ponder time management this time of year. I crossed some major things off my list of […]
Knowing I need more humor and less blogging in my life, Kim sent me a great comic.
Hhhmmm …
Kim, weren’t you the one who suggested we toss it all to the wind and shove off on a journey around the world … ?
Many people have different thoughts about whether reposting someone else’s XML Feed (RSS, Atom) breaks copyright law or a licensing agreement. I’ve spoken about this before, too, (but I’m too lazy to look for that exchange or those exchanges now) and had at least one heated debate via e-mail with someone over this topic.
If someone […]
Uh … It appears that somehow I managed to forget to write about today’s geek gathering, DevHouse Boston. My apologies for the short, short, short notice.
The idea behind it is to get people together to collaborate on various tech projects. If you have an idea for a tech project, but need someone to code it […]
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the major attacks by foreign invaders in the minds of many Americans.
Here are a few Internet sites for the occasion:
*Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 from the US Navy
*Naval Station Pearl Harbor, also from the US Navy
*Remembering Pearl Harbor by National Geographic
*USS […]