From the monthly archives:

June 2006

People Aggregator’s difficult birth

June 29, 2006

It’s the easiest thing in the world to be a critic – I know, as I’ve made a pretty tidy sum from being one over the years. It takes a lot more to do something creative – and that’s why I think that Marc Canter should be forgiven a little for the slightly ham-fisted way [...]

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Marc’s Voice � Blog Archive � Question confusion and clarification

June 26, 2006

Sometimes you read a comment and end up wondering how anyone can have made it. That was my reaction when reading Marc Canter’s post on Question confusion and clarification, where he mentioned this: I myself don’t see any difference between the web and the blogosphere – but I guess that’s pretty echo chamber-like.  Jay comes [...]

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The Good Doctor Reid

June 20, 2006

John Reid’s tenure at the Home Office is already shaping up to be one of the biggest disasters in the history of this government. Within the space of weeks, Dr Reid has managed to demoralise his entire department by declaring it "not fit for purpose", infuriate the Attorney General by attacking a judge who had [...]

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Computer magazines and advertising

June 19, 2006

Print publishing, and especially magazines, rely on a happy conjunction of the desire of consumers for independent information and the desire of companies to piggy-back on this to reach consumers. Display advertising – the kind you see in the main pages of magazines and newspapers – works, and has formed a central part of the [...]

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Just who’s data is it anyway?

June 17, 2006

In Why is Flickr afraid of Zooomr? TechChrunch reports that Flickr has refused the request of competing start-up Zooomr to use their API, which would allow Flickr users to more easily transfer their images and data to the other site. As TechCrunch puts it: "Flickr says that users own the the images and tags we [...]

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John tells it like it is

June 15, 2006

John Gruber says something that I couldn’t agree more with: “There’s an unbecoming tendency for some Mac users to contort their worldview in such a way so as to construe that Mac OS X is better than every other OS in every single way, or that its overall superiority ought to be obvious to everyone. [...]

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Via Digg, and passed without comment

June 15, 2006

Today’s iPod rumor: designed using a “none-touch” concept “Apple is about to unveil the next generation of iPod, the best-selling music player in the U.S., using a ‘none-touch’ concept.”

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First Flock

June 15, 2006

I’ve been having a bit of a play around with Flock, which has improved immensely since I first tried it out late last year. The integration with both Flickr and del.icio.us is excellent, the blogging editor is now very usable, and so on. The only thing that stops be switching to it is that the [...]

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Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power – New York Times

June 15, 2006

There’s a really good story on the New York Times about the incredible computing facility that Google is constructing in Washington State. It begs the question of what Google actually wants all that computing power for – but then you read something like the quote that Nicholas Carr picks out of an interview with Google’s [...]

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Bloggers, trade secrets, and shield laws: How Apple shot itself in the foot

June 14, 2006

There’s an excellent article at MacDevcenter on Apple’s recent defeat in the Appeal Court in California in the so-called “Apple vs. the Bloggers case. It’s a very good, clear discussion of some of the aspects of the case, and well worth reading. As a bonus, it includes a link to the decision itself, which runs [...]

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