From the monthly archives:

August 2007

NBC to End iTunes Sales of Its Shows – New York Times

August 31, 2007

Link: NBC to End iTunes Sales of Its Shows – New York Times. NBC Universal is also seeking better piracy controls and wants Apple to allow it to bundle videos to increase revenue, the person familiar with the matter said. Better piracy controls? When it’s broadcasting things free and in the clear? Is NBC on [...]

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Jerry Pournelle on eBook DRM

August 31, 2007

Link: Chaos Manor Reviews Column 325, Part 4, August 28, 2007. "From my view, if there were a good technical way to make electronic book sales much like regular book sales – if you want to give away a book, you can’t do that and keep it as well – I would cheer for DRM. [...]

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What’s the whole Scoble-bash really about?

August 31, 2007

Robert Scoble’s theory about social media supplanting search was wrong, for a whole lot of reasons. But that doesn’t give people carte blanche to attack him. Attack the guy’s ideas. Nothing else is relevant, whether it’s his tone, his personal appearance, his previous posts… hell, I don’t care if Robert has dubious personal hygiene. What [...]

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Hard drive replacement

August 30, 2007

All the bits and pieces for replacing the hard drive in my MacBook Pro have arrived, and the drive is currently cloning over from the old 100GB to the shiny new 250GB one. According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, I should have around 160GB free when I’ve installed it – about 50GB of which will instantly [...]

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Nokia iPhone challenger

August 29, 2007

Move over the iPhone, there’s a new phone in town… or at least there will be next year. Meanwhile, the company also actually launched a phone, the N81, which looks rather sweet.

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The genius of American beauty queens

August 28, 2007
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iMovie 08: The Missing Braincells

August 27, 2007

Only in the world of madness could making an application less powerful and capable of doing less be nodded in as a good thing. And yet that’s exactly what the people golf-clapping Eric’s post replying to David Pogue’s critique of iMovie 08 are doing. The arguments go like this: “Yeah, iMovie 06 was too complicated. [...]

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Russell Beattie

August 27, 2007

I completely missed the fact that Russell Beattie is back blogging (and has been for several months!) Welcome back Russell!

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Trusted humans vs algorithms

August 27, 2007

< p>The Role of Trusted Human Editors In Filtering The Web » Publish2 Blog: “We couldn’t agree more (the part about the ‘human touch’ adding a lot of value). Algorithms are fast and can cover a lot more ground than individual human, but they lack a fundamental human gift — judgment.” This is true… at [...]

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Amusement of the day

August 27, 2007
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