Sometime in the last year I had a birthday, and my dear wife purchased the exact digital camera that I wanted, a Canon PowerShot S400 Digital Elph. It’s a sweet, sweet camera. She is a genius type mindreader for buying it, given they I honestly gave her no hints beyond “I would like a digital… Read More: Juicy Mullet »
Sun tackles privacy, speech recognition | CNET News.com Both parts of this announcement are very interesting. While presence awareness software from Sun is not that surprising (they already have an instant messaging server and an identity management server), I’m surprised to see them getting involved in speech recognition. Although the article doesn’t mention it, I… Read More: Presence Info and Open Source Speech Reco »
Six Log: Six Apart Milestones Great news from Six Apart, the company that develops Movable Type. I’m really happy to hear that Neoteny has invested in them. I think that will prove to be a very smart move on Joi Ito’s part. Movable Type is without question the tool of choice for blogging power users.… Read More: Six News »
Freedom to Tinker: Will the RIAA Sue Google? Ed Felten comments on Jacques Distler’s post about the similarity of a search engine such as Google to the tools developed by the four college students who are being pursued by the RIAA’s Uruk Hai legal team. Another interesting comparison might be to image searching via Google.… Read More: Copyright Disclaimer Sufficient? »
Norri Kageki, a staff writer for Nikkei IT Professionals interviewed me on Monday on how I use weblogs as an engineer. She asked a lot of great questions about how I use blogs personally as news sources and how I use them at work. The interview should appear in the May 27 issue. Hopefully, the… Read More: Interview in Nikkei IT Professionals »
Last night’s weblog panel at the Cal Journalism School was very cool. I talked very briefly before the session with Dan Gillmor about PhoneBlogger. Unfortunately, Donna Wentworth and Ed Felten couldn’t be there in person, so they had to join by teleconference (keeping them up until midnight on the East Coast!). If anyone in the… Read More: Weblogs, Information and Society Notes »
The University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism is organizing another weblog panel at North Gate Hall Library on Thursday, April 10. I plan to be there, but I probably won’t try to blog it live. I will probably post some notes afterwards, though. The list of esteemed panelists includes: Dan Gillmor –… Read More: Weblogs Information and Society »
SharpReader is my new favorite 3-pane news aggregator for Windows. NewsDesk and Syndirella just have too many undesirable quirks. SharpReader has a cleaner UI and significantly better usability. Too bad it is a .NET app, as I would like to use it on Linux, as well. However, this is the first .NET app that makes… Read More: SharpReader News Aggregator »
Saturday morning I attended the Viability of Internet Radio session that was part of a University of California Radio Network conference organized this quarter by KALX, the radio station at Cal that my wife runs. The four panelists were: Brian Zisk – founder and Technologies Director for the Future of Music Coalition Rusty Hodge –… Read More: Viability of Internet Radio »
Do Not Call List – California Dept. of Justice – Office of the Attorney General For fellow Californians only, The Office of the Attorney General has set up a page where you can pre-registerfor the nationwide telemarketing Do Not Call Registry. You can use this form to register up to three phone numbers. Enforcement of… Read More: Do Not Call List »