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Andrew needed to get something out of his system.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Dare Obasanjo: "Scoble gets on my nerves sometimes." Hehe. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

McPresidentBush speaks on Iraq. More good news, he says. Everything is going great. Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. It seems they have more say in the future of the US than US citizens do. I read today that our national parks are falling apart. How about that. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Looks like some new interop is booting on the Mac, led by Brent Simmons, author of NetNewsWire. I love to see developers working together to make software work better for users. Bravo! Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Jay McCarthy: "Having your house burn in front of you is a very strange experience." Amazing story. Jay is a Thursday night regular. Lisa Williams has started a PayPal account for donations to the McCarthy family. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named lbj.jpgBush would find ample precedent if he chose not to seek reelection. "His escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War eroded his popular standing and led to his decision not to run for reelection to the presidency in 1968." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

CBS: "Forty-one percent approve of the job he is doing as president, while 52 percent disapprove -- the lowest overall job rating of his presidency." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Jakob Nielsen: Thirty Years With ComputersPermanent link to this item in the archive.

Wired: "Once a year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates lectures the nation's top CEOs on how much more productivity they'll get from adopting new technologies." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named ipod.jpgIn NYC last week I saw a tremendous number of iPods. People with the white iPod-ish ear phones. When I could find the unit it was one of the new small color ones. Conclusion: they're selling a lot of these suckers. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A friend of Michael Gartenberg's asked why there are so many debates about syndication, and Michael looks to the Talmud for the answer.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I got my first stock alert from RSS Quotes. Interesting format.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Don Park: "What if a DEMO conference could be held every month?" Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Transcript of last night's CBS interview with General Anthony Zinni.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named raiseTheBar.jpgOn this day in 1999, a milestone essay, Edit This Page, explained how easy-to-use Web content management would develop. It was accurate, it is largely how it evolved. "When I'm reading a web page that I wrote, if I spot a mistake, I have to execute 23 complicated error-prone steps to make the change." That was the problem. Here's the solution. "Every bit of text that I created has a button that says Edit this Page when I view it. When I click the button, a new page opens with the text in an HTML textarea. I edit. Click on Submit. The original page displays with the change. Three easy steps." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Bernie Goldbach sends a pointer to a Sunday Times article about syndication. I can't read it because I don't have a subscription. Here's a quote that Bernie sends along. "The hot topic of today is Really Simple Syndication (RSS), the answer for anyone with news deprivation." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Travelocity asks for feedback from customers. They don't ask the key question: "Why are you spending several hundred dollars a month with our competitors and not with us?" A perfect demo of a company in need of a trip on the Cluetrain.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Philip Miseldine: "I'm not going to give credence to a new specification when the one we have already works perfectly fine." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

     

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