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Ha! Now here’s a resource I wish I’d known about earlier and which I will definitely use in future:

The Budget Traveller’s Guide to Sleeping in Airports

What a pleasure!

(Hat tip to ReasearchBuzz)

Jim Lynch, a self-styled Linux Geek and Community Manager at Extreme Tech, quite literally Embraces Mac OS X!

Judging from the 180+ comments on the Extreme Tech forum as well as the 165+ on OS News, such articles generate a considerable amount of interest these days.

The same effect could be seen on AnandTech just over a week ago.

In the light of a recent study showing that 9 out of 10 Europeans know little or nothing about the new EU constitution, the BBC does a good job by providing some helpful resources:

Quick overviews:

• EU Constitution
• Where member states stand
• A timeline of the EU

In greater detail:

• A briefing on European Constitution referendum as part of a new (beta) section called iCan aimed at encouraging and facilitating participation.
• The full text of the Constitution in pdf format.

Good value!

Elsewhere, as previously mentioned here, there’s also the European Constitution Wiki which deserves a lot of support.

Oh, and I see the blog of Margot Wallström, the EU Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication, has now been fully activated with comment features and feed. Excellent.

I feel sure that her commendable example will bring her colleagues to follow soon.

Update:
A pretty sharp observation from CorporateBlogging.info:

I hadn’t noticed… the url had changed from

europa.eu.int/comm/commission_barroso/wallstrom/weblog/
to
weblog.jrc.cec.eu.int/page/wallstrom

Could be an insignificant technical detail. Could also be a sign telling us that the Commission has prepared it’s infrastructure for more blogs.

I’d be willing to bet a bundle on it!

A cool tip from Blogging Pro on WordPress Category Feeds.

Locating the URL for your category feeds is not always the easiest thing to do with WordPress. TangognaT points out that it’s as simple as adding a ?cat=# of category to the base url for any wordpress feed. So if you wanted to display the RSS feed for category 3, the feed URL would be http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=3. You can also use wp-atom.php?cat=3.

In order to subscribe to a specific category of someone else’s WP blog, you’ll have to get the right id which is assigned sequentially in the order they’re created - so with a bit of fiddling you can find it.

In the comments, however, there’s another tip to use the category by name:

http://yoursite.com/?category_name=yourcategory&feed=rss2

(or /feed/atom)

example:

sennosen.blogsome.com/?category_name=Weblogs&feed=rss2

If the category contains a space you’ll need to replace it with %20

sennosen.blogsome.com/?category_name=Mac%20Stuff&feed=rss2

Works like a charm.

I’ve gone and replaced links to my feeds (though the’re still available, of course) to go with FeedBurner. Besides the tracking feaure, I’ve also opted to splice my de.licio.us links into the feed.

DrunkenBlog: has a pointer to a Video of Steve Jobs demonstrating NeXTSTEP 3.0!

you’ll probably need VLC or MPlayer to view the file.

I haven’t tried MPlayer yet, but can highly recommend VLC.

PBS | I, Cringely: Dethroning King Gillette

is the iPod a razor or a blade? In other words, is Apple a hardware company or a media company?

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Although Sebastien Paquet’s post is being discussed all over right now, I recall John Battelle suggesting something along the same lines 3 weeks ago.

CoSurfing re-invented:

A spy ware free plug-in to Internet Explorer and Firefox that enables you to surf the web with your peers in real-time.

On occasion this might be just the thing…

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The worldKit Weblog announces support for both Typepad and Blogger.

worldkit is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It’s a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects.

Here’s a sample TypePad site and map.

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Tekrati has launched Analyst Cafe: a new directory of weblogs published by information technology and telecommunications industry analysts in conjunction with the New Communications Forum 2005.

See Part 1 of their Special Report: The State of Analyst Weblogs.

Today, approximately 10 percent of the 350 analyst firms Tekrati tracks have well-established blogs

According to the report, that’s about to change.

The New Communications Forum’s Blog University conference is aparently also scheduled for Europe on April 5-6, 2005 at Eurodisney in Paris, France.

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This time in the Home & Garden section: Gossip and Design Guidance

As an indication of how far things have advanced, the article actually dispenses with the hitherto obligatory explaination of what weblogs are. Instead we’re down to a mere “blogs, or Web journals“…

Yay!

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Following a mention of Serendipity, I came across the blog of GoDaddy’s founder, Bob Parsons. His last post describing the 16 Rules he tries to live by is well worth reading:

I came to accumulate a number of rules that I look to in various situations. Some of them I learned the hard way. Others I learned from the study of history. I know they work because I have applied them in both my business and personal life.

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If you’ve ever wondered about Carl Jung’s theory, then here’s a new kind of food for thought!

(Kudos to dose magazine) ..a great post, Hugh!

A presentation at the Blog Business Summit on the pros and cons of various blogging alternatives.

Having tried a few of them myself, I can highly recommend Blogsome to anyone looking for a first class, easy hosted solution.

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