Sen No Sen

In an issue worthy of a crusade, the budding German blogosphere moves against a company called Jamba who is responsible for the worst, most annoying TV advertising blitz you could imagine - selling mobile phone ring-tones… in an unparalleled barrage of loud, repetitive, brain-dead, in-ya-face ads that are enough to drive anyone, except perhaps young and impressionable pre-schoolers, to scream blue bloody murder!

Even Spiegel Online has picked up on the issue (Google translation… not much of an aid, I’m afraid..) calling it a “PR problem” for Jamba.

I damn well hope so.

(via Der Schockwellenreiter)

myRSS drops free service…

Thank you very much for your interest and support during the early days of myrss.com. We have successfully completed the market research stage and established that there is a real business need for our service. We are now ready for full commercial operations and are re-launching the company as Market Sentinel.

This means that we will be discontinuing the free myRSS service.

Well, then there’s CompleteRSS (formely known as Feedfinder) - although their search results leave a lot of room for improvement: “podcast” resturns only 1 feed!

Update:

RSSDigest, which has just recieved a few new features, looks like a better deal.

Or, FeedFire!

(via del.icio.us/rss)

In reply to Roland Tanglao’s objective and comparative review, Dave Sifry points out some distinctions like Technorati’s advanced seach capabilities:

tsunami AND (phuket OR thailand OR “sri lanka”) or

(”six apart” OR sixapart) AND (livejournal OR “live journal”) and so on.

I should’ve known, because it definitely makes up for the initial let-down I had testing with just single terms…

It also seems that the 3 items limit is not cast in stone.

Roland’s post is a reminder to me of the beneifit we enjoy because of competition like this.

Six Apart provides answers the most general questions regarding the acquisition.

Mena’s Corner goes into greater detail.

Just imagine a service like MusicPlasma for blogs.

A brilliant idea of John Battelle.

I can see it now, sort of like BlogTree, or even better yet, Technorati on steroids!

With its APIs and Cosmos and all, Technorati looks like an ideal candidate for the back-end.

unmediated points out a “postcard sized” portable, embedded Linux device for spatial annotation called Node Explorer:

Location aware computers and the content and services that run on these devices, will change the way that society experiences the real world. Node is a world leader in developing both the technology and the content production methodology required.

Node provides services and products that take the visitor experience of a building, national park or city further and deeper than ever before.

See also this earlier post on hypersurfaces.

Jason Kottke starts a meme:

What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?

Well, I cannot prove but believe…

…in a collective unconscious which all living creatures share - albeit with varying degrees of awareness or ‘illumination’. Further, that is possible for an individual to achieve greater levels of awareness or illumination to include much of what generally remains unconscious to the most of mankind.

What a splendid and thought-provoking post on dose magazine:

nietzsche, art & blogging

I am grateful to respond in agreement that, beyond the more or less mundane individual expression, blogging may very well serve as a means of creative sharing that reaches forms worthy of True living Art, which awaken such sublime levels of appreciation where the suffering in our human condition can actually be experienced with delight and “Amor Fati” - Love of Destiny.

These thoughts resonate strongly with my recollection of reading Joseph Campbell and his saying, “Follow your Bliss”.

Blog On!