Thu 14 Apr. 2005

Blog Censorship Ahead?

CNET | News.com: Blog censorship gains support:

Most Americans believe bloggers should not be allowed to publish sensitive personal information about individuals, according to a new survey.

Yeah, well most americans voted for GWB too, so…

However, more than one-third of respondents had never heard of blogs before participating in the survey, and only around 30 percent of participants had actually visited a blog themselves.

Update:

Don’t know how I missed this post on Ars Technica: The FEC, FUD, and the blogpocalypse

Del.icio.us Funding Sources

News.com confirms that funding came from selling a minority stake of the company to Union Square Ventures, Amazon.com and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.

W00t!

That brings us to the third correct prediction made on 01.01.05.

The first was Bloglines going to Ask Jeeves. The second was Flickr’s sale to Yahoo.

Run Linux On Gmail

Hack A Day

richard jones wrote some python that allows you to mount linux within gmail. you can use all kinds of unix commands to communicate with gmail like ls, rm, grep, cp, etc. it’s an ongoing project in development but it’s very cool and allows you basically a 2gb virtual drive of sorts.

(via digg/links)

Update:
The Hack A Day site sudddenly resolves to Weblogs Inc. … mmm, seems like this hack has been taken down.

No, now it’s back again.

Visit Apple on Google Maps

1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014

(via Google GlobeTrotting: via Robot Wisdom)