Sun 31 Jul. 2005

Mac OPML Editor

Alright! At last.

Just got it here. Feedback will follow.

Update

W00t! Here we go!

Lots of diggin to do!

Sat 30 Jul. 2005

1 Billion Visits

It’s really about nothing. A web site about nothing.… and yet

… sort of a meeting place where people from all over the world visit the same site for one simple reason: to make the counter reach ZERO.

A nexus of the universe if you will, where eventually, one fifth of the world’s population will have crossed each others paths. This will be the biggest countdown in the history of mankind, and a world record!

Everytime you enter, the counter will move one step closer towards the big ZERO… See how the race towards zero has spread around the world and be part of the biggest countdown in the history of mankind!

I made it at 0998832835

Keep the counter moving

(via digg/links)

DTV for Mac OS X

The Participatory Culture Blog announces the countdown to the August 9th release of a preview beta version of DTV for Mac OS X.

Internet TV should be open-source and based on open standards, just like blogging and podcasting. We’re working to ensure that the new mass medium of internet TV is free, accessible to all, and built with independent voices.

(via digg/technology)

Firefox Market Share

Spread Firefox quotes the latest worldwide numbers from a French study by Xiti Monitor.

With an overall 14.83% market share in Europe, Finland is at the top with a whopping 31%, followed by Germany at 24.5%. Then comes the Czech Republic, Croatia and Poland, all with more than 20%. Compared with only 11,78% in North America, this is at least one area where Europe leads the way.

Go Firefox!

(via digg/software)

Update: 08.08

Type about:mozilla in the Firefox address box for a little Easter egg.

Forbes: Best Blogs

Forbes’ summer feature Best of the Web includes a comprehensive directory of the web’s best blogs.

Among others, they list meta blogs, economics blogs, art blogs, city blogs, health and fitness blogs, medical blogs, music blogs, literary blogs, career blogs and their own favorites.

A real Fundgrube!

(via 92Y Blog)

Fri 29 Jul. 2005

All The News That’s Fun To Print

A new citizen journalism service called HappyNews: links only to happy news “geared to lift spirits and inspire lives.”

“Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive”

The world can certainly do with more of that…. also sports an RSS feed

(via Micro Persuasion)

Memo to mainstream media…

You don’t get to blog

It is, I’m horrified to report, a direct quote: %u201CWe gotta get into that blogging thing if we want to get snaps from younger readers…%u201D

Now, if you happen to hear these words coming from a very senior, 50-something editor at a well-known American newspaper I’m sure your reaction will be exactly like mine, namely: “uh-oh, I’m going to have a grand mal seizure now…”

(via unmediated)

Wed 27 Jul. 2005

Feedthink

‘ just picked up on some interesting thoughts by Jeff Jarvis:

There are two kinds of stuff on the internet:

* Resources and articles and other static gems.

* Feeds and lists and conversations and other dynamic goodies.

Even that is a quite imperfect bucketing of the wonders of online but stay with me for a second, for it’s at least a useful means of distinguishing some fundamental aspects of Web 1.0 from 2.0 and what’s coming next and what’s needed…

Lists: A new means of creating, finding, organizing, aggregating, communicating, recommending, acting, marketing, consuming…

Feedthink. I like it.

Mon 25 Jul. 2005

OPML Blogs

Now that Dave’s new toy is out, I hope the Mac version will follow soon!

In the meantime, I’m watching the list of blogs grow

Good value!

(via Scripting News)

Thu 21 Jul. 2005

First Autonomous Car Driven by Mac OS X

Team Banzai

“Dora”, is the world’s first fully autonomous vehicle driven by Mac OS
X. The entire development and race management efforts at Team Banzai is
being done using Apple Mac OS X technology.

W00t!

(via digg/apple)

Sun 17 Jul. 2005

New Yahoo! Blogs

Yahoo! Health Expert Blogs:

Leading experts share advice, tips, and personal experiences in the new Yahoo! Health blogs. From allergies to yoga, the blogs cover a variety of topics.

(via Micro Persuasion)

Dumping Microsoft for OS X

After Jeff Jarvis another high-profile blogger, Steve Rubel, is jumping ship: Dear Microsoft, I am Dumping You

Wuba Wuba Wuba, Alright - Welcome, Steve!

(via Scobleizer)

Professional Blogging

ProBlogger reports on his Earning Milestones

I went to the PO Box this morning to grab my mail and found my monthly cheque from Google’s Adsense had arrived for earnings in the month of
May. May was my biggest earning month since I started blogging…

Slashdot quotes Scoble that he’s making upwards of $10,000 per month - to which many reply with visible chagrin! … tsk, tsk, tsk.

Update:
In the comments he does mention the amount: between $10k and $20k ($USD)!

(via Slashdot)

Sat 16 Jul. 2005

More on the Big Switch

Robert Cringely brings you More Shoes:
There’s More to the Apple/Intel Deal Than Even Bob Thought At First

Apple, IBM, dual-core PowerPC chips, Intel, ClickStar, iTunes Movie Store, Video iPod, retinal scan display…

Makes you wonder, and then some, doesn’t it?

(via digg/apple)

Fri 15 Jul. 2005

The Browser Wars Over?

You have been put on notice: the browser wars are over. Moz doesn’t matter. IE is irrelevant. Opera is doing a swan song. Why? In a word, iTunes. And the implications for everyone from Web publishers to you, the hyper-clocked tricked-out geek, are enormous. In fact, being the hyper geek means you can cash in on this trend now. You heard it here first.

An unlikely sounding take on the direction web based content might be taking over at Tom’s Hardware Guide - that is, at first glance - but then, given a little more thought, it might not be so unlikely after all…

(via digg/software)