Monthly Archives: May 2006

Technorati blues.

Posted on 5/24/2006 by Dylan Tweney

Don’t even get me started on Technorati. The endless waiting while their servers churn along. The unpredictable outages. The bizarre way in which they organize the wealth of bloggy information they supposedly index. But maybe I’m just taking this a … Continue reading →

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Priceless: “Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.” Competitive Enterprise Institute

Posted on 5/23/2006 by Dylan Tweney | Comments Off

This is just too sad for words: Former Berkeley student known as “Naked Guy” dies in jail (via hudin.com)

Posted on 5/23/2006 by Dylan Tweney | Comments Off

Shuffle puzzle.

Posted on 5/22/2006 by Dylan Tweney

You’d think the iPod Shuffle would work just like any other iPod. But there are some inexplicable differences. For instance, most iPods you can plug into any computer and play the music that’s on them through ITunes. Not so with … Continue reading →

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Ballsiest move I’ve ever seen by an online news organization — Go, Evan! Wired News: Why We Published the AT&T Docs

Posted on 5/22/2006 by Dylan Tweney | Comments Off

SF bloggers.

Posted on 5/15/2006 by Dylan Tweney

A friend asked if I could name a few San Francisco-based bloggers. It was harder than I expected, though there are certainly a few. Here’s an off-the-top-of-my-head list of bloggers I know of, in and around San Francisco: Craig Newmark … Continue reading →

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Kevin Kelly takes 10 pages to wind up to this original idea: “Copyrights must be counterbalanced by copyduties. In exchange for public protection of a work’s copies (what we call copyright), a creator has an obligation to allow that work … Continue reading →

Posted on 5/15/2006 by Dylan Tweney | Comments Off

Funny, Web 2.0 looks a lot like Web 1.0 (which looked a lot like the old Main Stream Media): Read/WriteWeb: 53,651 male, youngish, rich, powerful and geeky readers

Posted on 5/15/2006 by Dylan Tweney | 1 Comment

Seth Godin: “The next time you get all formal or obfuscatory or snarky, ask a simple question, ‘If I knew this person and we were eating together in a restaurant, would I speak to them the same way?‘

Posted on 5/12/2006 by Dylan Tweney | 3 Comments

WFMU.

Posted on 5/12/2006 by Dylan Tweney

I’m spending way too much time listening to MP3s from New York radio station WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Where else could you find enough versions of Stairway to Heaven and Tico Tico to fill up a Shuffle? Where else … Continue reading →

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