Lantos to Google et al: Are you ashamed?
Tom Lantos is my congressman, and it’s principles like this that keep me voting for him every single time he […]
Field Notes
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Bump de bump.
Anyone else have problems with T-Mobile Hotspots in Starbucks bumping them off the network and reconnecting every 15-20 minutes? It’s
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Blog blog blog
Locke blogged my story. I blogged his blog of my story. Then he blogged my blog of his blog of
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Search two-fer.
I’ve got not one, but two stories about search engines appearing today. Here Comes a Google for Coders, on Wired
Wired
Here Comes a Google for Coders
For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code,
Published Work
Google’s Private Lives
A new search technology from Google makes it possible for law enforcement officials to examine personal documents from your hard
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Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing
Elmore Leonard’s rules of writing. (Sadly not included: Don’t center your copy, since it makes it fucking hard to read.)
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AlterNet: Son of Dot-Com
Winner, best business writing, February 2006: Annalee Newitz: “investors have turned their burning, collective gaze from the wastes of Mordor
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Technorati exodus.
Maybe all these folks are leaving technorati because the site sucks, and they couldn’t fix it. Valleywag: Jason DeFillippo walks
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Another iPod request.
Dear Steve Jobs: Next time you update the iPod and iTunes, can you please make the music styles listed in