Archive for January, 2008

That we take off for Singapore and the start of our grand adventure. So I’ll likely be out of touch for a bit… don’t take it personally.
Catch you from the other… »

I’m fitting this in while visiting family, so this post is late, and likely short on insight - that being said, after pouring hours and days and weeks of hobby-time in building a relevancy algorithm (see: techwatching) I feel the need to comment on Tweetmeme, which launched yesterday to much fanfare.
Divining interesting-ness from a content… »

Were leaving tomorrow AM early for Vancouver, and Victoria to visit family, and will be there for a few days before heading to Singapore - so don’t expect regular content updates here for quite some… »

If anyone wants to meet in Vancouver, we’ll be out and about the eve of Weds, Jan. 31. We have a flight to Singapore leaving at 2:00AM, so we’ll be somewhere ’till about 11:30PM - I’ll post back the… »

With a little accessorization, hair work, and sunglasses, Richard Branson (see video below, found via Sarah Meyers) could go out for Hallowe’en as a perfect Dog the Bounty Hunter (LGT GIS, dog pic below vid). I mean, its… »

After doing some further reading and thinking about the EveryBlock launch today, I had a thought - why not a localized digg? I initially posted this on Mathew’s EveryBlock thread, but wanted to capture it here too. So - why not nyc.digg.com, boston.digg.com, or sf.digg.com?
There’s not a lot of thought behind the idea, this just… »

Today sees the widely covered launch of EveryBlock - a hyper-local aggregator. Coverage is characterized by words like “redefines” and “slick.”
All of which is great for the people behind Everyblock, and I wish them all the best. For what its worth though, I tried a similar concept a few years ago at BlockRocker.com. The concept… »

Sounds awesome? That’s the price… IN BANGLADESH. I’m not there yet, so I can’t attest to it personally, but word is 1150TK/month (Bangladesh Taka) gets you a SIM card set up for unlimited data access. Its prepaid, so no paper bills, no hassle. Of course, I’m imagining the bitrate may be slow and inconsistent, so… »

I’m unemployed - by choice, mind you, but unemployed nonetheless. So when choosing software with which to provision my laptop for my upcoming year-long travel-tech-blogging adventure (8 days left…), I’ve been picking FOSS options every step of the way.
Microsoft Office -> OpenOffice
Photoshop -> Paint.net
…well, um, actually, that’s it so far as everything else I use… »

Anyone else notice that Compete shows digg essentially flat in (three quarters of) ‘07? And, that’s with a lot of feature launches too - topical areas, pictures, video, etc. Say what you will about the validity of Compete stats, but evidently digg is struggling to grow beyond its core 20something-geek demographic.
The continued bleeding of Netscape/Propeller… »