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SPACE
Spacetoday.net
weblog
The Space
Review: essays and commentary about the final frontier
Essays and commentary about the
final frontier.
The Space Review is a new online publication devoted to in-depth articles,
commentary, and reviews regarding all aspects of space exploration: science,
technology, policy, business, and more.
RocketForge :: A Blog for the
Space Age
Red Colony.com - The Future of
Mars Today
TPS: RRGTM:
Student Astronaut Journals
Beagle 2 :
the British led exploration of Mars
b e a g l e
2 : weblog
Martian Soil - Daily news on the
Planet Mars
Martian Soil is a daily blog
dedicated to Mars, bringing the exploration of the Red Planet closer to
enthusiasts and little green men alike.
Louisiana Mars Society -- Home
Page and Weblog
A Voyage to
Arcturus .. Blogspot
AMCGLTD
HobbySpace -
Space Log - Space For Everyone
Space Politics
Because sometimes the most
important orbit is the Beltway...
Winds of
Change.NET: SCIENCE: Space Archives
FAMOUS PEOPLE
ACTORS
WIL WHEATON dot NET
If you have been blogging for any
length of time, you are probably familiar with Wil Wheaton's blog. Wil has been
blogging since not long after he finished his run as Wesley Crusher on Star
Trek.
Wil has self-published a book that will now be handled by O'Reilly &
Associates. In the planning stage are two other books: one on being a geek and
one on web-site design. The geek book will be titled Just a Geek which
"continues the story of Wheaton's
transformation from teen actor to grown-up writer, computer geek, actor,
husband, and stepfather."
COLUMNIST
BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for
TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday Editor of the NY
Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He is now president
& creative director of Advance.net.
This is a personal site.
Dave Barry's Blog
Dave Barry is a humor columnist for
the Miami Herald. His column appears in more than 500 newspapers in the United
States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer
Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this
happened.
Dave has also written a total of 24 books, although virtually none of them
contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS
TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much
taller version of Dave.
Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom
Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson
and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud.
Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman
show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's
underpants with a Barbie doll.
In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United
States. If elected, his highest priority
will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making
Americans install low-flow toilets.
Dave lives in Miami, Florida,
with his wife, Michelle, a sportswriter. He has a son, Rob, and a daughter,
Sophie, neither of whom thinks he's funny.
INTERNET - GURUs
DAVE WINER'S - Blog guru
Dave Winer's weblog about scripting
and stuff like that.
Ben and Mena
Trott - Six Log
Six Log is the weblog of Six Apart,
the company behind Movable Type.
Movable Type is a decentralized web-based personal publishing system designed
to ease maintenance of regularly-updated content. This content can consist of,
but is not limited to, entries in a weblog or online journal, photographs in an
online photo gallery, news headlines on a newspaper site, or articles in an
online magazine.
Developed by the husband/wife team of Benjamin Trott and Mena G. Trott, Movable
Type is a testament of the power of independent software.
Chris Pirillo
Getting Screwed While Everybody
Else is Getting Laid
MOVERS and SHAKERS
Joho the Blog - author David
Weinberger
HUMORUS
FUN STUFF
flooble :: forum
Stay up to date with the latest flooble news. Ask questions,
get answers, and see what's coming up.
Example:
A Business Reply ... http://www.flooble.com/fun/reply.php
Finally .. N*gerian Scam Auto Reply Generator.
This page is the follow up of our Business Proposal Generator, posted last
month. It is arguably more useful, as it lets you easily create responses to
send back to the spammers harassing you. (Note how it's nice and long-winded.)
Simply paste in their details, and click "Generate". Then, cut and
paste the result into a reply email. Who knows... It could be a start of a very
lucrative BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
POINT-OF-VIEW
CONUS
The Agonist--Breaking, balanced
news
Writer, Traveler, Thinker
I am married to a most wonderful young woman, Tatiana Zhiltsova-Kelley,
originally of Uhkta, Respublika Komi, Russia.
I've lived in San Antonio most of
my life, not counting the three muggy years in Houston
while studying at the University of Houston.
Oh yeah, and there was that one year I was an English teacher in Seoul,
South Korea. Now there is
a story.
BA--European History, University of Houston,
1993.
Member, Phi Alpha Theta, International Honor Society of History
1990-present
Amish Tech Support
At least one of my personalities is
sane.
My name's Laurence Simon, I'm in Houston, Texas,
and welcome to my padded cell in the basement of the Blogosphere. Striding the
fine line between pundit and putz, I've been drawn by the cheap whores of fancy
and fate to share some half-baked thoughts with you. It's not a question of
sticking my foot in my mouth but which foot goes in first and do I shoot my
mouth off as well.
Now let's have some fun!
Eschaton
EUROPEN
Boing Boing:
A Directory of Wonderful Things
Dublin
Comment
Musings on matters Irish and
otherwise, by David Havelin
Underway in Ireland
Snippets about tech things around Ireland
with Bernie Goldbach.
Airstrip One
British foreign policy as if the
national interest mattered
OUTRAGES
A Special
Place in Hell
Welcome to my blog. I resisted
doing one of these for a long time, because I was pretty sure no one's
interested in what I had for breakfast. In other words, this won't be a diary.
It will be a place for me to collect my daily outrages (and I seem to have a
lot of them since about this time two years ago, when the New Regime came in).
Power Line
The Views of 3 Lawyers
Paul Mirengoff is a lawyer at the Akin, Gump firm in Washington
D.C. He graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1971 and Stanford
Law School
in 1974. His law practice has focused primarily on employment litigation. For
several years he worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Paul
has authored op-eds for several newspapers, including the Washington Post, and
is currently a contributor to the Power Line web log, where he writes under his
long-time nickname, Deacon. Paul lives in Bethesda,
Maryland with his wife and two daughters.
- - -
John H. Hinderaker is a lawyer with the Minneapolis
law firm Faegre & Benson. For the past ten years Mr. Hinderaker has written
with Institute fellow Scott Johnson on public policy issues including income
inequality, income taxes, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, welfare
reform, and race in the criminal justice system. Their articles have appeared
in National Review, The American Enterprise, American Experiment Quarterly, and
newspapers from Florida to California.
Mr. Hinderaker lives with his family in Apple Valley,
Minnesota. He is a graduate of Dartmouth
College and Harvard
Law School.
- - -
Scott W. Johnson is an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank
in Minneapolis. For the past 10
years Mr. Johnson has written with Institute fellow John H. Hinderaker on
public policy issues including income inequality, income taxes, campaign
finance reform, affirmative action, welfare reform, and race in the criminal
justice system. Their articles have appeared in National Review, The American
Enterprise, American Experiment Quarterly, and newspapers from Florida
to California.
In addition, Johnson and Hinderaker comment on current events on their web log.
Mr. Johnson lives with his family in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College
and the University of Minnesota Law School.
PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE
? ? ?
Conversations
with Dina
Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta's Blog
ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Observer
The Editor has over 10 years experience
preparing complex returns and works for a tax service. To avoid professional
conflicts, the Editor will remain pseudonymous.
COLUMNIST - Technology
Dan Bricklin
Log
The life of Dan Bricklin as a Chief Technology Officer, PC
industry old-timer, and amateur photographer
Dan Bricklin chronicles his life in the computer world with pictures and text.
From the co-creator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet.
Silicon
Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal
About Dan
By Dan Gillmor
Mercury News Technology Columnist
Professional:
I came to the Mercury News in September 1994 after about six years with the
Detroit Free Press. Before that, I was with the Kansas City Times and several
newspapers in Vermont. I've
freelanced for lots of publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe
and the Economist magazine.
Between the first and second semesters of my sophomore year in college, I
played music professionally for seven years. My band's music ranged from '20s
jazz to rock to R&B to country to folk. I miss the music but not the hours
or the second-hand smoke. We recorded two albums. They were artistic (but,
sigh, not financial) successes. I still play, but only in my living room.
I learned some Fortran programming in high school and have forgotten almost all
of it; Visual Basic is about my speed today. My first computer was a late-1970s
Radio Shack model. I also had one of the first Osbornes. Then I got an IBM XT,
followed by a 386 clone and a 486 clone. I use a Pentium and a Mac at work.
Operating systems I run include Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 and the MacOS. I'm
playing with Linux, a Unix clone that runs on IBM-compatible machines. I do not
regard hardware and software -- especially operating systems -- as religions; I
use what works best for me at the moment.
Personal:
I like (not in order of preference): music (all kinds, but especially classical
and folk), film, theater, reading, skiing, tennis, hiking, good food and wine,
cooking, politics, intelligent conversation and lots of other things.
I don't like: tobacco, hypocrisy, Big Brotherism.
COMPUTERS
Doc Searls Weblog
Senior editor for Linux Journal, the original (and still the
leading) Linux magazine, with a worldwide paid circulation of more than 100,000
(translation from the passive-aggressive: "We have subscribers.")
One of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the iconoclastic web site
that became the best-selling book. I am following up with a book will unpack
Cluetrain's Thesis #1, "Markets are conversations."
A talking source on The Linux Show, CNET Radio, ZDTV, CNBC, KOMO-TV, KING-TV,
and ZDTV and whoever else wants to risk dispersing my opinions.
A marketing, PR and advertising veteran. Most notably I co-founded Hodskins
Simone and Searls, one of Silicon Valley's top
advertising and public relations agencies. (HS&S was absorbed by Publicis
Technology in early 1998.
A lifelong writer whose byline has appeared in OMNI, Wired, PC Magazine, The
Standard, The Sun, Upside, The Globe & Mail and lots of other places,
including (of course) Linux Journal. Many of those pieces are collected at
Reality 2.0, which is at my personal portal, Searls.com, which is also home to
my consultancy, The Searls Group.
A frequent speaker on any and all the above subjects.
Since I'm always working on too many things, and will probably never stop, I
want my epitaph to read, "He was almost finished."
John
Porcaro's Weblog
John Porcaro's Weblog
MKTG @ MSFT: Thoughts of a Microsoft Marketing Manager
I'm a Group Manager on the Home and Entertainment Division's Retail Marketing
team.
We create communications tools for Retail Partners, Retail Sales Associates,
and our division's employees.
Even though I work for Microsoft, I'm not sure everything accurately reflects
the views
of my employer, my management, my co-workers, or is even true. So, little I say
here is "Microsoft policy".
A Shareware
Life - shareware marketing and everything else for shareware authors
Rants about shareware marketing,
the life of a shareware author, and everything else
DEVELOPERS
The Farm: The Tucows Developers'
Hangout :: Main Page
ECONOMICS
John Robb's Radio Weblog
No sense being pessimistic. It
wouldn't work anyway.
Yesterday, I pointed to Warren Buffet's critic of financial derivatives. Since
at one point of my life I was training to be a derivatives trader on Wall
Street (thank God I didn't do that), here is some more insight into the problem
...
Journal of
Economist Brad DeLong
I started out with a webpage, over time found that I was
doing a "thought of the week," then shifted to doing a
"semi-weekly journal," and now here I am......
J. Bradford "Brad" DeLong Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research Co-Editor, Journal of
Economic Perspectives Columnist, Wired Columnist, Project Syndicate My C.V....
INTERNET Technologest's
Thomas
Vander Wal
This is the Thomas Vander Wal that went to Lincoln High;
Saint Mary's College of California;
Centre for Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford,
England; and grad school
at Georgetown University Public Policy Institute.
I am fortunate that work and play intersect to a great degree. I build
information applications based on Internet technologies and base a lot of my
work on information architecture foundations.
Work...
Web Support Manager, Senior Internet Technologest
INDUS Corporation - http://www.induscorp.com/
Lived...
Arlington, VA; San Francisco, CA; Oxford, England, UK; Moraga, CA; Stockton,
CA; Pacific Palisades, CA; Portland, OR; Bellevue, WA; Spokane, WA.
LAWERS
Ernie the
Attorney - Searching for Truth & Justice (in an unjust world)
I started out speaking mostly
Spanish. At least that's what they tell me. Then I apparently was sent to nursery
school and had to learn English to get along. My parents got divorced, and
someone shot President Kennedy...then Martin Luther King, and then Bobby
Kennedy. One day my brother and I moved with my mom to Panama...you
know where they have the Canal Zone. Except we lived in
the country of Panama
'cause my mother was Panamanian.
Went to a Panamanian high school and had to learn Spanish again to get along.
Jimmy Carter came and returned the Canal to the Panamanian people (speaking in
Spanish with a Southern accent). I left to go to college in New
Orleans. Bunch of classes. Played guitar. Majored in
Philosophy. Thought about trying to learn German so I could get along, but
decided to just try it in English. Is Heidegger more comprehensible in German?
Probably not.
Graduated and went to work as a waiter at a fine New
Orleans restaurant and learned all the really
important stuff in life.
Went to law school. Graduated. Clerked for a Federal Judge for a couple of
years and learned some useful things about law. Started practicing and learned
a whole bunch of useful things about the way it all actually works in corporate
America. Along
the way, got married and had three great kids. Divorced, and then remarried to
a wonderful woman who also practices law.
So, I've got the law thing, the music thing, the photography thing, the family
thing, one or two bad habits, a psychotic cat, and now the 'blog thing. And
when I die (which hopefully won't be soon), I'll probably achieve total
consciousness. So I've got that going for me too, which is nice.
How did the blog thing start?
Well, sort of by accident. I downloaded some software that let me post stuff
directly up to the web where people I could never hope to meet could read it.
And they did. One thing led to another...and time passed, and more things led
to other things and, well, you know how it is.
Copyfight: the Politics of IP/
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Here we'll explore the nexus of legal
rulings, Capitol Hill policy-making, technical standards development and
technological innovation that creates--and will recreate--the networked world
as we know it. Among the topics we'll touch on: intellectual property
conflicts, technical architecture and innovation, the evolution of copyright,
private vs. public interests in Net policy-making, lobbying and the law, and
more.
IsThatLegal?
A law professor's musings. Eric
Muller, UNC Law
School
The Volokh Conspiracy
Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, copyright law, the law
of government and religion, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy at UCLA
Law School.
Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S.
Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit.
Volokh also worked for 12 years as a computer programmer, and is still partner
in a small software company which sells HP 3000 software that he wrote. He
graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science at age 15, and has
written many articles on computer software. He is a member of the The American
Law Institute.
SOAPs
Our/My Life ...
Aprilgem's
log - an alien barbecue
About the Author
WHO
April, age 29, filipina-mutt—I'm most often compared to Emily Latella, Gracie
Allen, & Lucille Ball. I have once or twice been compared to Audrey Hepburn
& Dorothy Parker, but that was only once or twice, mind you, and I've never
heard the comparison since. I've also been compared to a PITA numerous times,
and no, I don't mean the bread.
WHAT
I'm just a graphic designer, and this is just an online journal of no
consequence. No, not a blog. Heaven forbid that you should call this a blog.
WHERE
Southern California, United
States, third planet from the sun of some
nondescript solar system somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. Am I specific or
what?
WHEN
I post whenever I feel like it, of course. I guess you could say it depends on
the time of the month. See calendar above.
WHY
I don't actually have a clue why I do this. It's not like anybody cares, is it?
Breathe ..
Forever Sideways
"There are places I remember
all my life,
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
Of lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all.
And with all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you..."
I'm not sure that I can describe it any better than the lyrics from this
Beatles' tune. I have traveled quite a distance...those that know me, know that
is true. Those that don't know me will just have to take my word for it. I am
passionate about life - meaning that sometimes I am "good" passionate
and at other times, well, let's just say that I didn't earn the name
"Woman Who Stands With Fist" for nothing.
So going home is always the way. Where is home? Well, even though we think we
are traveling an outward path, looking for our way - all journeys are inward.
That's where the really good stuff is...at the source where it all begins. We
just think that we travel to it when, all along, we are traveling with it.
Have I told you anything about my adventures in Canada?
They are amazing tales of escape and discovery. So the "none compares with
you...." referenced above is still there. Waiting. Night trippin' with Jay
- oh take me on your vacation!
In the meantime, I am still on my journey - as we all should be - and I have
thousands of miles to go, lots to learn, mirrors to look in. In the end, well,
all we have to do is...just breathe.
Eric and
Erin
We also wanted to let you know that
we have developed this website as a resource for you guys. Hopefully, you will
discover a little more about the both of us, and you'll find continuous updates
of the progression of our wedding planning.
Fly
Away..... (Sarah .. Age 25)
Maybe someday I'll be just like you and
Whatever Little Raven (a.k.a. Sarah) says today - she would always like to...
----------------------------------------------
Fly Away.....
Inside Gretchen's Head
Inside Gretchen's Head
I know you ain't touchin' my mannequin!
kottke.org
:: home of fine hypertext products
- kottke.org is the personal site
of Jason Kottke. It consists mainly of a weblog** and some other stuff.
- I am a freelance Web designer & developer based in NYC.
life interrupted
Ok before i pass out i'm gonna do a
brief intro for my new blog. my name is will and i live and work in the dc
area. i'm 27 years of age now and have been here for over 4 years. right after
college at suny buffalo i moved down here to work for a company that recruited
me during my senior year. surprisingly i still work at the exact same place but
with a different company. i had never thought i'd be here for such a long time.
my original timetable was to be back in nyc in under 2 years. why nyc? well,
because thats home and where i grew up until i went to buffalo for school. now
it looks like i'll be here for the long haul since i'm shopping around for a
house.
Mike's Place
I live in Sacramento,
California, where i work at the Sacramento
Bee, where I used to be the advertising department House Geek. I was
promoted(?) last year to Publishing systems, where I do more coding in Perl,
CGI, C, and a few proprietary scripting languages.
I live with my lady Jane and two cats: Gray and S'more. Here's S'more and me .
I'm more or less your standard computer geek/hobbyist: I play on the machine,
watch old movies,
go for walks when Jane drags me, kicking and screaming into the OUTDOORS...
Jane uses a computer, but the keyword is USES...
I don't know if you can see it but that's WP5.1 for DOS on her
screen...(shudder)
I also do the website for the Northern California WoodTurners Association, a
collection of people who work with the lathe...
I turned 50 on wednesday.
(got am AARP invite on tuesday...THAT was kinda strange....)
My Thoughts
- Tiffany
Susan's 2020 Hindsight :
The Computer
Vet Weblog
Scott Schrantz is a computer and Web professional living on
the sagebrush-y outskirts of Carson City, Nevada.
This weblog is my place to point out what I think is good about the Web, or
just spout off about whatever I'm thinking
Age: 26
What I Do: I'm a network administrator / help desk tech / webmaster / all
around swell guy for an Engineering Firm in Carson City.
I also run “The Computer Vet”, a little freelance Web and computer consulting
business, out of my home, but since I'm no good at sales or marketing, I'll
probably never be able to quit my day job.
Why “The Computer Vet?”
Simply put, because “The Computer Doctor” was too much of a cliche. And my wife
and I are animal lovers, so the play on words seemed appropriate. I've always
felt that computers are more like pets, anyway. They're part of your family,
but if they die you can always get another one.
Why do I write here (and here)?
I started my weblog because I've always had this all-consuming desire to be a
capital-w Writer. I've never been that great at it, though. I was an unofficial
English major during my two years at University, and I took several creative
writing classes. But then it just kind of slipped away from me; the ability,
the drive, the writing. It was gone.
And then the Web came along, and I see all these ultra-intelligent people out
there writing away, and you can get published just by being a computer nerd,
and I say to myself “Gosh! I need to be a part of that!” I also know the best
way to exercise any muscle (the brain, in this case) is to use it often. So
here I am, shoveling dreck upon you, the gentle reader, in a semi-daily
fashion, hoping that one day I'll read something I wrote and say, “Say! It
looks like I'm a Writer now!”
I'm not holding my breath.
View from
the Spaghetti Factory
Popped out in 1968 in Lincoln,
England. Stayed there
while gaining height and rudimentary social skills. Started playing guitar at
13. Did the university thing in Norwich,
spending two extra years of relative unemployability there. Also a year at a Folk
High School in Uppsala,
Sweden, studying music.
Moved down to Sutton in the suburbs of South London/Surrey in 1993 (because of
g/f Nicola's work) and we're still here. Started teaching guitar and working
for Guitarist magazine. Grew older.
Guitarist magazine
Guitarist is one of the major guitar magazines published by Future Publishing,
although it dates back to 1984. I've been working for the mag since early 1994
- I started as a freelance transcriber, but I now do a whole lot more.
Although my job title is "Music Editor", I do a lot more besides
editing and proofreading the Techniques section. I transcribe anything from
licks to full songs, review products, write technique articles and occasional
interviews. The magazine comes with a CD, so I'm also called on to play
accurate renditions of the transcriptions, play in the style of tons of different
players and write pieces of music to demonstrate new products.
TECHNOLOGY
BLOGGing
BLOGGER - Push Button Publishing
for the People
What is Blogger?
Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly --
whenever the urge strikes. Blogger is the leading tool in the rapidly growing
area of web publishing known as weblogs, or "blogs."
What is a weblog/blog?
A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that
are arranged chronologically—like a what's new page or a journal. The content
and purposes of blogs varies greatly—from links and commentary about other web
sites, to news about a company/person/idea, to diaries, photos, poetry,
mini-essays, project updates, even fiction.
Blog posts are like instant messages to the web.
Many blogs are personal, "what's on my mind" type musings. Others are
collaborative efforts based on a specific topic or area of mutual interest.
Some blogs are for play. Some are for work. Some are both.
Blogs are also excellent team/department/company/family communication tools.
They help small groups communicate in a way that is simpler and easier to
follow than email or discussion forums. Use a private blog on an intranet to
allow team members to post related links, files, quotes, or commentary. Set up
a family blog where relatives can share personal news. A blog can help keep
everyone in the loop, promote cohesiveness and group culture, and provide an
informal "voice" of a project or department to outsiders.
BLOGS in Business
Chapter 8
Where I work, much of the
company-wide memorandums and communication is done via e-mail, with some
e-mails containing numerous attachments that sometimes weigh in at a hefty
one-to-two megabytes. It'd be so much better if these e-mails only referenced
documents somewhere on the intranet instead of including them as attachments.
The intranet page for each department could be a regularly updated weblog of
information currently being circulated. This would solve so many problems with
disk space and deleted e-mails, it puzzles me that some corporate intranets
haven't adopted these simple concepts for the easy distribution of information.
—Cameron Barrett (www.camworld.com)
... Chapter 8. [more about the book] [trackback this chapter]. Using Blogs in
Business. ... Workgroup
blogs. Most medium- and large-sized companies have intranet sites. ...
Microsoft
Watch - News and Analysis on Microsoft Plans, People, Strategy and Products
MICROSOFT WATCH is a unique,
independent and timely email newsletter about one of the most influential and
dominant technology companies in history. It's written for executives,
marketers, investors and IT professionals whose need-to-know about Microsoft
goes well beyond the daily headlines.
If getting the real story behind Microsoft's products and strategies as they
develop is important to your work, your business, or your investments, you'll
find Ziff Davis Microsoft Watch an invaluable read.
Microsoft Watch is written and edited by Mary Jo Foley, one of the best known
investigative journalists covering the company. There is probably no one in a
better position today to bring you the sophisticated insight and - above all -
high-quality, important news stories well in advance of their appearance
elsewhere. Microsoft watchers probably know Mary Jo best for her award-winning
ZDNet column about Microsoft, "At the Evil Empire." She's reported
almost exclusively about Microsoft for eight years, for eWEEK (PCWeek) and
ZDNet, and most recently for Baseline.
if you compete or partner with Microsoft – think of Microsoft Watch as an
"early warning system" that could literally give you the time you
need to successfully react to significant change
if you rely on Microsoft products, you'll know their direction earlier and
better
if you're an investor in technology companies, Microsoft Watch will give you
objective, un-"spun" details – before the rest of the market
Critique - Analysis - Debate
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Karlin Lillington's weblog on whatever comes to mind...
I am a journalist (born in Canada, grew up in Silicon Valley...) based in
Dublin, Ireland, where I work as a columnist and reporter on technology issues,
primarily for the Irish Times but also for The Guardian in London. I also
contribute to Wired.com and at various times write or have written for the San
Jose Mercury-News, The London Sunday Times, New Scientist, Red Herring,
eCompany/Business 2.0, Industry Standard, Salon.com, Edge, New Media Age, Web
Ireland, Decision, ZDNet's GameSpot, the Irish Sunday Business Post, the Irish
Independent. I enjoy doing occasional work on radio and television, too. Before
that, I spent many wayward but enjoyable years completing a PhD in the
Department of Modern English at Trinity
College, Dublin
(so yep, I'm Dr Lillington as well, but no one calls me that but my relatives...).
For a brief, glorious time I had the most (the only? :^) ) saleable doctorate
in the arts -- a study of Seamus Heaney's poetry, completed just before he won
the Nobel. So I went into writing about technology instead.
I'd like this weblog to be complementary to the writing I do for print media.
In print, a writer is hedged in by time and space -- deadlines and column
inches. Also, print tends to be a more formal and structured format. Weblogs
are realtime, flexible, unconfined. Here, I can throw out fast bits of
commentary on subjects as they are in the news, rather than several days after,
link to what I find interesting on the web, perhaps generate some reader
discussion.
What do I tend to post? Items that are curious and quirky, links to stories in
technology areas that interest me, tech snippets of Irish and European
interest, bits that link technology, culture, politics, society. And,
miscellaneous other things that have no reason for being in something called
"techno\culture" other than that heck, I liked them.
Welcome on board; hope you enjoy dipping in and out.
GavinsBlog.com
According to Google-watch.org, Google™ also hired a man
formerly of the National Security Agency, Matt Cutts. So what you might say?
Well, try searching for "Echelon surveillance" and see exactly what
the NSA is capable of with regard to tracking information. And if you ever feel
aggrieved by Google™, well tough. As Google-watch points out "There are no
detailed, published standards issued by Google™, and there is no appeal process
for penalized sites. Google™ is completely unaccountable. Most of the time they
don't even answer email from webmasters."
The point to all of this is really, trust and privacy. Do I trust Google™? Not
anymore. Is Google™ a caring corporate entity and is not really in it for the
money? Of course not.
If you are worried about government spying like Total Information Awareness,
Carnivore or Echelon, you need not worry. Google™ is already doing quite a good
job of spying on us all already.
I do not like Google™.
I have now decided that AlltheWeb shall be my new search engine and homepage.
Hopefully they will not go down the same road as Google™.
I want to go further than Pete Prodoehl who thinks everyone should switch
search engines for a day. I think we should all follow Apple's motto of
"Switch" - and "switch" away from Google™.
I am boycotting Google™ from this day forth. I would encourage all users of the
Internet to do likewise.
Gavin Sheridan
Chris Gulker
- words and pictures from Silicon Valley
Chris Gulker is currently writing, speaking and advising media and technology
companies about the future from his base in Menlo Park,
California.
Gulker was Vice President of Marketing and Sales (and is currently an advisor)
at Montclare Technologies, Inc., a startup Web software and services firm that
treats Web sites as Web applications, offers an outsourced 'virtual team'
staffing model, and is otherwise revolutionizing Web development.
Gulker was formerly Director of Strategic and Industry Relations for Apple
Computer's Design & Publishing Markets group. As publishing business
development manager, Gulker launched Apple's Design & Publishing Web site
in 1995 and later worked on the now-famous turnaround under Steve Jobs, being
promoted to Director late in 1998.
Formerly Director of Development at the San Francisco Examiner, he launched
www.examiner.com and helped launch The Gate, the Examiner/Chronicle/KRON joint
venture in 1994, under publisher Will Hearst. Previously, he had led The
Examiner's pioneering desktop publishing and digital imaging projects, which
resulted in the first large, color metro daily produced on the Mac desktop.
Before joining the Examiner, Gulker worked as a photographer at the Los Angeles
Herald Examiner under editors Jim Bellows and Mary Ann Dolan and was nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize. As a freelancer he worked for the Picture Group and Saba
agencies, and has been published in Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone,
Glamour, and The New York Times among other publications.
Gulker has spoken widely on the subject of the future of publishing, addressing
publishing industry groups including Seybold Seminars, The Newspaper
Association of America, Printing Indutries of America and Stanford Publishing
Workshops in the U.S., IFRA, The World Association of Newspapers, Grafex and
the Eurpopean Workforce Development Conference in Europe, the Pacific Area
Newspaper Publishers Association in Australia, and The Page Conference and
Seybold Seminars in Tokyo. Gulker has also been a regular presenter at MacWorld
in San Francisco, New York
and Taipei, as well as Apple Expo
in the UK.
Gulker writes a biweekly technology column for The Independent (London)
and resides in Menlo Park (California)
with spouse Linda Hubbard, Cassie, an Australian Shepherd, and Kitty, a small,
grey cat with an attitude.
GADGETS
Gizmodo : The Gadgets Weblog
Gizmodo serves up daily news and product reviews relating to
the world of gadgets and electronics. Get the latest information on PDA's
laptops, cellphones, software, digital cameras etc. Useful!"
Edited by Peter Rojas, a tech journalist who writes for The New York Times,
Wired, Salon and the Guardian, and backed by ex-FT hack and now Manhattan
resident Nick Denton, it's powered by Movable Type, the planet's best content
management system.
The blog's got a lovely look and feel: layout is clean, navigation is easy to
use, text is snappy and informed, links are well chosen and the thumbnails of
the PDAs, laptops, phones, digital cameras and peripherals make one want to do
some serious credit card damage.
Hi TECH
IdeaFlow
Tech News .. Filtered Daily - Creativity & Innovation:
New ideas, products, concepts, ideation. Corante.
About Us
Corante is a leading news and business intelligence service on technology
that's read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders,
followers and thinkers.
Every day our expert editors scan hundreds of sources - finding, distilling and
linking to the news stories, magazine articles, reports and related resources
that truly inform and provide the context, perspective and analysis industry
professionals need.
An information service that delivers targeted news coverage of multiple
verticals via both its website and email newsletters, Corante is also helping
to pioneer the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of
reportage and commentary.
Corante cuts through the clutter to help its readers stay up to date, turn the
raw data of news into knowledge, find sector intelligence they need to know
about and save time.
OUR NAME
We take our name - some inspiration too - from the enterprising British printer
Nathaniel Butter. His Corante - which first hit the streets of London
on September 24, 1621 - is
widely considered to be the first English language newspaper. Corante 2.0
launched some 379 years later. Pronunciation: [core-AUNT]
Need To Know
<*the* weekly high-tech
sarcastic update for the uk>
Need to Know is a useful and interesting UK
digest of things that happened last week or might happen next week.
You can read it on Friday afternoon or print it out then take it home if you
have nothing better to do.
It is compiled by NTK from stuff they get sent.
Registered at the Post Office as: "martyrs to the cause"
Slashdot
News for nerds, stuff that matters
Techdirt.
News, opinions and discussions
about high-tech subjects. Often focussing on the negative sides of the
industry.
NETWORKING
Wi-Fi News: 802.11b Weblog
This site is dedicated to news,
features, and links about high-speed wireless networking and communication,
focusing on Wi-Fi and IEEE specs 802.11a, b, and g.
About the Site Owner
Glenn Fleishman writes about Web publishing, the Macintosh, and wireless
networking for The New York Times, The Seattle Times (Macintosh columnist), The
Seattle Weekly, O'Reilly Network, and Macworld magazine.
Glenn operates the book price comparison site isbn.nu. He has co-authored
several books, including a column for the Seattle Times. In Feb. 2001, he
produced a front-page feature for the New York Times Circuits section on the
deployment and availability of 802.11b in public places like airports,
conference centers, and coffee shops - a trend he sees accelerating.
Glenn has a degree in graphic design, but has pursued technology since 1979,
when his parents bought him an OSI C1P 6502-processor-based computer while he
was in junior high. Despite forays into other endeavors, his interests remain
technology-based, now focused on the implications of technology - specific and
general - on individuals and society. And really cool toys.
WirelessDevNet
Technological and news weblog.
PROGRAMMERS
Sam
Gentile's Blog
Partyin'with .NET - Musings on
.NET, Rotor, Family, Groove, C++ and more!
SCIENCE News
Alan Boyle:
Cosmic Log
SERACH Engines
Search
Engines .. Tips & News
Search Engine Blog is a site
dedicated to search engine optimisation news, information, and tools.
The INTERNET
Microdoc
News
Online Magazine about exercising
personal power in the Information Age.
Onlineblog.com - Guardian
Online's weblog
Welcome to Onlineblog.com, a weblog
covering internet and technology news produced daily by the Guardian Online
team.
SOFTWARE
BLOG TOOLS
Google
Directory - Computers Internet On the Web Weblogs Tools Publishers
BlogRolling - The best link
manager for your weblog and more!
BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist
manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving
linklist with ease. There are a lot of tools out there to help you blog without
getting your hands dirty - but managing your linklist still means having to
crawl through the HTML in your template every time you want to add or remove a
link. No more! Now it's as simple as clicking a link or making a pit stop at
BlogRolling.
Salon.com
Salon Blogs are powered by Radio
UserLand, a simple yet versatile software tool that lets you post new items
from your Web browser with one click. Radio UserLand automatically builds your
site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- you
don't need to know HTML, FTP, or graphic design. All you need to do is install
Radio and begin publishing. You can publish written text, links, photos,
documents, and more with just a single click of your mouse.
WebLog / Journal
Greymatter - The Opensource
Weblog/Journal Software
Greymatter is the original
opensource weblogging and journal software. With fully-integrated comments,
searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customisable output
through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many
other features—while having perhaps the simplest installation process and
easiest-to-use interface of any program offering this level of
functionality—Greymatter permanently raised the bar for weblogging and
journaling, and it remains the program of choice for tens of thousands of
people around the world.
Just how opensource is it?
It's about as free and opensource as you'll get! Almost all other
weblog/journal programs and services either have various restrictions on what
you can do with them, or they require payment for you to remove the
restrictions or unlock their full functionality.
Movabletype.org
Movable Type is a decentralized
web-based personal publishing system designed to ease maintenance of
regularly-updated content. This content can consist of, but is not limited to,
entries in a weblog or online journal, photographs in an online photo gallery,
news headlines on a newspaper site, or articles in an online magazine.
Developed by the husband/wife team of Benjamin Trott and Mena G. Trott, Movable
Type is a testament of the power of independent software.
Since its first release in October 2001, Movable Type has grown to be a
full-featured and robust system which is constantly updated and integrated with
the day's latest advances in personal publishing. Movable Type's greatest
strength lies in its flexibility; most everyone who uses the system is amazed
by just what it can do.
SOCIAL EVENTS
AREA BLOGS
Boston blogs
Boston
blogs hosts social events for Boston-area web writers & webloggers
GEEKS
Personal BLOGS
daniel gray's geekbooks.com -
from the swamps of joisey
big daddy geekbooks blog-a-delic
thing
Gadgetopia
"Geek and you shall
find..."
Marshall
Brain's Blog
ShellFront :: Where Shells Come
Alive!
NOTEBOOK:
1. A very inexpensive storage medium which only requires a pencil to make it
work
2. A very expensive computer which goes out of date in a very short period of
time
The B-Zone -
Software
wonko.com
Reporting geeknews with a slice of
sanity.
MICROSOFT
PEOPLE
John
Porcaro's Weblog
John Porcaro's Weblog
MKTG @ MSFT: Thoughts of a Microsoft Marketing Manager
I'm a Group Manager on the Home and Entertainment Division's Retail Marketing
team.
We create communications tools for Retail Partners, Retail Sales Associates,
and our division's employees.
Even though I work for Microsoft, I'm not sure everything accurately reflects
the views
of my employer, my management, my co-workers, or is even true. So, little I say
here is "Microsoft policy".
Better
Living Through Software
Better Living Through Software
Life at Microsoft, the software industry from a rational perspective
Boing Boing: A Directory of
Wonderful Things
A DIRECTORY OF WONDERFUL THINGS
what's in rebecca's pocket?
Rebecca Blood is an internationally
known weblogger, writer, and speaker. Rebecca has maintained the popular
weblog, Rebecca's Pocket, since April 1999, linking and writing about current
events, media literacy, web culture, sustainability, domestic life, and
whatever else catches her eye. In September 2000 she published the influential
essay Weblogs: A History and Perspective. In July 2002 she published her first
book, The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your
Blog, which was chosen by the editors of Amazon as one of the 10 best books on
digital culture for 2002. Both have been used in university courses throughout
the English-speaking world. She currently lives in San
Francisco.
Rebecca is frequently called on by the press to illuminate the currently
unstoppable weblog phenomenon, and she has discussed online culture in
interviews with the New York Times, Newsweek, Fast Company, the BBC, and on
National Public Radio. She presented a keynote speech at Blogtalk, the first
international conference about weblogs, held in Vienna,
Austria May 23-24, 2003. She will next be
appearing at PlaNetworks, a conference on sustainability, to be held in San
Francisco June
6-8, 2003.
Kent
Sharkey's blog
Software
(Management) Process Improvement
Poor management can increase
software costs more rapidly than any other factor." Barry Boehm
Forget silver bullets. Let's get out there and improve the way we manage
software development!
Meeting are more effective when:
-- there is a clear goal or purpose for the meeting
-- there is an appropriate process to reach the goal
-- the goal can be reasonably accomplished in the time allocated
-- necessary background information is available
-- any preparation necessary is explicit (and actually completed)
-- the people who need to be present to achieve the goal are known and are
present
-- the meeting is kept to the smallest number of people needed to achieve the
goal
FREE Press
INDEPENDENTs
Independent Media Center -
The only true "free"
press
The Writings of Greg Palast
USA
U.S.
News Blogs
U.S. News
Blogs
MILITARY
Defense Technical Information
Center
Deeds
For a different look at things in Iraq,
Deeds is a blog by one of the many CPA workers trying to figure out the actual
rebuilding of Iraq.
If you want an inside look at what "we're" doing to make things
better over there, go read now.
MILTRARY - Stryker Brigade
Interim
Armored Vehicle - Stryker
Just PEOPLE
FEMALE
Beth's Contradictory Brain
MALE
chiefwiggles.blog-city.com CPA
attacked
I am in my early 50’s, but so young
at heart, full of excitement and amazement.
I have served in the Army National Guard for over 30 years, been to two wars
and have been part of many great and magical things in places all over the
world.
I am an interrogator/debriefer here at a palace in Baghdad,
Iraq.
ASIA
IRAQ
Tony Sodaro's CPA Iraqi Blog! by
AWSODA.NET
Tony Sodaro's CPA Iraqi Blog!
What happens here, stays here. Yea right we all have camera's and internet!
Korea
marmot.blog-city.com
Shit hits the fan for Hanchongnyon?
WARBLOGs
SOLDIERS BLOGS
A Minute Longer - A Soldier's
Tale
I have a few friends that have been
sent or called up for the soon-to-be-conflict in Iraq.
One such friend is Will aka Will not weasel or Will from Omaha
or whatever other moniker he's using on my site that day.
Will is a pretty good writer and this is the collection of his writings. It'll
be interesting to hear updates from a soldier's point of view, so I'll be
posting them for all to read.
A Soldiers
Blog
Independent Journalists
Back to Iraq 3.0
Christopher Allbritton, former AP
and New York Daily News reporter, has raised money from his readers to fund his
travel to Iraq
where he is now reporting war events as an independent journalist. He is
currently reporting from Arbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.
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