Royal Society: rent-seeking is more important than science — UPDATED
UPDATED — Update: Man, did I ever screw up. I confused the Royal Society with the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA). The RSA is and continues to be a sterling organization that does good works — the...
OPML Sampling: Build a Page Showing the "Best" Item From Each RSS Feed
OPML files are a pretty general tool. However, one of their most common uses is to distribute a list of RSS feeds. I've got mine up (contains something like 200-250 feeds). They're also popping up ...
New Patent Details Virtual Console Interface?
Revolution Report recently came across a patent filed by Nintendo which may possibly be related to the Virtual Console function of the company's next-generation console, code-named Revolution. — The...
More Gloomy Thoughts About Skype
Looks like the doom and gloom about Skype's future is gaining more momentum. After my "Skype's Losing It" post earlier week looking at the political, regulatory and business threats to Skype, Om Mali...
Keep science off web, says Royal Society
The Royal Society, Britain's national academy of science, yesterday joined the debate about so-called open access to scientific research, warning that making research freely available on the internet ...
Nokia N80-3 has been (partially?) FCC approved!
Update 26/11/2005: Corrected some grammatical errors and added model number information - the N80 which was approved in this FCC grant is the Nokia N80-3. Presumably the N80 with quadband + WCDMA 210...
Why OPML is winning
Dave Winer points to the anti-OPML questioning of an 'XML geek' and quotes the pro-OPML answer of an 'ordinary' user - "Because there are tools". — As a wannabe programming geek myself (I just never...
My content, my readers, my numbers, damnit
Hey, My Yahoo, Google Reader, Pluck, Newsgator Enterprise and other RSS readers: Hand over my numbers. You are taking my RSS feed and caching it to serve more efficiently, which would be fine if only...
As Corporate Ad Money Flows Their Way, Bloggers Risk Their Rebel Reputation
When Anita Campbell started her Web log about small-business trends two years ago, she thought it would simply be a service for her clients and help her consulting business grow.
Googling For Gold
With a market cap in orbit and more cash than a small nation, Google's heft is altering the tech industry's behavior. But when does its long-awaited shopping spree begin? — With the news that share...
Animated Google AdSense Testing on Search Engine Blog
Animated Google AdSense Testing on Search Engine Blog — As part of my morning coffee ritual I sift through some of my favorite blogs to look into stories which have run over the course of the evenin...
Sports in your pocket
ESPN is betting that its own cell phone service will bring the next big thing in sports. Will it? — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The next great frontier for the business of sports is probably in your ...
New Options Emerge for Better Data Backup
Let's face it, most of us don't give much thought to data backup until we lose something important — crucial documents, our digital music collections or irreplaceable photos, for example. — Creating...
Scientists, be on guard ... ET might be a malicious hacker
As if spotty teenagers releasing computer viruses on to the internet from darkened rooms were not enough of a headache. According to a scientific report, planet Earth's computers are wide open to a v...
Help Me Write Today's Comic
It's 8 am, Saturday, Pacific Time, and I need help writing one line of Dilbert dialog. Dilbert is at a sales call explaining how his company's product fits with the technology of the other company. ...
THE EFFECT OF P2P FILE-SHARING DEPENDS ON POPULARITY
A fascinating paper from David Blackburn, a Harvard PhD student, on the economics of P2P file-sharing concludes that it does indeed depress music sales overall. But the effect is not felt evenly. Th...
Apple Mighty Mouse repair a success
Despite what AppleMatters and Ars Technica tell you, it is possible to completely dissasemble the Apple Mighty Mouse without breaking the retaining ring. — All I had to do was slip a razor blade bet...
STANDING OUT IN A COMMODITY CROWD
This week, as the number of RSS feeds I subscribe to crossed 150 (accounting for several hundred posts a day and at least an hour of reading time), I took a moment to look at what I've signed up for a...
Linux is Doomed, Thanks to Microsoft
(Column) - The Linux community was left stunned when Windows Server software outsold Linux in the server market. Gartner, Inc. recently reported that sales of Windows systems accounted for nearly 37 ...
Leaving It On or Shutting It Off
Q. Is it better to turn off the computer or can I just keep it on all the time? — A. The question about whether it is better to shut down your computer at the end of each day or to leave it up and r...
Flickr and WebShots - A Classic Web2.0 Case
Flickr and WebShots - A classic web2.0 case Well it would appear that this week, at least according to Alexa, for the first time Flickr has overtaken Webshots in traffic. It's been a trend that has b...
Symantec to Ditch Sygate Firewall
Another free Windows firewall bites the dust. Symantec Corp. has announced rather abruptly that as of next week it will no longer support or offer its Sygate line of firewall products. — The move c...
Nokia lets the N-Gage die a quiet death
Nokia recently announced that they will no longer be developing new versions of the N-Gage gaming phone. The company says it plans to hold off on mobile gaming for a couple of years, concentrating in...
Firm wants to rid Net of suffixes
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names or ...
Fast Company on Simple
Jason Nov 25 — Fast Company's The Beauty of Simplicity talks about how companies are beginning to see that "making things simple is the new competitive advantage" (which was the whole thrust of my t...