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Wednesday, December 19, 2001
Buy Apple stock 
| | Between stuff like this (exaggerated, but true on some premises) and this (perhaps with a GPS/SegWay tie-in? I wishfully wonder...) not to mention somewhat slow market upsuck of Windows XP (and the fact that no matter how good Microsoft is at what it does, trees do not grow to the sky), I'd say Apple, for all its personality quirks, is in a very good spot right now. |
HCLs
| | Hotel California Lists, or HCLs, are my new label for email lists you can check out of, but never leave. Ken Rutkowski's Daily Tech News Clicks (see Get Small, below) appears to be one of them. After unsubscribing for the Nth time, it came again today. All 67k of it. |
Pixel kickers
| | If you're looking to kick the virtual tires of digital cameras, check out DPreview and Imaging Resource. Great sites with frank and thorough reviews. And thanks to Thomas E. Weber of the Wall Street Journal for the links. Found them in an old issue I'm about to throw away while cleaning up the office before running off to pic up my mom and sis at the airport. |
What I miss about the Bay Area
| | Talbots Toy Land in San Mateo is the best toy store I've ever known. Family-owned, comprehensive, authoritative, friendly, and freaking huge. With real toys like airplanes and Lionel Trains, Barbies without batteries, books of all kinds... |
| | Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto the best camera store I have ever known. They have it all, and then some. Great folks, too. It's a Talbots for adults. |
Holiday thoughts of a Cluetrainy sort
| | Why dick your employees when you can play with their soul? The pleasure of sex diminishes with age, but the pleasures of wealth and power only increase. |
| | WB is one nasty blog, but it's filled with brilliant stuff. Check it out. |
Exactly
| | After trashing the insufferable embarrassment that Geraldo Rivera has made of himself (and, by standing so close to this human ground zero, of his new employers at Fox) Deborah Branscum says this: |
Get small
| | Meanwhile, I can't let J.D.'s flattery of Ken Rutkowski's KenRadio pass without raising some other-handed remarks. Which I don't like doing because I'm a nice guy (but I guess I've been hanging around RageBoy too long, and a little bit of the bile is rubbing off.) |
| | First, Ken's emails are so fucking huge that my Eudora literally crashes trying to open them. When I sort my Inbox by size, 20 of the 20 biggest emails in the list (of thousands) are "Ken Rutkowski's Daily Tech News Clicks." I have managed to uncork one of these monsters with another program, so I could unsubscribe. It didn't work. I wrote to the webmaster at Ken's site, and to Ken personally, asking to be taken off the list, or to be put on a list of plain text email recipients. It didn't happen, although the Webmaster wrote back to say it wasn't his job but he'd see what he could do. Which was nothing. |
| | Second, Ken's Web site is little more than a come-on for the show and the newsletter. Nothing wrong with that, but how about a little integration here? Click on "Today's News" and you come back to the home page, with a list of Today's Topics. None of those topics link to anything, even in the newsletter, which apparently has no online archive. Click on "Technology Headlines for Monday, December 17, 2001" and you come back to the same list. There are a paltry few outboud links, and none to entities that aren't outside contributors to Ken's show, site or career. |
| | Credit where due: his show is fine. It's very good radio. I like it. But it would be nice if it were at least half as native to the Web as it is to the old one-to-many broadcasting model. |
| | [Late update...] I just upgraded to Eudora 5.1 (from 4.3), paid $39.95 for the privilege (it's an outstanding product), and uncorked Ken's latest Daily Tech News Clicks. |
| | Whoa. We're talking here about HTML mail in the polar extreme. It's chock full of pix & links, mostly to its own anchor tags and advertisers. All the news is from mainstream sources. Nothing from the likes of blogs. |
| | I unsubscribed again. Let's see if it works this time. |
Corrosion Gradient Reversal
Mike on
| | Since we're in the midst of self-conflagulation here, now is a good time to wander back over to Keep Trying, where Mike is keeping us focused on the subject of self-centered blogging. |
Rage on
| | Chris Locke has been on fire lately. Perhaps literally, it's hard to tell. He's been sober for 17 years, but he's still on — what? Whatever it is, he put out two EGRs in one day, in the midst of which he blasted Cam for the latter's rant about Dave's blog awards. |
| | Escape Velocity is the first EGR. Three French... Roosters is the second. In that one he offers a few kind words... I was tempted to go against my nature and vote for Doc Searls. He really deserves it, despite his too-modest demurrers...then goes on to offer the best campaign slogan I've ever seen: Vote your conscience. (If that fails, vote for me.) I'm with that. |
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