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Saturday, December 14, 2002
It's the neutrality, smarty 
| | Larry Lessig on Net neutrality: It would be a strange and bad thing if the electricity grid discriminated against Sony television sets by serving reliable electricity only to Panasonic TVs. |
It's the writing, stupid
| | I never liked the "It's the ______ (economy, war, oil, user, rules, latency, research, sex, games, runtime, comedy), stupid" line. But it's a good working cliché, so let's add one more log to its fire: writing. |
| | This morning I came to the conclusion, after reading Frank Boosman's pseudorandom blog, that blogging is about nothing more than writing — and that more of us will be writing to more people, with more effect, because of it. |
| | Every new blogging tool is one more step in the evolution of the Web as, literally, the ultimate writing medium: one that lets anybody write for everybody. |
Outline detox
| | Step One is deprogramming the anti-outlining indoctrination you got back in 5th grade English. Blogging Alone: |
| | When someone says outline it takes me back to grade school writing lessons which for me was not a good experience. One third grade teacher (link to the work when I was the third grade teacher) brought me to a meeting with my parents after multiple warnings that they should work with me each week to learn to spell the ten assigned words. I was learning the ten words but still was the only third grader to flunk spelling three 6 weeks in a row. We get to this meeting and the teacher pulls out our test called "Dictation" On each on I correctly spelled the ten words assigned that week. However most all of the other words in each of the ten sentences were horribly misspelled. |
| | Somehow my contempt for the word Outline is derived from that experience. |
Blog on blog
| | Even if you're not new to all ... this... Weblogging Resources has some interesting links, and advice to go with them. |
Usable prophesy
Buy more and save!
| | Rex Hammock compares Google's Froogle product search engine (just beta'd in time for Xmas) to Yahoo's and others. |
| | Me, I didn't even know Froogle existed until Rex pointed to it. |
| | It's clearly not ready for prime time, which assures some odd results (like, say, this one) |
| | To give Froogle a good test, I searched for the Sony DCR-PC120BT, which is the successor to my old camcorder (DCR-PC110), which was swiped at a party last weekend. Then I compared the results with several more mature retail search services: |
| | Plainly, Bizrate kicks ass. |
| | Here's the Kartoo search for the same product. Here's the one for this blog. And here's the blog I've hardly seen before that's central to the results. It's a LiveJournal blog. There are about a zillion of these blogs in the world, in an orbit that doesn't seem to intersect as much as you might expect with our own local ecosystem. Unless, of course, I'm missing something, which happens approximately all the time. |
| | Anyway, the story I'm hearing is that the vast majority of LiveJournal's blogs are by teenage girls, especially those given to gothic self-expression. Since LiveJournal's code is free and GPL'd, it has spawned the very entertaining DeadJournal, which was reportedly hacked into existence by even more gothic teenage boys. |
| | Now all of this (other than the fact that Live/DeadJournal exist) is hearsay. The information comes from a passenger in the car I was driving up to The City the other day. So if ya'll have any interesting facts we might string together and make a story, send 'em along. |
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