NOW with extra added Pownce.
If you use Twitter, or Pownce, & Flickr, “you can show people where you are, not just tell them”.
Where, how can I do that? At Twittergram flickToTwitter.
Brought to you by the Technopeasant at Scripting News, AKA TechnoDaddy Dave
Via a Groundhog Day pointer to Furious Seasons who writes about Love American Style: Web 2.0 And Narcissism
In Seattle, any popular coffeehouse is filled with people who just sit at tables on their laptops and communicate with other fictional selves on the Net instead of doing the least bit of the communication and interaction—positive or negative—with people sitting five feet away. All those people, all that weird isolation.
The nation’s biggest technology companies sat down with federal regulators Wednesday to assess the industry’s thirst for power amid fears that volatile and expensive energy could hinder the growing sector.
The fierce competitors at the table — including Google, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard — rarely gather to talk strategy. But they were lured by the chance to influence the development of national energy standards.
Sarah Jane Tribble, via StickyMinds.com
LinuTop. Linux-based diskless computer, offers a completely silent, low-power operation in an extremely small package.
Tech.Yahoo.com:
Disposable, Simple Email Address. Get a 10 Minute Mail e-mail address.
Michael Kinsley, WashingtonPost.com: on something about the Web and the ego monster.
solipsism: extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.
Gizmos for Geeks: News, Reviews, and How To’s. Catch the Gizmo of the Day.
10 Travel Tips for Geeks: Top travel tips for geeks.
Update: 04/28/08 - Shelley over at Burningbird is cha-cha-cha changing things again! Try starting at the top, or at Bb’s RealTech, and meandering for awhile.
In the excellent post and discussion category …
From a comment by Michael Bernstein to a post about Techmeme selectivity at Burningbird .
Still, the web continues to grow, to the point that not only can we not keep up with new stuff, but we can’t even keep up with the list of new sources of stuff.
What I would like to see is any approach for getting the ‘best’ stuff to float to the top of ever-growing sea of results that is completely different than the monkey-status proxy measures we are currently using.
There are years of content, content, content spilling over into the most interesting discussions at Shelley Powers’ sites:
Update: 06/06/07 - The Burningbird web site IS back, aha. Shelley Powers has been/is consolidating all her sites back to the Burningbird.net domain.
Many of the technology links redirect correctly, but please let her know if you encountered problems finding an article. Tracking Buringbird’s archived posts is a full-time job! Cheers, Shelley.
Mad Techie Woman, primarily related to tech. [think this one is closed].
Just Shelley, personal weblog.Update: 04/06/07 - the original link to Planet Powers is no longer valid.
Planet Powers, an aggregation of Shelley’s current sites.
MissouriGreen. Coming up? An online magazine about Missouri (photos and stories and histories, as well as current issues and events).
Straight shooting at The Bb Gun, static copy for story links?The final flight? Burningbird closed up shop this past summer. Still hoping for a restart of the Bird!
Photography, musings, technical information, women in tech, RSS, RDF, weblogging, meta data, and informative discussions.
Homework assignment:
Will the Burningbird take flight once again?
Kent Newsome on the Joy of Not Blogging.
But blogging as a conversational medium is feeling extremely inefficient. Real conversations are conducted in real time. Blogging, on the other hand, often seems like a bunch of people independently throwing rocks into the air. Sometime those rocks collide and the resulting sparks look like conversation.
I do hope that Kent keeps throwing rocks into the air.
From Scripting News in ‘What comes after Who Knew What When’.
You can try to hold the world in place so your life continues to make sense, but the world is too big and you’re too small, change comes, eventually, no matter how much you think it shouldn’t.
A good reminder. Change on.
Kathy Sierra is passionate about creating passionate users, yes. And she is also passionate about creative work spaces and Airstreams. I want one, I want one.
I don’t how I missed this earlier post I am not a “woman blogger”, but glad I stumbled over it in the archives today! Thankfully, Kathy is passionate about many things.
Reminds me of some things.
OK, so Kent Newsome points to an article by Seth Godin on ‘8 Free Things’ a site owner should do.
I really didn’t care for any of the things. So no traffic for me, I guess. You do know how ‘too much traffic can bring down the neighborhood’, right? I do like free things, and I really did enjoy Kent’s take on those things.
I remember back when Mosaic was all the rage, and life with gopher, ftp, the bb’s, and the mostly text web seemed so wonderous and so simple (K.I.S.S).
Ok, so I’m old. My first connectoid monitor only displayed green text. I had a job that included text formatting of User and Help documents using Unix -ms Macros from the command line. Anyone remember troff? I am very patient. I am very text oriented.
And the reminders:
1. I am the poor but proud owner of a 6 year old laptop running Win98 (over DSL) who is currently on reduced work hours. I do not not have the cash lying around for any new HW/SW upgrades.
2. Sites like Technorati, Digg, Squidoo, Feedburner (what are all those page flakes), and numerous others can be painfully slow loading at times, so visiting via Firefox is a no-no for me. At least Mr. Godin’s site has an RDF alternative to his FeedBurner feed.
3. Most crap-free-sites (CFS), render fast and just fine on a 233Mhz, Win98 (better than XP) over DSL machine thank you very much.
4. I think Google should incorporate a “CFS” logo png next to links on search page results. That way one could tell BEFORE clicking the link you might be hurling head first down the rabbit hole if you knowingly select a link without the CFS logo.
5. When the internet is blanketed with Web 2.0 resource gouging applications will there still be Web 1.0 stuff for the po’ folk? Hmmm.
6. I love the fast-loading, clean, content, content, content sites like Kent’s. Too many sites today have too many images, flashies, buttons, anyalitics, scripts, widgets, blah, marketing, blah, marketing, blah with only a Feedburner link to select as an alternative.
7. Easy solution - I don’t visit those sites.
8. This was a recent reminder of how painfully behind the curve I am with my old puter’. I have had a Yahoo email account for-like-ever dudes, and I got a beta invite, so cool. Then, I find there is no support for less than Win2K, so tough nooggies getting the new yahoo stuff anytime soon. I even tried it on my linux partition, but the Mozilla browser was an issue there. The old yahoo mail still works fine, but for how long? I wonder. Hmmm.
Anyway, I have a new nick for the Newsome.org site. The nickname is ‘AweSome NewSome’. Well, except for that darn FeedBurner link.
Dave Rogers is on the ‘No Nukes’ diet for newbies.
He’s whipping up a Pizza Omelette today, and he previously attacked some unsuspecting pork chops.
Dave,
- you had me at Spanish Omelette.
- you lost me at pepperoni, and eye-watering red pepper.
I will be tracking your lessons learned, so I know when to invite myself over.
Cheers!
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