Daily Archives: Saturday, January 7, 2006

“Borrowing” innovations: This video of Bill Gates “introducing” the new Vista operating system that will ship sometime during the next year (or so) is floating around the macosphere. If you’re a Mac OS X user, you’ll get it. If you’re … Continue reading →

Free thinking: Introducing (for Windows XP users) Google Pack, “a free collection of essential software”. That does, of course, depend on what your meaning of free is. Technorati Tags: google

Ironic book publishing news of the weird: The “runaway bride’s pastor” has written a book about foolish decisions. I wonder if it has a chapter about how foolish a decision it is for a clergy member to attempt to cash-in … Continue reading →

Chasing ones longtail: Earlier this morning I pointed to a Steve Rubel post about mainstream media vs. blogosphere coverage. However, I’m getting confused about this whole “osphere” thing when I read in a New York Times story a quote from … Continue reading →

More deep thoughts: Before it roles behind a cost wall, check out Jack Handey’s profundity in the current New Yorker. It’s weekend reading, okay. (thanks to a 15-year-old who isn’t typically a New Yorker reader) Technorati Tags: humor

Missing stories: Steve Rubel says “the mainstream media” missed the story that Dell is now shipping computers with this personalized Google page set as the browser default homepage. “While the mainstream media (was) sleeping,” says Steve, the blogosphere scooped the … Continue reading →