Daily Archives: Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Okay, I told you so

Dave Winer is NOT going to stop blogging in a couple of weeks. Not that you’re doing this for me, Dave, but I feel the need to say, “thanks.” Now I can postpone the whole grief process. : ) Technorati … Continue reading

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Why I’m not a scientist

When I saw this headline in my RSS newsreader, “Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown,” I clicked through thinking it was an Onion story about some extremely strange strategy for solving global warming.

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Nashville bloggers going to the dogs

Kerry Woo delivered to the Nashville Humane Association the 100 lbs. of pet food collected at Saturday’s Nashville blogger meat-up. He is pictured with Thunder, who needs a home. My dogs, Feste and Kate, sent the Purina puppy chow in … Continue reading

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Titans playoff chances wonking

(Update:: Later, on 12/27/2006, I added some later predictions before the final game of the season.) Jimmy at Music City Miracles has posted the scenarios , six of seven that must happen, for the Titans to make it into the … Continue reading

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Reporters’ inability to interpret statistics is ‘sky-rocketing’

Andrew Orloski mangles the extrapolation of figures from a Forrester study to conclude that iTunes sales are ‘collapsing’. Ironically, buried in the piece is this quote: “Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff warned against extrapolating too much from the figures.” I do … Continue reading

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links for 2006-12-12

How can I get financial market information updated automatically to a Google spreadsheet This may be of little interest to people now, however, it marks the beginning of a new way we will one day be using syndication in which … Continue reading

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