The Average Joe: In Search of the Perfect Computer Book
Joe Wikert, publisher of The Red Couch, comments on errata in computer books. It’s good to hear these kinds of thing from a publisher. There’s very little that’s more frustrating than going through a programming book, finding a problem with the code, and not being […]

Scripting News: 10/26/2004
I just saw Dave’s October 2004 post regarding Feedburner in a more recent Scripting News post.
When Dave wrote his initial piece I was just ramping up into blogging and RSS (much to the detriment of my “free-time”) and so ignored the post, not knowing what Feedburner was. After I became aware of […]

The Red Couch: Bob Wyman on Microsoft and the future of blogging.
Marc Orchant, the editor of Shel Israel and Robert Scoble’s book on business blogging, The Red Couch comments on Bob (forrmerly of of Microsoft, currently the founder of PubSub) Wyman’s post regarding Microsoft’s entry into blogging and aggregation. He’s also asked […]

Rumors about Changes to the AIM Terms of Service and Your Privacy on AIM
AIM Terms of Service
AIM Privacy Policy
As Andrew Weinstein noted in the comments to this post, AOL has updated their terms of service. The newest version, when taken with their Privacy notice, addresses all of the concerns I had with the year-old […]

Newsmashing - The new technique that will change blogging forever. By Paul Boutin
“Instead of iMarkup’s plug-in format, newsmashing applications should use standard HTML.”
I’ll go you one better than that, Paul. I think that these applications should use an xml format to denote the markups to a given web-page. The information passed from one […]

Buy.com - Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra - MP3 Player - 30GB
Good reviews, good hard drive size (bigger than my laptop!), much better price than an iPod. Sounds like a winner!

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
What you didn’t see behind the scenes is last week I was on an IT
Conversations show (the audio isn’t up yet) where I was arguing with
Cory Doctorow about the topic. It was intense.
As I wrote in the comments, I’m extremely interested to hear the IT Conversations audio between Robert and Cory. […]

Enough Dave! We get the point. You’re a white male.
Now stop already!

Jon Udell: del.icio.us: the screencast “a whirlwind tour of del.icio.us from my [Jon’s] own perspective as a power user”.
See the screencast here.
If you haven’t watched any of Jon Udell’s Screencasts, you should go hunt some down. I linked to another one here, and some quick searches should find you others.
In today’s episode, Jon gives […]

An Leabhar Mòr - The Great Book of Gaelic in Archipelago.
Volume 7, Number 3 of Archipelago has a wonderful online sampling of An Leabhar Mòr, a work reminiscent of the Book of Kells. It is a collection of 100 examples of Gaelic poetry from the 6th to the 21st centuries. 20 of the […]