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How many people use feeds? Probably a whole lot more than you think.
In my Aug. 21 post, It’s not about your site anymore, I talked about how web sites are becoming less important for online content distribution as RSS feeds (with their many uses) are enjoying increasingly mainstream usage.
Basically, the [...]
San Diego Supercomputer Services
One way to envision dark matter; sci fi stories are another.
This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but I’m a major science fiction junkie. I always have been. Forget space operas and epic Arthurian fantasies cloaked in spacesuits — I want the hardcore sci-fi. Where the science or speculative reality [...]
Internet Archive
At one time, Zipingo apparently offered a fair amount of content. (Click image to enlarge) Now it’s gone.
This morning, I learned via the Ajax blog that yet another site that relied on content contributed by its user community has shut down. On Aug. 23, Zipingo, a small business review site launched in 2002 by [...]
Jack Vinson
Knowledge management guru Jack Vinson had a lot of advice for scattered content creators like me.
In response to my post yesterday, I want one place for all my content, knowledge management guru and very cool guy Jack Vinson (who I finally got to meet at BlogHer) posted an elaborate list of almost-options that [...]
Other World Computing
The Axiotron Modbook Mac tablet: Coming 4Q 2007 (allegedly), with a hefty price tag.
One thing I love about blogging is that other people collectively know so much more than I do.
Yesterday I posted about how badly I want an Apple tablet PC. Promptly, Avram commented: “Have you heard of the Axiotron ModBook? It’s [...]
Apple, via USPTO
More than a year ago, Apple filed a patent application for something that looked like this.
(UPDATE July 31: Looks like one option, the Axiotron Modbook, is coming later this year, with a huge price tag…)
Yeah, the iPhone is cool and all… I’ve seen a few friends playing with theirs, and I’ve even [...]
I keep having this vision. I hope it will come about someday. There’s no way I’m the only person who’d want this. (UPDATE July 31: Nope, I’m not — Jack Vinson chimed in on this theme.)
The problem: Most of the content I’ve created does not live on my computer. It’s all over the web — [...]
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