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If Conde Nast had more "synergy" with Random House and had forced the New Yorker to excerpt some of James Frey's book. None of this would have happened.
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Pew finds that the Internet serves as "social glue"
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Coolhunting turned me on to Falvorpill's Sundance converage. They are posting verbatim interviews with festival attendees that were done on the festival's bus and all sort of other blog/vlog stuff.
I've been getting flavorpill for a while now and it is interesting to see the company grow.
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Washed my hair with normalizing shampoo this morning, it hasn't worked.
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Billmonk is a new service that lets you track debts between friends and groups. I could see how this could help manage vacation spending, a night out etc. Ties in with cellphones (another reason I will soon be making a new purchase). By a team out of amazon.com. Amazon is spawning some great teams of programmers just as DE Shaw did when it hired Bezos.
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The Coming Tug of War over the Internet - Wash. Post article about phone companies and the possibility of their making companies pay for speed and connections to consumers. (via TalkingPointsMemo.org
Nice social bill reminder to keep track of debtsbetween friend,groups,etc. Handy when a group goes out to dinner and someone doesn't bring enough money. Web and mobile. I'd like a service that combines this with a list of book that I lend to people. (via TechCrunch)
Wall Street Journal article about Amazon and Toys-R-Us and the disintegration of their partnership. Read this in print but see it is one of the most popular articles of the day.
NYT article on young millenials and their media tastes. It stars a co-worker Karell Roxas who edits Gurl.com. She kept a media log for the reporter that doesn't bode well for book or magazine publishers or tv broadcasters.
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About a month ago I put Sitemeter on my site. typepad gives reports but they don't archive or get into the fun referrer things like the fact that someone actually used ask Jeeves "why can't i buy grade b maple syrup in NY state." and right on the top of the results was a post of mine about the park slope coop produce blog. Cool. I can say also sadly report that too many links go to my sudoko post.
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This morning, my wife asked me - king of all things Internet related in my household (a poor country) - if I knew what a Yahoo Web Beacon was? I didn't but given Yahoo's probable possible cooperation with a Gov't subpoena to turn over records more people should. I've been dealing with privacy policies lately but this is really buried, plus the Yahoo user needs to opt-out on each machine. More noise needs to be made about this, is it toolbar driven or from other download? A quick search shows a May 8, 2005 article on about.com in their anti-virus guide channel but no mention in the top results from any other news sources. Clicking on "news" in the Google search only brings up a link to something out of North Carolina called the Conservative Voice. Where is the noise considering yesterday's story about Google resisting the subpoena? On the positive side, my wife heard about it from a friend who heard about it from her mother somewhere in the Midwest so Yahoo users must be on to it and from my recent experiences with a community I manage news travels fast. Below is the Yahoo policy describing web beacons.
Web pages may contain an electronic file called a web beacon, that allows a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Yahoo! uses web beacons in the following ways:
Within the Yahoo! Network
- Yahoo! uses web beacons within the Yahoo! network of web sites in order to count users and to recognize users by accessing Yahoo! cookies.
- Being able to access Yahoo! cookies allows us to personalize your experience when you visit Yahoo! web sites that are located both on and off of the yahoo.com domain. For example, Yahoo! GeoCities pages are mostly located on the geocities.com domain.
Outside the Yahoo! Network
- Yahoo! uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites and also for auditing purposes.
- Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report aggregate information about Yahoo! users to our partners. This aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners from this research.
- When conducting research Yahoo!'s practice is to require our partners to disclose the presence of these web beacons on their pages in their privacy policies and state what choices are available to users regarding the collection and use of this information. You may choose to opt-out of Yahoo! using this information for this research. Please click here to opt-out.
Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific user. Therefore you will have to opt-out separately from each computer or browser that you use.
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Really top of the list is the fact the the Federal Government supoenaed(sp?) Google for records last year. They are fighting it! Mercury News.
John Batelle has good commentary on this as well.
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I have a little experiment going on at Joshuamack.com where I've installed my flickr feed, my del.icio.us links and my del.icio.us tag cloud. They update themselves. It took me about ten mintues to pull it together. In many ways it is like the beginning of a Yahoo profile page since the services are all owned by them.
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Biking against the clock
Originally uploaded by bromptonman.
Went to see a bike racer friend of mine ride in some roller races at the Brooklyn Brewery. Visions of "le triplets de Belleville" as they rode four abreast with a giant wheel behind them marking their distance. The winner was a member of the
national pursuit team and must have been going about 60 miles an hour in the finals. He didn't seem all that winded. Can't wait to get back on my bike.
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At the invitation of Sen Barr of Georgia Gore gives a great speech. Transcript here.. Then the white House calls him a hypocrite, then Gore responds. It can be read at rawstory.com
Over the weekend I bought a copy of McSweeny's because it included a new DVD magazine quarterly called Wholphin. It contained a 13 minute documentary by Spike Jonze of Gore during the 200 election. I really hope that this speech is an opening salvo in a run for office as Huffington suggests.
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In 1999 a company called Blink had a shared bookemarking service, over a million users, and 13 millions in the bank. Why id it fail and del.icio.us suceed. The founder Ari Paparo has posted an essay about some of the things that went wrong in their product development and their assumptions. Really valuable for anyone building new apps. (via Anil Dash)
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Turnhere.com looks like a well funded new startup aimed at local video but with a strong neighborhood tour and home tour angle. There is a tour of East Hollywood and also one of the penthouse apartment in the Piano Building in NY. Yahoo mapping is one way to navigate.
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