February 08, 2005
Bloglines acquisition official
Ask Jeeves' acquisition of Bloglines became official at the stroke of midnight this morning, with a press release and FAQ posted to the Bloglines site. No financial data was released. Here's the meat of a letter to subscribers from Bloglines founder (now an AskJeeves VP) Mark Fletcher:
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February 03, 2005
It's Coming . . .THE BLOG! More Notes from the New Communications Forum
BLOG. It's an awful word. Clunky and unsexy, for me it conjures up images from the '50s sci-fi film The Blob. The Blog is coming to get you, or maybe it's a blog monster clamoring up a slick green slope . . .
We'll have to get used to it. THE BLOG is here to stay, and if you believe what you read (yes, here and elsewhere) it will revolutionize online communications to the point of affecting the very core of our social fabric.
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February 01, 2005
Distributed Journalism in Action
If you want to see why blogs really are the future of journalism, head on over to The Daily Kos, where you can see distributed journalism in action. The story in question is who is "Jeff Gannon" and what is the "Talon News Agency." It was Gannon, you see, who was the sole reporter with access to the memo exposing Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent.
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January 30, 2005
Silicon Valley boom or bust? It depends on who you ask
Three very human stories illustrate the economic disparities that characterize Silicon Valley as the region struggles to bounce back, in today's San Jose Mercury News.
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January 28, 2005
File under "They paid researchers to study that?"
The average Silicon Valley man is fatter and pays less attention to what he eats than his female counterparts, Associated Press reports
I could have told them that.
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January 27, 2005
The party Prince Harry should attend this weekend
The must-attend party in Greater Silicon Valley this coming weekend... here's the invite as I received it (with the addition of links to the web pages mentioned):
The Fascist Party
Saturday, January 29 2005
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January 26, 2005
Digging Silicon Valley's roots: some Homebrew Computer Club & other newsletters online
While Tom and Candida are out digging up the latest Silicon Valley news live, up close, and personal, let's take a trip down Silicon Valley's Memory Lane and check out the collection of Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters (and more) at the online DigiBarn Computer Museum.
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January 25, 2005
An intimate conversation in the global village
Do the Internet-based voice and multimedia communications technologies developed in the Greater Silicon Valley really bring us closer together? One wired world guru argues yes and tells a beautiful story that illustrates how.
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January 24, 2005
Thumbs up and down for Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley gets a thumbs up, thumbs down in a regional report that Gary Rivlin elevates to national attention in the New York Times.
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Friendster in the NY Times spotlight
Social networking specialist, Friendster, gets the spotlight at the New York Times today in a profile that takes away more than it gives.
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