Current Affairs
NBC holding Olympic videos hostage
NBC is milking their investment in broadcasting rights for the Beijing Olympics by making anyone that wants to view their videos jump through a few hoops.
Hoop Number One: Install Silverlight 2.0.
This limits installation to only Windows machines or Intel-based Macs. Oh, and you have to restart your browser so you if you don’t save the [...]
Izumi’s Race for the Cure
It’s that time of the year again. My wife is running in this year’s Komen Foundation Race for the Cure. If you have some spare coin, please make a tax-deductible donation to this worthy cause.
Izumi’s Race for the Cure page
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FriendFeed Needs Trackback
The success of distributed commenting systems such as Disqus, Intense Debate, and most famously, FriendFeed have generated a heated debate over if we should let discussions break out all over the place in small pockets or try to gather them all together in context with the source material so that everyone can benefit from a [...]
US Mortgage & Credit Crisis, How did we get here?
I could never figure out how banks and securities dealers talked themselves into loaning money to people that common sense would tell you never could repay their obligation. Listening to this episode of This American Life - Giant Pool of Money revealed that it was incremental greed that drove each link in the chain to [...]
US Postage up a penny on Monday
As of tomorrow, First Class postage is going up from $0.41 to $0.42. I bought a book of Forever stamps a couple weeks ago and as of tomorrow they are worth a penny more. That’s a 2.4% gain in just a few weeks. Not the most practical investment vehicle, you have to stand outside the [...]
Where’s the Kaboom?
There are so many things I could say right now about Microsoft walking away from the table this past weekend. More than anything, I feel like someone peering up over the parapet and looking at the smoke clearing from the battlefield.
Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom? (.wav file)
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The Lifestream Filter Will be the Next Great Algorithm War
I’m paraphrasing the title of this post from David Recordon who threw this line out following a chat I had with him a couple of weeks back. It’s a very insightful observation that predicts opportunities in the real-time world which lifestream services operate.
It’s now easier than ever to pull together an aggregated feed of content [...]
Hard at Work and Shipping Again!
A quick note to let folks know that the MyBlogLog team made it through the staff reductions at Yahoo intact. Heads down is a common expression around here and it’s apt because we’ve been hammer and tongs on getting things built that we’ve been thinking about for a long time. It’s great to be shipping [...]
Going to Burning Man?
Tickets now on sale.
Burning Man by Les Claypool
Fiddling with the Yahoo! Media Player. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
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Inspiration
We don’t need more heat. We need more light.
- from Barack Obama’s closing remarks before the Iowa caucus.
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