Saving this for later reference: Microsoft has released a guide for deploying Windows firewall settings for XP with Service Pack 2.
Interview by Halley on ITConversations and thoughts on online stored audio
Dan Bricklin comments on his interview with Halley Suitt and the confluence of several technologies that are giving this form of communication traction: “All this has been possible for a long time, but the confluence of widespread high speed Internet connections, large-capacity portable music players, good search, blogs, and RSS is making this more mainstream. It is also part of…
reBlog issue resolved
I have resolved the issue I had with extra characters appearing in my reBlog posts. The culprit was “magic quotes” and php. I was able to disable magic quotes by adding the following line to my .htaccess file: php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 The folks that produce reBlog sent me the tip. A complete description of the havoc magic quotes causes is…
Investing in RSS: Technorati Gets VC Dollars
Technorati, the blog/news/RSS tracking service, has received it first round of venture funding…about $6.5 million at a valuation of around $12 million for the company. Maybe now the site will start working, for a change… Related: — RSS Analytics Firm FeedBurner Receives 7-Figure Venture Investment — RSS Ad network Receives Seed Funding — NewsGator Receives First Round of Funding —…
Sling Media SlingBox: Television Place Shifting
Forbes has a short write-up about an interesting upcoming product from startup Sling Media, called the “SlingBox Personal Broadcaster.” If it works as advertised, we’ll probably be hearing a lot about it. The idea is simple: hook up the little $200 box to your TiVo or your cable box and connect it to your home internet. Then, when you’re out…
The Gillmor Gang: August 20, 2004
Steve Gillmor and Technorati’s David L. Sifry have been working on something called Attention.xml for nearly a year, and this week they discuss the concept with the rest of The Gang. What is it? It’s a specification for tracking, prioritizing and sharing what people are reading, looking at or listenting to in RSS and elsewhere.
Hyperlocal Online Journalism Can Work
Students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism have been conducting a terrific experiment in what some are calling “hyperlocal citizens; media.” As I reported in my book, they set up a site called “goskokie” (“news for the people, by the people”) to cover the Chicago suburb of Skokie. Working with local people, they’ve created something valuable. Now they’ve written…
The Back Door
There are only two ways into the technology market, the front door and the back door. Some examples that came in through the front door: ERP, mainframes, and Lotus Notes. Back-door arrivals: personal computers, Unix, and Dynamic Languages (Perl, Python, and so on). You can build a business both ways. And, now that I ve been here at Sun for…
Brad Choate:Doing your whole site with MT
Brad Choate’s tweaks to Matt Haughey’s article on using MT to produce an entire site.
Videoblogs on TV
lately I’ve been obsessing about where videoblogging is going. Then, Peter sent this little piece of insight: “So I just realized this: once videoblogging becomes couchable, politics will follow. Drazen said politics happens on the couch. Lucas says videoblogging should happen on the couch.” Then I remembered something that Alan from Demand Media wrote: “Lucas’ blog post has the general…