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Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
 Evan. For yuks, we at Google deign to grace you unwashed bloggers with our presence.
9:02:17 PM 
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Reuters. Civil War drama "Cold Mountain" topped the list of Golden Globe nominees on Thursday with eight nominations, including best dramatic film, putting it ahead of the pack in this year's Oscar race in Hollywood. I guess I need to make the effort to see it. Wasn't planning to. Also, the 3rd Rings saga set box office records. Holiday movies now include: The Last Samurai (I am a sucker for movies about zealot warriors), The Return of the King, Master and Commander, Lost in Translation, and Cold Moutain. Everything else on DVD.
8:44:24 PM
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Joi is on a rant: John Dvorak ordered the wine (which I did not drink) and split without paying. I think he dropped by just so he could plug his new book.
7:51:55 PM
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Is Dave talking about the RSS knowledge streams on the backend of DeanSpace? Zack Rosen calls it a "meta-mesh" Web community. It is intended to describe the magic twist we are building into the web-community software we are assembling. We are making very robost RSS feed content importing and exporting tools into the DeanSpace web community "kits". The idea being that all the different Dean community sites running our code will then have the ability to share and syndicate content and users easily across the network of Dean web-communities. We are attempting to construct a grassroots campaign network from the numerous deployed sites running our code. The goal is to have all content and users on the network wrapped in metadata, so the different sites act as two way filters to the campaign network with communities built around them, rather than as isolated independant communities.
4:52:14 PM
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Concur with Clay on this. Very well done. He is a little premature on BadBlue and WINW, but the concept is right: Widespread encryption of public spaces is on the way.
1:51:07 PM
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Orlowski on an another elitist rant. Isn't the Register just a moderately good blog? So why the arrogant attitude?
10:40:58 AM
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I haven't played with Google Print before. Interesting. Looks like Google is offering search results of book excerpts and then pointing users to book stores for affiliate revenue. To use it, type this into this search form: terrorism site:print.google.com The output will look like this. It would be much better if it was a full text search of the book like Amazon is starting to do. Another useful feature that Amazon should offer is an account that stores an electronic copy of books you own on their site (in PDF and HTML). Some features to include are: Full text search. Quote clippings (that autocreate footnotes). Bibliography prep. Talk about a sticky service.
8:00:54 AM
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Doc digs up a essay he wrote in '98 on how to make a great presentation. Nice. Thanks. It is now logged in my backup brain.
7:18:58 AM
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