[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ]Karlin Lillington's weblog on whatever comes to mind...(Untitled)- July 28, 2003 NB: This blog will pack up and move to www.techno-culture.com soon. Over the weekend, I moved my links site there, where it's living happily. The blog will take more time (not that it is hard, but it takes lots of advance thought to make sure it's a smooth process). By the way. the UK hosting company I'm using (on recommendation of John Robb), Digital-crocus.com, got a lot of bloggers after John's mention and they are looking at building in tools that specifically support bloggers. They seem...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/28.html#a2566 (Untitled)- July 28, 2003 Out of the U.S. and Out of Luck to Download Music Legally. Online music-selling services have far fewer restrictions than they used to, but they do not necessarily travel well. New York Times: Technology This really drives European friends crazy -- and what drives them even crazier is that I have a US credit card so can sign up for things like Apple's Music Store anyway...! But all that aside -- this story fits right in with something I was going to write about this morning. No, not a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/28.html#a2565 (Untitled)- July 28, 2003 Unknown. "I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." Quotes of the Dayhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/28.html#a2564 (Untitled)- July 28, 2003 From Danny: bush-o-meter. "Collated statistics on Bush approvaldisapproval ratings. The site's obviously a bit biased, but the figures are straight and quite fascinating. It's amazing how jittery opinion is about Bush, especially when compared to other presidents." Oblomovkahttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/28.html#a2563 (Untitled)- July 28, 2003 From the Guardian's onlineblog.com: Snapster, son of Napster. "Robert Cringely has figured out the future of the music file-sharing business, maybe." And they also have this (not recommended near mealtimes!): "You think it's moving but it's not. You think it's moving but it's not. Here are lots more examples of "rotational illusion" but you may need to lie down afterwards...."..http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/28.html#a2562 (Untitled)- July 25, 2003 Linux wars: Big Blue strikes back. IBM argues that SCO's demands for Unix license revenue are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product. CNET News.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/25.html#a2561 (Untitled)- July 25, 2003 Reality check: Jupiter Research has published some interesting figures on blogging. Somewhere between 2.4 and 2.9 million active blogs exist, but they remain a tiny slice of web life. Only 2% of web users have created a blog, and only an estimated 4% read them (which is a good reminder to bloggers and media people to always explain the word weblog and blog and not assume your audience has any idea whatsoever of what you're talking about :) ...). Blogging is split fairly evenly between...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/25.html#a2560 (Untitled)- July 25, 2003 Hee hee!! Letter to the Editor from today's Irish Times: Madam, - Now I know what the spire is for - it's for holding Liam Lawlor's receipts! - Yours, etc., GERARD LEE, Crumlin, Dublin 12.http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/25.html#a2559 (Untitled)- July 25, 2003 Moving news: OK, I'm going to try and port my site over to my new domain, which is (taaa-daaa!) www.techno-culture.com. Probably over the weekend, and I'll be using other Radio user's suggestions on how to do this and leave the old archive up to the changeover point on Userland's servers, while also pointing to my new domain. I need to think about how I will organise the site but am quite excited at the prospect of finally having a proper domain of my own and getting rid of the unwieldy URLs...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/25.html#a2558 (Untitled)- July 25, 2003 The software contrarian. Sybase&146;sJohn Chen on why total cost of ownership is a farce, industry consolidation is not inevitable and why Larry Ellison is not everyone&146;s idea of the software messiah. CNET News.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/07/25.html#a2557 |