Anonymous Lawyer Review

July 24, 2006

Carolyn reviews Jeremy‘s Anonymous Lawyer – a big thumbs up. Other (very positive) reviews are popping up – a list is up at the Anonymous Law Firm site.

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Global Warming and MySpace

July 24, 2006

MySpace has been down for a day or so now, the victim of a power outage at its data centre (according to a comment on GigaOM, this facility). This is presumably the same power outage that took Dreamhost down on Saturday. Power outages seem to be increasing in frequency, particularly in air conditioning season. Are […]

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Corporate “Blogs”

July 23, 2006

Amid all the chatter about corporate blogs, from good to bad to ugly, zefrank’s piece on the Walmart blog is a beacon of exuberant sanity.

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Dell: Death by Microsoft?

July 23, 2006

All right, this is an entirely facetious question to ask on the back of Nicholas Carr’s rumination on Dell’s problems – after all, support costs come in different flavours. But still, complexity is expensive, and I wonder whether Dell’s life would be easier if it were more aligned with Apple – something I wondered, in […]

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“Almost all leakers are lawyers”

July 22, 2006

This tidbit from Howell Raines probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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Sane Thinking on Net Neutrality

July 21, 2006

Finally, from John Hodgman, some sane thinking on the thorny issue of net neutrality.

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Update on Toronto Hydro Wi-Fi Project

July 21, 2006

Tyler has an update on the project today, and notes that the Phase I date is now September 7.

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The Age of the Mac?

July 20, 2006

Is it finally happening? Has Apple finally figured out the alchemy required to make the Mac more than a niche player? The latest financials from Apple suggest a better-than-market growth spurt in Mac numbers and one has to wonder whether the combined effects of OSX, the Intel chip and iPod planet are amounting to something. […]

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Iraqi Civilian Deaths

July 20, 2006

DemocraticSpace.com puts the numbers of Iraqi civilian deaths in perspective. The result is profoundly disturbing, and throws the mainstream media’s disinterest in this aspect of the Iraq War in particularly sharp and troubling relief.

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Calacanis is at it Again

July 19, 2006

Just a few days after the public launch of the his new Netscape gig, Jason Calacanis has offered to pay top Digg-ers and Reddit-ers for their time. And it’s earned him a driveby from Techcrunch and general speculation that he’s desperate. I suppose he could be; if the Netscape gig doesn’t pan out he’ll have […]

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Online No One Can Hear You Scream

July 19, 2006

CNN ran a piece yesterday on the price of being connected. It raises the usual concerns, but one comment in particular struck me: Time in the virtual world takes us away from time spent in the real world. Though studies are inconclusive and ongoing, some psychologists warn that too much virtual exposure can undercut face-to-face […]

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The New Dealbook

July 19, 2006

No, not that kind of book, this kind of book. Whenever I see anouncements like the Microsoft-Nortel JV announced yesterday, I pine for an online book that would keep a running tally of the odds that the market places on successful deal execution. Later on, we could all look back and – for purely scientific […]

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