Go Google Yourself

June 3, 2006

With Google Desktop and other (hyper)local search tools so popular now, shouldn’t restaurants, merchants and the like now be making liberally annotated vcards available for download on their sites? Interesting – a vcard with a resto’s menu in the notes field, with all of that data available to be searched when I next Google myself […]

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I’m Epicurious Yellow

June 3, 2006

I’ve always wondered why there isn’t a data standard for recipes – something like vcard – that foodie sites could use to make recipes easily available for their readers. And on the client side, apps that would recognize the data for import, and manipulate it in the usual ways – to produce shopping lists, instructions […]

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Bush’s New War on Terror

June 3, 2006

Predictably, cowardly pandering to the fundamentalists’ terror of all things gay now appears to be the Republicans’ strategy for maintaining their increasingly tenuous grip on power. Because what Americans need now, more than anything else, is to turn against each other. Because what the U.S. needs now, more than anything else, is a “compassionate conservative” […]

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The Salvation Army on WordPress

June 3, 2006

The Canadian Salvation Army has redesigned its site, and is using WordPress, with a theme designed by Theron (Sonny) Parlin, who designed this blog’s theme. Nice job, Sonny. Nice site, Sally-Ann.

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Canadian Notice and Takedown in Action

June 3, 2006

After some initial confusion over exactly what happened, it’s beginning to look like the Volpe campaign for leadership of the Liberal Party managed to shut down the Youth for Volpe site by threatening the registrar with legal action, possibly on the (entirely mysterious and seemingly completely unfounded) basis of alleged defamation. Mirrors for the site […]

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The Best of Blogging

June 2, 2006

Chris Nolan’s account of a chance encounter with Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter who was recently critically injured in Iraq, is a perfect example of why we believe that Web 2.0 could change everything. The intimacy of the piece is startling; the writing immediate and authentic.

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A Wiki for Toronto

June 2, 2006

In early April the Davis, California Wiki was covered in a Globe article. It struck me as a terrific idea for Toronto, and so I reserved a domain and then did what I do whenever I get feverish about a wiki idea – I pinged David Crow. And I suggested to him that he was […]

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How to Be a Great Panelist

June 1, 2006

I’ve never seen Paul Kedrosky on a panel, but he was a superb keynote at mesh. His post on how to be a great panelist is required reading.

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Anonymous Law Firm

June 1, 2006

Jeremy Blachman, the now unmasked Anonymous Lawyer, has created the Anonymous Law Firm, a great inside joke on BigLaw. I met Jeremy at the inaugural LexThink, and I’m looking forward to reading his blog-ponymous book.

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Fake Net Neutrality Commenters

June 1, 2006

The Technology Liberation Front reports on apparently fake comments posted in relation to net neutrality, and Mike at Techdirt picks up the thread.

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U.S. Whistleblowers Should Get Blogs

May 31, 2006

I don’t pretend to understand the nuances – and no doubt they are legion – of U.S. constitutional law generally, or of First Amendment law in particular, but the news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision depriving certain whistleblowers of that amendment’s protection caught my eye, coming as it did so soon after a California […]

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We’re Shocked, Shocked to Discover

May 30, 2006

that options are being backdated here.

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