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- Cruel Katrina
I’m amazed that Hurricane Katrina, moving north across the Gulf of Mexico and around 15 hours from landfall, isn’t lead item in tonight’s BBC news.
With the entire population of New Orleans told to evacuate, but 100,000 unable or unwilling to leave, we’re about to witness the horror of a category five hurricane hitting a [...]
- On Google, and a Technorati footnote
Two things today: first, I’m writing (for the first time in a while) in print today on Google, which is facing flack despite being a quite remarkable success story - or maybe because it’s such a remarkable success story.
Its telephony announcement is a bold move. It seems reports earlier this year, over which I [...]
- Technorati jumps the shark
Now here’s an interesting post.
Jason Kottke, as a-list as bloggers come, gets stuck into Technorati, the webservice that has long been the darling of the blogging classes (because, of course, it lets us see who’s talking about our work).
Now, the interesting thing isn’t that Kottke’s saying anything that’s not demonstrably true - Technorati [...]
- Arrogant Google?
Jeff Jarvis notes that Google is selling shares to raise $4bn, and wonders what it’s about to buy. It certainly doesn’t need the cash for operations - it currently holds $3bn+ in cash and cash equivalents.
Later, Jeff quotes the Wall St Journal which points out the size of the offering is 14,159,165 shares - or [...]
- Akami’s web traffic barometer
Akamai has launched a web traffic report that shows real-time usage patterns for news websites the company helps deliver. The Boston Globe has the detail in a slightly OTT report:
“Drawing on data collected from news sites for which Akamai delivers content, from CNN and MSNBC to Reuters and BBC, the new Akamai Net Usage Index [...]
- More entertaining than Big Brother itself…
was Anna Pickard’s minute-by-minute blogging of the final night, with personal favourite bits including:
9:07pm
“Here we go … fourth place … it’s Kinga!
I said it would be, and I was right. My god, that’s a low cut top. You’d have to be confident/brave to wear that. (Insert your own joke about having a lot of [...]
- The PDA: Struggling, or thriving?
Probably the most controversial technology piece I’ve ever written was a feature for the G2 section on why personal digital assistants (PDAs) suck.
A couple of days later the Guardian’s letters editor solemnly forwarded a number of letters which, with varying degrees of anger, condemned my heresy and spoke warmly of the benefits of owning an [...]
- Jarvis in the Guardian
Delighted to see Jeff Jarvis writing in MediaGuardian today (free reg reqd) - he’s one of the most insightful new media commentators around, and his arrival will certainly raise the bar for new media commentary this side of the pond. Today’s column is a Jarvis For Beginners - a basic guide to plugging newsrooms into [...]
- Living in the future
Us chaps finally have something to compare to childbirth - swapping our broadband providers. Just like the birth thing, it takes a long time to pluck up the courage, even longer to arrange, and we tend to push the pain of the whole exercise to the back of our minds in the immediate joy of [...]
- The sensational sound of Completetosh.mp3
Note to accompany this post: the following may loosely be defined as "satire", depending on your location and level of inebriation. Your mileage may vary. It is not intended as a slight to those family members, friends and colleagues currently in, or preparing to join, the podcast community. It was developed in my head during [...]
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