Let's say you and your buddies don't know how to play musical instruments and yet you decide to form a band. You open your garage door and play like there is no tomorrow. The police come and actually shut you down because it was so bad that all your neighbors have complained. Now imagine you have recorded that music and
I have been thinking of it for a few days and Scoble made mention that he does not read a site if it does not have the full content in the RSS feed. Not to say he is going to read the site but if he does and for those of you that do we now have the full content
I have never claimed to be a professional writer/reporter in fact I would be insulted to be considered one. (Just a Geek) Nor do I have any desire for this site to be the source of important news. I have to work my regular job after-all. Plus I have to much fun dissecting articles and sorting thru the trash and
Not all developers who are designing RSS applications are adding Atom support and I can't say that I blame them but it is interesting to see their comments. [miseldine.com]
Some Movable Type users are moving to Word Press, I have not even looked at the product, but have seen some of the write-ups and reviews. For those that have very generic site designs I am sure the move is a easy one. It would take me a lot to consider moving being that I have a significant investment in
Zone Alarm is going after Viruses in a big way they have licensed anti-virus detection technology from Computer Associates and are now offering a new product called Zone Alarm Security suite. I am wondering how well Zone Alarm is going to interact with other anti-virus packages. This could end up being like two cats fighting over a mouse. [ZDNet]
Intel is rolling out a new line of chips with names like 700, 800 etc. They are going to have to publish a model lineup and give us some details on the features of chips. I think the general public was smart enough to understand the differences in chips under the old naming convention. [ZDNet]
How many people are starting blogs each day? That is a question that the staff at Technorati answered at their first ever developers Salon. The numbers are quite shocking. - 3,000 a day in January 2003 - 4,000 a day by that March - 6,000 a day by June 2003 - 8,000-9,000 new blogs a day by September 2003 -
Seems a German university has given up the battle on spam seem they where seeing delays of up to one week in the delay of e-mail. The 20 computers they where using was breaking down under a load of 100,000 unprocessed messages. I am sure the wording is not quite right as I process nearly 10,000 message a day of
I have quite a large net presence and so do members of my immediate family. Being that I live and breath tech, security etc I am very aware of the possibility of being the victim of identity theft. In order to try and mitigate some of that risk I subscribe to several monitoring services. Sure it cost me some money
Back when America had a true wild wild west their where bounty posters for murder's, bank robbers etc. Well the FTC is considering putting out a bounty on Spammers. The idea is under discussion but just how much is a spammer worth. The spammers are so desperate for money that they just might turn on one another [Techdirt]