Jason Kottke just announced he is going to run kottke.org full-time supported — he hopes — by user donations. “This is me taking online personal publishing seriously because I feel it deserves as much.”
Category Archives: General news
Charlie Rose February 15 episode on weblogs
I just uploaded the full audio of the February 15, 2005 episode of The Charlie Rose Show.
Netflix San Francisco subscriber numbers
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings claims “one of every nine residents of San Francisco is a Netflix subscriber” in tomorrow’s New York Times. Seems a bit high to me.
Jerry Brown starts a weblog
The mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown, has started a weblog on TypePad to discuss the issues of interest to Oakland and to provide a direct voice. His first post currently has 54 comments.
Internet Explorer 7.0 to launch before Longhorn
A new version of Internet Explorer will launch before Longhorn. A beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0 will be available by this summer. Gates made the announcement during a keynote presentation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco….
43 Things is funded by Amazon
Katharine Mieszkowski of Salon discovered 43 Things has a substantial relationship with Amazon.com. 43 Things helps users set and track their goals such as reading “Code Complete” or take more pictures. Why hide it? Update: Robot Co-op responds….
Picasa links to their weblog in help menu
I just started playing around with Picasa 2 and I noticed they have a “Read the Picasa Blog” option in their help menu linking to a new Blogger weblog. Picasa is the first product that I have seen link to a weblog within the application and it is especially interesting to see the link appear in the help section and not in a more generic about section….
Bill Joy joins Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Bill Joy is the newest partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. John Doerr of KPCB said “It’s our tradition every year end to ask Bill what innovations, what important ideas are just over the horizon. Last month we agreed we should work together.” Doerr added, “Whether the innovation is in internet web services, software, architectures, energy, material science, info/life sciences – or entirely new fields – Bill’s insights and relationships are respected and valued.” Big news!…
Paid software to submit pings?
I just came across RSS Submit, a $25 piece of software that will ping RSS search engines with your feed URL. (via Danny Sullivan) Hilarious! It’s like Ping-o-Matic but for $25!…
Lawrence Lessig on The Connection radio show
Lawrence Lessig was a guest on this morning’s The Connection radio show on WBUR Boston and NPR. He talked about the history of copyright law, Creative Commons, and how technology is changing copyright behavior. You can listed to the entire show in Real Audio. A good introduction to the copyright law and how Creative Commons is trying to help publishers overcome this complex world of fair use and remix. Callers addressed some of the key issues of the Creative Commons such as rights to a commercially published collaborative work, and what online publishing means for traditional media publishers….