Monthly Archives: July 2004

Microsoft ‘Newsbot’ Sorts the News

Some more competition for Google News: Microsoft’s Newsbot. It’s beta software and acts like it, but I’ll be watching with great interest. (Cross-posted to We the Media.) Comments Posted by: Greg Linden on July 28, 2004 09:04 AM If you’re … Continue reading

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Open Thread

I’m on my way up to the Open Source Convention, where I’m speaking and making a book-relatedappearance tomorrow night at the great Powell’s Books in Portland. Please be civil here. Comments Posted by: Anonymous Troll on July 28, 2004 01:08 … Continue reading

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An Amazing Feat

Lance Armstrong, winner of his sixth consecutive Tour de France may be the best athlete of our times. A great champion. Comments Posted by: Arun on July 25, 2004 12:17 PM Well – he’s probably running neck and neck with … Continue reading

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The Guardian on OhmyNews

The Guardian’s Jack Schofield has a chat with the founder of OhmyNews.com, the Korean online newspaper. Could it work elsewhere, he asks? (My answer is at the bottom of the story.) (Cross-posted to We the Media.) Comments Posted by: Gabe … Continue reading

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Gillmor Gang + One More Gillmor

That would be me, making a guest appearance at 1 p.m. Pacific time on today’s program. Comments

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Technorati Chief as CNN Expert

My older, wiser brother Steve reports that Technorati‘s Dave Sifry will be a talking head on CNN’s convention coverage. He says: “Just as CNN continues to provide the gavel–to-gavel coverage the networks used to do, its alliance with Technorati validates … Continue reading

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Open Thread

No updates until much later today. Talk among yourselves below. Please, please, please be nice to each other. Comments Posted by: e_strobes on July 16, 2004 08:25 AM A interesting side effect of the competition between Google and Yahoo for … Continue reading

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Testing Ecto on Windows

Testing some blog posting software on Windows computer. Sorry for the interruption… Comments

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HyperText 2004

The Association for Computing Machinery is having a conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia next month, and asked me to speak about the evolution of journalism in the Digital Age. Here’s the homepage of Hypertext 2004 for details on the conference. … Continue reading

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Finally, a Two-Line 5.8 GHz Phone

Several readers, recalling my months-ago call for help in finding a two-line 5.8 GHz wireless phone, have let me know that Uniden is selling this one. It looks pretty good. One flaw, however, it its lack of internal voice mail. … Continue reading

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