June 4, 2004 | 23:45
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One of the hats I wear is that of production geek for Online Journalism Review, which this week leads with an interesting piece by Staci Kramer on the evolution of RSS (aka Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) in the online news world. For those who don't know ...
March 11, 2004 | 19:12
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Like most webmasters, I have a program that keeps track of who's accessing this site. Of course, it doesn't name names (lucky you!), but it does give me some interesting general information about where hits are coming from and how people are finding the site.
Anyway, I was just going ...
February 16, 2004 | 18:12
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Technology
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The Washington Post has a great article on my favorite search engine (now everybody else's, too, I guess):
There have been many fine Internet search engines over the years ... but Google is the first to become a utility, a basic piece of societal infrastructure like the power grid, sewer lines ...
January 27, 2004 | 20:31
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Online journalism,
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The Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips is set to mass-produce a flexible panel that can display printed material and rolls up into a pen-sized holder for portability. Obviously, potentially huge implications for the online news world here. Where can I get one?
January 25, 2004 | 1:06
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Bill Gates says the Internet will be spam-free by 2006. "Two years from now, spam will be solved," the Microsoft founder told participants in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But none of his solutions, detailed here, sounds all that compelling.
One idea is to give unrecognized senders a ...
October 27, 2003 | 12:56
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Technology
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I received this official-looking e-mail today, with the Yahoo! logo on top:
Dear Yahoo! User,
We encountered a billing error when attempting to renew your Yahoo! service. This type of error usually indicates that either the credit card you have on file has expired or that the billing address we have is
