Bla-Bla List recodes Ta-Da Lists in Java
— it’s devolving into a language war, but an entertaining one #Six Apart's Power Tools
— like Google Code, I love the trend of companies open-sourcing their internal tools via Sippey #MP3: Shaun Inman's "What's the Word?"
— lovely geek folk song, the guy is multi-talented via stopdesign.com #Microsoft previews new screen fonts shipping with Longhorn
— surprisingly tasteful, but how do they look at 9px aliased? via Kottke #WSJ article on the history of yelling Free Bird at concerts
— with accompanying audience clips from various concerts #Chinese iPod Mini knockoff
— first the fake Shuffle and now this; a sign of Apple’s design influence overseas #Tag-o-Vision combines 50 Flickr photos into one average image per tag
— the Python source is available, too via Flickr #Podshanking, kludge to direct copy audio from one iPod to another
— using an iTalk, so slow and without metadata, but I love the spirit behind it via Delicious #Toyota launches record label
— the music industry, flailing to find a way to survive via Anil Dash #NYT on newspapers closing their archives
— the irony is thick; they argue for pay archives throughout via Delicious #Goombah
— Mac app to provide music recommendations by comparing available iTunes shares; uses BitTorrent to transfer profile info around via story.news.yahoo.com #New Dr. Who leaked online deliberately to build buzz
— someone “leaked” a TV pilot recently by sending me a DV tape in an unmarked envelope #Screenshots of Will Wright's Spore game
— insanely expansive scope, simulating every scale from amoeba to galaxies via Simon Carless #Game Gardens
— build and host your own multiplayer games with a Java toolkit! from the brilliant people behind Puzzle Pirates via Simon Carless #Comcast and TiVo finally team up
— good for TiVo, but great for Comcast customers because their PVRs suck #Butler Firefox extension rewrites Google
— Mark Pilgrim’s Greasemonkey add-in comments on the autolink controversy; I contend both uses are perfectly legit #Yahoo 360° beta
— Yahoo’s entry into the blog and social networking market, without Flickr or Six Apart? via micropersuasion.com #SXSW revokes press passes for Chunklet and others
— for drawing attention away from SXSW with popular day parties #Apple developing 2-button mouse
— finally seeing the light, and making Macs even more attractive to PC users via Jason Cosper #Google Local adds business registration tools
— makes perfect sense; “manage your own damn info!” via Jason Cosper #Sifry updates his blog stats
— Technorati tracks 7.8 million blogs, with 30-40k new blogs created every day #ETech 2005
Next week, I’ll be at the Emerging Technology conference in San Diego. I don’t usually go to conferences (too expensive, and I’m too cheap), but I was offered a free guest pass by Cory Doctorow. Humbled and honored in a very big way.
Many people I know opted to attend SXSW Interactive this year, but the SXSW panels seem to cover well-trod territory (e.g. blogging as journalism, commercial blogging, CSS hacks, online community, moblogging, podcasts, etc). Despite the great people in Austin, I think the better presentations will be in San Diego.
Looking at the list of sessions, I’m absolutely giddy. The creators and founders of amazing web applications like Flickr, 43 Things, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, Typepad, Bloglines and Basecamp will all be talking about their experiences, as well as inspiring folks like Cory, Larry Lessig, Chris Anderson, Ev Williams, Merlin Mann, Danny O’Brien, and James Surowiecki.
Anyway, I can’t wait. If you’re attending ETech, be sure to find me and say hello.