Tom Morris

7 August 2006

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

Grazr Coffee

If you do one thing today, it’s going and listening to the latest Morning Coffee Notes. Why? Well, it’s got Dave Winer, Doc Searls, Jason Calacanis, Steve Gillmor and my boss, Mike Kowalchik. It’s 57:52 and 6.7Mb. Enjoy.

I’ve got my Bloglines setup working pretty good, as this appeared first in the morning (Doc linked to it). Scoble isn’t linking. I’ll take the risk.

Take a look at Mike’s writeup. Sounds like fun!

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A new Shiira 2.0 beta preview thingy. It’s shockingly cool. Like with Japanese gadgets, it’s the things which, in five years time, everyone’s going to be excited about but you get to play with it now. “;->”

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Ian has posted the dates for BarCamp London - September the 2nd and 3rd. Be careful - PBwiki’s “edit lock” functionality really sucks.

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I’ve been testing out Skype this morning to sort out a few administrative things - calling the tax office, checking some hotels - it’s a bit shaky (especially when calling a mobile), but it’s really good. My VoIP Voice phone (the V654SKAM) really works pretty well. The only thing that would make it better - the option to have it pause iTunes or other music or media players when a call becomes active.

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Richard MacManus has an overview of Web 2.0 in the UK.

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Live WWDC coverage. Looks like the Mac Pro is coming out today. Keep your peepers ready on the Store.

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Oh, and new Xserves with Intel Xeons inside. PowerPC is now officially dead. Pictures.

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Second Life is on TV.

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Bob Lory rewrites Murphy’s Law for these magical, corporate times: “In any priority strategic or tactical endeavor—albeit preceded by the most intensive environmental scanning and related potential problem analysis—anomalies, either extrinsic or intrinsic to the system, will occur to cause significant aberration direction-wise to the thrust of key activities in a manner that in retrospect will be viewed as unfortunate time-wise and disappointingly sub-optimal results-wise.”

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Rich has some criticism of the iPod design.

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Cool. Grazr is profiled in CNET Web 2.0 Blog. It does have a use for people who use services like Bloglines and Netvibes - it lets you display collections of feeds in OPML too!

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