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Boing Boing knocked off perch

April 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

For the first time in yonks, someone’s knocked Boing Boing off the peak of Technorati Mountain.
Who?
It’s someone called Page Not Found News Tools MSNBC.com
I guess that’s one way to make Number 1.
Check it out here.

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“Incumbent to watch”

April 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

I was re-reading The Next Net 25 on Business 2.0 at a more leisurely pace than the first time around, you can find the whole article here.
In the article, all Gaul is divided into five parts:

Social media
Mashup and filters
The new phone
The webtop
Under the hood

An interesting list, one that I want to look at more carefully [...]

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Stepping into my personal Wayback Machine: or, 1984 Revisited

April 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Four pillars , Uncategorized

I’ve been reading the Summer 1984 issue of the Whole Earth Software Review. Some unbelievable quotes, makes me feel truly humble. Read them and see for yourself.
From Richard Dalton’s editorial titled “Enabling Computers”

” A very liberating environment where you bump into electronically-linked communities of people you didn’t know were out there. Where your physical limits or disabilities [...]

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