From the monthly archives:

February 2005

Yahoo! launches Web Services, APIs

February 28, 2005

It’s not like you couldn’t see this coming.  After all, Jeremy Zawodny was asking about Yahoo APIs back in September (even though he claimed it wasn’t in the works and maybe wasn’t yet).   But tonight Yahoo! made it official and launched the YSDN.
You can find all the fun at developer.yahoo.net.
UPDATE: Here’s an excellent example Yahoo [...]

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Jarvis v. the Blue State Blogosphere

February 25, 2005

Jarvis gets ambushed by the left and lives to tell about it. 
And along the way, he does a great job of illustrating what I consider to be the #1 thorn in the Democrats side–their seemingly-unflinching obsession with exclusivity:
Is this the left, the caring, human, open, inclusive, warm, huggy,
humanisitic left? Or is this just its [...]

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Bloggers: the Guardian Angels of Journalism?

February 22, 2005

The good people over at Pegasus News have an interesting post up about the Guardian Angels, old comic books, and the New media and bloggers, titled Guardian Pegasi?; the jist:
Now maybe I read too many comic books as a kid, but I remember the square-jawed goons were always looking over their shoulder to see if [...]

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Tony Pierce talks to an Army paratrooper

February 22, 2005

Tony Pierce has a great IM interview with a paratrooper who has served 2 tours (do they call them ‘tours’ still?) in Iraq over at the busblog.  It’s chalk full of good, meaningful, eye-opening exchanges, but I couldn’t help but gravitate towards this bit of self-deprecation by TP (writing as ‘dumbass’):
SSG Chris Paul: no airborne [...]

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Tsunami uncovered ancient artifacts

February 14, 2005

What’s the over-under on some variation of this turning into a movie plot (I’ll even predict what movie it gets used for–the inevitable National Treasure 2, perhaps?). 
From a BBC News report (via BoingBoing):
The myths of Mahabalipuram were first set down in writing by British
traveller J Goldingham, who visited the South Indian coastal town in
1798, [...]

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The Edge City Catalog

February 13, 2005

Introducing The Edge City Catalog.
This has been in the works for awhile, but only in the last couple weeks have we really smoothed everything out.  We have transformed the old Edge City Store into the multi-brand Catalog.
There’s new championship gear from TrojanWire, some really cool new stuff from Hooplog, and a bunch of new stuff [...]

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Napster says iPod owners are stupid

February 13, 2005

After seeing (or should I say, sitting through) Napster’s Super Bowl spot, I predicted the company will be all-but-dead by Super Bowl XL.  Then I read this quote/death knell from their CEO, Chris Gorog:
We’re going to be communicating to people that it’s stupid to buy an iPod.

Of course, as it stands, the adoption of digital [...]

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The Revenge of Tyra

February 8, 2005

You knew it was coming….the 4th installment of America’s Next Top Model is set to kick off on the UPN on Wednesday, March 2 at 8pm. 

Now if I can just figure out why they’ve decided to refer to it as "the fourth cycle of America’s Next Top Model"….are we trying to liken this to [...]

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Jose Canseco: Behind the Crazy

February 8, 2005

Jose Canseco is either totally insane, or he’s spilling some major beans about baseball in his new book.  Or, in all likelihood, it’s a little from Column A and a little from Column B.
Whatever the case, check out some of the gems he drops in his new biography….I’d make jokes about each, but honestly, they [...]

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Gridskipper + CheapTickets?

February 7, 2005

Anyone know what happened to Gridskipper’s exclusive sponsor, CheapTickets?  They were up in the site’s masthead/header last week, any those ugly Megan Mullaly banners were all over the place; now there isn’t any CheapTickets ads to be found.
I know ClickZ said it was a "smaller deal" than the Sony one….but was it just a 1-week [...]

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Mark Cuban v. MGM v. Grokster, Round 2

February 7, 2005

A couple weeks ago, Mark Cuban made a post about the whole MGM v. Grokster case, and totally nailed the reasons why this case is not only retarded, it’s dangerous.
Today he follows up like Kevin Garnett on the offensive glass, further articulating why the Supreme Court needs to rule in favor of P2P:
I think we [...]

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Ask Bloglines

February 5, 2005

If you listen to the churning of the Internet rumor mill, it would appear that Ask Jeeves is buying Bloglines.
As an avid Bloglines user, I only have one thing to say to Ask–DON’T MESS BLOGLINES UP.  I understand you gotta do some integrating of the services–but please don’t go doing anything stupid like changing the [...]

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Listen Up

February 4, 2005

The Listen unofficially launched today.  Great album recommendations, free mp3s…it’s the goods. 
I will be back soon with a full write-up about the site, after the official February 20th launch date.  There’s lots more to come, and I can’t wait to tell you about it…this is definitely one of the most exciting projects I’ve been [...]

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Talking back to the classics

February 4, 2005

A friend just forwarded over a link to John Moe’s Pop-Song Correspondences, in which he provides responses from the characters featured in popular songs like CSN’s "Our House" and Elvis’s "Hound Dog".   They’re all well worth a read….
I: James Taylor issues an update on "the friendship promise"II: Letters to FogertyIII: A memo to the Sultans [...]

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What’s next from the big pharmaceutical companies

February 4, 2005

{via Christopher Locke/Chief Blogging Officer}

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Interesting Super Bowl factoid

February 4, 2005

Did you know that Super Bowl Sunday, and the Monday immediately following, are the two biggest business days of the year for Roto-Rooter?
Thanks for Sid V. for the fascinating piece of insight into yet another economic benefit of our nation’s biggest unofficial holiday.

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Back-to-back nights of ROCKY!

February 4, 2005

This morning, as every Friday, I received the ArcLight’s email newsletter featuring a rundown of this weekend’s new releases, and their calendar of upcoming events.
Does anyone else find their scheduling choice a little odd here?:

And then, the very next night….

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