RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs – The Onion – This is pretty funny.
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Gartner: CIOs should prepare for ‘second’ Internet
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Gartner: CIOs should prepare for ‘second’ Internet (InfoWorld). “The innovation is also happening in reverse, as more technologies are delivered to end users and consumers first and businesses second”. This is weird. I just said something along these lines to my boss this afternoon …
Secret sites (kottke.org)
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Jason Kottke asks people how many secret sites they contribute to or own – its interesting to see the number of comments on this one. I have a hard enough time keeping one blog, I can’t imagine more than that.
Google: Ten Golden Rules – – MSNBC.com
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Google: Ten Golden Rules – MSNBC.com – An article on MSNBC on how Google manages their “knowledge workers”. Interesting read, especially given the climate of IT right now.
HUAR Web Site Up and Running
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The HUAR command center site is now up and running. HUAR stands for “Humans United Against Robots”. This organization, started by Keith Malley of the Keith and the Girl podcast, “was designed to educate and aware the citizenry of the world the impending attack that computers and robots will put into affect against humans”.
Vai.com: A Post Tour Note from Steve
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Dated December 2 on Vai.com, Steve writes a post tour note to to his fans. In it he talks about an upcoming DVD and retreating back to the studio after a brief vacation.
GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools
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GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools – GarageBand opens GCast end to end podcasting service. Quote from article: “The firm said it was motivated to create Gcast after a Podcasting feature introduced on the GarageBand site doubled the company’s overall traffic. ”
Firefox del.icio.us Extension
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Over the last few days I’ve been using the new del.icious Firefox extension with Firefox 1.5. I have to say, this one is one of the most useful extensions I’ve installed. If you are running Firefox (and you should be) and use del.icio.us, you have to take the few seconds it takes to install this plugin.
It seriously makes all the difference in the world to have del.icio.us integrated directly into the browser.
Podcasting available through TiVo / Sony PSP
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Sony and TiVo support Podcasts – Sony adds support for RSS enclosures to the PSP and TiVo makes podcasts available through its service using feeds from the Yahoo Podcasts directory.
Apache 2.2.0 released.
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Version 2.2.0 of the Apache 2 Web Server has been released. Full ChangeLog can be found here.
Bieber Labs 