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 Thursday, February 14, 2002
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For your Valentine's day pleasure, a true story of geek love:
Kathleen Fent Read this Story [Slashdot]
(including, of course, the whole raft of Slashdot comments and people like me posting it to their weblogs. Awwww.....) 10:20:03 AM 
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Move Over, BT: He Invented Links. British Telecom's claim that it owns the patent to hyperlinking outrages Bob Bemer, an octogenarian who invented what would become a key component of Web navigation a long, long time ago. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
And if he didn't :), Ted Nelson certainly did. 10:15:50 AM
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M-Business: M Is for Moribund. M-Business magazine, a readable and insightful view of the wireless industry, is ceasing publication. What does this mean for the wireless sector? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
How about that millions of clueless bastards churning hype don't equal a business model? No big company doing mobility right now seems to actually understand the importance of usability, or why the ability to just call someone on your mobile phone is ten times more useful than using an inscrutable "phone browser" or an irritating voice "recognition" system. 10:14:51 AM
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Girl Scouts Survey Net Sex. The Girl Scouts discover that about 30 percent of teenaged girls have been harassed online, and they hold a media conference to talk about it. Noah Shachtman reports from New York. [Wired News] 10:13:59 AM
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Opening up about HP. Amid an escalating war of words with Hewlett-Packard's board, Walter Hewlett tells the inside story behind his opposition. [CNET News.com] 10:12:46 AM
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Mmmmm, blogdex... it's like eavesdropping on millions of weblogs at once!
Today's blogdex links (he said, shamelessly pushing up the rankings of these links even more):
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The Zeitgeist I was originally shooting for was the book by Bruce Sterling, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I didn't actually read it, per se -- it was one of the fine concoctions I've guzzled via Audible. The interesting thing about listening to audio books is that your kinesthetic recollections vis a vis them are totally fucked up. With a book, you (well, me anyway) tend to remember where the phrase was on the page. With an audio book, you tend to remember which intersection you were at, or how fast your were going (you can only know where you are or how fast you're going -- everything else is up to God). 1:04:21 AM
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Now this looks interesting: blogdex.media.mit.edu.
They're apparently indexing blog posts, finding commonly posted links, and rating them by how frequently the link occurs. Can I get some Zeitgeist please? 12:13:28 AM
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