Monday, March 29, 2004

Arrived safely in Florida. It's sunny and warm, of course. No Internet in hotel, despite what they advertised. This time I forgot to pack something, the power adapter for my IBM T40 laptop. Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can buy one, but I'm not holding my breath. Basically have two hours of battery for the rest of the week. Guess that's good. I'll do a lot of reading. No battery required for that of course.  

Berkman's Urs Gasser released a study of Apple's iTunes. 

Russell Beattie reviews Diego Doval's Clever Cactus P2P app. 

John Battelle details changes to Google, released today. 

Note to people who are raving about FutureMe. It's been done before. We're going to move MTTF to a scripting.com server sometime in the next few weeks. 

I was quoted in a Tampa Tribune article about Google. My quote didn't quite fit with their theme. Oh la. For the record, Google isn't suffering too much for being commercial. Although some of where Alta Vista went wrong is evident in their strategy.  

Florida is a battleground state in the US presidential election this fall. Lots of Bush-Cheney ads on the radio on the drive here from Orlando. They paint Kerry as a taxer. They have an ad with a supposed Bostoner (he makes fun of his own accent) talking about how Kerry likes to tax, tax, tax. Made me think I should move to Florida until November, so I can vote for Kerry in the fall in a place where my vote means something. Bush makes me totally sick. Bush decided to create a huge deficit. Kind of like a tax. 

Dave Pollard explains how to increase your weblog's traffic. 

Andrew Grumet's plan for the Infrastructure session at BloggerCon. 

Eleven new Boston Globe feeds.  

I'm spending this whole week in northeast Florida. Hope to visit Kaye Trammel and Rogers Cadenhead. Take care of some of my uncle's business, visit some of the old stomping grounds, but mostly swim, walk, think, sun and read. It's a chance to clear my mind before the conference in mid-April, and to think about where I want to be and what I want to do after this semester. 

BBC: "A handful of UK libraries are to offer wi-fi laptops to visitors so that they can browse the internet." 

NY Times: "Prince's love-hate relationship with the mainstream music industry takes another turn today as he opens his online Musicology Download Store, turning his back on download services like Napster, Rhapsody and Apple's iTunes."