Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Steve Rubel discovers how to read O'Reilly books, in full, for free, thanks to Google Books.  

BusinessWeek: "When Loic Le Meur, one of the country's most widely read bloggers, proposed doing a podcast interview with Sarkozy, the answer was mais, oui." 

Doc Searls is looking for a hotel room in Las Vegas for CES, January 5-8. There are hotels available on Expedia, but the rates are unbelievable.  

Movies seen recently: Aristocrats, Constant Gardener, Shopgirl, Syriana, Wedding Crashers, Munich, Crash. To name just a few. They were all good. The best joke was in the Aristocrats (in fact it's all one big joke). Movie I'd most like to see again: Syriana. Least: Munich (although it was good). Funniest and sweetest: Wedding Crashers.  

Future Tense: "After a fruitless search for free audio books online, Hugh McGuire started Librivox, a project of amateur readers who record public domain books and poems." 

LibriVox volunteers "record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net." 

PC Mag: "We're so impressed with the DAH-1500i that while we were testing it, our iPod shuffle started whining and giving us puppy-dog eyes." 

Jim Erlandson says bloggers played a role in uncovering the faked stem cell cloning story. 

More on blog plagiarism from Om Malik. 

David Berlind writes about DRM. 

MarketWatch article on the state of New Orleans. "It's even worse a mile or so outside the central city, where the New Orleans economy is comatose. Its neighborhoods uninhabitable, retailers are simply unnecessary."