Friday, December 30, 2005

New Flickr set from tonight's Palo Alto geek dinner. 

A relatively great picture of me taken at last year's Democratic Convention. 

Wired: "The amount of click fraud is difficult to quantify; estimates of the proportion of fake clicks run from as low as 1 in 10 to as high as 1 in 2." 

Many years ago, when I first moved to Silicon Valley, I lived in an apartment complex across the street from a totally seedy loud bar that I'd frequent called St James Infirmary. Tonight I'm staying in a hotel in that neighborhood, and I wondered as I drove down if the bar was still there. It's not. But the hotel I'm staying at is exactly where the bar used to be. Kind of like Suck becoming a porn site, I guess.  

Amyloo is CSS-izing her River of News. 

Frank Paynter reports on latkes from Madison, WI. 

Kottke reports that Suck is now a porn site. Oy! 

Ben Barren thinks it's a good time for a new aggregator. Seems so. The response, even though it hasn't really shipped yet, has been fantastic. I'm kind of surprised, I thought I had lost the pulpit. Apparently not.  

Kosso has a fantastic graphic illustrating River of News.  

Good morning. I did release an early version of the News River aggregator yesterday. Lots of people have put it through its paces. I'm not going to link to it here until it's more solid. The biggest difficulty has been importing OPML subscription lists because there's been some "drift" from the initial format. I'm going to make some fixes this morning according to Postel's Law and be liberal in what I accept. And thanks to all the hale and hearty souls who are helping out here. Much appreciated!  

Why Steven Frein continues to read Scripting News. 

Five years ago today I got sticker shock from a $950 utility bill. I didn't know it then but it was because some friends of our current President, in Houston, were fucking around with the energy market. They're starting to go to jail now. I doubt if I'll ever see the money they took from me though.