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2007-02-16T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Charles : Web Debugging Proxy | HTTP Monitor | HTTP Proxy | HTTPS/SSL Proxy | Reverse Proxy

A little app for viewing http traffic on a machine. Great for when you post a comment or something to a website and that website eats it.

(tags: debugging tools proxy forms software-mac software firefox-extentions networking firefox)
MediaFork

A branch of the superb open source dvdripper Handbrake

(tags: ripper dvd-ripper handbrake mediafork software software-mac opensource ipod dvd converters freeware gpl transcoding utilities video)
Browser Statistics

The most comprehensive historical month by month stats on the major browsers and operating systems I've seen.

(tags: browser statistics stats browser-wars)

2007-02-15T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Is Yahoo/Flickr DMCA Policy Censorship? - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)

Jeff Diehl interviews Thomas Hawk about Flickr's censoring of not just his image of Michael Crook per a false DMCA notice but even worse all the conversation and metadata having to do with it. Esentially "disappearing" the whole conversation.

(tags: thomas-hawk michael-crook flickr dmca zooomr yahoo scott-beale meta-data jeff-diehl laughing-squid griefer freedom-of-speach censorship transparency)
EFF and 10 Zen Monkeys vs. Michael Crook and DMCA - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)

an EXCELLENT brief and to the point outline of the Michael Crook DMCA "safe harbor" abuse incident. Very well written. very too the point.

(tags: jeff-diehl michael-crook EFF DMCA laughing-squid censorship scott-beale safe-harbor jason-schultz jason-fortuny)

2007-02-09T04:18:00.000-06:00

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A List Apart: Articles: The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners

ALA's primer

(tags: css ia css-design resources reference how-to typography information-architecture javascript standards development)
ClickStar

Morgan Freeman's movie download site

(tags: morgan-freeman clickstar frank-sinton movies digital-distribution distribution entertainment film)

2007-02-07T04:18:00.000-06:00

links for 2007-02-07

Mindows Vista Security - Apple's Get a Mac Commercial (video/quicktime Object)

Damn, Snap! Apple wasted no time ripping Microsoft a new one on Vista security! It's actually MEAN.

(tags: .mov apple advertising videos getamac vista humor)

2007-02-05T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Interview with Mike Hudack from blip.tv - DV Guru

(tags: interviews mike-hudak blip.tv dvguru.com videoblogging)
DenverPost.com - Video, unleashed

Old press on mefeedia.

(tags: mefeedia deverpost.com press-clippings)

2007-02-04T04:18:00.000-06:00

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FREE CULTURE by Lawrence Lessig (and friends):

(tags: mp3 audio-books free-culture lawrence-lessig)
Desolation

Inspired by the brilliant videoblog blandlands. My first attempt at capturing the space between.

(tags: blandlands mmeiser)

2007-01-31T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Mefeedia Development - Trac

Private home of the mefeedia development wiki, such a bad url, I had to bookmark it on delicious so I could remember it.

(tags: trac bad-urls cvs cvsdude mefeedia development project-management wiki bugs bugtracking)

2007-01-30T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Windows features OS X should ?adopt? at The Apple Blog

(tags: usability design design-usability windows)

2007-01-29T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Whole Wheat Radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A great article on my favorite audio magazine / radio show, from Talkeetna Alaska. :)

(tags: streaming-radio ***** wikiepdia Jim-Kloss Esther-Golton wheat-hole house-concerts wheatstalk folk-music podsafe grassroots RIAA-free independent-music Radio-Free wheatheads whole-wheat-radio podcasts.favorites podcasts whole-wheat radio shoutcast alaska talkeetna)
SHOUTcast - HOME

Whole Wheat and other Alaska based radio streams on Shoutcast

(tags: streaming-radio ***** wikiepdia Jim-Kloss Esther-Golton wheat-hole house-concerts wheatstalk folk-music podsafe grassroots RIAA-free independent-music Radio-Free wheatheads whole-wheat-radio podcasts.favorites podcasts whole-wheat radio shoutcast alaska talkeetna)

2007-01-25T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Eric's Archived Thoughts: The Twitters

Twitter has architectural issues leading to a lack of capacity... "the way people are using Twitter right now, it?s rapidly becoming the most inefficient and unusable version of IRC ever"... interesting read

(tags: twitter criticism usability information-architecture)

2007-01-24T04:18:00.000-06:00

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Note Taking Application Faceoff at The Apple Blog

A short review of a half dozen free to inexpensive pieces of notetaking software for the mac.

(tags: software-mac journler theappleblog.com scrivener writeroom mori xPad notebook Yojimbo software outliner Mac notetaking freeware programs OSX reviews writing utilities)
GigaOM » Twitter Goes Corporate

I've been hearing increasing amounts about Twitter from friends. It apparently brings a realtime element of telepresence to social networking. Like mobile realtime blogging. However I can't imagine it not being intrusive.

(tags: twitter gigaOM startups mobile-media odeo alerts status ambient-technologies telepresence)
media-info - Microformats

Homepage for the proposed "media microformat" to allow the semantic marking up of media and media related meta info in the blog post.

(tags: microformats media.research mediawiki metadata metadata.research)

2007-01-07T04:17:00.000-06:00

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"Hands-on guide to video blogging and podcasting"

Appears to focus on professional use of podcasting and videoblogging... "busienss and financial ramifications" whatever those are. Have not read... nor heard anything about it yet.

(tags: books reading-list vlogging podcasts library worldcat local-search videoblogging focal elsevier)

2006-12-28T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Citizen Media Watch » LA Times on ?YouTube journalism?

An interesting story (with accompanying video) about a videographer's video tapping of Chinese military shooting tibeten pilgrims in cold blood, the chinese spun it as self defense, but the video on youtube shows otherwise.

(tags: citizen-journalism la-times youtube citizen-media participatory-journalism localism hyperlocalism)
Monroe County Library System /All Locations

A fictional alternate history extending from WWII as if the U.S. had never entered the war and Nazi's had one. Most interesting for it's portrail of a german society, the denial of the holocost and comparison to George, Orwell's 1984

(tags: reading-list robert-harris fatherland best-seller toread library nazism alternate-histories)

2006-12-24T04:17:00.000-06:00

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SNOWFLAKE-A-THON

An experiment in visualization. The goal, "create the simplest program that generates the most beautiful snowflake"

(tags: snowflake-a-thon MIT video visualization.experiments design art patterns programming)
How To Do Research In the MIT AI Lab

An interesting booklet from the MIT AI grad labs in September 1988 on which attempts to explain how to do thesis research

(tags: research methodology MIT ebook thesis howto reference writing academic papers guides phd articles)

2006-12-20T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Iraq's Economy is Booming - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com

Extremely bullish article on Iraq's economy, BUT the question is NOT wether economic growth is 4% or 17%, it's distribution of wealth. with unemployment between 30-50% obviously this article misrepresents.

(tags: news-bits iraq politics newsweek economics world-bank iraqna foreign-policy)
nPost.com Interview with Michael Birch, CEO of Bebo

An interesting interview with Michael Birch, CEO of Bebo. Most interesting to me was his talk about hiring "T-shapped people", though he didn't use the word.

(tags: news-bits socialnetworking UK Ireland mingo.com Michael-Birch interviews ceo t-shapped-people bebo bebo.com startups techcrunch myspace)
Spectrum - Confronting the Global Energy Challenge

An quarterly MIT Journal focusing on sustainable alternatives for energy and power

(tags: MIT quarterly sustainability energy business research innovation academic journals entrepreneurship)
Yale University Art Gallery - Architecture - Review - New York Times

A look at the restoration of the Yale Art Gallery, one of the few buildings by Loius Kahn

(tags: architecture louis-kahn yale art-gallery restoration news-bits nytimes)
Userscripts.org: All scripts tagged flickr

Greasmonkey scripts for making Flickr better

(tags: flickr greasemonkey scripts hacks firefox)
SourceForge.net: Flickr Backup

Will download and backup all your photos from Flickr, but nothing else unforetunately.

(tags: flickr software-mac software backup java opensource freeware)

2006-12-19T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Preservation Wayne > Home Page

A historic preservation group in Detroit, recommended by a flickr area photog for architectural tours.

(tags: historic-preservation advocacy wayne-county michigan detroit architecture history tours)

2006-12-16T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Urban Advantage:

Urban planning firm, specializes in creating visual before and afters, focusing on public transportation & walkable human scale spaces. Located in Berkley, work all over the U.S., interesting press page.

(tags: Berkeley,CA Berkeley San-Francisco San-Jose proximity Minnesota Maryland Virginia new-urbanism urban-planning architecture planning sustainability)

2006-12-14T04:17:00.000-06:00

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.:: M.R.S. Custom Video Services ::.

north of detroit - video services, home movies to DVD, video scrapbook, digital video editing, events

(tags: J.SouleDesign imlay-city,MI)
.:: J.Soule Design - Web and Graphics Design ::.

web designer / graphic designer, monroe, MI

(tags: J.SouleDesign monroe,MI localism web-designer graphic-designer)
Residential & Commercial Rental Properties, Monroe, Michigan

manages some interesting downtown realestate

(tags: monroe,MI real-estate rental historic-architecture historic-monroe hostoric local)

2006-12-12T04:17:00.000-06:00

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OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster DNS

Useful on certain networks, but I did tests against my ISP's DNS and it was actually slower.

(tags: openDNS tools DNS tools-network webservices domain-name-lookup domain-name-service)

2006-12-09T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Panopticon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fascinating stuff, in many ways with modern survielance we've become a society under constant survielance... a concept originally just for prisons, and yet now it's pervasive in places like London, Chicago, and NY

(tags: wikipedia panopticon surveillance prison architecture philosophy privacy politics)

2006-12-07T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Rhizome.org: Connecting Art & Technology

The museum of contemporary art in NY has a cool member network, only $24 to join. It's almost like a cool stipped down blog network.

(tags: nyc museum events media-art new-york art-and-tech art-and-technology contemporarty-art Mica-Scalin memberships tosubscribe-membership)

2006-12-06T04:17:00.000-06:00

links for 2006-12-06

existing-classes - Microformats

A list of all the current microformats

(tags: standards metadata metawiki microformats web-standards CSS xhtml)
relpayment-research - Microformats

The RelPayment microformat.

(tags: andreas-haugstrap josh-kinberg jay-dedman peter-van-dijk metadata microformats)
Main Page - Microformats

(tags: microformats wiki xml xhtml development metadata metadata.research XFN)

2006-12-02T04:17:00.000-06:00

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SynergyKM: The Missing GUI

Synergy is supposed to be a sort of replacement for OSx2x for using multiple computers with the same keyboard.

(tags: osx2x synergy software software-mac productivity utilities)
Gmaps Pedometer - 80mile Dayton to Columbus Ohio ride

80 miles, Dayton to Columbs, along historic route 40

(tags: gmaps pedometer route-40 dayton dayton,oh dayton,ohio columbus columbus,OH columbus,ohio historic-route bike-routes)

2006-12-01T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Austinist

THe "ist" series of local vlogs are a great institution in localism

(tags: hyperlocalism localism austin texas blogs ist chicagoist austinist)
A Daily Dose of Architecture

"(Almost) daily architectural musings from New York City" -- interesting architecture blog.

(tags: architecture blogs blogs.design)

2006-11-29T04:17:00.000-06:00

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Mark Hurst at the good experience conference

via http://gelconference.com/whatis.php ...Come on mark... the least you could do for a conference on experience is put together a subscribeable video blog like TedTalks http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/

(tags: filter-pool conferences sites-who-need-to-vlogcast videos usability design conference)