Second Class Citizens, First Class Slides

Phillip Torrone, on Engadget's first cease and desist letter, from Podcast 16: "I was a little surprised that they went from zero to Digital Millenium Copyright Act in less than a second." So-Cal Microsoftie Lenn Pryor has a righteous rant about Cluetrain come to life starting at about 41:00 of the same MP3: "It's actually happening. We're in this war against the people we pay money to."

Also from Endgadget, I can't wait to give my next presentation sans laptop: HOW TO: Put PowerPoint on your iPod Photo. This is great example of how there is no such thing as "consumer" technology, there's a business hack for everything. And Torrone has this key bit of feedback for Microsoft and Apple:

Ideally new versions of PowerPoint would have a new menu for Porable Media Centers (File > Export to Portable Media Center or File > Sent to Portable Media Center). Also, Keynote should have "Send to iPod Photo".

Breakfast Of Champions

Dilbert on expiring patents.

I wonder if Tim Berners-Lee ever imagined how many cheesy snacks would have their own Web sites? (See also the Lunchmeat Web Deli.)

Big Bad Birthdays

B&B is three! And Tyler was one yesterday.

"Someone you can trust to be brutal"

That's me, per my Dad, who is profiled this week at JD Bliss.

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Chris Chute, in USA Today, Price war rages over photo prints: "This is a price war against home printing. On two fronts: retail and online."

Michael Hiltzik, in the L.A. Times, Building a Better Browser at Mozilla: "Firefox's advantages over Explorer make its rapid acceptance unsurprising."

The L.A. Times covers podcasting, in King of Music Players: "Robert Lucic, a Duke professor of computer science, records the lectures in his course on information science and information studies and posts them to a website where students can download them."

A good L.A. Times article on spyware, geeks, and community, Breaking, Entering Your PC: "[A] man's 'browser helper objects' are about as private as you can get."

Finally, Engadget's Phillip Torrone comments on sad changes at The Screen Savers, and how television probably is not the ideal medium for information about technology.