yeah, Dries, what's with that?

[From Has been... | Willy Dobbe]

The XMPP feed was really cool. Why Twitter won't allow relaying is beyond me. If twitter decentralized and did a node/hub based architecture with a good toolkit, things would be much different.

[From No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?]

So why couldn't a loosely coupled, queue based system using XMPP work as a twitter clone? Hash table lookups for @replies, a good OSPF type routing table for interserver communication and asynchronous messaging propagation. Lets get cracking!

[From

Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom - ReadWriteWeb

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The dutch certainly like their Twitters! That's better twitter coverage than we got at most of the US shows.

[From July 2nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands | R.E.M. Tour, 2008]

For the past ten years "tapped for web series" has usually been synonymous for "lots of money on stuff no one will want to watch." Can Google + MacFarlane reverse this? Probably not, because they don't understand the concept of Windowing. Content is successful when not built up with expectations.

[From Google taps 'Family Guy' guy for Web series | Tech news blog - CNET News.com]

so this reminds me that Indigo Home Automation software + native iPhone App is going to absolutely MURDER as a home automation device. IndigoIndigo has an IP protocol and Zeroconf support. Our iPod Touch in our house is already doing this using a web based interface for us. Also consider the possibilities of using the iPod to control a wider array of devices, like your home stereo (using IRTransIRTrans), your air conditioner, etc. The iPod Touch suddenly kills the Phillips Prestigo, Logitech Harmony, etc. The Touch costs less than the Harmony, but IRTrans is not that cheap.

[From Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod Touch - Mac Rumors]

Crystal was a great asset to the team and it will be sad to lose her, but our loss is many other people's gains and I wish her well in Seattle!

[From Clever, Clever Girl » Big Changes and a Bigger Move]

This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city with high unemployment? Fuck. The stupidity abounds.

[From OC Register to outsource some editing to India]

So this is another in the line of REM experiments. With this one, fans can help create the animations for the tour backdrop in the European leg, through October. The animations will get assembled and shipped off to Blue Leach, who is doing the background video.

[From -- R.E.M. HOLLOW MAN --]

Bill Gates = a personal hero. I love this e-mail. Microsoft is also a case of spreading things too thin.

[From Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant]