Trailfire Debuts New Tool At Demo - Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi - : this was done a company called Third Voice back in 1998 or so. I remember Dave Winer at the New Directions for News conference where these guys also presented was up in arms about it. As was I.

Webreakstuff » Successful brainstorming: my preferred method of brainstorming is to take a pad of paper, a pen and go somewhere like the beach and just doodle until something happens. The other thing is boredom. I did my best brainstorming during lectures during which I should have otherwise been paying attention.

3 Reasons Why Snap Preview is Ruining Your Blog, and Hurting Your Readership | Performancing.com: key point: if the amount of included javascript on your blog from OTHER SOURCES outpaces internal references, its time to stop. Bloggers are the ultimate drug addicts, except not.

MAKE: Blog: Tag a tower in Rotterdam: oh how I loved this building. When I spent 12 days in Rotterdam a few years ago, I walked by this building every day (in fact I slept on a boat docked right next to it) and would just stare at it in awe, wondering when/if I could get access to its API goodness. Well……

Pissing off the blogosphere… « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger: I wonder what Scoble’s opinion on payola and disclosure is? Unbelievable.

Charlene Li’s Blog: New ROI of blogging report from Forrester: I’m late to the party on this, but did anyone do a WTF? In regards to ROI for a blog? I blog, I work, I don’t blog for work, but both tangentially help each other. So what is the quantifiable ROI? Nothing.

aeronaut: true story: When I was 19 or so, I enrolled in ground school at John Wayne Airport to get my pilots license. I’ve loved flying since I was a kid, I’ve logged…20 hours so far just with instructors. My grandpa called me and said “Over my dead body!” so I couldn’t take flight lessons then (he and grams were paying for my college). However, every time I go someplace new, I make a point to call the local FBO and request an “aerial tour,” with me front and left of course, and an instructor. And lately, Amy in the back seat. Flying perhaps is the best thing in the world. Lifting off from the ground with nothing more than three fingers is inspiring and as close to the sublimity of man/machine interaction that you can get. I fly simulated an awful lot as well. Anyhow, the point being: I like this blog because it lets me live vicariously through the yoke and throttle of another.