Linked List: July 17, 2007

Tuesday, 17 July 2007

Dooce: ‘Because They Needed Something Else in Common’ ★

“And then we’re going to the Apple Store.”

Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es ★

I’ve been inching closer to this without making it an outright policy.

Let’s Make It ‘Understand the Dock Day’ Instead ★

MacJournals:

So let’s stop treating July 17 as if it’s some proof that iCal is inadequate and focus the attention where it should go—on the Dock, the program that you may not like but can’t live without, the launcher that Apple claims as superior but really knows is so defective that it will not allow third-party competition for it.

Rands on Why Twitter Matters ★

Great analysis from Rands on why Twitter is such a great idea:

Twitter is an informational yard sale. You simply never know when that off-the-cuff comment you toss will alter a person’s day.

I Can’t Believe People Pay $95 for This Crap ★

Gartner released a $95 report last week entitled “iPhone First-Generation Security Is Too Weak for Enterprises”. A DF reader forwarded a copy. It includes gems like:

Client virtual private network (VPN) choices are not mainstream, and e-mail choices are not business-quality options.

IMAP over SSL is not a “business-quality” option? Jiminy.

Gartner believes that critical malware aimed at the iPhone will appear within weeks of its release;

I will take that bet.

Microsoft Patents Adware Delivery Based on Your Hard Drive Contents ★

John McBride:

The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to sell you stuff. It would inspect “user document files, user e-mail files, user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink),” and more. How could we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status messages?

Python Plugin for VoodooPad Updated ★

Gus Mueller:

What this does is allow you to make short one-file plugins for VoodooPad written in Python.

New York Times: ‘Ad Downturn Threatening the Survival of Business 2.0’ ★

I’d say boring, irrelevant content is what threatens their survival.

The Talk Show, Episode 3 ★

Still no real web site, but another episode of our podcast is in the can.

We’re up to 6,000 weekly listeners; if you’d like to sponsor the show, get in touch.

Update: Yes, I need to get closer to the microphone. Sorry about that.

How Top Bloggers Earn Money ★

BusinessWeek looks at the economics of professional weblog publishing.

Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo ★

More from Aza Raskin, this time in the latest issue of A List Apart.

PodWorks 2.9 ★

It’s been a while since Buzz Andersen last updated PodWorks — check out the actually-spins scroll wheel in the app icon — but he’s back with an update to the premier utility for transfering songs from iPods.

Aza Raskin on the iPhone User Interface ★

Smart analysis overall, but I strongly disagree with his idea about the volume buttons.

Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit, Version 1.0.7 ★

Minor update to my BBEdit language module for syntax coloring Apache configuration files (e.g., “.htaccess” and “httpd.conf” files); adds keywords for the new directives introduced in Apache 2.2.

(Guess who’s hacking on a new web site?)