Saturday, June 05, 1999

W3C: XHTML 1.0.

BBC: Volkswagen fights online deals. Wow!

Linux gets easier to install. And thanks to Jacob Levy for sending me all these great links. Gotta get him to run a channel.

InfoWorld's Bob O'Donnell doesn't like ThirdVoice, he thinks they'll get into legal trouble. I don't like ThirdVoice either, but never mind lawsuits, think of the karmic issues. As a webmaster I hate the idea of ThirdVoice. I put a lot of time and effort into running an interesting site. If someone has something to say let them put up their own site. Let's make that easier. ThirdVoice is yucky.

News.com: The future of broadband? "Where cable or telephone companies talk in terms of megabits per second, Media Fusion talks of the possibility of transmitting exobits--that's a 1 with eighteen zeros after it--per second though power lines."

Web Review: "Several readers were appalled that I would suggest using single-pixel GIFs as a layout control tool."

Dan Gillmor: Spin, Dishonesty and Outright Lies. "Technology companies will quit being deceptive only when their customers force them to quit, and all the journalistic exposes won't change this basic truth." Amen!

MacWEEK: Somebody's Watching You. "Nearly everything that flows to and from my computer over the Internet is transmitted as unscrambled plain text or something very close to it."

New channel: Adrenaline Labs.

Doug Brewer's SndApp 1.0b2 is a set of scripts that makes SoundApp (a free sound utility) an MP3 jukebox. Mac only.

This morning I'm listening to an old Patti Smith CD. Hey do you want to be a rock and roll star? Then get a guitar and learn how to play. "Three chord rock merged with the power of the word."