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FeedDemon Beta 1.0b4 is out. By turning on the new “single key reading with spacebar” feature and remapping the keyboard shortcuts, I can read all my news channels using the spacebar, N, and G keys. Update: it looks like the new beta deleted all the channels I had added myself under beta 3. Not good. [...]

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Tim Bray has realized that you could create a massive version of linkedin.com using a clever email virus.

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You would have thought it was obvious: French people who eat fat-laden diets stay thinner than Americans because they eat smaller portions than we do. My wife has been telling me for years that people in Europe just don’t eat as much as Americans, and that’s why they’re thinner. The food portions in nearly every [...]

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Last week when the UN offices in Baghdad were bombed, I remember reading that the US was to blame because we hadn’t provided the same level of security for UN facilities that we provide for our own. TNR’s weblog dug up a bit of news with a quote from a UN official stating that the [...]

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I didn’t want to have to be the one to say it, but hasn’t ESR become the Jesse Jackson of open source? (Evidence.)

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Today I received a spam at a completely non-rc3.org related address with the subject “good blog” (it was for some kind of naked teen porn site or something). I guess the fact that spammers think that subject will encourage people to open an email means that we’ve officially arrived.

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Matt Haughey: TiVo’s Apple problem. As far as it goes, I think that Tivo’s best bet is to license its software and service as broadly as possible. I love my Tivo(s), but I got a sinking feeling when I found out that I could get a PVR from Time-Warner Cable for 5 bucks a month [...]

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Whump provides a brief tutorial on creating RSS feeds for publications that are lacking using a few common tools Web page hackers have laying around. I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that I have never done such scraping myself. I just hit some Web sites the old fashioned way every day or so.

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Lawrence Lessig comments succinctly on one of the more outrageous stories I’ve read recently. (I’m not sure why I didn’t link to it.) The subject is the WIPO’s decision to nix a proposed meeting on open source software thanks to heavy lobbying by the likes of Microsoft. If you’re judging companies by their actions [...]

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I really want to stop posting SCO-related items, but I just can’t. Their latest allegation is that the backlash against them in the open source community is being orchestrated by IBM. Let’s be blunt here, if SCO thinks that Eric S Raymond needs to be prodded into going off about something related to open source, [...]

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