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http://www.nevon.net/nevon/2005/05/upcoming_geek_e.html
Weblog: NevOnSource: Upcoming geek extravaganza in LondonLink: http://www.nevon.net/nevon/2005/05/upcoming_geek_e.html
The last time I looked at the sign-up wiki for the London geek dinner next month, there were some 80 names. I looked again just now - and it’s 127.
Wow! It would be an easy conclusion to jump to in saying that the big attraction is probably the […]

http://gigaom.com/2005/05/21/335-million-japanese-blogging/  |  Comments
The second most connected society on the planet, Japan has 3.35 million bloggers, a number that is going to double in the next two years, and blog-based markets will grow about 40 times in value by the end of March 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications says. Nearly 16.51 […]

http://gigaom.com/2005/05/21/mpaa-bittorrent-bad-bad-bad/  |  Comments
Remember all those things RIAA used to say about music piracy and Napster. Well, do a “find-replace” with MPAA and BitTorrent, and you get the same hysterical statements. MPAA president Dan Glickman says, “We must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.” MPAA is blaming BitTorrent for Revenge of […]

http://gigaom.com/2005/05/21/open-source-gets-the-build-it-flip-it-religion/  |  Comments
Remember my story, The New Road to Riches, from last October. Well, more and more are converting to that religion. Gluecode CEO Winston Damarillo sells his open source venture to IBM, takes the money, runs and starts yet another open source company, Simula Labs. Call it “deja vu all over again” but […]

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/05/21/OSS-Hell
Every time there’s a major OS X update the ongoing publishing software, which depends on Perl, MySQL, and ImageMagick all playing nice with each other, and on Emacs, predictably falls apart. Each time, the fix-up recipe is a little different and I do a post here in hopes of aiding others in a similar […]

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/rss_spam_and_sp.html  |  Comments
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m a firm believer in using blogs and RSS for distributed conversation. So, I’d like to start a conversation about the threat that spam and spyware pose to our little syndicated world. I brought this topic up with several companies who were at the […]

http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/05/more_on_googles.html
In PaidContent.org, Staci D. Kramer has it down on Google’s new personalized home page. Great stuff.
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http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2005/05/google_this_is_.html
Joseph Nocera in the New York Times: why Microsoft is not as feared as it once was.
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http://managementcraft.typepad.com/management_craft/2005/05/web_meeting_ven.html

I am going to be doing some webinars, but have not yet selected the vendor. The two biggies are MS Live Meeting and Webex. I would like to go with the product that is both PC and Mac friendly and has the fewest technical limitations for attendees, and is easy to use. I also like […]

http://managementcraft.typepad.com/management_craft/2005/05/breaking_bread_.html

I just started reading Adrian Trenholm’s eclectic blog. Adrian is a communications expert and award winning public speaker residing just outside of London. He is also one of the bloggers for 173 Drury Lane.
In this post, called, Music isn’t a loaf of bread… and consulting ain’t stationary Adrian makes some very good points about […]