Archives for March 2002

Testing new weblog.

Anal Itch Cream?  I woke up and cannot sleep.  Ugh.  I thought one was supposed to sleep in on vacation?

Space…  Went to the Kennedy Space Center today – was alot of fun.  If you do, be sure to take the “Up Close” tour.  It’s $20 more per person, but you get to see so much more… 

Bout time the Massachusetts courts did something that makes sense..  Slashdot | Your Rights Online – Email, a Legally Binding Contract?. [Privacy Digest]

Which part of ‘Congress shall make no law.. abridging the freedom of speech’ did this legislature (mine) not understand?  Killers free speech lives: SJC finds Son of Sam bill unconstitutional. Boston Herald Mar 16 2002 3:16PM ET [Moreover – moreover…]

Clearly a new subscription for me.  I hope Matt continues to build out this financial site.  I don’t know what his background is, but it is a good idea.  High quality analysis on breaking financial news in key sectors is a perfect weblog topic.  Imagine a weblog on financial news related to a given sector (wireless vendors for example) by an industry insider.  He/she could easily dissect each press release, filing, product announcement, etc.  He/she could even provide first hand reports on how products are doing in showrooms or what the industry rumors are.  Nice.  The data could also be packaged and sold as a retail product (a PDF or Word doc).  I know of one independent Internet analyst that sold a report on Internet companies he tracked for $100.  9,500 people purchased the report.  This is a business model.  I am sure this model would work for technology topics too.  You could even use Befree to track affiliate revenue ($10 a sale) for sales generated by promotions on the sites of other webloggers. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

Must review.  David Brown is using Radio’s blog from anywhere feature (even a BlackBerry).  To access this, make sure Radio is running and click this link:  E-mail to weblog.  This is the perfect tool for a group or personal K-Log for people that are on the move.  In this mode, Radio acts like a private Yahoo Groups tool. 

The only thing it is missing is the ability to publish a summary of posts to users via e-mail.  That would require a way to put in a list of e-mail addresses (or point to a source of e-mail addresses) and the ability to set a time to send a summary (ie. midnight).  However, most people don’t need more e-mail sent to them.  The group K-Log is sufficient. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]