Sorry for the late notice, but I’ll be on CNET TV at 1 PM PST.
Google Gadget Ads
Google introduces Gadget Ads, includes open caching CDN proxy. I wonder how long that’ll last?
Thunderbird is Back
Mozilla’s new focus on Thunderbird, creating a new non-profit organization to develop it and seeding it with 3 million dollars. After the previous uncertainty, this is great news.
Searching for Evil
Did you know Volvo drivers have more wrecks? This great talk by Ross Anderson covers the fascinating intersection between economics and spam. One hour.
Official Kilogram Prototype
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight. If I was kept at a chateau in a triple-locked safe I would too.
WordCamp Melbourne and Hamburg
Adding Tags to Theme
Mossberg Ubuntu Review
Support Job
Automattic has a new position we’re hiring for.
Vote for CMS Award
Vote for WordPress in the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS Award. No, I have no idea what that category means either.
WordCamp Videos
Most of the session pages on the 2007 WordCamp site now have videos on them, taken by John Pozadzides.
The Shifted Librarian
Bug Fixers
Self Importance Test
Technosailor has an online self-importance test that tells you which “web celebrity” you are based on a few questions. I’m apparently a possible outcome but when I took the test myself I got “Jason Calacanis.”
Pownce XFN
Nerd Attention Damage
I would like to award the prize for the Most Damage Inflicted to the Geek/Nerd World in the Past 5 Years to Michael Lopp, author of the seminal Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder in 2003. No article more effectively romanticized an inability to do one thing at a time, and do it well. On the bright side, Digg and Bloglines should probably give him stock. Need an antidote? Spend 10 minutes collecting everything you need to work on a problem, and unplug the internet for 2 hours. You’ll finish in 30 minutes.
Confession
I’ve been using IE7 quite a bit lately. It’s a darn-good browser and seems very fast, especially when I have a lot of tabs open, compared to Firefox.
On Labor Day
Should poetry be open-source?
SUNW to JAVA
Now that Sun has changed their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA, here’s ten other companies that should change their tickers. By the way, Om was just named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans.