Year: 2002

I’m signing off for a couple days; the family and I are heading east to Maine for an annual family get-together. Lobster from Prebles and fried clams at The Clam Shack await. Mmm… I’ll check back in Monday, hopefully well-fed and rested. Have a great weekend!

Glenn Fleishman, commenting at John Robb’s weblog: “In the last 3 months, between Amazon.com commissions, PayPal donations, and sponsorships, the site has nearly hit $1,500 in revenue.”

Wondering why there’s been no responses to my piece on Ashcroft’s declaration last week that Operation TIPS would not require a database. I actually think there’s more than a little substance to this… then again, maybe not. But the prospects of Ashcroft and the Orwellians (that’s my new favorite name for a rock group) getting millions…

Marc Barrot really impresses me. Not only has he developed an outstanding plug-in for Radio, he’s committed to his users. Over the past week I’ve sent him a handful of e-mails, and each time I’ve had a reply – most times within an hour.Last week, I decided to try to make his activeRenderer tool work…

Last month I stayed at an Embassy Suites hotel in Marlboro, an outer suburb of Boston. Marlboro is less than five miles away from Natick and Framingham (where two of my meetings were), so it made sense to be there instead of downtown. I had the majority of one day free, and used it to…

Interesting reports from today’s NY Times about TiVo and ReplayTV: TV Magic, Made More Magical Still. Imagine a gizmo so amazing that everyone who bought it turned into an evangelical fanatic, extolling its virtues to anyone within earshot. Such a machine exists. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]David reviews the new Replay 4500, which…

Boldly Going Where No Law Firm Has Gone Before – I have been wrestling with the idea of making my law firm’s News & Events page of our website into a Radio Weblog.  The benefits are obvious (ease of posting, ability to add comments, XML feeds etc).  I mentioned this to Rick today in our…

Hacking Taxi Cab Billboards. The Sizzle: What’s Up In Digital Marketing and Advertising “A new technology developed by Vert, a small company based in Somerville, Mass., transforms ads on top of taxicabs into real-time, animated electronic billboards. Vert’s software, first tested in the Boston area, lets advertising messages change according to ZIP codes, neighborhoods, even…

I always liked him on ESPN, never saw him on Fox Sports, and agreed that MSNBC was a bad fit. Looks like Keith Olbermann always belonged at a keyboard. He’s now a columnist at Salon. I loved this quote: Major League Baseball never fails to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.Read the rest of…

Radio Wishlist – Far be it from me to wish for anything more from Radio.  Okay, I admit I’m overindulged and spoiled.  Nevertheless, here is what I wish for.  I would like it if Radio came with a default “category” called “Radio Questions.”  And as we all know, this implies a separate XML feed for that…