Just testing BlogWriter from the iPhone. Looks like it works pretty well (assuming this post shows up).
From The New York Times:
Music Industry Sees Nightclubs as a New Source of Revenue
By ERIC PFANNER
As the music industry tries to make up for plunging CD sales, it is pushing to generate new revenue from nightclubs, restaurants, radio stations and karaoke bars….
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/business/media/01iht-music01.html
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I did a short interview about Wolfram Alpha with Jon Gordon from American Public Media’s Future Tense earlier this week, and Jon just posted the piece, which will be heard on about 100 public radio stations.
My first radio interview! Yay!
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The Windows vs. Mac discussion never stops to amaze me. That’s probably because I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to my operating systems. I’ve used Windows 3.1 to 7, Ubuntu was the main OS on my laptop for the last three years, I wrote some of my best stuff on an LC 630 Macintosh back in the day, and last weekend I bought a Macbook to replace my dead Dell laptop.
<rant> Allen Stern wrote a nice, concise rant about Friendfeed today, where he argues that FF still has to fix a lot of usability issues before it can ever go mainstream. I mostly agree with Allen, but I think that FF’s real issue goes far deeper than just usability.
Sadly, being a big fan of Friendfeed in the past, I have to agree with most of what he says (except for the gmail part of his rant).
Not much of a news story, but I just noticed a different favicon for Google in my browser. Is this new?
I’m not blogging today, but just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year.
I’ve got some new things planned for this blog, which pretty much went into hibernation after I started blogging for ReadWriteWeb, so stay tuned for that!
As always: thanks for reading and subscribing! Without my readers and commenters here, I surely wouldn’t be where I am right now and I’m deeply grateful for that!
There is an interesting discussion about Twitter search on Techmeme right now, but as much as I would like to see some innovative Twitter search, the proposed solution of creating an authority-based system feels completely wrong to me.
One of the great features of new social services like Twitter and Friendfeed is that they are completely democratic. When I put a hashtag in a tweet, people will see it. If I like an item on Friendfeed, it will bubble up to the top. It doesn’t matter if I’m a newbie or have more than 500 (or 15.000) followers.
There is a place for authority-based algorithms – as Dave Winer points out, these work great on Techmeme and Memeorandum – but Twitter is a different beast, even if I can’t quite put my finger on it. If ‘authority’ means ‘number of followers,’ then this seems too much like high school to me.
Instead, I would love to have the option to see results from my own friends (or those who I have communicated with through @replies) bubble up to the top. I’m sure, just like the authority search, some third-party developer is already working on this. Twitter itself should rather use its energy to stabilize its core functions and work on a comment feature.
