This morning, I began to read my RSS feeds with Google Reader, where I was invited to “manage my subscriptions.”
Good idea! Time to cull some stuff I was reading out of a sense of duty:

Joi Ito’s Web today features a photo of him (in a suit and tie) next to [...]

This morning I began to use Google Reader. I was invited to “manage my subscriptions.”
Good idea! Time to add a few great blogs that deserve to move from “occasionally” to “frequently”.

Clublife is written by a bouncer at NYC clubs. He hates the customers. He can barely stand the people he [...]

I’m sorry to report that two of my friends have unexpectedly departed this world.

Second Life Sex Club, by James Deavin
They’re off to Second Life, leaving only traces behind.
Bret Fausett, the gadfly lawyer who annoys ICANN so beautifully by holding them to their pontifical pronoucements, has set up shop in the trendy otherworld by buying [...]

A thought-provoking review appeared in the October 13 2006 issue of the Times Literary Supplement:

Privileged information has been leaking into the public domain since the Reformation. During the 1530s, in England, records that for centuries been restricted legal and religious texts were transformed into historical documents… [T]hey were picked up by… the antiquarian, who [...]

How many world-shaking ideas have you had in stop-and-go traffic, meditating on those Pennsylvania license plates URLs that seem to change every year? I’ve had 53 — but I can’t remember any of them.
Enter DictaBrain.
DictaBrain gets World-Shaking Idea #54 out of your head and onto your blog (or your book, or your [...]

Elliot Noss spent $18 million to acquire all the family names at NetIdentity, but he still didn’t get noss.com, which belongs to some polluting paper pulp company.
Georgebush.com - gone!
Andreamerkel.com - gone!
Jacqueschirac.com - gone!
Tonyblair.com - gone!
Stephenharper.com - gone! (who’s he?)
Even world leaders can’t get their own domain name. No-one can. And everybody’s bitching and [...]

Conferences? Usually? Frankly? Boring. I go for the networking in the halls.
Why? I never knew exactly, but now Jen Bekman may have found the answer. Homogeneity, all boring white tech nerds.
A breath of fresh air, much needed — her list of women speakers for your tech/media/fashion [...]

A Federal judge last week dismissed [1.7MB PDF] a trademark infringement case against Google, which was accused of infringing on the trademark “Rescuecom” by allowing others to purchase the term as a keyword to trigger sponsored search engine results.
Is this a “dog bites man” story? No, because on the Internet, famously, [...]

I’ve been watching language get turned into money. All languages, in fact, and all languages in concert with one another. It might be time to start thinking about how human language itself is becoming globalized — led, as usual, by the Internet.
Money is leading us toward one big global patois, [...]

I’m fascinated by behavioral science. But without academic credentials, I’m not allowed to view most papers published in scientific journals. Neither are you.

“Sorry Buster. No can do. Subscribers only. Subscriptions for institutions and academics only. Anyway you couldn’t afford it. Click here to go back [...]