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Walt wants me to stop blogging

by Mathew on January 20, 2008 · Comments

No, not Walt Mossberg. He’s still a big fan :-) I mean Walt White, the former unassuming high-school chemistry teacher turned drug-dealing outlaw, who made this video for me. He didn’t make it out of concern for my welfare, mind you — he made it after my friend Leigh Himel typed in some info [...]

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Disqus: Some thoughts on comments

by Mathew on January 13, 2008 · Comments

If you come to my blog much (as opposed to just reading the RSS feed), you’ve probably noticed that I’m using a comment-handling system called Disqus, which has been in beta for the past few months or so. Fred Wilson of A VC uses it too, and so does Andrew Baron of Rocketboom, and so [...]

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Lots of sturm und drang in the blogosphere today over what Gizmodo pulled at CES: as editor Brian Lam confesses on the blog, they wandered around the giant tribute to commercialism and technological excess with a TV-B-Gone remote TV killer in their hands and had some fun with it. Plenty of people are claiming that [...]

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Brilliant. That’s all I can say about Adam Frucci’s post at Gizmodo on “Ten Reasons We’re Doomed: CES Edition.” Bloody brilliant. It describes every tech trade show I’ve ever been to. Some of my favourite highlights:
– “Are we so easy to manipulate that all it takes for us to decide that a product is worth [...]

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Last words have a certain poetic appeal, if only because we imagine them being uttered by the deceased with his or her last breath. But what if you could write your final thoughts in the form of a letter to the world, to be published after your death? That’s exactly what military blogger Andrew Olmsted [...]

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