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Dreams of television over IP

There's an interesting post at The New Normal about the dreams of television over IP, how the traditional broadcast model is impractical within the constraints of today's networks and how this shouldn't prevent innovative non-realtime distribution models from taking root now.

Published on the 4th of March, 2005 Read full post

Hunter S. Thompson links

A couple of Hunter S. Thompson links featuring Johnny Depp and Ralph Steadman.

Published on the 22nd of February, 2005 Read full post

Google gets into domain watching

Datamonitor is indicating that the reason for Google's recent expansion to domain registrar status could be for using its access to the list of recently transferred domains in order to clean up search results. Once a domain would change hands, its pagerank would be reset, avoiding pollution of the Google database from domains having gained pagerank in their previous life.

This could, among other things, help stop search engine optimisation outfits snake oil merchants from buying up high-ranking domains and turning them into marketable link pools.

Linked on the 3rd of February, 2005 Details

craigslist: brussels online community.

Well, what do you know. The legendary Craigslist has expanded all the way to my neck of the woods.

Linked on the 31st of January, 2005 Details

DH: Gratos pour 124.000 ados.

Someone must have been wearing blinkers the day they came up with this idea at the Belgian government: in order to protect teenagers in chat rooms and forums, they will receive an electronic identity card reader on their 12th birthday. This reader, once connected to their PC, will let them authenticate as genuine teenagers™ and be protected from Joe the pervert trawling their communities pretending to be a 13-year-old.

Published on the 28th of January, 2005 Read full post

NY Times: Behold the Artful Price Tag.

The New York Times has an interesting article on, among other things, the balance between design and price; how design, now becoming a commodity, is something you look through, not at.
When I manage to gather enough courage to drift through local shopping areas, all I see are signs of a long and twisted road to pervasive design.

Linked on the 23rd of January, 2005 Details