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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
UserLand: "This is a public beta site for reviewing and discussing features and documentation to be released with Manila 9.5." [Scripting News]
8:20:52 PM 
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As Cash Flows In, India Goes Out to Eat. Eating out was once a special occasion in India. Now it's an everyday thing. By MONICA BHIDE. [NYT > Dining and Wine]
Reminds me of an essay on lunches in India that came through on Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater list years ago, only it's all in reverse.
8:15:32 PM
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technorati reaches nine million. Heh. Technorati passed the nine million mark a little while back. So that means nine million blogs, plus any others not registered by them. A total population roughly equal to London or New York. A year ago the number... [gapingvoid]
4:57:39 PM
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Is the Internet Hurting Scholarship?.
Interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed; an excerpt:
David M. Levy, a computer scientist who loves technology and gets more than 100 e-mail messages a day, makes a point of unplugging from the Internet one day each week to clear his head. Even so, with all the e-mail messages flooding in, with academic blogs bursting with continuous debate, and with the hectic pace set by an increasingly wired world, Mr. Levy says he cannot help but feel an occasional sense of information overload.
And that, he says, is something to stop and think about.
Mr. Levy, a professor at the University of Washington's Information School, is one of many scholars trying to raise awareness of the negative impact of communication technologies on people's lives and work. They say the quality of research and teaching at colleges is at risk unless scholars develop strategies for better managing information, and for making time for extensive reading and contemplation.
"We're losing touch with the contemplative roots of scholarship, the reflective dimension," says Mr. Levy. "When you think that universities are meant to be in effect the think tanks for the culture, or at least one of the major forms of thinking, that strikes me as a very serious concern."
Indeed it is. Accordingly, I'm not posting anything more today (among other things, I need to deal with all those e-mails in my inbox...).
[Leiter Reports]
4:57:33 PM
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Sony Gets Real on Virtual Goods. The trade of virtual goods in massively multiplayer online games is becoming big, big business. Sony's about to grab a piece of the action with the first official auction site for virtual gewgaws. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
7:31:07 AM
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Charles, of StayFree: Fortune 500, Irony 0.
I was reading Fortune today because there was a copy in the men's room where I work. It was the Fortune 500 issue, which had a few articles about Wal-Mart (including a feature about the "Saturday Morning Meeting," which somehow simultaneously humanizes the company AND makes it seem even more like an Orwellian surveillance nightmare). But this isn't a Wal-Mart post.
There was a section of "wacky" facts about some of the Fortune 500 companies. Stupid stuff like "Rupert Murdoch considered himself a socialist when he attended Oxford." But this jumped out at me:
Product Launches You May Not Have Heard About
Aramis, a division of Estee Lauder (#346) is proud to announce Donald Trump: The Fragrance. The gold-topped scent has a masculine "blend of select green and aromatic notes."
Yes, that Trump certainly does have problems marketing himself. How would anyone possibly have found out about this product?
Also, would someone please tell me what it means when something smells "green"?
[Stay Free! Daily]
7:26:50 AM
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