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Long Catch Up Post

Oh yea, still busy as hell... I'm doing a little better tho. Lately I've been doing a lot for Murphy--proving his theory true.

Anyway, I'm not sure whether this post is really worth something; but I just want to mark down what I've missed for myself... sorry if it's too long, but feel free to skip it since I'm sure a lot of you have already read/heard most of these.

- New article from Playlist mag:
Podcasting: Hear What the Buzz Is About
- Google launches TV search service
- Not exactly a "podcast" imho... but still, a strange worth-mentioning idea: "Fuck You" From Around The World
- More voting for best weblogs
- G4TechTV joins podcast craze (I was able to catch the TSS rerun when they were introducing it and, as expected, they are taking it the wrong way--just like how they are taking "TechTV" down the drain hole)
- More trouble for RSS standard: My MSN icon
- Academics give lessons on blogs
- Real life Romeo and Juliet... well, only the end romantic (sad) part... at least
- Vloggercon - a video blogger conference (a little late for the 2005 meeting now)
- MSNBC comments on blog and journalism
- Google invents a way to cut back blog comment spam
- Inside the new Airbus 380
- New security threat - " 'evil twin' wifi routers. Here's how it works. A criminal rides up and down in the elevator of an office building looking for unsecured wireless routers. When he finds one, he rents an office nearby for the sole purpose of installing a high-speed line, and a super-powerful wireless router. He names it the same as the open router he found. Now when people come into work their computers will discover the more powerful router, and the users, none the wiser, will do their unsecure transactions, entering passwords, account numbers, mother's maiden names, etc, none the wiser that a criminal is recording all this juicy data and selling it to identity thieves in Russia or Nigeria"

via: Scripting News and curry.com

update: Scoble has interesting comments/FAQs on Google's rel="nofollow"

posted by Knot @ 10:44 PM