Archive for the ‘General’ Category

New Breed of Blogs

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Earlier this year I felt quite alienated from blogs. I skimmed through them for news but didn't really enjoy reading them. Many (tech) bloggers didn't offer much value for readers, no new perspective on news or an original thought. And I guess, it's not too far-fetched to say, they were ...

Abdul Kareem: Flood the Jail with Mail

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

While many of us want to read about the latest news on open standards, semantic markup, social networks, acquisitions,... on our favourite blogs, we easily forget about bloggers who are imprisoned because they were just voicing their opinion. One of those bloggers is Abdul Kareem from Egypt. He got sentenced ...

Quick Notes for Today

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Just some quick notes: Another unexpected downtime for NSR. Well, I'm in the same league as Twitter. It could be worse. ;) The Data Portability Group has published its first report (via notizBlog) Instapaper seems to be a nice little application. Everyone loves it. Will have to check it out over the weekend. Yahoo!'s ...

Last Day

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Last day of the year. I am freezing, a touch of the flu? Feeling sick basically. So I'll stay in on NYE. Kinda strange. Though that hasn't stopped me from listening to music a lot. Lots of oldskool tunes today: Acen, Bizarre Inc, Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era, House ...