Category: Current Affairs

  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Thursday Mar. 3rd 2005. Today’s resource of potential interest comes from Robert Scoble in a post entitled "Have your RSS feeds read to you by NewsAloud."  This tool is available for free download and evaluation.  A full version costs $20.  In a nutshell,…

    + , ,
  • The link fests (aka "human pre-processor aggregrator of the aggregations") appear to be pretty well received if I am to believe my Feedster data reports.  So, here is another one … Podcasting WinPodcast (creation tool) [I haven’t tried it … still trying out MixCast] Eric Mack on Action Delegation tools…

    + , , , , ,
  • A couple of good productions turned up via Blogdigger … some adult language … http://www.michaelverdi.com/video/vloganarchy.mov http://video.ericrice.com/videoblogs/vlogarchy.mov It turns out that over the last month or so … Blogdigger is my channel of choice for "watching" stuff when I don’t have a "podcast" playing in my head phones or in my…

    + , , , ,
  • There have been a lot of "taser" related news items in the mainstream news lately.  It was something that I had just brushed aside, but if you look at Google News I guess there is some issues with them being more lethal than expected? The reason I am even blogging…

    +
  • This is your Tech Tidbits Daily for Friday, Feb. 18th 2005. Today’s link is to an important visionary short Flash presentation that came to us from Geek News Central.  This looking into the future concept was done by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson.  It focuses on a journey from now…

    + , ,
  • Craig over at the Godcast.org sent me a link to his article on a reference to a new market survey by Pew Internet & American Life Project on the number of MP3 players being used in the U.S. It should be noted that if you are thinking about starting or…

    + , , , ,
  • The Meaning of R.S.V.P: The term R.S.V.P. comes from the French expression "répondez s’il vous plaît", meaning "please respond". If R.S.V.P. is written on an invitation it means the invited guest must tell the host whether or not they plan to attend the party. It does not mean to respond…

    +
  • A good friend of mine from college Y.A.F days, Gary Becks, who leads a disaster relief organization out of San Diego County called Rescue Task Force (RTF) has teamed up with Andrea Stone at World Emergency Relief  to leave for "Thailand and Sri Lanka, to complete an in-country disaster assessment…

    +
  • www.hackaday.com is a new site from the engadet.com folks.

    +
  • First Lady Laura Bush speaks her mind and defends President Bush on stem cell research via Yahoo. More information on this complicated moral and ethical area of public policy in an FAQ by Family.org.

    +