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Specs

The importance of standards

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Nat at O’Reilly Radar writes on the importance of standards in web page design, making me very happy. He wrote: The point of the standards is not just to ensure that browsers can display the pages. The standards also ensure the pages form a platform that can be built upon; a hacked-together […]

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Political

Two from Sheila

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two excellent posts from Sheila to pass on: The latest covers the Lieberman defeat and the ludicrous accusations that the Joe Lieberman site was hacked. As was discovered and discussed in numerous publications, the Lieberman campaign hosted the site on a cheap server, and then paid the price when it received too […]

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Photography

The new Nikon D80

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Nikon has released its new D80 digital SLR, and Digital Photo Preview has a first look. From the side by sides, the D80 is similar to the D200. However, the D80 is focused as a D70 replacement, not a direct competitor for the D200. The D200 has more exposure options and is […]

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Weblogging

Know when to hold them, know when to fold them

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ed Batista excerpted part of what Jason Calcanis had to say about re-inventing oneself, taped during a Dave Winer coffee notes: You have to reinvent yourself, and sometimes you have to kill your previous persona. I had to kill [my] Silicon Alley Reporter persona to become Weblogs, Inc. I’ll have to kill […]

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Technology

SxSW Panels

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. SxSW has posted a list of panels, and you can vote on which ones to be presented*. danah boyd is participating in one and I’m happy to pass along her request. Though I’m not going, if I were, I’d want to see the following panels myself: Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web: The […]