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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 […]

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Technology Web

Bad IE. Bad IE?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Very interesting post and comments regarding IE7’s support of CSS. The post author writes about how IE7 fails the WaSP’s Acid2 test. As was noted in comments, this test isn’t necessarily the be all end all that it’s made out to be. For instance, according to Ziff-Davis UK Firefox also doesn’t pass the test, […]

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Stuff

Someone pop it…please

Is this a joke? Today there’s a funding bubble but there’s not as much of a liquidity bubble. The only reason I didn’t throw my laptop across the room is the speaker of this brilliant quip had a nice smile when he said it. I had to assume he said this tongue-in-cheek. Kind of, “Let’s pull […]

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Technology Web

Is Firefox the next IE?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a story at ScriptTeaser about a weblog post whereby the writer rants and rails (not the Ruby kind) against IE7. I find myself in the rather unusual position of responding in defense of this much maligned browser. For all that there are rants against IE and Microsoft’s use of […]

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Weblogging

AOL Screws the pooch

I have to agree with the Herd on this one: AOL screwed the pooch by releasing its actual search results. Even if the data is ‘anonymized’ (is that a new Web 2.0 word?), it shows a betrayal of confidentiality that’s going to end up costing the company big time. AOL is trying to paint itself […]