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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 […]

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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 […]