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Internet

Amazon S3 pricing

Amazon just sent a letter detailing price changes for the S3 service. They’re as follows: Current bandwidth price (through May 31, 2007) $0.20 / GB – uploaded $0.20 / GB – downloaded New bandwidth price (effective June 1, 2007) $0.10 per GB – all data uploaded $0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month […]

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Books

Everything is Misc

I received a comp copy of David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous. I’ve only glanced through it and want to withhold comment until I’ve read it completely. Just from my quick glance, the writing looks good, though David and I typically don’t agree on data issues. I appreciate the copy. Speaking of such, I also got a […]

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Political

The sky is falling. Blame Jay.

I hadn’t planned on covering much Missouri news until I open MissouriGreen.com, but the situation at Johnson’s Shut-Ins is getting ridiculous. Now our Republican Lt. Gov is having a press conference at the Shut-Ins to basically blame Jay Nixon–state Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor–for the fact that Ameren is refusing to follow through on its […]

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Photography

Religious wars…no, not RSS

You thought that we techs could be fanatic about our likes and dislikes, loves and hates, you should see photographers and their cameras. The Online Photographer reports on the responses to his review Leica M8: Well, naturally I’ve gotten raked over the coals in many of the Leica forums this morning, for insufficient worship… of the M8. […]

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Technology

MIX

It’s difficult to miss what’s happening with MIX, there’s so much discussion about the announcements and technologies released. Danny Ayers was able to discuss what he was shown on his recent trip to Microsoft: Astoria, a RESTful interface to data services through the web. The data can be returned as XML, JSON, or a subset of RDF/XML, which […]