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| Monday, July 22, 2002 |
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Blog Boat Blug, cont'd 
Mainstreaming
| | Are You Blogging Yet? InformationWeek asks, adding, Blogging is taking the Internet by storm -- will it affect your business? |
| | The brief piece goes on to list the big three blogging tools, plus a short roster of "best of breed examples of blogs," starting with BoingBoing. It includes, ahem, the one you're reading now. |
Link2Spam
| | My email addresses — plus the one for the four Cluetrain "ringleaders" — have been spammed recently with promotional emails from Link2Buy, which obviously harvested the addresses. If you click on either the "Why are you receiving this email?" or the "Unsubscribe me" links in one of their spams, you get sent to an unsubscription page that gives you a button for cancelling your subscription, then forwards you to another page that expresses its sorrow at your intended departure. Then nothing happens. |
| | Here's what their home page says about the harvested recipients of their spam: |
| | Our site users have given their consent and requested to receive information about products and services from companies like yours. This qualifies sales prospects. It also makes them more receptive to your offer and it costs up to 500% less than traditional direct marketing. |
| | Is anybody investigating these assholes, I wonder? |
| | Speaking of which, in the last couple days I've been getting delivery failure notifications on mail I've never sent, mostly to Hotmail addresses. [Later...] Chuqui says this is the Klez virus. |
A Real question
| | I'm told there's a live webcast of a Real Networks announcement in San Francisco this morning. (The John Markoff got the scoop, not that it matters.) I don't have the URL, can't find the email that contains it, and can't remember the name of their PR firm (which is nowhere on the Real Web site, of course). If any of ya'll have it, please send it to me. Thanks! |
Record industry contempt for markets reaches new ironic heights
Looking up
| | It was past 10pm last night when the kid and I got up on the roof to look at the stars. It was late in the evening to see a satellite, but a few of the big ones with relatively high orbits can still be seen. |
| | And sure enough, Heavens-Above.com showed a satellite with a magnitude of 2.9 moving into the sunlight out of Earth's shadow on the West wing of Aquilla, the Eagle. Its path would run between Lyra and Deneb and finally run right across the two brightest stars in Ursa Minor, one of which was Polaris, the North Star. |
| | The Heavens-Above chart showed the satellite appearing at precisely 10:22 :45. We counted down the seconds, watching the spot marked X in the sky, and there it was. |
| | The kid said, "It looks kind of red." I agreed. So we looked at the satellite data, and saw it was called Envisat, and was launched just this past March (most of the satellites you see in the sky are Cosmos remnants launched 10-20 years ago). What's more, it's a big fella, and quite a bit on the reddish side. Here's more, and more again. |
| | So we took a look at some of the pictures Envisat has been taking of he Earth from its orbit nearly 800 km up. Here's a whole gallery that includes an amazing picture of Mt. Etna blowing its top in Sicily. |
| | A few minutes of paging through the pix and the kid was asleep on my lap. Not much later, I was gone too. |
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