links for 2007-09-13

• Top 100 Tech Blogs: the Datamation List
  august company, indeed; big thanks to James for making his list. you’re invited to my next local party, sir
  (tags: redmonk lists top100 datamation)
• Discovery Channel :: News – Health :: WHO: Disease Rates to Rise With Temps
  yet another example of why i hate the heat: it’s a killer
  (tags: heat climatechange globalwarming climate patterns)
• “Meet the Open Source Industry” Roadshow 2007
  Waugh Partners open source roadshow – sounds excellent. if you’re in Australia, and are interested in open source, seriously, how can you not go?
  (tags: waughpartners jeffwaugh opensource census)
• Harmonization by augmenting ODF with OOXML elements – O’Reilly XML Blog
  couple of people have sent this along, and it’s a very interesting idea; be interesting to see how the namespace embedding affected performance. wondering too if this isn’t the approach some of the plugin providers have taken.
  (tags: harmonization odf rickjelliffe ooxml office productivity formats)
• The blurred line between personal information management and publishing « Jon Udell
  ” ‘Jon Udell tags his own things almost exclusively. That’s lame.’ Historically that’s not true, but recently it looks that way, and in any case it’s a fair comment.” it’s funny. i don’t tag my own stuff for these reasons, but appreciate that Jon do
  (tags: jonudell del del.icio.us folksonomy pim syndication tagging)
• Adam Bosworth leaves Google | InfoWorld | News | 2007-09-11 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
  a loss for Google, certainly. i value Adam’s vision very highly
  (tags: adambosworth google departure via:david)
• Microsoft swipes at Google Apps | Tech News on ZDNet
  interesting. Microsoft must be seeing substantial incursions into their territory more quickly than i’d anticipated. some of the objections are quite legitimate, but several are curious. if i was MSFT, i would not be attacking on “release schedules”
  (tags: microsoft google apps attack office prodcutivity collaboration via:david)
• Urban Abandonments: 7 Deserted Wonders of the (Post)Modern World
  sucker for things like this
  (tags: abandoned cool decay design architecture city)
• Underwater Urban Archeology: 7 Submerged Wonders of the World
  and this, though the videos i’ve seen of Yonaguni are not terribly impressive
  (tags: yonaguni abandoned ocean weburbanist)
• Urban Abandonments: 7 More Deserted Wonders of the Modern World – Cities, Towns and Other Urban Centers
  this too
  (tags: abandoned deserted wonders weburbanist cool interesting)
• Google SMS Adds Location-Based Personalization
  very cool. sending the location every time gets tiresome.
  (tags: google sms location gps)
• War On String May Be Unwinnable, Says Cat General | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
  ok, i give in. this is pretty funny.
  (tags: theonion cat funny humor via:bree)

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