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010831

ISS astronauts watch destruction of earth. (BBC News)

010828

rumours that mozilla 1.0 will be delayed until next year
i don't care. i'll wait for it. last year, when netscape 4.7 just got too much to bear i gave a whole range of different browsers a go and ended up using opera quite a bit. there were a lot of things i liked about it but a few important ones i didn't. i was disappointed to have to let go of it again. earlier this year the mozilla milestones became usable. i've been downloading them since milestone 13 and since 0.8 it's been my regular browser. please guys, take as long as you want. i want a good browser, not something pushed out the door by marketing decisions. i want a browser created by hackers not suits.

010822

more evidence for the death of the internet? ^[?]
just found this in the Progressive Review...

THE LIST
Pages in Internet magazines a year ago and now

[Compiled by Rob Walker, Slate]

Red Herring: 628 pages to 100
Fast Company: from 418 pages to 148
Wired: from 400 pages to 180
Forbes ASAP: from 224 to 64
Industry Standard: from 272 to 88 (final issue)

010820

internet deaths saga ^[?]:
well, atomz is not dead, but they have reduced some of the options for the free search account.

010819

robotwisdom's jorn barger reflects on the internet deaths:

But from the earliest days it was clear that the Web was _inherently_ slower and dumber and less interactive and less democratic, and though we may have forgotten as the years passed, in those early days I think most of us still hoped that the media would catch on, and that a new generation of newsreader might even synthesize the best of both worlds. (Instead, I think web-browsers achieved design-paralysis thru code-bloat.)

010817

more internet deaths ^[?] : excite deutschland and listbot (Wired 010803)

010814

In search of technological solutions to netiquette problems.

The newbies, spammers, and trolls have won, and netiquette has been lost.

What's needed now [...] is the development of technological solutions to netiquette problems.

010730

A Fortnight without Design.
fantastic idea!

find of the day:
w3c guidelines include mark-up for klingon

010619

yes! the mainstream is going off email.

as ntk says:

they stole our revolution, now we're stealing it back.

...and who said

If information is power, why don't librarians rule the world?

010612

what arrogance!
Edupage (010611) reports that the Wall Street Journal (010607) reports that Smart Tags are meant to help users find information on "under-linked" sites...

thanks for making decisions for us again.
some accessibility aware webmasters might have actually made a conscious decision to not include links in text.

i can't believe the business world isn't up in arms over this. deep-linking is illegal, but they don't mind customers being lurred away from their sites?

010611

Scott Andrews offers this as a solution to the smart tag problem:

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") > -1) {
location.replace("get_lost.html");
}

010610

Microsoft 'Smart Tags' Could Violate Law

Feed and Suck can be added to my 'RIP old Internet' list ^[?] :
More lights go out on the Web.

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