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A screen shot of an email I sent to Steve Jobs at Apple.
Marc van der Chijs: “Dave, what happened to me at the Apple Store in Shanghai is even worse. They tried to recover my data, but did not have another HD to put it on, so they copied it onto one [...]
Archive for December, 2007
31 Dec
Scripting News for 12/31/2007
30 Dec
Scripting News for 12/30/2007
Office and conference FlickrFans
I don’t have an office, and I’m not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan.
First a little background…
My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I [...]
29 Dec
Scripting News for 12/29/2007
Insightful review in Wired News
Michael Calore at Wired News writes about something I do too, and love.
Wired News: “The first time I ran it, I let FlickrFan pull just AP photos, then I sat back and watched. I run two monitors here at my desk at Wired, so I can see two photos from the [...]
28 Dec
Scripting News for 12/28/2007
Recommendation for Flickr
I’ve been emailing today with photographers who use Flickr to manage their sets and collections. They like it that people can view their pictures publicly, but they want to control how they’re used. RSS, used as a way to distribute pictures, is a new idea for many of them.
Based on these conversations [...]
27 Dec
Scripting News for 12/27/2007
New product release today
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…
It’s with much anticipation that I say this.
I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.
The idea is simple.
There’s a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as [...]
26 Dec
Scripting News for 12/26/2007
I want to know the intent of the product
I’ve been saying this ever since I started blogging.
When you have a product to announce, start a blog (if you don’t already have one) and announce it.
Before there were blogs, I wished Infoworld or PC Week would give space to the lead developer of the product, [...]
24 Dec
Scripting News for 12/24/2007
Blogger of the Year
There was a time, a long time ago when I thought we’d have awards here on Scripting News. I’d nominate several blogs in different categories and the readers would vote and we’d have winners, and could celebrate, and prepare for next year, with some idea of what we value in blogging.
But the [...]
23 Dec
Scripting News for 12/23/2007
Holiday greetings!
Tomorrow and the next day are big Jewish holidays, it’s the time when we all go out for Chinese or Indian food, and talk about anything but Baby Jesus. On Christmas Day I’m going to Santa Cruz to hang with Naked Jen, who has a tradition of seeing three of the movies that come [...]
22 Dec
Scripting News for 12/22/2007
Macs are even more expensive than I thought
When I got back from Europe my black MacBook wouldn’t boot, it just sat there with a disk icon and a flashing question mark. So I made an appointment at the Apple store in Emeryville to have it looked at.
When I got there, there was no wait, they [...]
21 Dec
Scripting News for 12/21/2007
My Long Bet with Martin Nisenholtz
In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the [...]
