autorave/technology

"They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked..The nature of the president's job is that others can use e-mail for him."

Our wide range of beliefs, some of which are clearly false, grew out of a uniquely human trait. Alone in the animal world, humans understand cause and effect, and that, he says, led ultimately to the invention of tools, the rapid rise of sophisticated technology, and of course, beliefs. Even the earliest humans understood that many events that shaped their lives resulted from specific causes. Therefore, there must be a cause behind every event. Searching for that cause..led to the rise of religion.

Rolling Stone interviews William Gibson.

"Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn't cyberspace is going to be unimaginable."

From the page: "Techmeme�s Gabe Rivera (who is someone I highly respect for the code that shows through in TechMeme and Memeorandum) is about to launch something somewhat similar to Technorati�s Top 100 list of blogs, called Leaderboard. Dave Winer got an early list of the sites that are part of the leader board, and Ben Metcalfe chimes in with the fact that only about 50% of the �oeBlogs” mentioned in Leaderboard�s Top 100 are actual Blogs.

So, I just wrote a small scrapper (just around 10 lines of VB9) that pulled down the Technorati Top 100, and compared it to the Leaderboard. Here�s the tabl"

Interesting piece on how to become a leader among the masses.

From the page: "This article will touch on how you can get started as a T-Shirt affiliate and includes a comprehensive list of thirty one T-shirt and clothing companies with affiliate programs you can use to kick-start your T-shirt marketing experiment."

"Uberblogger Robert Scoble is truly one-of-a-kind. For those who don't know, he became famous as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and quickly became their most outspoken and influential blogger. He now interviews people like Bill Gates, and the worldwide media reports on his every move. One of his most mindboggling skills is information management. He currently reads 622 RSS feeds a day, it used to be 1,400 feeds a day!"

Good insight into how a industry socialite functions and stays current.

Has tons of useful Tech-related stumbles. Recommended.