BlogShares is a “fantasy stock market for weblogs.” The idea appears to be that folks get $500 virtual dollars to invest in weblogs whose valuation appears to be based on “the incoming links to it and a host of other calculations”. Translation, if “higher priced” weblogs link to you, your valuation goes up. At this… More

Eliza demonstrated a potential holy shit the other day when she sent the following message showed up in a chat window… “Click to see my video”. Being a regular surfer of the Internet, I immediately thought, “Cool, porn.” When I clicked on the link, I was surprised to see a small window appear with Eliza… More

Ok, so I’m on a bit of PS2 platform game kick — I’ve completed Ratchet and Clank (killer fun) and just recently completed Jak and Daxter (not as fun as Clank, but still fun)… both of these, for those who pay attention to PS2, are “platform” games. I like them mostly because they are brain… More

With a painfully lame name such as Friendster, you’d probably never visit this domain unless someone threatened you, yet, this social networking site has gone viral with my group of friends in the past week. The competitive differentiator for Friendster is that you can’t see anyone on the network until you add an actual ‘real’… More

Sunday afternoon hacking on Mac OS X. A mailing list showed me some nifty Perl which listed appreviations for states… pointing at the directory /usr/share/misc. Now, I’m a Unix virgin, so I have no clue what this directory is for, but upon examination I find the following files: Airport : Lists airports and airport abbreviations… More

Quote from the architect selected to build the new World Trade Center: Libeskind says that having calculated the arc of the sun, a wedge of natural light would funnel visitors to the memorial site, and that every September 11 between 8:46 a.m., when the first tower was struck by a plane, and 10:28 a.m., when… More

I had drinks with a gaggle of old friends who’ve decided to stick it out with these various start-ups. Having decided to jump to a big company, it was strange to hear all the various woes of start-up-dom that I’d completely forgotten. Thank god. Two questions that I was surprised that none of the friends… More

Google’s purchase of Pyra/Blogger is guaranteed to do one thing: Reignite the inane discussion whether it’s “blogging” or “weblogging”. For what it’s worth, my vote is for weblogging for the same reason I don’t like pronouncing the word “meme”… I don’t much like words like sound like your mumbling when you’re actually speaking English. All… More

Dan Gillmore is reporting that Google is buying the small company behind Blogger, Pyra Labs. I have been wondering for some time where Google was at with the regard to the weblog pheonmena and, well, this is clearly a direction. I am having difficulty seeing Google moving from a “finding stuff on the web” strategy… More

I get really annoying when I find a new toy. I tell every person I know about it, I construct my day around it, and every answer to every question passes through the new toy neuron in my head. This means if you ask me, “Hey Rands, what’s 7 + 3?” I first think, “How… More