- How About the About Page (Post Money Value) – Why are all "About" pages the same? Technorati’s is a little different and Rick Segal likes it.
- Orikaso Folf Flat Bowl (bookofjoe) – bookofjoe is the newest daily blog read for me. The author is based in Charlottesville, VA and finds some of the most interesting products you can imagine. This plastic bowl is part of a set of plastic ware that each folds to a flat sheet…perfect for travel.
- 15th Century "Blogging" (Rexblog) – Rex Hammock links to the British Libraries digitized versions of 15th century "Festival Books."
- Book Excerpt: Google Goes Public (John Battelle’s SearchBlog) – 1,000-word excerpt from the chapter of Battelle’s Google book that covers the IPO in 2004.
- The Real Estate Bubble Pops Here (Moore’s Lore) – Dana Blankenhorn thinks that the real estate bubble is ready to pop, and I think he’s right. It’s really beginning to feel like 1979.
- Hints of Sanity (Blog on the Run) – Lex compiles a short list of pieces that feature other "traditional Republicans" (my phrasing) who take umbrage with the current Republican Party and the "moronic" Bush Administration.
- Frimærkesprog (Reveries) – The history of the practice of using stamp placement on a letter or postcard to convey a secret message. Believe it or not this also has something to do with why we pre-pay for stamps.
- Open vs. Closed (A VC) – Fred Wilson writes that hackers at MIT (in Fred’s vernacular hackers are a good thing, not the criminal types most commonly associated with the term) understood the value of "open" systems over 40 years ago. Now the general public is beginning to see the value through services like Flickr and del.icio.us, and as Fred says, "It’s about time."
- "The subject matter varies but the governing sensibility remains consistent" (bookofjoe) – Joe republishes a post describing a magazine that launched in 1996 and just published its 7th issue. That’s my kind of publishing schedule. The subject of the post is the author’s description of the magazine, which should be writ in stone above the desk, or wherever any publisher/editor will see it every hour of her working life.
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