Author: DXO
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The Enemy of an Idiot Must Be Cool
Over the years of my grand obsession with obituaries, I’ve learned that you can tell an awful lot about someone by the people who don’t like them. A whole lot of creeps didn’t like Jack Anderson. His obituary in the NYT is accompanied by one of the most uncomfortably weird photos I’ve ever seen of…
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Derivative Works Art Manifesto
Users of the world are presented with fresh, owned content every day. We have the technology, the precedents, and the duty to make new art out of this owned content—the stuff of our lives. Here’s what we need now: A universal acknowledgment of this right to create derivative works from our experience of owned content without regard to…
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Y!Q for Publishers: More Hyper, Less Link!
I helped create a tool to create Y!Q links, allowing for rich annotations.
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Microsoft Windows Live Review
So I’m certainly not the world’s biggest Microsoft fan. Lots of their software is bloated and dumb (see FrontPage and Project). But let’s admit it– they sell software that (nearly) anyone who has a computer on their desk at work uses every day to pretty good effect (see Word and Outlook). They’ve lately been put…
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Yahoo! Widgets Advertising: Cup-A-Lerter
The other day I was upgrading to Konfabulator 3.0 , otherwise known as Yahoo! Widgets. A “widget” is basically a little piece of software that does a simple task, usually by querying a database on the internet or some other source via web services. There are widgets for stocks, the time of day, sports schedules,…