Dan Rather – The Blogger?
Dave Winer has a great post about an interview with Dan Rather. In it Mr. Rather talks briefly about blogging. I really recommend reading the article.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (beta2)
Gosh!
(I Don’t know how else to express it in a family friendly way.) 🙂
They’ve polished up the rough edges from the last time I loaded the beta 2 preview! I’d loaded up the previous build awhile ago and had really enjoyed the great new features (tabs, integrated RSS, pop-up blocker, phishing filter, etc…). On the other hand, endured the performance hits of early beta and anomaly’s that come with test software.
This version however, is feature complete and performs that way as well. Check out the IE homepage to download and give it a try – IE7 beta2 is fully supported by MS at this point, and should be experienced to be believed.
Lazy Posting…
Ok, sorry, I’ve been slacking the last few days getting updates on the site. Busy at work, busy at home, and I’ve been thinking a lot about career directions. Been doing lots of fun unsupported stuff on my MDA, and I’ll talk about that soon (push-mail rocks).
Dual Windows Mobile ‘BlackBerry’ Style Devices
So there are two awesome thin new phones coming out soon that are similar in layout to traditional BlackBerry devices. Say hello to the Motorola Q (top), which you’ve probably read about, and the Samsung SGH-i320 (bottom).
The two phones both run Windows Mobile 5 and will be available in the coming weeks in the US. Both have recently been approved by the FCC for use in the USA. While we know that the motoQ is currently a CDMA phone and will be available from Verizon, the SGH-i320 is a GSM phone and could be used on either T-Mobile or Cingular (or some of the regional GSM providers) here in the States.
Unfortunately, the i320 is a tri-band phone (900/1800/1900) and would only really have decent coverage on the T-Mobile network as theirs is primarily a 1900 band network. Cingular relies heavily on the 850 band and has significant 1900 band holes everywhere. Cingular sells only tri-band phones that have both 850 & 1900MHz, or quad-band phones that support all GSM frequencies around the world. T-Mobile has recently rolled out a number of 850MHz towers and has signed a roaming agreement with Cingular for vast 850MHz streaches of the country, and in addition has also taken to selling quad-band phones or tri-band with 850/1900 band support.
At any rate, its great to see this style of phone coming out from two of the top three Windows Mobile phone vendors. Now all we need is to see an HTC version of this format, one that builds on the great layout that BlackBerry has demonstrated, and these two have copied.
For more information on either of these phones, check out these great articles:
- CoolSmartPhone (Samsung SGH-i320)
- Engadget (Samsung SGH-i320)
- PhoneScoop (Motorola Q)
- Motorola
What to say…
Interesting…
Ever since Dave Winer (Scripting News)started talking about quiting blogging, the A-Listers of the blogosphere have changed – at least the way I’ve been reading them. A couple of weeks ago, Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) invited a guest blogger, Bubba Murarka, to blog in place of himself for awhile. Now Russell Beattie (Russell Beattie Notebook) has posted his ‘claimed’ last post to his blog. About a month or so ago, he turned off comments on his blog, and the same time Robert announced Bubba as a guest blogger, he turned on comment moderation.
Strangely, about the time Dave announced he was thinking about quitting blogging, he turned comments back on – go figure.
So I’m not sure what to say about this – two weeks ago, I had decided not to post about this until I had some point, some interesting commentary on it. But with Russ getting out of blogging, and Robert and Dave pulling significantly back, I guess that I had to mention something.
So here is my perspective (from the ZZZ-List of course). The blogosphere is diversifiying, or growing, or aging or whatever you want to describe it as – for me, its diversifying. More people will come along and replace the voice of Russ, Robert, Dave, Doc and whoever else was on your ‘A-List’ of bloggers. While you can mourn their descision, I for one am glad that they are recognizing that their is another piece to life that may be outside the blogosphere at this time. They and others have brought lots of information, news, products, and most importantly, excitement to blogging that otherwise may not have been here.
And the best part is that they’ll be back in one form or another. Whether they admit it today or not, they will bring something new to the table when the time is right. Right now, I’ve found myself reading more blogs because of them. I’ve found Mathew Ingram, Kent Newsome, Richard Edelman, TechCrunch & MobileCrunch, Megite, and many, many more just from Russell, Robert, and Dave.
To Dave, Robert, and Russell, I want to say thank-you for the conversations you’ve brought to us. Talk to you again soon.
Blogging & Careers – My Take
Scoble (or was it Bubba?) had a post on Blogging and Careers yesterday. It started me thinking on how employees working for companies in the tech sector have more opportunity to blog during work. Some actually have it as part of their job – Robert Scoble for example. Others come to mind as well, mainly the A-Listers and so on, have more ability to blog during work and more importantly, to blog some of their work.
While I’m not ready to admit that I’m jealous, I do think that there is an important piece to blogging that many employers simply dismiss out of hand. The opportunity to blog about what you do and/or how you do it can help a blogger grow in their abilities. It can help expand a person’s writing style, imagination, and persistence. It will open doors that a person doesn’t even realize they have avaliable to them. Blogging does represent a window into a person’s character, and that is a good thing. In today’s environment where life is so fast-paced that people have trouble just keeping up with their work, blogging can offer an outlet for their ideas, passions and creativity.
Blogging can enhance your career in ways too numerous to ponder. One, for example is the simple availability to potential customers, and yes I view employers as customers. After all each of us have services to offer, and why not have a sample of these services and resources available to future customers?
There is more to blogging than many middle managers in corporate America understand at this time. It is a powerful tool for everyone, its as simple as that. Anyone can start and update a blog for free, and you can take it to many levels after that limited only by your own ambition. Blogging has not ‘peaked’ as some are trying to hint at – blogging has barely gotten started and will provide one of the best ways for those interested to promote themselves and their ideas. Come along for the ride and find out for yourself; your career and your personal life will be enriched.
Also, this article from The Boston Globe on the subject is a good read.
This is the same thing American leftists want to do in our nation. Heavily regulate speech and control who gets to do what and when they can do it. They think our Bill of Rights are a "living breathing document". They're not, they're God given rights recognized by the document.
“I’m a criminal because you didn’t stop me from being one. It’s all your fault.” 🤣
