Journal: News & Comment

Links of interest (2006-09-27):

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• "...people who abuse buzzwords don't sound smart. They sound like they are trying to sound smart. Big difference. Really want to impress someone with your words? Then either 1) be direct/clear or 2) shut up."
  
  
• Web 2.0 winners and losers.
  
  
• How to explain RSS the Oprah way.
  
  
• The 25 best items of British design and top 10 Canadian inventions.
  
  
• When his wife did all the work of booking a vacation, Disney continued to insist that Eric Rice was the guy in charge, probably on simple sexist grounds.
  
  
• Usually when you look at Flickr's imac tag, you get photos of computers. But that's not what happened to me yesterday. (Slightly NSFW.)
  
  
• Somehow, John Mayer went from Dave Matthews Lite to searing blues-rock guitarist to great blogger over the past few years. Suddenly I have to respect the guy.

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