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Twitter = IRC v. 2?

Posted by Rich on April 30, 2007 in Blogosphere, Technology

It kind of dawned on me recently what Twitter really is. It’s not blogging, or IM, or texting. It’s really the worlds largest IRC channel, only with some finer grained control over who you see and pay attention to.
I’m still a bit skeptical about its long term prospects, but I think I understand it a [...]

 
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Barcade

Posted by Rich on April 15, 2007 in Life

CNET has a story about Barcade, a Brooklyn based bar/old school arcade:
In Brooklyn’s warehouse-turned-artist district of Williamsburg, young hipsters flock to Barcade to sample its roster of microbrews and mingle with the likes of Pac-Man, the Mario brothers and Frogger.
I remember back in high school, arcades were all the rage. Games like Pac Man, Donkey [...]

 
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Happy Anniversary Scripting News

Posted by Rich on April 3, 2007 in Blogosphere

A belated Happy Tenth Anniversary to Scripting News, the oldest continuously running blog on the internet. It was the first blog I ever read, probably around six or seven years ago, and it’s been in my various readers continuously ever since. Dave is sometimes controversial, but always interesting. Here’s to another ten years.

 
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Times Reader

Posted by Rich on April 1, 2007 in News, Technology

I’m a little late to the party, but today I downloaded and tried Times Reader, the standalone application that downloads and displays the New York Times.
At first blush, I like it a lot. It took a long time to download, mostly because it uses .NET 3.0, which I didn’t have on my XP machine (it’s [...]

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