basically, all the business hotel chains suck for doing actual work. they cater to wankers who pretend to work by slacking off in meetings.
Tag: internet
Landscapes of net behavior
The (free) software keeps track of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself.
Very fast multitasking
I sat next to Cory at a conference today. It was like playing basketball next to Michael Jordan. Cory was looking at more than 30 screens a minute. He was bouncing from his mail to his calendar to a travel site and then back. His fingers were a blur as he processed inbound mail, visiting more than 12 sites in the amount of time it took for my neck to cramp up. I’m very fast, but Cory is in a different league entirely.
Infrared Webcam
I don’t even want to know what you’re doing in the dark with a webcam, so let’s keep that under wraps, shall we?
heh
Cancelling online accounts
Tom Spring signed up for 32 online accounts and then tried to cancel them, documenting the incredible hassle, false billing charges, and crazy runaround he got from vendor after vendor. After reading this there’s no way I’ll ever sign up for NetZero, AOL, True.com, Classmates.com, BlueMountain, Rhapsody (ick), Napster (double-ick), ESPN, or MSN Internet.
funny how all these sleazy sites also suck. there must be a connection.
CorONA
high-performance publish-subscribe system for quick and efficient dissemination of web micronews. It is a replacement for, and is backwards compatible with, RSS. It uses Beehive, an analysis-driven framework for optimally trading off bandwidth for performance
Online TV Stats
Some 10% of television will be soon be watched via the internet rather than traditional broadcasts.
define ‘soon’? nevertheless, good news for the venice project. tv, good riddance.
iTunes has peaked
strengthening the case for all-you-can-eat music subscription services? me, i don’t bother to buy songs. it’s too much hassle to discover what i like, track it down, buy. never mind the DRM. i just tune into last.fm instead.
Open source consumer surplus
the Internet has enabled consumers to pay for what they want, rather than what various industries try to sell them
lots of beautiful examples of consumer surplus at work.
Encyclopedia Dramatica
so this is where all the LOLcopters and others hang out! via:lydian, remarkably.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 