life | Kris Smith has read these articles about "life" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "life" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpFor What We've Paid for the Iraq War the U.S. Could've Bought...- May 27, 2008 ...Google+Microsoft+Intel. In other words, the U.S. government has shoveled the equivalent of the entire core of the tech industry into Iraq. The Web is starting to bubble with interesting conversation about the cost of the war and how that money could&39;ve been otherwise spent. This has been touched off by government figures that show the U.S. has appropriated $523 billion for the war -- and the book The Three Trillion Dollar War, by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. As you might guess, the...http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-tech-observer/2008/05/27/for-what-weve-paid-for-t... Her political career is over- May 24, 2008 This time Hillary Clinton has gone too far. Strike 1. Positioning Barack Obama as the black candidate after the South Carolina primary. Strike 2. Refusing to say Obama is Christian, not Muslim. Strike 3. Saying white voters go with her, in desperation, after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. Strike 4. Suggesting she should stay in the race because Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in 1968. Too much benefit of the doubt. Bringing assassination into political discourse as an "issue"..http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/05/23/herPoliticalCareerIsOver.html 5 Free Wi-Fi Enhancement Utilities- May 21, 2008 PC World has a good article out on 12 Downloads to Make Your Wi-Fi Life Easier, including a video on setting up a Wi-Fi network. It's a good collection of downloads, most of them free. A few of their picks are applications I've used for a while, and then I have a couple of personal favorites that aren't on their list. In this post, I'll point out what you can get out of a few of these free apps. One free tool that PC World doesn't have on its list is QCheck, from Ixia, which I have found to be.http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/20/5-free-wi-fi-enhancement-utilities/ How to Make Facebook Useful Again- May 20, 2008 Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, some former Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried. Why is that Because Facebook has a whole generation of users who grew up using their site for everything social back when it was just a way to network with their high school or college friends. So what are the everyday..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/294228523/how_to_make_facebook_useful_again... Why FriendFeed will go mainstream (Part II)- May 19, 2008 In the first part of this two-post series you read my ideas on why FriendFeed won't go mainstream. In this part I get to answer why it will go mainstream. First, something funny: Thomas Hawk just posted this to FriendFeed: Things in life that are addictive: digital photography, Flickr, Tommy's cheeseburgers, those tangy sea salt and vinegar blue chips in the blue bag, coffee, Red Bull, and friendfeed. Of course that started a conversation. So, why is FriendFeed going to go mainstream: 1. The...http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/18/why-friendfeed-will-go-mainstream-part-ii/ Why FriendFeed won't go mainstream (Part I)- May 19, 2008 Robert Blum got me to call him an idiot because of this Tweet: FriendFeed only helps if you're dedicating your life to following yet another web site. Chris Saad took the conversation in a different direction with this Tweet: discussion should occur around the target object - if its a blog then in the comments - not on friendfeed. Which, of course, got this conversation going. That got Mobile Jones to agree with Chris Saad on this Tweet: Chris is on the right end of this. FF is like is not in.http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/18/why-friendfeed-wont-go-mainstream/ MSI Wind becomes the $400 subnotebook to beat- May 17, 2008 Shared by Josh Bancroft This just got a lot more interesting than the yet-to-come Atom version of the Asus Eee PC. MSI have just released pricing details for the Wind, and it's looking very good. Americans will get the 10" Wind on the 3rd of June, featuring a 1024x600 LCD, an 80GB HDD, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and a six-cell battery specced for 5.5 hours of life, along with Intel's new Atom processor. If you want the Linux version with 512MB of RAM, the price will only be $399. You'll pay...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/290175972/msi-wind-becomes-the.html Disqus and Seesmic Teaming Up for Video Comments- May 14, 2008 It's only been a few weeks since I integrated Disqus commenting with my blog, but I've already reached the point where it would be hard to consider what life was like before Disqus came along. Overnight, with the help of Daniel Ha's excellent customer service, I went from flat Blogger comments that were a hassle to simplified, threaded, personalized comments in Disqus, which integrate easily with other services I use, including FriendFeed.Today, Disqus is looking to take things to another...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouisgraycomLive/~3/290234667/disqus-and-seesmic-teaming-up... Advanced Twitter Fu: Become a Master- May 14, 2008 Everyone talks about Twitter. It's hard to describe why people like it and use it so much. You have to use it, and connect with some people, to really see why it's worth it. If you're looking at it from the outside, like watching the public timeline, it's going to seem stupid and useless. That's because, used like that, it is. BUT. If you know what you're doing, Twitter is a REALLY POWERFUL and REALLY COOL way to connect with people. You can find basic, entry level explanations about why you...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/289919849/ I'm Starting to Hate the Term Social Media- May 9, 2008 This post began life as part of a discussion on our internal blog ambassadors mailing list, talking about nomenclature, terminology, and what we should really call all of this bloggy, community, social stuff that we do. And yes, there is a heavy dose of irony here, considering that my job role is basically teaching and promoting social media. I'm starting to hate the term social media. For a couple of reasons. The first is that it's just getting so popular that it's way overused (talking about..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/286984150/ |