assorted sweets: 2005.03.13
posted 2005.03.13
- Dot-Con job - the lies behind Infospace
Fascinating reading. Particularly since one of my fellow college interns took a job at Infospace right after internship. Ouch. - 37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
Of course this isn't rocket science. But yet - can I be 37signals when I grow up? Can I? - AOL Eavesdrops, Grants Itself Permission To Steal Your AIM Conversations
"You waive any right to privacy." Welcome to the future. Horrified yet? (see update, below) - Bootstrapping Top 10 List
Excellent, excellent list to take a look at before even thinking about considering maybe one day starting a business. :) - Essential Fonts For Designers
300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have (according to this site, at least). One click downloads 'em all. - Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
I haven't had time to read it all here, but it makes a great case for itself: going bootstrap over the VC method.
Update:
Don't you just HATE it when your favourite linkophiles blithely link to someone or something with a pithy comment without even having investigated or read the details to see if it's right or wrong? I mean, what are they, busy? They have a life or something? And so, in that vein, I throw up my hands and say mea culpa, mea culpa because, you know, apparently AOL was simply saying that the privacy thing was referring to public web forums. Really, they're not a big horned destroyer of all that's good on the Internet but actually a warm and fuzzy teddy bear that will happily drink your brain fluids through a straw while you sleep. Many thanks to - well, the entire Internet, really - for pointing out my grievous but completely understandable error of not reading the terms and conditions. ;)
Don't you just HATE it when your favourite linkophiles blithely link to someone or something with a pithy comment without even having investigated or read the details to see if it's right or wrong? I mean, what are they, busy? They have a life or something? And so, in that vein, I throw up my hands and say mea culpa, mea culpa because, you know, apparently AOL was simply saying that the privacy thing was referring to public web forums. Really, they're not a big horned destroyer of all that's good on the Internet but actually a warm and fuzzy teddy bear that will happily drink your brain fluids through a straw while you sleep. Many thanks to - well, the entire Internet, really - for pointing out my grievous but completely understandable error of not reading the terms and conditions. ;)
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Angie said on 2005.03.15
*laughs* I got a few smacks on the hand this morning from viewers warning me about fearmongering - and righly so.
I originally snagged this from Mefi or Waxy, can't remember which - but of course it was snagged early in the morning, before the corrections circulated. Which means that you'll never find the up-to-the-second info on here (but then again, as Gordon rightly mentioned, I don't blog here for a living... ;)
"I mean, what are they, busy? They have a life or something?"
I did the same but as I snagged it from Kottke I think those claims are justifiable!!! ;-)
Blogging IS his life now, HE said so!!