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I finished Robert Sawyer’s Factoring Humanity several days ago. I enjoyed it, as I did the other Sawyer novel I read last summer. Also set in Toronto, Factoring Humanity blends human interaction — a marriage between university professors that family crisis has damaged — with three of the most challenging scientific problems in the world. [...]

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The Matador was quick mental candy. If you’re in the mood for that (we were), it suits. Just don’t raise expectations. Metacritic shows a score of 65, generally favorable.

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Scoble riffs on Dave Winer’s wishes for the venture capital industry with The “ventures” we need…. It’s a top 10 (OK, 11) list, but #7 reaches too far.
7) Venture ideas. I’ve hung around the industry now to realize that there are a few people who generate far better and far more ideas than anyone else. [...]

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I’m looking forward to attending the 2006 Media Summit - New York on February 8th and 9th in New York City. I’ll be representing CNET Networks on a Thursday panel, “Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing: The Next Generation of Consumer Reach.”
Between CNET Video (RSS feed) and CNET News.com Video (RSS feed) and all that’s going [...]

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Just came across this NYTimes article, “Like This? You’ll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.),” courtesy of Scott Karp.
LivePlasma has been around for more than two years. I’m biased, but I have to wonder if this attention was triggered by the Big Picture, which was created in collaboration with the LivePlasma folks.
Nirvana is [...]

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I haven’t been reading Paul Montgomery before, but I just came across Feature lists for News 2.0 (via Steve Rubel), and that’s one nifty chart. I wonder how all those News 1.0 sites measure up?
When you get into feature checklist mode… it’s time for someone to make qualitative judgments about the entire experience. [...]

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Mustapha from ZDNet France was kind enough to answer answer my plea for a Newsvine invite, and now I’ve found time to gather my thoughts.
Newsvine gets many things right. I just don’t know if that’s enough.

The Newsvine team built a content management system for the new media world, which is smart. Useful, human-readable (and guessable!) [...]

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So I saw some of the raves for Opera Mini, the new mobile phone web browser, especially Russell Beattie’s excitement: “Opera Mini: Best Mobile Web Browser Bar None.”
So I fired up the Treo 650, and used the installed web browser, Blazer (I think), and went to mini.opera.com. It was very smooth until the very last [...]

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Don’t have time to watch it tonight, but interested to learn via Ben Metcalfe that the BBC has put its 30 minute documentary The world according to Google online in full.

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Overall, I’ve found the Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse experience with Mac OS X to be a mild improvement over the wired experience. The battery drain and replacement routine frustrates, but it’s only every few weeks, so it’s tolerable.
BUT I’ve now found a real aggravation. If I start my iMac G5 in Safe Boot mode, [...]

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