Geek And Poke

Bloggers Social Life

A survey says we blogger and onliners are a little bit strange regarding real social contacts (see Techmeme, Slashdot or Techdirt). That's ridiculous.

Get'em Online

The German Secretary of the Interior still tries to haunt the terrorists with home grown spyware that scrutinizes the machines of the suspects. Good luck.

(See a the German milans blog about this)

(See also Google Blogoscoped from last week with another story about him)

AJAX Is A Mercy

What's AJAX? Innovation, technology or just a bunch of hacks. See Ryan Stewart.

Linux Only For Geeks?

Dana Blankenhoren asks: "Is Linux still too geeky?"

Intelligent DMCA

The Creationists have discovered the DMCA (see Slashdot and Wired).

RFID Alternatives

California has banned mandated RFID implants (see George Ou).

The Last Judgement - Part 5

Mr. Stallman makes no concessions in his attitude towards free software (not open source!!!, see John Carroll).

If The Crows Is Dumb - Just Don't Follow Them

(Sorry for the typo in the headline)

Nicholas Carr writes about the crowd selecting dumber news in Digg et al than the smart editors  in mainstream media.

Nicholas, you don't have to read Diggs home page!
There is more in citizen journalism than the top diggs, reddits etc. You also can read something no one has suggested. You can read things almost no one knows of. That's the big difference to mainstream media.

Of course, 2.0 has not made us smarter. It just has given us more choice.

Update: TechCrunch also posts about the survey Nicholas Carr's post is based on.

Why You Need A New Ringtone For Your iPhone

Whether or not Apple is cheating you with the new iPhone ringtones (see David Berlind). You need them.

(Another iPhone-price-cut-off-cartoon is here)

How To Rescue A Project - Last Chapter

The last chapter of our small series. See also chapter 1, chapter 2 and chapter 3.