Bloglines wrap-up

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Online progress indicators

Clair Ching wrote about
personal logs,
giving my website as an example of online tracking. Merlin Mann
wrote about keeping a personal status page.
(Hmm, I should add something like that…)

TV is bad for you

Kill the television” – Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users.

Absolute worst thing to do: leave the TV on as background noise.
Strangely enough, that’s how most people I know use it. Terrible
thing. I think that’s why so many people have a hard time dealing with
silence and relaxing…

Microsoft pooh-poohs developing countries

Microsoft: even if you give people free software or computers, they won’t have the expertise to use it.

Well, duh. You can’t be an expert on something you haven’t _used._ Microsoft can go ahead and feel that way, while open source people work on bridging the digital divide…

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