Bloglines wrap-up

Posted on October 20th, 2005 by Sacha Chua

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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