Posts from August 30, 2004

Rudy’s running

Rudy’s running

: Guliani clearly had too much fun being before a cheering crowd again. He will run for office soon. I hope.

Cleaning up the mud

Cleaning up the mud

: Leonard Witt says this is one way to clean up campaign mud: The St. Pete Times withdraws the endorsement of a slinging candidate and endorses his opponent.

Cell phone, cell phone, in my purse, who’s the fairest in this verse?

Cell phone, cell phone, in my purse, who’s the fairest in this verse?

: SmartMobs says women in Britain use cell phones to check their hair, makeup, and — it being Britain — teeth.

— 20 percent of mobile users send snaps of themselves in new outfits to friends to see if they like them.

— 18 per cent take pictures of shoes or clothes on display for the same reason.

— 5 per cent take pictures of snappy dressers that they see on the high street to copy their style.

— 15 per cent frequently pull out their camera-phones to photograph the sides and backs of their hair,

— 10 per cent use their camera-phones as a mirror to check their make-up.

— 4 per cent even resort to getting the phone out in the middle of a restaurant after dinner – to check their teeth.

Vlogging the convention

Vlogging the convention

: Folks from Unmediated are going to get new forms of video of the convention using Shawn Van Every’s neat technology tonight.

I’m moving to Amsterdam

I’m moving to Amsterdam

: HotSpot Amsterdam just went up, promising to spread wi-fi access across the entire city at reasonable rates. [via EditorsWeblog]