YQ
29 posts published between October 2005 to January 2006 with links created to work with the Y!Q for Publishers system– an early experiement in hypertext enjmabment.
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No More John F. Burns Archive
So I’ve decided to stop updating the John F. Burns Archive. There are 180 posts in there– many of them are the complete text of his articles, mostly from the beginning of this second Gulf War we find ourselves in. I then decided to go to an “excerpts plus permalinks to free version on nyt.com”…
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About This Site
Derivative Works is a weblog about content on the internet. Content? What do you mean? Published things. Everything on weblogs, appropriated from conversations. The stuff we post on Ebay. Everything on craigslist. The stuff that starts offline and wends its way online. Everything. Isn’t that a little broad? Yes, and that’s the point. I think…
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The Enemy of an Idiot Must Be Cool
Over the years of my grand obsession with obituaries, I’ve learned that you can tell an awful lot about someone by the people who don’t like them. A whole lot of creeps didn’t like Jack Anderson. His obituary in the NYT is accompanied by one of the most uncomfortably weird photos I’ve ever seen of…
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Y!Q for Publishers: More Hyper, Less Link!
I helped create a tool to create Y!Q links, allowing for rich annotations.
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Microsoft Windows Live Review
So I’m certainly not the world’s biggest Microsoft fan. Lots of their software is bloated and dumb (see FrontPage and Project). But let’s admit it– they sell software that (nearly) anyone who has a computer on their desk at work uses every day to pretty good effect (see Word and Outlook). They’ve lately been put…